
Today I’m thankful for life. It’s something that we take for granted when we really stop and think about it.
Today I’m thankful for the little things in life. The laughter of my children, the beautiful fall colors, the butterflies in the spring, the smell of homemade spaghetti sauce cooking, the silliness of Daisy, the comfort of my bed. All these are little pretty “insignificant” things, but they make me smile and happy even when things seem to be going all wrong.
I am thankful for the invention of the camera. I just think about all the things that my photographs help me remember. All the memories that I have stored up, that I can look back through thanks to a camera. Whether it be a Kodak 110 or a Canon Rebel, they all serve a purpose and the most important to me is preserving memories!
What great timing! Saturday night before going to bed, I could tell I had some drainage on my throat, but we didn’t have the type of medicine that would really help. Or so I thought. Consequently, Sunday I woke up with a raging sore throat. As Saturday went on I continued to feel not so great. Monday I went to work and ended up just staying at home after my lunch break. Monday night I had a hard time sleeping. Coughing, sore chest, head ache. So yesterday after getting the kids off to school I went to the local Doc in a Box. I didn’t feel like waiting to 8am to call my doctor, for them to be either be closed or tell me they have appointments next week. I was happy that when I got there they had opened early and only had 1 person in front of me. I was in and out in about 30 minutes. That’s pretty unheard of. The doctor said I had bronchitis, which didn’t surprise me, but he also said my flu test came out positive! Now that shocked me. I didn’t feel that bad. So I headed over to campus to get my meds.
All the while, I was worrying about feeling well enough to cook for Thanksgiving! Rob was like, no need to worry, it’s just us and Maria and fam. So you’re getting yourself worked up for nothing. He’s right. It’s just me. I want it a certain way and I worry when I don’t think it’s going to turn out that way. Weird?
Today I’m feeling like I have more energy, so that’s good. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
Ok, so I took a couponing class that an acquaintance from my church has been teaching for awhile. [Not extreme couponing] It’s been all the buzz on Facebook. I was so excited when she scheduled a class that I could attend. I learned a few things, but since I had already done some extensive research, I knew a lot of what she said. One thing is just awareness! I’m looking at the weekly ads, so today when I went to get corn for Alex’s class feast, I decided to look around and see if I found anything worth while. Here’s what I got:
Almost 6 lbs. of chicken: $29.89 for $11.92 at $1.99 a lb.
24 small corn on the cobs: $6.35 for $6.05 at .25 each
Pomegranate: $2.99 for .99
2 bags of stuffing: $5.98 for $5.00
Total: $47.69 for $26.44 after tax
I’d say for no coupons, that’s pretty dang good.