Off to a Good Summer Start

The kids and I buzzed through the Dollar Tree yesterday.  My kids have a terrible habit of expecting a toy each and every time we go to a store.  What better store to feed this habit than the good ol' Dollar Tree.  Honestly, I know I should be trying to break them of that habit, but sometimes it's just easier to let them get a junk toy and keep going.  I am very proud of them, I didn't have to do my usualy "I'm going to count to three" warning one time while we were in the store.  That could be a first!

I grabbed a four pack of Dough and was very surprised at the quality.  It was lacking that classic Play Dough smell, but the consistency was quite nice and it didn't crumble all over the place which is even better.  And four colors for a buck is a great buy compared to one can of the other stuff at 88-cents a piece.  And it fulfills our messy summer fun goal!

When the cashier told me my total, I was a little surprised, but just paid and headed out the door.  I'm usually surprised by my basket total at the Dollar Tree.  Guess I get a little shopping crazy with all those $1 signs everywhere.  But, yesterday, JT confessed (as soon as we were in the car) that instead of one Kit-Kat, he had gotten three Kit-Kats!  He always tells on his self.  Love that about him.

Wanted to share an update to our summer learning that I mentioned in my School's Out post.  I'm loving the Moffatt Girls products and not loving the Kindergarten Bridge workbook I bought.  I really think the bridge workbook is way too easy.  Lesson learned, I guess.

Patty has been eagerly working on the worksheets so far.  She's still struggling with inventing sentences and putting them on paper.  I'm still trying to figure out how to make that easier for her.  Oh, why didn't I ever want to be a school teacher?

I started going through our junk for the yard sale I am determined to have this weekend.  I never got everything together last summer to have a yard sale so I am making myself get this over and done with early this year.  The plan is to have the sale on Saturday, and Saturday only.  I don't want to pay to advertise so I've joined a few Facebook yard sale groups.  I'm just not sure how comfortable I am posting my address on Facebook.  There is a BooKoo site for our county and I signed up for that, too.  Oh, and a friend recommended Craig's List.  Do you think BooKoo and Craig's List are safer than Facebook?  I'm pretty sure I can delete the listings on BooKoo and Craig's List.  Not sure about those Facebook groups.

How do you get everything ready for your yard sale?  I focused a few hours on the kids clothes and toys yesterday.  Today I have my "hoarding" room to tackle.  Not looking forward to that!