Feeling discouraged

I was feeling a little discouraged today. After paying all the bills there isn't much left over so once again I was going to need to be creative with groceries. I thought to myself I am so sick of this. I am tired of making something out of nothing. Then I went out to my freezer to see what I could do to stretch the groceries a little further this week. I was pleasantly surprised to see I had carefully stored away more than enough to make the stretch. Then I was reminded to count my blessings. Why is this important? It keeps me from feeling so discouraged I make even worse decisions because I deserve better don't I? So here it is. My bills are paid and nothing is going to get turned off. I have food in the freezer and we aren't going to go hungry or have to eat rice. Ok maybe we will eat rice but that's because my husband thinks he will die if he doesn't eat it every day! I also found as I was planning another freezer cooking day that I still had all the ingredients to make PB&J breakfast cookies with my little boy. I ran out of time to make them the last time I did a freezer cooking day and I had forgotten about it. Now we have a fun, free activity today. There are always blessings in the middle of trials, you just have to remember to look for them. So I'm planning to make the most of my day today, count my blessings, and Thank God that He always provides for me. Instead of dreading it, I'm looking forward to it!