Really?!?!?!?!

On the way home from church tonight Joe decided he wanted a burger, so we stopped at Wendy's. We pull up to the drive through and he orders "a single no cheese and an order of fries". The single with no cheese was $3.19!!!!!!!!!!!!! What!!! I can buy a whole pound of burger meat for $3.19, and with that pound of meat I could make probably 10 burgers if I made them as thin as Wendy's does.
As I sit here and complain about the price of that burger, the real sad thing is I or Joe will be back there at some point, I am sure, buying the same $3.19 burger.

Edisto Beach, South Carolina

What a beautiful place. There were no chain restaurants on the island, the only grocery store was Piggly Wiggly, and it was not very big at all. They have a building height maximum of only 40 feet so there were no high rises and wont be. I was beautiful but cold the first part of the week. We went to the beach every day but had to dress in sweatshirts. Matthew is such a beach lover. He did not care how cold it was, he was playing in the water and the sand, and let me tell you the water was cold. It was so cold it made my toes hurt when I got them wet. Matthew did not seem to care at all. We went to Charleston one day, walked around the city and took Matthew to the aquarium, which he loved. The last two days were in the 70's and beautiful. We got some sun those two days and I actually went in the water up to my thighs, that is as far as I could force myself to go. We saw dolphins daily, feeding on the sand bars and playing and jumping. It was really cool.
Here are some pictures.

Matthew looking for shells and playing in the ice cold water!

This is a picture of the center of town. The Pig is in the background!

We took this cuz Matthew was being a crab that day!

And Matthew playing in the waves.

So that is our week wrapped up. We had a great time and will definatly go back. Next we will rent a house right on the ocean though. Having to drive to the beach was no fun, we have been spoiled at our place in Destin where you just walk across the street to the beach.

Bitter Sweet

Well, I got a job!! I am really excited and can't wait to start but I was sort of looking forward to being home with Matthew this summer. Oh well.
I accepted a bookkeeping positions with the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem (ICEJ).
No I am not moving. Their headquarters for the US is in Murfreesboro so that is where I will be working. I start April 1st and I am really nervous. I have my wonderful friend Kristen to thank for this since she is the one who recommended me for the job.

So that leads me to another challenge, What to do with Matthew this summer? I really would like to get someone who can come to the house and is able to take him places like the zoo, the park, the library, and someone who will get in the pool and swim with him. So if anyone knows of someone who would be interested in doing something like this please let me know.

Anyway, I will post about out vacation tomorrow.

Playing Catch up

OK, so much for having extra time since I was laid off. I think I have been doing more in a day not working then I did when I worked all day. Any way, going all the way back to Halloween but will do this quickly.


Matthew was a bat for Halloween. We went trick or treating with some friends of our in their neighborhood.



What a group. The kids had a great time.
Then we moved on to Thanksgiving and because Joe had to work the Friday after, we stayed home and did nothing but watch football.
A couple of weeks after Thanksgiving is Matthew's birthday. His birthday fell on Friday so he got cupcakes at school with his friends, then that night we had an ice cream cake with Nana and Ms Mary and he got to open all of his gifts from family. Then Saturday morning we had his friend party at The Jumpers Playhouse. He had all of his friends from school and they had a ball. Here are some pictures










Then we moved on to Christmas. I will not bore you with all the pictures of Matthew opening his presents. The child like every year got way too much, and plays with almost none of it. Anyway, we had a good couple of days. Christmas eve we did presents and then did santa on Christmas morning. We then packed the car and went to my in laws for a couple of days. We were all sick with really bad head colds and felt like we had been run over by a mac truck. My nephew came home with us for a couple of days and hung out. That was about it. Very uneventful.
We have had far more snow than we desired. And I think last week was the first week Matthew had a full 5 day school week since they had been back from Christmas break.
Oh, Matthew had his first sleep over at his friend Will's house. He had such a good time and really did much better than I expected him too.
Anyway that brings us to today. It is about 68 degrees out and I am off to pick up Matthew from school so we can come home and play outside. Friday is Matthew's last day of school for two weeks(spring break). We leave Saturday for Edisto Island, S.C. We are really looking forward to getting away for a couple days.
I will post pictures of our vacation when we return. Still looking for a job, and hoping something breaks before I run out of unemployment.