Friday is back, I sure missed it!!!

Friday is our grocery shopping day, we do no formal school on this day. Instead, we meet my mother and take a nice drive through the pretty country to do our shopping together. We go to at least one of my two favorite country stores. Today I also stopped by a farm stand at the side of the road off of the seller's driveway. For $20 I got 3 butternut squashes, 5 pumpkins, 8 ears of corn, 6 HUGE potatoes named "Chef's special" LOL, 4 green peppers and 4 smallish tomatoes.

After this we went on to the country store to get the produce I still needed such as apples, 50 lbs. potatoes, indian decorative corn, lettuce, cukes, grapes and bananas. Afterward we went to the regular grocery store to get what we still needed on our list. Along the way I shot a few photos of the charm that keeps drawing me out to the country whenever possible, even if just for a short visit. Hope you enjoy the view.


You may wonder the point of this photo. The subject is too far away, but if you click the photo to enlarge you will see some flying geese. I was too slow to get them while overhead, and sadly they didn't wait to pose. This is one of those shots that is my "GOAL" to get close up. I will have to try again!

Day of Good Deals

Day of Good Deals
Tonight the moon was so huge and extra bright, low and golden. It was really impressive and pretty.

Anyhow, I found a really great cabinet/hutch type of piece at a tag sale yesterday. It looks like a kit someone bought and put together themselves. They said they used it as a entertainment center. My vision was for its home to be in our kitchen. It has a country look to it with the couple of scalloped edges. It reminds me of something you might see in a country store where they display their candles for sale. Too cute! I was soo excited. I am the Queen of missing good deals because I am never out there looking for them with 6 kids. Well, I got this for $5 bucks!!! It's not stained, but I like it natural, as the other lady was using it. So for now it's in the kitchen as is.

I also did the girls' school clothes shopping last night. The JcPenney outlet moved from CT to a nearby town mall, so we checked it out and did quite well. One of my daughters is plus sized so I always have to buy her clothes at JcPenney. The other daughter did well finding blouses/shirts. She has a lot of shirts with words & pictures on the front, so we found some respectable stylish yet subtle shirts nice enough to wear with skirts to church or a function, but would also look nice with Jeans and boots. We didn't bother with the shoes or coats. We spent enough as it was. I still need to get some things for the 4 boys. They don't need as much though, as I had been slowly collecting clothes for them all summer. Their shirts averaged 8 bucks, as their sweaters; their jeans averaged 13 bucks; the coats started at 19.99.

Normally I hate to spend money, but my husband had a mini crisis and wanted me to buy a new dish set (service of 8), glasses, plastic tumblers, silverware, cereal storage containers, butter dish; and redo our entire cabinet. I was overwhelmed at first and irritated to have to spend money and lug 6 kids with me, but once we got out there I actually had fun. I guess spending money IS FUN afterall....LOL I get so worried about saving money for our house sometimes to a fault.