The value of a dollar (or 2)!

If I were a betting woman, I would have put money on the dollar store having safety pins, which is why I headed there last night with both girls.  I have been consumed with yard sale stuff this week, so guilt trumped sense when I decided to take both girls to the dollar store...  Usually these trips are tedious and end in tears because one or both of the girls falls in love with something I won't let them buy or I don't let them get anything at all (gasp!).  Not last night.  As soon as we walked in the door, Betsy found a light up wand toy.  They had purple and blue, perfect.  The girls were so thrilled with their find that they didn't even think to ask for anything else while I searched the aisles for safety pins... Which the dollar store doesn't sell!  I know, you are all as shocked as I was!  The best part of the $2 I spent was listening to the girls sing "We are rock star sisters!" into their wands turned microphones.  They sang it over and over in the car on the way home.  Needless to say, I took the long way home.

Beautiful Weekend!

I am having a yard sale next weekend (why??  I have no idea!).  So, I spent most of Saturday in the basement with my fabulous pricing assistants, Betsy and Caroline.   If the item was something Caroline wanted to keep, her suggested retail price was high ($20 for some Halloween decorations that she really liked).  If it was something she didn't care about, she all but marked it "free"!  Betsy's mission was to remove all of the price tags as quickly as I could get them on...  

The weekend weather was perfect and I felt cheated after spending most of the day in the basement, so I insisted we have quality family time outside today!  To Eckerts we went.   It was great, we all had fun.  Betsy ate apples as big as her head, Caroline maintained quality control over our apple collection, and Sam enjoyed his very first "raw" apple (he's had lots of cooked apples though!).  We had a yummy dinner and left feeling revived from the fresh air and exercise.  

I love the season of fall and all of the terrific activities it offers for our family, especially if the weather is as outstanding as it was this weekend.

And, yes, I let Caroline hang onto the Halloween decorations.