"The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him." Psalm 25:147:00 the "normal" summer am routine: unload dishwasher, make breakfast, decide on lunch and dinner meals, sweep...OK...so all of that, and vacuum and dust LR, pick bouquet of blue hydrangeas (Beautiful!)
7:30 breakfast with everyone: homebaked blueberry muffins ($2 whole meal)
8:30 run two miles (in my $1 yard sale New Balance!!), shower, devos, clean
10:00 taped interview for News 2 (airing tomorrow at 7ish) at our home promoting book, kids go play in the creek (country kids in the city..actually, they were avoiding the TV camera!)
11:00 kids tear out tile (this took 3 boys 20 minutes and the whole BR was tile...cheap labor!!), I answer emails, set up appts, pay bills: hospital stuff-$120.25, youth trip-$75, also called and asked about a bill for cans of tube feeding that I told them I returned...and wonder of wonders, they told me they would credit my account and to ignore the bill ($240.00), it pays to ask!
12:00 lunch, (Mike rides his bike home from school in the summer for lunch): chicken nuggets, fries, strawberries, lemonade ($5.50)
1:00 trip to Aldi....the BEST grocer...(I won't list all I buy, just highlights)who can beat milk for $1.75 gallon, eggs for 79 cents, hamburg buns 79 cents? total $22.51, then to Carolina Thrift where I found the book The Tapestry by Edith Schaeffer for $1.59. I've been looking for it for 20 years...I kid you not!! On to Cloverleaf, my favorite Mom and Pop shop...Boneless skinless chicken breasts 1.48 # this week, peanut butter $1 a jar, OJ $1 for 64 oz box....total $17.35. OK weird thing happens in the parking lot...I'm taking a picture of the store and this man asks if I'll take a picture of him with is car and send it to him. He's a cute little grandpa...so I take his name and address and I'll send them tomorrow...don't ask me why. It seemed like a nice thing to do.
5:30 took Abby to youth group meeting, dropped 2 bags of clothes off at our Burmese friends, the Thak Bals. Want to be humbled? Spend time with a refuge family who came to America to escape persecution for their Christian faith. They gave us mint, lettuce and green beans from their humble garden.
6:30 Mike and I went to Chili's for a date night...using a gift card....free date! Will spend the evening reading.
Money today:
Out: $236.70
In: $0
Coming up: Carolina Thrift 50% off most stuff Monday 6/8, free donuts at Krispy Kreme Friday 6/5
I don't remember hearing how your book sales through Amazon went. Last I heard you were in the top 400. How did that finally turn out?
ReplyDeleteAs for Aldi's... we miss them terribly! Sure wish we had one out this way!! I just shop sales and coupon.
I must admit I was very pleased to notice that your top buys at Aldi's I got this week for basically same price with sale/coupons. Let's see, milk $1.79 gallon, eggs $1.49 for 18 ct and hamburger buns 39 cents for first 2. It's encouraging to know I'm doing okay compared to Aldi's, I just have to work a bit harder to get those prices.