Gratitude!

I have been thinking about this for a few weeks. I want to do a gratitude Blog. I am not the most eloquent and I feel like I often sound silly, so doing a blog has been hard for me. I read all these well written, funny, inspirational blogs that my friends do and I just feel inadequate. That being said I have wanted to do a gratitude scrapbook for a long time. I think if I do a gratitude blog and turn it into a scrapbook when I am done that will be the simplest way for me to go right now. I am going to be posting things that I am grateful for. I am sure my husband and kids will get posts dedicated to them but that is an automatic and I am trying to think outside the box for this one. It has been a difficult couple of years for us financially and emotionally and I know that when I remind myself to be grateful for the things in my life physically and spiritually that I deal with the daily stresses much better. Here goes my goal is to do 5-7 posts a week (there will be obvious exceptions during vacations and mental breakdowns). Here is my first gratitude post.

The Fabulous dehydrator!

Some of the dried fruit that I made!

 Thanks to a very generous gift card from a dear friend at Christmas I was able to order a long awaited dehydrator. I have loved it so much. I have made Fruit roll ups for the kids, Dried fruit for me. Spinach powder for a friend. This is just the beginning of a long and happy relationship with my dehydrator. My kids are looking forward to Jerky. The reason I am choosing this for my first post is I have been spending a lot of money of dried fruit to keep in my mixed nuts that I really heavily on since my food options are so limited. I am very excited to have the ability to make healthy snacks for my children and myself that have no added preservatives and that I know won't cause any adverse reactions. If you have any dehydrator suggestions or recipes I would love to have them.