Thursday, July 7, 2011

Making pennies scream

We raised our kids on a tight budget.  Very tight.  More than once John-boy would wear holes through the bottom of his shoes (he was a very active kid) and we'd turn him lose barefoot until we could afford to replace his shoes.   When Pauly-pocket was ready to graduate from high school we took him and Tonto-wanto-beans out for dinner, for the first time that either of them remember.  The waitress said: "Do you want soup-or-salad."  Pauly-pocket said, "Yes." The waitress asked again, "Do you want super-salad?" and Paul answered, emphatically, "YES."  Poor child.  He had no experience with the typical eat-out menu.   
So, it should be no surprise that we still pinch those pennies until they scream, roll over, and crawl into a crack.  On our spring break we stayed at this stellar establishment in Green River, Utah.
Here we are fixing breakfast on the grill on the patio.  The breakfast was delicious.  

1 comment:

  1. These are great!! I found out in 8th grade that wearing homemade sweats that went to mid-shin wasn't cool; and it took Tanner Jones to finally make fun of me. Since then, its been GQ the whole way(i found dad's clothes and took advantage)!

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