*A Small Fortune*

What a day! It has been almost a year straight of Sunday breakfast. I am so proud of myself & seriously, I have had a great amount of fun with making breakfast every Sunday. I learned the secret to good bacon is...the OVEN! I will never make bacon on the stove again. No way! And I have discovered a deep, hidden love for a waffle iron. Oh my goodness! My favorite! We've had banana, chocolate chip, vanilla & the best of ALL, CINNAMON waffles. Awesome.

Today - although amazing - I took a vacation from Sunday breakfast. Cal was off on a mommy-free adventure & my dad was away for the weekend in his new camper. I went to Jake's Flea Market. Oh sweet perfection. All by my lonesome, looking for treasures. (I compromised my disguise for Jason & Pam - so nice to spend a little chat time!) I scored a little gift for Cal's daddy & 3 new Pampered Chef gadgets & gizmos for me. A couple books, a snow suit for the ever-growing Calvin &...just some major quiet time.

I like to challenge myself at flea markets. I wear my (that looks like Erin, but I am not sure that it is) disguise & take a bag. (Thirty-One of course!)  I have 2 limits. The cash in my hand & only what my bag can hold. It's so fun! 50 cents here, a dollar there & I'm retail therapied out by the end. Get a little exercise, fresh air & a good drive home. Check!

But then...there's always the errand list. I had the best baby shower gift idea for my friend today. She's committed to cloth diapers (good for you, but holy Christ - that would be a DISASTER in my house). I wanted to get her all the ingredients for laundering cloth diapers. I went to Target. That was my first mistake.

Argh! A few dresses (they were on clearance!), a pair of cowboy boots & only 1 of the 3 ingredients I wanted, I was hundreds of dollars poorer & well within my goals for gift giving. Ugh. Why does that store have so much that I want & never what I go in for?!

Incidentally, I truly wanted to gift the pending new baby girl a couple of Avery's treasures that she was never able to wear/use. Those gifts came from the heart! And I did pass along the baby OxiClean. Useful for cloth diapering or otherwise.

I dropped a small fortune (to me) at Target today. But...it was totally worth it. I had a wonderful day. I miss my little boy when he's away, but it is so important to have some time to think, to shop & to just be.