TGIF Stuff

Hi!

It's a day off for me! And the kids!  I was glad I got to do parent/teacher interviews yesterday instead of today.  Both kids are doing well! :-)  My MIL is back from her cruise so the kids are spending the night with their grandparents.

I did the grocery shopping today and I'm consistently surprised at how much our groceries are.  This week I spent $148.  I bought bakery bread on sale for $1.50 (I think it's normally $2.29 or $2.49).  A dozen large eggs cost $3.39. Two liters of milk costs $3.59.  Ten pounds of potatoes cost $4.99 and 3 lbs of carrots is $2.99.  Is this expensive?  It certainly adds up!  I bought a big bag of cat food for $23.99. I used to buy the super cheap stuff at about 1/2 the price of what I bought today, but because it's been so cold, HH thought we should switch over to some "better" stuff!  When we gave Lisa the new food mixed in with her old food, she would pick out the new food and leave the old. I guess she likes it better!

On the other hand, I saved $14 on gas because of the grocery store giving coupons based on how much groceries you buy.  Today I earned $.04/liter off my next purchase.  (You can use up to 4 coupons when you buy gas and sometimes the store gives double or triple coupons.)

I found this picture on BHG.com.  

It kinda reminded me of mine and how I  painted them black. 

 I think I mentioned I'd had the idea (or rather saw the idea somewhere) to hang 6 or 9 on the wall to organize papers.  I like them on the stairs above and thought maybe I'd do it in the hallway.

We've had 2 frames fall and break their glass. I thought I should take out all the glass, but I haven't done it yet. I guess I'll just wait til they all fall and break!  ;-) The wall in the foreground on the right isn't exactly finished. It still needs a couple studs behind it and if our door is shut too roughly (usually by DS), the frames bounce off. I've put sticky tack on the bottom of them to help so we'll see how that goes. Anyway, I thought these pics would be changing more and it's kinda hard to change the pics if they're all behind glass and sticky tacked to the wall.  The clipboards may be a solution for when I grow tired of the frames.

This weekend is DD's Ice Show, A Night at the Movies.  It should be cute.  Her group is Mike Wazowski from Monster's University.

We've been having record cold temps this week- mostly around Neg20C (Neg4F) with windchills around Neg 27-28C (Neg20F).  The kids had indoor recess all week and twice my car wouldn't start because the battery was so cold.  Today it is right around freezing so it feels great!  However, next week it is going back down to Neg 20C a couple nights. :-(

Have a wonderful weekend! :-)