Saturday!

Greetings and salutations... It has been a long day and a long week too. When's the last time I posted? Ummm... lets see, what has happened? Well, last week I ordered a new grain mill and a compact kitchen mixer. I was so excited to make homemade bread and stuff, but the mixer didn't work very well when I tried to make bread dough in it, so I boxed it up and returned it. I was going to buy a better one, but on Friday Jared's truck broke down and it costed $1039 dollars to fix it. So now I don't get to buy my mixer. I already gave away my old one, so now I guess I'll just have to "make do" for a while. Poohy!

So I'm kind of depressed over the unexpected expenses, but hey life happens to us all. I'll just have to sell some stuff and save up.

Today was a pretty good day. Jared had to go and pick up a desk from the salvation army this morning and deliver it to his Mother's apartment, then take her grocery shopping, and then go to buy a new/used lawn mower for $60 (great deal! It's self propelled!), so I got bored waiting for him to come home. I went to yard sales, and it was about 12:30pm when I did. This turned out to be the perfect time to go! I got a small table to go between Jr. and Ikers beds for $5! and I got 3 sets of sheets complete with pillow cases for 50 cents a piece. I also got 3 pairs of roller blades for $2 ea. and a winter coat for Mary for $1 also some lincoln logs for $1. It was totally cool. I bargained down on the price of everything because they were all tired of sitting in the hot sun and ready to pack up and call it a day.

Then we all went to the library together when Jared came home. After that I set up a craft center for the kids downstairs. I hung a shelf on the wall (with Jared's help) to put all our craft supplies on, and I set up a long table for their projects. This will really help with boredom blues. I hope everyone else is having a great weekend!