We Made the News!

Last month I met a nice lady at the pool. She wanted to know how Matt and I met. Turns out she was a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, and she decided to do a story about us! We had interviews with her, and our story was published in today's newspaper!

Here's the photo they put in, followed by the link (cut and paste it) to the story if you want to read it. Fun stuff!




http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2008/jul/27/right-time-right-place-parental-mediation-20080727/?print

A-Camping We Shall Go

Tomorrow morning our family is embarking on a great adventure--we're going to church camp with the 3rd-6th graders from our church. Matt is packing his suitcase with everything he will need to be the boys' counselor in a cabin full of stinky, little boys. Lucky Matt! The kids and I will be staying in a family cabin. Ours will have air conditioning! Lucky us! Snapper keeps flipping out with excitement (in true Snapper style), even though she hasn't a clue in the world what goes on at camp. Pepper could care less. He's too little to know. So we are off, very much looking forward to the time we get to hang out with the seriously awesome kids from our church. We are looking forward to swimming, playing games, singing, Bible study, and just chillin'. So adios friends, I'll be back to the world of blogging next weekend.

Markup

After I posted my blog about the Sears sale this morning, I headed over to Sears with a budget of $100 to see how much I could buy for the kids for next summer. I came home with 6 shirts and 3 pairs of shorts, and a cute one-piece outfit for Pepper, 3 shirts, 2 pairs of shorts, and a pair of capris for Snapper, 2 pairs of Bermuda shorts and 2 shirts for me, a shirt for Deb-Deb, a shirt for my nephew Christopher, and a one-piece outfit for my nephew Braeden. The grand total including tax: $96.71.

Just for fun, I added up the regular ticket prices of everything I bought, plus tax: $380.55!

Money saved: $283.84! That's 75% off of the regular price!

Okay, how does this make you feel about the mark-up of the retail world? Hmm...