Buy Books Eat Bologna

I love days like today! We are so excited to be bringing our son home from his surgery today. Everything went really well and I think we are finally at the end of this 7 month ordeal. I just have so much to be thankful for. It is one of those days where I feel like I can't help but smile. I even enjoyed going in Walmart and buying stuff to make lunch in the car. We have done this before but somehow going in there today with the man I love felt almost like a date. I know, I know I need to get out more. But seriously, sometimes it is the really simple things that make life special. I remembered all of the previous times we have done something similar in order to save money. One time we were at the end of our vacation and only had a certain amount of cash left in our budget. We decided to stop at a Barnes and Noble. Wouldn't you know it, they were having a sale. We found our selves in a dilemma, buy books or go out to eat one last time. We realized that we could stop in a grocery store buy some bologna, bread, chips and fruit, and still have plenty left in our budget to buy the books we wanted. It was great; it was memorable; it became our family motto, "Buy books, eat bologna". Now we could have ended our vacation with one more meal out, but would I be writing about that meal 8 years later? I don't think so. I also think I would have missed an important lesson. It is fun to be different, to go against the grain, to place priorities on things that last. So slow down, pack a picnic, take the road that goes through the pretty part of town, and for sure, buy the books and eat bologna!