9 Weeks...

That's how much time is left until the kids are out of school for the summer. I can't wait.
We had a great spring break, particularly this past weekend and I was so sad to see them off to school this morning.

I had to go to the grocery store this morning since we were out of most things and I had been putting it off for too long. It costs a lot of money to feed a family of 6 plus the day care kiddos and I had other things I wanted to spend money on this weekend!lol! Anyway, I am doing a trial subscription to The Grocery Game to see if I can really save some money, but if today's trip was any indication, I'll be continuing my subscription!

I went to the store with my list and my coupons ready, estimating that I would be spending about $120 this week. I picked up a few things that were not on my list, but were on sale, so I thought I might have gone over a bit, but not much. Well, I get to the cashier, he rings ups the groceries and it's $172!!! I was stunned. I could not imagine that I had picked up that much extra stuff! I took my receipt and was glancing at it as I walked out and noticed that none of the meat or produce that was on sale had rung up at sale prices. And I bought A LOT of meat because of the sales! So my $1.88/lb chicken breasts rang up at $4.99 a pound. And my $4.99 a pound steaks rang up at $8.99 a pound!! And my $1.99 asparagus? $5.49 a pound! YIKES!! So, I go to the customer service desk to get it straightened out and hopefully get back some of the atrocious amount of money I spent! After the fixed the prices on the meat and gave me all the produce for free!, they refunded me $66 AND gave a me a $5 gift card for my trouble! So, essentially, I spent $101!! Less than I had planned and I got some stuff that wasn't on my list. Good customer service there! And a big sigh of relief here!

Busy week ahead. The Pinewood derby is next weekend so FE and his daddy will be getting ready for that, in between Generations, cub scouts and two late nights of work for Mark and a meeting at church for SB's confirmation. I also need to try a get some new cushions made for my patio swing. Hopefully that will go better than the quilt from hell that I can't seem to finish!