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A Busy Afternoon And Information on the Twenty Worst Foods

By Melissa Markham on November 27, 2007 9:54 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

Okay, you are wondering where I am going with this after reading that bizarre title...well, follow along and you will see.

Actually, a busy afternoon isn't correct. It was a busy day. I spent my morning blogging, reading emails and RSS feeds and teaching the children. We are reading about Greek Gods and Goddesses right now. For science, Katrina and Jack spent some time with their rabbits. We continue to try and get them to like us! Then they worked on alphabetizing and defining this week's spelling words. Followed by learning more about verbs and how they work in sentences. Then this was followed by math. Jack is learning about decimals and Katrina is learning about adding and subtracting three digit numbers (she doesn't like this section very much).

After lunch, we headed to town for our Tuesday errands. We stopped at the dump first. While Jack was unloading our trash, I popped the hood and tried to get a better handle on why my car has smoke coming out from under the hood when I stop. Well, there have been two problems. One is that a hose that goes into the valve cover had popped loose. My dad fixed that a couple of weeks ago, but I was still steaming and couldn't figure out why. Then I realized I wasn't steaming all the time. Turns out that there must be a leak involving my air condition thingy. When my AC or defrost is on, fluid drips onto the manifold and burns. Since we can't spend money on repairs, I simply turned off the defrost and viola....no more smoke! COOL! Now I know that there are times when I will have to use the defrost, but at least, I know my car isn't going to burst into flames...

So then we went to the bank. I had some eBay money came in and I have realized in recent days that the kids need clothes. They are still wearing shorts because they have outgrown their long pants! So I took the money, apologized to the bill that will have to wait a little while longer and took the kids to get some clothes. My daughter loves to shop! First we hit one of the nearby Goodwills (we actually have two in our town). I picked up two pillows for 2.00 for me. Our couch arms are hard and since I spend a lot of time blogging, and since my old pillow wore out (it sprung a hole for some reason), I treated myself to these two matching fluffy couch pillow). We found one dress for Katrina, 3 t-shirts for Jack(from the dollar bin - like new) and a pair of pajamas. This all added up to less than 10.00.

Next we headed to a nearby consignment shop. We left with one shirt for 4.50 for Katrina. Not a great deal, but it was a cute shirt. Then we went to the Family Dollar Store. I really wasn't sure what size pants Jack needed. He is almost 11, but is now as tall as I am (5'3"). Turns out, we discovered he needs pants that are size 32/30. His inseam is actually longer than his dad's (who needs size 29 inseam). So since the jeans there were 10.00 each and he really needed pants and I wasn't sure if we would find others, I bought him two pair).

Next we hit another Goodwill. This is really the best one in town (which is ironic, considering the other Goodwill is in a more well to do part of town). We couln't find any pants for Katrina, though she tried on 10 pair. They were all either too tight or too short. She did, however find a belt (to hold up a favorite pair of pants that are at home) and two long sleeve shirts. Jack picked up 3 more pairs of pants. A couple that are Dockers and one pair that was nice corduroy. We spent 17.00 there. Then we had to head to Walmart. Katrina needed some pants. My money was low though so all she got today was two pairs of sweat pants (which is what she loves to wear anyway). At least, her legs will be warm! That set me back another 9.00.

At this point, we had literally been shopping for the better part of 4 hours. My legs, and my knee were tired and we were hungry. So we splurged with our remaining money and had dinner at McDonald's before heading to the grocery store. Not only did this give us a chance to rest my tired tootsies a bit, but it saved me from going to the grocery store with all of us very hungry!

I saved 40.92 between the items I purchased on sale and my coupons I had today (I got about 150.00 of groceries for 106.00.) So, all in all it was a good productive day.

Now, onto the twenty worst foods...when I was at McDonald's I couldn't decide what to get. I ended up choosing from the 1.00 menu and that was fine. But I couldn't help but think of an article I had looked at earlier today about the 20 worst foods (I am not implying that McDonald's is on that list. I haven't finished reading the whole article. But what I wanted to point out is that if we are trying to watch our weight, we will often choose chicken dishes or salads. But beware...sometimes they can be worse for us than a juicy hamburger!

Okay...if you are still here...thanks for reading about my day! Hope you had a good one!