I will never bad talk spare change again!

Ok - I'm the guy who hates spare change...well..used to...

OK - I have thought for some time now that loose change and coins or antiquated and stupid (especially pennies.) I one of those guys that thinks that coins and bills should have been discarded a long time ago. Well.....I have been converted back to this out-dated form of currency exchange. Let me tell you why.

First of all - we've now moved twice since we've been married. Crazy enough, our spare change boxes and bottles and cups and mason jars and old miracle whip jars full of loose change that we empty out of our pockets and managed to move right along with us , including during this last move - some of it was even packed up in a box in storage because I was the one that frantically packed it up..just trying to hurry. Anyway - so we have spare change that's been adding up over at least the past three years..although probably closer to four. Here's where it got good. We had absolutely no money for Christmas, so one morning when I woke up, the bathroom door was closed and locked and the girls were running around the house doing their crazy stuff. I went into the closet and noticed a huge gaping hole where all of our collected change was supposed to be. I immediately realized what was going on and decided to keep the girls occupied. Well - so not to bore you - I'll skip ahead.

This christmas was definitely the less we've ever spent on Christmas (and rightfully so - you shouldn't be spending money if you don't have it.)

I'm going to change the name of our spare change to: CHRISTMAS CHANGE.

WE BASICALLY PAID FOR OUR LITTLE FRUGAL CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR WITH SPARE CHANGE!

Holy hannah...granted..it was quite a few years of change..but who cares...I would have never guess this little blessing. Never.

Thank you Chaney for even thinking that the change could do that. It was money sitting there that I wouldnt have considered because it's always there. Well..it's not there any more and we have gifts. Thank you loose change..or, i mean..Christmas change.

Satuday Morning..

OK - I thought I would figure out how these post work and are organized and I ended up going back the the beginning of them..

I am a dang baby - cause I've been balling for like the past half hour as I skimmed over them and slightly re-lived some of what I went through.

IT WAS CRAZY AND HARD. SUPER CRAZY...SUPER HARD.

If any one reading this is ever in the hospital..If you don't get ahold of me to come visit you...and I find out later...I will break your legs (don't worry - I'll let you use my bright yellow AFO's after the casts come off)

OK - Just had to mention that.

Ppssst...

Just a side note...

For those of you that read this and think that life's all hunky-dory (gotta love that word, even if it's misspelled) - please don't fool yourselves.

We're pretending right along with the best of them (actually I don't know who's the best at it, cause if they were the best at it, then we probably wouldn't know....so..yeah..)

Anywho...I don't live in a big house and drive a big fat yellow Lightning McQueen Car (as my cute niece refers to it) any more.

• We're broke
• We're been force-fed the words "Provident Living" (haha)
• Luckily our closet has enough clothes that people think we recently bought some new ones
• The small change that's been piling up in our closet (in old mayonaise jars nonethelesss) has finally been counted and we CAN have Christmas
• Certain community colleges are massively cheaper than certain state colleges
• Cool sister-in-laws and others have some seriously cute hand-me-downs for my cute girls

So...ya...only post the good pictures..make up a good story if you don't have one..or if you can't or don't want to do that....heck..I think there's a button on here somewhere to post links to other site and pictures....no one will know the difference...at the point i'm at - i'm not going to question it..I'll go right along for the ride.

And don't forget these three words of wisdom (I think either Monson or Confucious said them)

GILLIAN-BARRE ROCKS!

Crap - I think that's only two, seeing how one's hyphenated - sorry..

Woah!!!!!!!!

Holy crap! (lolololol)

I just found this picture on the laptop. I had heard about the depicted event occuring, but until I saw this - I didn't realize that my mental picture of what happened didn't quite coincide with the actual event. To be honest with you, I can't believe it was cleaned up before I came home (probably why I didn't realize how bad it was.) I thought I would be the end of our marriage....well - I would officially like to thank my two cutest girls in the world for stepping up to the plate to keep me from feeling lonely.

Please don't allow small children to see the following. Apparently and innocent bystander had the unfortunate experience of happening upon the ghastly even. The sheer horror one can see in her face is unspeakable.

Neither counseling nor drugs have been able to return her to her previous bystander state. Our prayers are with her.

Hopefully I don't find myself in too deep of crap by posting this on here (quite frankly - I don't own a pair of boots - and the van's I've been wearing lately don't appear to be that poop-proof.) Wish me luck, cause I don't run that fast yet.

OK. I know you think I'm biased, but just look!

My girls are the freakn cutest!!!!!!!

For anyone wishing to contest this statement, please emall a picture of your kid (but be prepared for me to disagree with you, as you can see, for obvious reasons)

OK.....

Ok...The time has come for me to take over my own blog!

Watch out world...I'm guessing it's going to be:

• somewhat cheesy (for effect)
• hopefully intriguing (entertainment)
• hopefully make you smarter (info)
• let you know how the heck i'm doing (otherwise you wouldn't be here)

Unfortunately, there are no guarantees (although you can purchase one...a guarantee that is...and it's an extremely minimum fee*

So - I'm going to be experimenting a lot and with any luck get into somewhat of a habit (yes, those things that clothe nuns and make me and you the creatures that we are.)

I think before I was probably embarrassed to write, not to mention that my fingers were working like crap and they couldn't feel anything when Chaney first asked me to write (so it was the equivalent of doing squats with a 100 pounds for a mile...you probably think I'm joking).

I'm also not going to be big on spell check or grammar check..(notice that correctness wasn't one of my points mentioned above.)

Anyway - Goodluck - hope you get your moneys worth.

* Monthly fee is extremely minimal when financed at a extremely low interest rate over an even more extreme amount of time. They'll get you on that every time - those small print fast talking jerks..lol.