Update - day 17 (Confession)

So, as of yesterday we can officially see the front and sides of our pantry shelves!! This is really very exciting-and no worries-we have not resorted to the crackers and Ketchup yet!! Far from it! In our journey to clean out the pantry-we have stumbled onto some great recipes and we are finally using the " stash" of brownies and cake mixes!! So don't feel too bad for us!!!

Now on to the confession....we had some dear friends of ours Mr. and Mrs. R invite us out to lunch. The temptation of lunch was small, but the temptation to have adult conversation over a meal was great! And I caved in...at first we were going to a restaurant where I figured we could still do pretty good by ordering a la carte. Then plans got changed and we ended up at a buffet....I hate buffets.....again, my desire to catch up and have deep conversation was too great....so we ate at the buffet...I hate buffets. It just reminds me of how wasteful we are but you barely have time to notice that before the waitress comes to remove your last plate so you can just go get another, clean, hot fresh from the dish washer plate because they can hardly keep up with the demand from the patrons for more!!!! (I know, that was not even a sentence..) Anyway-before we left they mentioned they were going to go see the new Veggie Tales movie....again, the temptation was too great. At that point I should have just been satisfied with what conversation I had and time spent-but then I thought that I would treat the kids(ha) because they have been so great with everything and we NEVER go to the movies.....now I remember why....crying baby, fussing baby, then sleeping baby who wakes immediately upon the absence of the constant rocking movement that I so desperately provide to calm him and not get nasty looks from all around me....I hate the movies....

So, I left the theatre, sick to my stomach-and not because I consumed an enormous amount of freshly popped movie theatre popcorn (mmmm....popcorn.....) , but because I knew I had foolishly spent money that was now gone-buyers remorse had set in (it was either that or the chemical breakdown of that highly addictive, yet oh so good "butter" they squirt heavily on the popcorn, but I digress...). I was so angry at myself and am still quite miffed at the whole day. And all though I very thoroughly enjoyed the company, I went over and over in my mind how I could have better handled my choices today.....

All in all, here's where I landed

Buffet for 4 : 26.00

Movie with popcorn : 32.00

The sick feeling in my gut of knowing that the money
could have been much better spent : priceless