Things That Make Me Happy

I went out today with a set plan. We would run to the store, pick up a few necessary food items I forgot to add to my shopping list, fill up the car with gas, and come straight home.

Well, I may (and I'm not admitting anything here) have accidentally gotten distracted and found myself standing in the mall instead.

And I may or may not have walked out two hours later with some of the best sales ever.

If (and only if) this were the case, my findings may have been along the lines of:

-Eight shirts
-Two pairs of pants
-Snowpants
-Gloves
-A jacket
-Three sweatshirts
-A beautiful blue Columbia coat
(all of this for T)

-A gorgeous coat for myself.

The coats may have looked something like this:




The grand total for the day? $106.

That Columbia coat? $26. Normally $95.

Bow to me. I am the master of sales.

I admit it. The shopping spree happened.

(goes to hide credit card from self)

Money

The cold weather continues today -- last I checked, it was hovering around -3, and we're supposed to see another half foot of snow in the next couple days. It seemed like a good day to work on money skills.

We dumped the money out of his two banks and practiced sorting by the type of coin involved. We made piles of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.



Then we mixed vinegar and salt to clean the pennies. He loved watching the bubbles form around the coins as they were each dropped in.



After waiting and watching for a few minutes, we were both distracted by the remaining coins on the table, and tried to spin them until our fingers and wrists hurt!



In a creative attempt to get T to clean up (without realizing he was doing it), we pretended he owned a store and I had come to buy things from him. He'd make up prices, I'd show him how I'd count that amount out in coins, and he'd put the coins in his bank. Easy!