The Simple Things in Life

We have been living simply to say the least since Linc got this wonderful thing called croup. We stay home, play around the house, do some chores, listen to the radio, cook, clean, cook, clean... sometimes I feel like all I do is cook and clean ;0) Today we ventured out of the house since I am pretty sure Linc can't infect anyone else at this point to do some grocery shopping. Levi and I have instated this new grocery budget (really he asked if I could cut anything and I volunteered to put us on a minimal spending grocery budget... he wasn't super thrilled but he cooperates!) which is $200 a month no questions. I take $200 and stretch it, $50 a week. So far so good. I like being cheap. It makes me feel useful :0) Anyway, today we went to the grocery stores. First Walmart which, note to self, is a BAD idea on a Sunday afternoon. The Walmartians were out in force. Then off to Safeway where I always avoid those giant carts with the car attached to the front but i thought "what the heck, the kid had to endure walmartians I guess I could let him have some fun " so I grabbed one thinking he would just sit there to ponder what he had just seen at the walmart but the minute I sat him in it WHOA! He lit up! He grabbed the wheel frantically turning it from side to side while hanging out the window yelling HI! at everyone, this kid cracks me up. He did this the WHOLE time, making friends as we walked through the store. So, again note to self, on rainy days take the kid to the Safeway and let him "drive" the cart. My boy loved it.

While being cheap with groceries is on my mind I just saw the coolest way to use up single serving leftovers all at once. This lady took all of her leftovers and divided them up into muffin tins with equal servings in each tin and served them to her kiddos as kind of a mish mash TV dinner with leftovers. It looked like a success and a great way to use up all the little bits of leftovers at the end of the week.

And lastly I recently saw this on another blog (maybe it was the same one I just linked to) and it looked familiar:

Oh I remember where I saw this;


The kid still begs to be put in the crab pots every time we go outside!