Failed… again
But I blame it all on Mom & Tami!
It could be considered necessities… if stretched far enough!
Mom H & Tami invited me to a crop on Friday, so that we could all get caught up on some of the pics that are languishing around our houses unable to be truly seen and enjoyed. This is a good thing!
While preparing for this, I happened upon a large box filled with old pics… pics of Eric & I loooooooong before the little people showed up. So, I decided to do an album of the 2 of us… I gathered together the photos and some supplies & headed down. I had already been told that I would be getting the album as an early birthday gift (yay!)
I bought paper. And stickers. I know, they were all new things, but they were for something that I had been putting off for such a long time! Yes, I can justify it until I’m blue in the face… the fact is that a grand total of 8 days into this compact, I fell off of the wagon. BUT we were able to get my album almost finished and the girls got a good start on their scrapbooks over the weekend. We spent Saturday sitting around the table down there having a little crop of our own. The girls each got a few pages of our Disneyland trip put together, and it was such a nice time of fellowship! Memories were made, and that is what is important.
AND… I managed to survive Target WITHOUT breaking down and buying anything that was not on either the school supply list or the household needs list! This is a HUGE thing for me… Target seems to be my downfall. I haven’t figured out just why, but I seem to spend $100 per trip there. Did I mention that the girls were with me? We successfully navigated back to school supply shopping – complete with the “Mommy, can I get this?” – and didn’t walk out with a bunch of unnecessary junk that will just end up in the trash in a month. No splurges, no extras, no impulse buys. We had a list, and if it wasn’t on the list, it didn’t go in the cart. No, I wasn’t too popular, but we did it!
Can that success be measured against my failure later that night?
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