On my way to girls camp! ~Amber

Happy Easter! ~Amber

In the begining...there was 9 hours of water.

I had been thinking about starting a blog about how we save money and our adventures in "cheap" land. But I had himmed and hawwed and put it off; until this morning. I woke up this morning, got dressed and let my husband know that I was going to be in the garden weeding. He sat straight up in bed and said "Oh My God, I forgot to turn the water off last night". I thought this was his way of joking with me, because I forgot to turn the water off the day before when I went to work. I was wrong. Horribly, horribly wrong. He had pulled an Amber and forgot to turn the water off the previous night. So, my garden got a REALLY nice soaking-for about 9 hours. The up-side to this? My roma's grew about 4 inches. The down-side? Our water bill is going to suck!

I didn't weed the garden. I can handle getting dirty, but I don't like being muddy. So, I waited until it dried out a little bit, (and until the girls woke up) and took the older girls out to weed the garden. While I was out there, my lovely husband re-dug a hole for my clothes line,
I moved the bean trellis back to the beans, and we pulled the couches out of our shed to put on either freecycle or craigslist. They are good for someone who doesn't have a couch, or maybe someone who has a crappy couch. It's not the best, but they look nice, and there is really only once spot where if you sit on it, there isn't much support because of the pull-out bed. It was given to us when we moved in here, because we didn't have ANY furniture. The lady down the street gave us a lot when we moved in.

So, this is how it all begins. With 9 hours of continuous watering. My tomatoes loved it:-), our wallets won't.:-( There is always a bright light at the end of the darkness; we just need to keep looking for the pinhole.

Stupid publix commercials. Why do they gotta be so sappy? I mean really, i dont wanna cry at work and then have to explain to the girls it was a commercial. LoL

If i wasnt do afraid of stupid jumping things my van wouldnt be so sweltering hot during they cause id leave the windows open. ~Amber

I just registered my phone to blog with! LoL im crazy i think. ~Amber

Easter all Week!

So, last night I looked up traditional Easter food, actually I looked up tradiational Palm Sunday food. Didn't find much that was really dinner food; and the stuff I did find wasn't exactly...palatable by my family. Since we are not Catholic, we don't observe lent (should that be capitalized?), which means we don't no eat meat on Friday. However, today we had a meatless meal, to "observe" or maybe educate is the word I'm looking for here, that certain cultures follow Lent and the "rules" set up by them. Tonight we had salad night. Tomorrow we are having pretzel pizza's. I know that the pizza thing isn't exactly Easter-ish, but the pretezel thing is. There is lore out there (oh noes, my MMORPG words are showing) saying that a dude (ok, I'll be a bit more political) that guy first starting giving Pretzels to the children in reward for saying their prayers. The pretzels were shaped like hands/arms folded in prayer. This is just lore I found, so to honor that lore, we are going to have prezel pizza's. I didn't want to serve JUST pretzels-although the girls would probably LOVE IT. My diabetic husband would probably love it too-but our doctor--not so much. So, anywho...onward and upward right? Tomorrow night, I'll figure out what to serve the kids Tuesday night. Tuesday is Passover. I know we're not Jewish either, but like I said, we are observing Easter (yes, I know Jews don't celebrate Easter, but Passover is a religious holiday that falls this week) this week in meals, and I don't want to leave something out-I mean it's right there people...really, it's just right there. Well, I came online to check out some school stuff...then I got all caught up in this blogging stuff. LOL I should see if I could blog from my phone. That would be awesome. I could lie in bed and you guys could NOT read my ramblings. I mean, c'mon for realz (oops, WoW words again)