Rewards....

Friday night we finally went out on our reward date. It was FUN!! We went to Ruby River Steakhouse where I learned that I should just stick with what I love there. I tried something new (Filet Mignon) and they mixed up how our steaks were cooked so mine was a bit too red for my liking. Anyway - I asked (SO POLITELY!!) if they could cook it for just a tiny bit longer. I was super nice and so I hope I didn't ingest some disgusting floor or spit germs! Anyway - I should have just traded steaks with DH - he says mine wasn't nearly as good after they cooked it a bit more. Anyway - just a note in my 'eating out' notebook - order the usual and don't send the food back. But whatever.

After dinner ~ which really was lovely and fun and delightful~ we went to see Evan Almighty. It was good, mindless entertainment for a couple of hours in a cool theater. It was pretty funny, pretty silly and very sweet.

Overall, I give two enthusiastic thumbs-up for the whole evening. We've worked so hard for that reward and it was even sweeter knowing just how hard we have worked and how much we've sacrificed. It's been a long 5 months but I still can't believe how much we've been able to pay off now that we are so intent and focused. I'm proud of us. (pat on my back...would give DH a pat too, but he's hard at work!)

Mom watched the kids so we didn't have to pay for a babysitter - woo hoo! I did make dinner and took the whole thing over to her house, so she did get a free dinner out of it. Wow - she should just be so grateful. Aren't I a good daughter for letting her watch my kids and then on top of that...I bring her dinner?!? I'm amazing. (HA!!) It was incredibly nice of her to watch the kids and I really am grateful that she does that for us once in a while. She's a good mom/grandma.

The weekend was LAZY...so nice and much needed! I did get some laundry done, the grocery shopping, church, date, etc. Other than that....lazy.

I've made up for some of that this morning though....up at 5:45am, treadmill for an hour, laundry, got the kids ready and walked to school, worked on the garden a bit and did a little weeding. Now I'm ready for a nap!

I'm still waiting for JC Penney to put the money back in my account from a return I made on Friday. It irritates me that I buy something and the money is immediately gone from my account. I return it and it takes 2 days to put the money back in. What a rip off. Oh well...what do you do?