Food, Glorious Food
I had my friend’s 7 and 11 year old daughters during the day while she started back to school.
I think that’s what you’re supposed to do when you retire… Have fun with other people’s kids and just enjoy life. Since I just completed my work for the school district I retired from, I have energies to spend time with my friends’ children and other things that I just may not have had time for before.
We spent time making jewelry, going to the movies, talking and other fun things.
One of those fun things was spending 2 ½ hours at the grocery store.
Now 2 ½ hours at a grocery store could mean trouble for most of us. For the girls, it was fun.
I gave each one $10 and they had to buy three days worth of groceries that equaled to balanced meals.
I think I had as much fun as they did deciding what would work and what wouldn’t. When it was all said and done, they had about 5 days worth of groceries. They ate some of the things at my house and took the rest home to cook a meal for their parents last night.
My wish for you today is that you enjoy a little shopping experience like that and try to buy balanced meals with a little money. You’d be surprised just how well you could do with less.
~ Joellen