I LOVE a Bargin!

Ok first of all JOANNA ROCKS!!!! I went by Starbucks and my friend Joanna was working. SHe gave me my coffee for free and then hooked my kids up with hot cocco! They LOVED it! It was really sweet of her.

So yesterday I was at Target with my kids buying waffles. (Eggos - $1.52 - can't beat it!) And we went to the toy isle. BIG TREAT! So we were in the After Christmas Toy Isle when the man was marking things from 50% 0ff to 75%off. So we spent a half-hour and had a home-school lesson on how great it is to get a BARGAIN!!!! Oh, yeah, we did the math too. Anyway, Ethan used his recycling money to buy a Superman guy for like $1.75. Carter got some Batman stuff. Sophie found a horse for $1.24 and Taylor decided to save his money. (First Born).

The other lesson my kids learned is that Mommy can't refuse a bargain! So I bought this wooden doll house with like the little wooden Swedish people in it. Originally $30, on sale for $5. Yes! 5 BUCKS! I know, how can you walk away? So it's one of those great imaginative toys that encourages group play. And so we brought it home and put it together. 5 BUCKS! And it ROCKS!!!! THe kids spent all afternoon playing with it. I had gotten a seperate box of people to go with it. So they each had their own characters. AND there was even a bald grandpa...so he becaame daddy. There was a little dog that looked like Eddie and in the other set their was a bigger wooden brown and white dog and the kids named him Mac. Later I was out of the room and I hear the kids. "I want to be Pastor Nathan." "No...you be Miss Jill." "Can I be Mac?" So their were enough people to add a few extras to the family. It was so adorable. And they all just kept playing so sweatly together. Best $5 I've spent in a long time!!!

(J&N: Know you are loved and you are missed by all!)