Little Blessings

We had many stops to make yesterday. Some were fun-like turning in the summer reading club forms at Barnes and Noble and walking out with three free books. Some were in between-like dropping off the boxes of books at Baker Book House for the church library--a hot job but no more boxes of books on the porch! Some were not so fun (at least for the kids)-dragging through Joann Crafts while I tried to match sales items, coupons, and my list of supplies for next year. It was worth it though--an $80 receipt reduced to $56 and some change, along with a new picture for my empty kitchen wall (reg. $29, on damaged shelf but perfectly fine for $3.99).

However God gave us good gifts along the way--samples at Sam's Club to help stave off the hungry horrors, free pretzels at Auntie Anne's for yet another list of books read and the most fun of all--a free ice cream cone in exchange for hula hooping in the mall! Maggie's comment at the end of the day--"We had a funny lunch-funny that makes me laugh and funny strange--pretzels, ice cream and samples at Sam's Club."

Oh and even more savings I found...Christopher and Banks entire store was 40% off and I still had money on my Christmas gift card from dad. Result: very cute skirt and crocheted top (nursing friendly for church) for only $8.00 cash! Katie, Maggie, and Ben all needed haircuts but I only had one coupon. Then we stopped at home to put away the cold items and checked the mail. Not just one, but two Great Clips coupons sitting in the mailbox for us. Hooray-one trip and three haircuts, for less than $25.00!

God is good. And I am laughing at myself for having so much fun writing this post. But I have to look for the good in the little things. Then the big things in life that are so hard (like child training right now) won't get me down.