Monday, May 7, 2007

Love Date.

Hi. John and I are out on a love date tonight. It is fun, but kind of strange! We really don't have very much money right now (and no credit cards these days! Our limits have either been drastically reduced or our accounts closed due to late payments). :( I am thinking this is probably a good thing. There is something about buying things and spending money that really isn't ours in the first place - that we know we can not pay back - it just seems wrong! So, this is better anyway.

I have $17 in my checkbook, and I had thoughts of using it to buy some dinner, but John was smart and cooked garlic-basic spaghetti for us before we left. That was nice because we were able to have dinner with Johnna-Bear.

I miss her SO MUCH! But, anyway, we really didn't have any plans for tonight. Just to use it as a night to go out and hang out at places. I was kind of sad at first. I was really spoiled last time when John had won those tickets to the movie theater as well as a free pizza coupon! But, we did go to the library. I found two neat books. We only had 20 minutes to browse, and I hit the good section JUST when they were going around kicking people out. Anyway, the two books I found were: Needlecrafts for Dummies and a book on making homemade toys for infants and toddlers.

After the library, we came over here, to the coffee shop. John ordered a cup of the dark roast, and I splurged and ordered a chai tea. Mmm...spice!

So guess what. Our camera is on the fritz! Well...the power adapter was left amuck....and a tiny baby got into it and chewed off ONE TINY little piece that just so happens to be a piece from the part that plugs into the camera. The result: a camera with no battery life that has no way of being charged. We went to Best Buy the other night, but they tried to sell us a huge pack of adaptor things (a 'universal adaptor') for $35. Sadly, we couldn't afford that. We did find online, a place that sells them for $18. I'm not sure what to do.

Because I did manage to get some really adorable pictures of Johnna helping me make oatmeal raison cookies today. She was SO CUTE and a GREAT little helper. I made the cookies in the dining room, on the table, and stood Johnna up on a chair. She held the measuring cups and spoons. She would get mad when I would borrow one to use. But I handed it back to her after measuring out the vanilla, and she put the spoon in her mouth. She was oblivious to the fact that the spoon had vanilla on it, but, after tasting it, she said: "MMM!" So cute!!! She also attacked the bag of organic raisons! I had my back turned for a split second, and when I turned around, there was a cute little girl holding a bag of raisons, half emptied, with raisons scattered all over the table and the floor. SO CUTE! And I have pictures of this, but...until we get our camera situation under control...I hope soon!!!

There's not too much going on otherwise. Just the continuation of dreaming of the future...and hoping some aspects of my life improve and one day we can say:

We used to have a mortgage we couldn't pay. And an expensive Subaru Forester. And credit card payments. And satellite tv contracts. But one day, we lost it all. At first, we thought it was the end of our world. However, if we had not made those mistakes early on in life, we would have not been forced to live as minimally and simply as possible. And that is where we have found True Life. And where we want to continue to be and what we would like to pass down to our little ones.

Labels: baking, dating, dreams

Melissa at 9:06 PM

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