La Kooka Rancha
Feb. 29, 2008
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Time Travel and Other Stuff
Here we go...headed into the weekend again!
Since I do my grocery shopping on Thursday's I am usually ready for hubby's request for food on Friday mornings. This morning I baked some biscuits and cooked some eggs with cheese on top to make biscuit sandwiches.
His lunch and coffee were ready. The children kissed him and we waved him off to work with smiles.
Ahhh! I love it when a plan comes together!
Yesterday was grocery day. I admit that grocery shopping is not a favorite activity of mine. I have read some blogs where they give the feeling that if they had no other obligations in life they would stand around in the grocery aisles calculating their savings until they were forced to go home and sleep.
I have no such desire. Don't get me wrong. I love to help my husband save money. l love to feed my family. I love to plan my menus. I just don't relish the time spent in the grocery store; especially if I have to go to Stuff Mart for some reason. When I emerge from Stuff Mart I feel like a mole coming out of the ground. My eyes hurt in the sunlight and I have to squint and scurry to the car. My brain gets on some sort of short circuit where I can't hear anything but loud white noise...the mix of unpleasant music, babies crying, registers clicking and hundreds of people talking. I also feel like I've been gone from regular society for an unknown amount of time. Like a time traveler that no one knows was gone. The crackling noise in my head has to die down before I can understand normal people talking again. It's very disconcerting to be on the sidewalk in front of the mammoth store that just stole a large chunk of my life and then have my phone ring....
Ring!
Me: Uh, Uhm...He..He...Heellllooo?
Daughter: Mom, when are you coming home? I mean, I hope you aren't coming home yet. I'm having fun doing crafts and I don't want to clean it up yet. The babies took their diapers off and broke some stuff....but it's fine..." Her voice trails off.
I try to answer with English but my mind is running on some kind of holding pattern and it takes a few words to get into gear.
Me: "Uhhh... I just... coming... out store... I can't...uhhhmmm... remember where I parked.... How long have I been gone anyway?"
It usually takes me 15 minutes or so to shake the side effects.
I am very pleased to say, however, that yesterday I did not have to visit Stuff Mart! I went to Kroger, which is a notch or 2 better. They were having one of their regularly scheduled 10 for 10 sales. I can do those. I can stock up on essentials and basics while the prices are low. In fact I absolutely love to do that. I have shopped for this family for more than 19 years. So I pretty much know what we need, I use a list to remind me of what is on the menu but for essentials I already know the list in my head. Yesterday, my cart was loaded with bags of onions (3 lbs for a dollar isn't too bad) and other basics. You gotta watch those sales though! They try to trick you into buying something for a dollar a can -just because it has a bright yellow sticker declaring 10 FOR 10 DOLLARS-!!!...when the brand right next to it is only 75 cents per can at regular price!
I made it out of there with all the groceries for this week plus lots of stuff for the coming month and I spent less than my budgeted grocery amount! Hurray! That means I have a teensy bit of money to use on something else. Like, add to my envelope of savings for a few new school books that I hope to purchase.
Late last night Osprey called. He has to call late because he's so busy right now that he has no other time slots available....I remember being young...
Anyway, we were up late talking about stuff...you know...plans for life and next year --college? no college? ...jobs, classes and grades and also, he's planning to go on a school organized mission trip to Peru this summer for which he has to raise his own support. I'm just getting used to him being in another state and now he wants to go out of the country for more than a month ...somebody help me breathe...my baby isn't a baby anymore...
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Here you can visit our happy little acre, where we homeschool our 5 children. We believe in love of God, simplicity of life, sense of humor, and love of learning. I hope you will find encouragement while you are here.
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Sunydazy Days
Once upon a time, when things were not so complex...there was a handsome
farm boy (college boy) from the great woods of the Northwest
who came to the south on his
white stallion (White Honda Civic)
and won Buttercup's (Sunydazy's) heart.
He laid his heart at the foot of
her dress and said "Our love can be
like a storybook story. Will you be my bride?"
She accepted and they began talking
and dreaming of their perfect future
together.
Since that time they have together endured
fire swamps, ROUS's, the pit of despair
and yes, they have even teetered on
the edge of the cliff's of insanity (tee hee!)
Though their future was not quite what
they expected they still believe
in True Love.
This blog is all about the rest
of their lives where they are living
'Happily Ever After' in the land
of La Kooka Rancha.
They love to say 'you keep using
that word...I do not think it means
what you think it means.' and
'Hallo, my name is Inigo Montoya'
...but their favorite phrase is
'As you wish'....
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Mar. 7, 2008 - Untitled Comment
I'm so glad that you are!
Candy