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9.1.10

Cheap Treat


I am not a fan of fast food. I can’t say I’ve officially banned it from my life, but unless a mom’s group is meeting there or unless I’m on a road trip – you will never find me eating there. Wait, Chick-fil-a doesn’t count, right? Okay, so like I said, it’s not a hard and fast rule in my house, but you won’t see me breakin’ down any doors… until that is, I found out about this silly little key fob at Wendy’s.

Wendy’s has a frosty key fob that costs $1. With it, you get a free Jr. Frosty with every purchase you make there until the end of 2010. My kids always appreciate a special treat (especially with this Texas heat) and getting ice cream nowadays costs a ton. You can easily walk out of Braums having spent $7+ on ice cream that is: a) way too much to spend and b) way too much for your kid to eat. Half of it goes uneaten and I can’t help but always feeling like it was a waste. Enter, the Jr. Frosty deal. Buy one, get one free and it only costs $1 plus tax. It’s the size of a Dixie cup and I found out that if you ask for whipped cream on top, they add it for free. Perfect.

My kids think I rule… and I don’t hate myself for wasting money.

Sure, sure… it’s not in the healthy treat category, but you gotta live it up sometimes. 😉

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by Sally

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September 1, 2010 - 2:43 pm

Matt - I love fast food. I think about the square burgers at Wendys and want two right now. At 9:20 in the morning. Oh, their fries! Let's also talk about Arby's. America's Roast Beef, YES SIR! I would like to make a fine bedding out of their thin-sliced roast beef, burrow into the beef sheets only to emerge months later glowing and greasy. How about Burger King's fried chicken sandwich? THEY'LL MAKE IT WITH BACON IF YOU ASK. I'll take three. Throw in a number 9 from Taco Bell's value meal and that's a good start.

Wait a minute. Did you say you don't like fast food? Have we talked about this?

9.1.10

Cheap Treat



Originally uploaded by ..Sally..

I am not a fan of fast food. I can’t say I’ve officially banned it from my life, but unless a mom’s group is meeting there or unless I’m on a road trip – you will never find me eating there. Wait, Chick-fil-a doesn’t count, right? Okay, so like I said, it’s not a hard and fast rule in my house, but you won’t see me breakin’ down any doors… until that is, I found out about this silly little key fob at Wendy’s.

Wendy’s has a frosty key fob that costs $1. With it, you get a free Jr. Frosty with every purchase you make there until the end of 2010. My kids always appreciate a special treat (especially with this Texas heat) and getting ice cream nowadays costs a ton. You can easily walk out of Braums having spent $7+ on ice cream that is a) way too much to spend and b) is way too much for your kid to eat. Half of it goes uneaten and I can’t help but always feeling like it was a waste. Enter, the Jr. Frosty deal. Buy one, get one free and it only costs $1 plus tax. It’s the size of a Dixie cup and I found out that if you ask for whipped cream on top, they add it for free. Perfect.

My kids think I rule… and I don’t hate myself for wasting money.

Sure, sure… it’s not in the healthy treat category, but you gotta splurge sometimes. 😉

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by Sally

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September 1, 2010 - 2:22 pm

Matt - I love fast food. I think about the square burgers at Wendys and want two right now. At 9:20 in the morning. Oh, their fries! Let's also talk about Arby's. America's Roast Beef, YES SIR! I would like to make a fine bedding out of their thin-sliced roast beef, burrow into the beef sheets only to emerge months later glowing and greasy. How about Burger King's fried chicken sandwich? THEY'LL MAKE IT WITH BACON IF YOU ASK. I'll take three. Throw in a number 9 from Taco Bell's value meal and that's a good start.

Wait a minute. Did you say you don't like fast food? Have we talked about this?

October 11, 2010 - 1:54 am

Kristen - LOL, i love matt gulde. i love the treat idea. we have a wendy's nearest us and we never go there… we'll make a dangerous left turn for sonic or drive for miles to mcd's, but not any more. wendy's here we come!

9.1.10

George has started Fort Worth PreK


Well folks, here he is: George William Finch Gulde headed to his first day of Fort Worth preK. Baby Tiger under one arm and Clash of the Titans lunchbox in the other. He. had. so. much. fun.

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When I dropped him off, I expected some kind of hesitation – something-anything. He hadn’t given me any indication that he was worried, but I just figured, hey… he’s four and this is a new place…ya know, normal kid stuff. But what I’m realizing more and more is that George Gulde is no regular kid. This boy, much like his father, has never met a stranger. He just rolls with it and is a friend to all. Monday was no different. He just ran in, found his cubby, put away his backpack – taking special care to put Baby Tiger inside safely, put his daddy’s old lunchbox on the shelf and ran to one of the tables and started playing. No hug, no kiss goodbye necessary… So I said, “George, I’m leaving… I love you, have a great day” and he said “Okay, momma – I love you too” without even looking up. Big sigh… he’s growing up. They all are, damn it.

Just before noon, I talked to Matt and told him that I needed to wake Sam up to go pick up George. He offered to do it for me so he could get in on the first day fun which was great. He said George was the last one out – not because Matt was the last one there, he was just busy having fun.

When they arrived home he told me all about playing in the bike playground and how he liked playing with Max.

Cheers to your first day little man. I hope you are always this comfortable in your own skin, you inspire me.

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8.30.10

Lemonade For Sale!

The neighbors were having an open house today. So I gave the kids their first lesson on marketing (foot traffic = sales) and finally followed through with my promise to have a lemonade stand. Two hours and sixteen dollars later, I’d call it a success. Let’s hope we also helped sell the house next door.

Apologies for the lame photo… there was way too much happening to pull out the big daddy camera.

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by Sally

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August 31, 2010 - 2:55 am

America - let's hope they liked kids and you scared away the ones who don't 😉

August 31, 2010 - 3:18 am

Sally - Are you kidding? Look at my children. They are freakin' adorable. They can melt even the coldest heart of hearts.

September 1, 2010 - 1:20 am

Seeker - love love LOVE this!!

8.29.10

Camera-related sewing tutorials

Found these over at howaboutorange. I have no idea when I’m gonna have the time to make these, but I had to post this in the off chance I do and need to remember where these tutorials are. What a great blog. It’s impossible for me to spend less than an hour there, so watch out. It’s awesome.

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