...it's the little things..

Last evening, after Anne went home, I took the little girls to the thrift store so they could look for jeans. No matter what, we always find something funny there. I mean, the shorts Camille is holding up? I wished Evelyn was there, she always found good things, and the funniest dresses.

I found a LulaRoe dress with the tags still on, for $7.50. It is still snug, but it's a lovely dress: goals.

So on Tuesday night, Sonja took her five hour driving course, which is necessary here in New York, before one schedules the road test to get the driver's license. The small city is a 20 minute drive, so I just stayed there instead of driving home, then back again. Since it was a school night, the younger girls couldn't accompany, and Jonathan was helping at activity club. So I dropped Sonja off, or rather, she dropped herself off, and I moved to the driver's seat. She's a good driver, it's me, I get so nervous, my feet pressed to the floor on my invisible brakes.

So anyway, I was in the city all by myself for...five hours! I knew the course wouldn't actually last that long, shh, they let them out after four hours and ten minutes, but still. I had some time to wander, squander, browse, and dilly-dally. I went into Bed, Bath, Beyond, and found a few things to put away for Christmas, and something for Ashley's birthday. Then A.C. Moore, the craft store...going in there all by myself was slightly heavenly. I got a lovely fake autumn bouquet with light, muted colors, for 70% off, and some disposable icing bags for decorating, with the 55% off coupon.

Then to the thrift store all by myself. The books were ten for a dollar. I chose three, then overheard the cashier telling another customer that one had to buy them in quantities of ten or they were the regular price. What's seven more books, right? I found, Love You Forever, a Cinderella book (Anne loves Cinderella), and then pulled an Anne of Green Gables off the shelf...I leafed through it to make sure it wasn't an abridged version, and there, tucked inside the front cover, was a crisp twenty dollar bill.

I thought it maybe was fake, but of course I added that book to my stack. I've read all those books by Lucy Montgomery, long ago, but there's nothing like reading those rich phrases of Anne's, plus, there was twenty bucks in it!

When I got to the van with my $4.31 worth of goodies, which was ten books and a $2.99 Cinderella dress for Anne, I looked closely at that twenty, and decided it was fake because it was different than the one in my wallet.

When I got home, Paul said it was real. He held it up to the light, and said it was absolutely real. So I googled it, and sure enough, it is just a different model than the one in my wallet, a 1996 series. So yay me. It's not that it's a lot of money, it was just fun.

I'm leaving for California in the morning...we have to leave for the airport at 4 a.m., and do you think I have packed yet? I haven't even located the carry-on I'm bringing. I have done laundry, and have a foggy idea of what I'm bringing, but that's about it.

That's not too shabby, right?