Hope everyone is doing well =) Today is nicer weather then yesterday... so far ;-) I am finally feeling more myself, so think I'm over that bug.
Yesterday we picked up the free 8x10 our church does every other year to incent members to get their pictures taken for the new directory books. It was nice to get that one free. The past few years we've bought the groupon for JcPenney in the summer then used it in October to get the cd with 3 images (to use on Christmas cards) and 3 sheets of pictures. We normally get a 10x13 of the family shot for the frame we have, but I just matted the 8x10 and it looks fine. Since we already have the large family shot we can use the extra sheet for another shot. Also, I finally got out the frame set my best friend got us last Christmas. It's family tree themed and, after putting pictures in it finally, I put it in the hallway last evening. It nicely matches the Wallverbs family tree frame set we have in the front room that is pictured above (with last year's family shot). Nice continuity.
Hubby had a laid back bday, yesterday. We never do much for his and my bday but we went out to Golden Corral to eat (easiest place to reasonably accommodate food allergies). I wanted to sing Happy Birthday to him but he told me I'd be walking home if I told the staff it was his birthday- such a spoilsport! I ate too much be not unreasonably so. My rule for buffets is one plate and dessert. If I stick to one plate I don't derail my calories for the day too badly. I ate 4 chocolate covered strawberries for dessert... until hubby came back with two pieces of cheesecake. Ok, so I ate 4 chocolate covered strawberries and a piece of cheesecake for dessert =p The boys ate so well! They each ate their plates, then ice cream with gummy bears and m&ms AND got cotton candy on the way out. Golden Corral is a kids dream with that cotton candy and ice cream bar!
Anyways, after dinner we went to big lots. We were running low on the boys gluten free cereal (2 left of the 12 boxes we bought of Mom's Best Cocoa Crunch for $1 each, normally $4 a box in the grocery store) so I was hoping they might have some more GF cereal in. We were in luck. They had 36oz bags of Bear River Valley Choco Chomp for $3. Normal boxes of cereal are around 12oz each so that's the same $1 a box cost we paid for the last batch of GF cereal we bought. Plus... it's corn free! That may be the death of me. I don't normally each sweets unless they are homemade or we are out somewhere and it's a treat (and then only if I'm not already having issues breathing) because almost all candy and sweets are made with corn. I haven't ran into a chocolate cereal that is corn free since finding out I was allergic up and until this one (which I am fairly sure has some cross contamination from my breathing, but certainly not as bad as eating any of the ones that use corn starch or corn syrup). So guess what I had for breakfast this morning? And late night snack last night o.0 Oh well, hopefully that's out of my system and I can just keep the idea in reserve for when I want a treat, lol.
Second to last day of our first week of homeschool =) Oldest is writing a short story using this week's spelling words. Youngest is playing phonics apps on their tablet (which are so cool because he just thinks he's getting to play games on the 'little computer'). Fun times ;-)
Hope everyone else is having a great Thursday!
