August 17

Today, Jack had some money burning a hole in his pocket, so he insisted on buying some new blinds for our living room (we're slowly replacing all the blinds in our house).

I said okay, we could buy them, but since we had only saved $200, if we got to Lowes and it was more than that, we wouldn't buy them. When we got there, we calculated the cost. $209. So I told him no, it was more than our budget. He was so sad. But then he found out that he was looking at the wrong set of blinds, and that it was, in fact, less than $200. Dodged that bullet.

I must admit, the blinds look fantastic. We love them!