Saturday

I really like Saturdays. They are different from every other day, and they are special. When we got married, we started a tradition of having a big (or at least different/special) breakfast than all the other days of the week. This is a tradition that I took away from living with the Wrights (a family at my church) for a summer and a half. We usually eat some kind of biscuits but this Saturday we made french toast. We sat outside on our porch, ate breakfast, enjoyed the nice breeze, and watched people going to the yardsale at the end of our culdesac. I love those times- enjoying the outside, a good meal, time with my husband, time without a tv or other noise. I wish we had more Saturday mornings, but don't we all.

Our Saturday in pictures....

French toast for breakfast (okay not a picture of our actual french toast because we ate it immediately. I mean you don't want it to get cold!). This makes my mouth water....maybe we will have french toast 2 weeks in a row....

Cosmo explored the trash pile across the road, and I caught him in the act.

Abby slept on the porch when she wasn't barking like a maniac at the people walking to the yardsale.

Glen bought an old belt sander for $10 at that yardsale.

I bought some linen pants from Loft. I have been wanting them for awhile now. They were on sale plus an extra 40% off since it was Memorial day weekend!

I made mini cupcakes for a cookout on Sunday.

oh, and I forgot to mention to you our mini-sego palms. We dug these up last week our of our big sego palms. So that was last weekend but this weekend they enjoyed the sun and some rain.

The end.

Multitude Monday, Week 7

76. Rain (for our grass)
77. Cookouts
78. Getting to know new people
79. the lake
80. Breaks in the rain to enjoy the lake
81. Friends you can share with
82. Friends who encourage
83. Quarterlife class
84. a day off for my husband
85. linen pants on sale
86. Dancing
87. unplanned calls

Week 6

Friday Confessions: Pride Comes Before the Fall

I used to be super competitive. Well, I might still be pretty competitive, but I wouldn't use the word super before the competitive. I think I have learned not to be so competitive, for the most part.

This learning not to be so competitive started when I was in 10th grade. I worked in the summers as a counselor at a summer camp that our church held. Even though I was a counselor for the kids, we still had fun and played lots of games. I was pretty intense when it came to games. This was encouraged by a few of my co-workers. On a training day we as a staff played sardines (which if you don't know is hide & seek backwards). One of my fellow counselors and I were the first to hide. We got up on the roof of one of the buildings, and of course no one found us. That began the rule of "No getting up on the roof" which you would think was self explanatory but because of us they had to make it an official rule.

Later in the summer, we were playing hide and seek with the kids. This round the counselors hid and the kids went to find. I was the only counselor not to be found so when the rung the bell to sound the end of the game I leaped up out of the tall grass I was hiding in and ran toward the pavilion. I then proceeded to yell "yes I won" as I leaped over a bench, caught my foot on the seat, and fell flat on my face.

I learned in a literal sense- pride comes before the fall and thus began the journey of learning to be less competitive.

And for your viewing pleasure....a blast from the past....

Yes, I am wearing overalls for real. It's not a joke.

p.s. sorry for the grainy-ness.

I don't have children...So here's Abby

Update: $50 Challenge

You can check out my $50 challenge in this post. The first four weeks went well. I kept within my $50 a week budget. We had plenty of food, and I am slowly getting better at couponing which makes it easier to be withing the $50.

However, I am going to make a few changes.

First I am going to be getting 6 weeks worth of $ at a time. The reason for this is that grocery stores (for the most part) have a six week sale cycle. This way if I know that one certain week is a good sale week I will plan to spend a little more that week and a little less another that does not have good sales. The six week plan will just make it easier to know what will be on sale which week.

Second, I will add $20 making my total grocery budget $320 for 6 weeks. I will try to stay within my budget of $50 but I will have some wiggle room in case I don't plan very well. For example, this weekend we are attending a cookout for our sunday school class, and I want to make potato salad and cupcakes. I can get the ingredients for the potato salad but I have run out of most of my baking supplies in the last month. So I need a little extra to make sure I have them in stock.

On another subject....sort of.....

I love CVSing now. It's such a thrill to walk out of there only paying .24 and making $4 CVS bucks and getting free stuff! If you don't coupon, at least try CVSing. It takes a lot less time and you can get all your toiletries free!

Multitude Monday, Week 6

66. a visit from mom
67. and a visit from grandmother
68. an impromtu coffee date
69. dinner with friends
70. friends who are like family
71. knowing that we don't have to do anything, God does everything
72. skype
73. breakfast food
74. volleyball
75. fellowship with quarterlife

Week 5

Yard Sale-ing

This Saturday I went yardsale-ing for the first time. My friend, Elizabeth, and I mapped out which houses we would go to. I got up at 6:30 so that I could be at her house at 7:30.

We didn't find much. I didn't have anything particular in mind. I just thought maybe I could find something cool, and I was leaving cool as a very broad category.

I did, however, get a never been used Yahtzee which I have been thinking about buying for awhile now but it cost like $20 at Walmart and all it is is a score pad, cup, and dice. I got it for $1!

Any tips on being a more successful yard sale-r?