I just joined Live Below the Line.  My end goal is to not only bring awareness to this type of hunger but to bring a true reality to how people live in everyday life.  Most people don't know how it really is to live on such little money.  For the most part I do.  When first starting out on my own, making very little money and raising 4 kids. Most people though I was crazy and thought I had financial help.  I didn't and made everything work to the best that I could.  This is going to be even harder than that.  I now have a family of 7.  I'm not going to ask my family to do this with me but it will be a good example of how hard it's going to be and see others eating well and thriving and me myself working for the next meal..

Find the time

     Finding the time for ones self is not as easy and someone may think.  You have 20billion activities to do and that doesn't even include your real life chores and responsibilities.  5:30am wake up oldest son to only have to and get him up 20 minutes later. 7am wake up three more children and getting them fed, their chores done before getting them off to school.  Getting husband up fed and a little quiet time before getting him off to work.  This doesn't even include out baby that is up almost every hour from about midnight.  Poor baby is teething.  Being home isn't always fun. In fact it isn't, other than having my little one with me.  You have no time between; cleaning, washing clothes, dishes, nursing a teething baby, finding extra dirty clothes by smelling your way through the house.  If i have the time to do anything it's searching lists for potential jobs and looking for daycare for my son.  In which i may add my internal dislike regarding the cost vs. pay rate for jobs.  It amazes me how anyone can work with children on their own or without help.  A mom must work to pay for childcare alone.  I wonder how they eat at all.  Thank goodness for coupons i guess.  In reality, when all is said and done I love coupons, saving money and finding time to not only spend time with my boys but to find and spend time with my love too.  If somewhere in there I find a little time for myself that's cool.  But mostly my time is spent cooking and cooking with my kids.  The most fun is doing something with them that they would have never thought they would see you do.  Like go down a slide.  :)