Rambling On

With only one income coming into our household, I am constantly looking for different ways to save money. I have been using Snapfish coupons, buying things in bulk and cutting out on most of the extras. I find during the summer months that it’s a whole lot easier to save money then when the kids are in school. During the school year I am spending a lot of money in gas driving them back and forth to the bus stop and spending a lot more in food money as they need snacks and lunch items. And don’t get me started on how much cash I fork out in a run of a week for different activities during the school year. Saving money is a hard thing to do for anyone, but everyday I am learning more and more about how to go about doing this.

I have a very small neighbor who is constantly following me around. She is only about 21 months old, but she is the cutest little kid that I’ve seen in a very long time. She is always hollering across the driveway at me for me to come over and sit with her. And if I don’t answer he right away she will keep hollering my name until I do answer her. She is so cute that it makes me almost want another baby in the house. Notice I said almost. hehe. I would just love to be able to purchase some baby gifts again. But since I’m not having any more babies, maybe I’ll just have to purchase gifts for my little neighbor or wait a few years for my grandchildren to arrive.

This afternoon was such a gorgeous day outside that I took the kids outside all afternoon.  Although it was sunny and hot, we did have a nice cool breeze and it was probably the best afternoon so far this summer.  I did not realize until we came in for supper how badly I burnt my legs.  But after supper when I went to take the kids outside again I could feel my legs burning.  I looked down and discovered that I now have “lobster legs”.  And man does it ever burn.  So I came in the house and put on some jammie pants so my legs were covered but not in hot jeans.  So this evening I’m in quite a bit of agony.  Serves me right for not paying attention to the really hot weather today.

Another month has come and gone and it’s that time again. Yes, it’s time for me to thank all my top droppers of the previous month. Without your continued drops, my blog wouldn’t be what it is today. So here’s my list. If your on the list then this thank you is going to each and everyone of you and if your not on the list, but would like to be…all you need to do is drop.

1. The Ups, Downs and Sometimes Insane World of Freelance Writing
2. All In A Day
3. 60 Were Enough
4. Juuust A Bit Outside
5. sourkandy
6. The Creative Nerd
7. Lapidary Queen Wannabees
8. Freaky Frugalite
9. Living Within Samsara
10. Caption this

There you go. The list for June. Thanks to all and I’ll see you all the first of next month.

Over the weekend we had a little bit of excitement here in our park. Not the kind of excitement I would ever look forward to, but excitement none the less. On Saturday one of the other trailers in our park got broken in to. The thieves stole a plasma TV and the plasma mount.

They were very brave and very stupid. They performed this act in the middle of the day time and carried it on foot through the park. So of course they were spotted and identified. The police caught up with about an hour later and now they get to spend some time in jail. Although it was not our home that was broke in to, it did creep me out quite a bit thinking that it could have been. Now a days, you just never know.

My father in law announced today that he has a girlfriend.  I find this quite amusing myself as he is 69 and she is 66 and they are both carrying on like little teenagers.  Every time he talks about her, he always refers to her as “my girlfriend” and not by her name.  He seems to be really happy with this turn of events, but my husband’s sister definitely are not!!  They are barely speaking to their father which I find to be an awful shame.

Nine months ago his wife passed away (their mother) and they don’t think he gave “them” enough time to morn.  But for the past nine months he has been highly depressed and I’m just happy to see him so happy these days.  My husband hasn’t said too much about the big news, but has stated that it’s his father’s life and he can do what he wants.  He only wants him to be happy and this woman seems to be doing the trick.  I’m sure the sisters will calm down eventually, I just hope it’s sooner rather than later.

For the past couple of months my daughter has been taking riding lessons from my aunt. She is really enjoying these lessons and looks forward to going to my aunt’s twice a week for them. But my aunt called me today to tell me that she is selling the horse. She doesn’t know how much longer she will be able to keep the horse. With everything prices skyrocketing on all products including horse supplies she really can’t afford to keep her horse any longer. When I informed my daughter of what was going to take place she got very upset. I’m going to try to get her into another riding school, but I don’t know how successful I will be because of the high cost of lessons (my aunt was doing it for free). But we will see.

In my next life time I’m coming back as a very rich person. That way I can afford to hire a made to clean my toilets. I’m not kidding! I hate cleaning and the worst room in the house has got to be the bathroom. I don’t understand why my family feels the need to leave it disgusting after each and every visit. The only reason I can think of is because they enjoy watching me clean. So that is why in my next life time I plan on coming back rich. But with my luck I’ll come back as the maid.

After months and months of trying to gain weight, I have very good news to report! I’ve gained! Now I know that some of you may be thinking that your envious of me but because I’m thin (I hate the word skinny), but don’t be…I have just as much trouble gaining weight as anyone does losing it. Yes I know I don’t have to worry about diets, weight loss pills or gym memberships, but I do have a lot of health issues to worry about.

Being so thin I have low blood, very low energy, and low blood pressure. These issues can be as major as someone who has too high counts of everything. How much did I gain you ask?? Well I went from an 89 when I first started trying to gain weight and am now 100 lbs. This doesn’t sound like much, but you have to understand that the only time in my life that I have been 100 lbs was when I was pregnant for the kids. So this number is a great accomplishment for me. Now if I could only gain another 10 lbs I will be one happy camper.

Last night decided to get back to the kid’s scrapbooks again. So I dug out all my supplies and pictures and started going through every again. I came across a lot of really nice pictures of the kids that I forgot I had, and instead of putting them in their scrapbooks, I have decided to purchase a digital frame to showcase these special pictures. I don’t have a lot of the kids pictures sitting around the house (they normally go into the scrapbooks) so I thought I would display these particular ones. As the kids get older, I may end up putting these pictures in the scrapbooks, but for now I think I’ll leave them out for everyone to look at.