Day 42, in which I attend an auction and come home with nothing but a sunburn

Did I get to sleep in today? No, the biological clocks of the juveniles around here won't allow that. The cinnamon rolls did make it easy on me, though. We ate rolls early, and had cold cereal like a brunch. 

Remember seeing these in last night's post?  Well they looked like this again when we woke up this morning, and a welcome sight they were!  Dipped in hot tea, they made the morning warm and inviting.

Sarah had to work at a health fair; I went to a car auction, but the van I liked was part of a bidding war. It went beyond my price range, and the guy who bought it looked like he would transform it into a church van. He really wanted that van.

You see all kinds of people at an auction. Fascinating. I had to keep moving away from a particularly rank cigar. And found myself more than once by a really nice credit-union lady who had to place a repossessed vehicle in the auction. We had a nice chat.

Trudy stayed home with the littles and did the dishes, which was really nice of her.

We took a trip to Costco after the auction, but it proved to be a letdown for the kids---the samples were all put away before we got there. I picked up some Easter treats and some baking powder. Costco is powerfully difficult to escape from without making some sort of impulse buy, but I did it.

Fiesta Foods has 2 pound blocks of cheese for $2.99 again this week! I pulled in on my way home from the auction and got a block.

Here are all the taco makings...it was a design-your-own-taco night.

Here are Trudy's designs.  Artistic, no?

A serving on the plate before taco designing. The meat looks like more than it really is, because of the angle of the lens.  The beans are about twice the amount of the meat in reality...

Two beautiful maidens.  They received leis at school for the "festival of the arts" outdoor luau on Friday, and remade them into crowns.

Christiana showed me her taco design.

Mine looks more traditional.  In the background you can see that there is more of everything in the bowls, so nobody felt cheated.  All full...

This one doesn't look quite as meaty from above, but things didn't spill out so much.  It was a more practical design.

breakfast menu:  cinnamon rolls, mini wheats, tea, and milk

Cost:  $1.24

6 cinnamon rolls:  .28

5 bowls of cold cereal:  .50

3 1/2 cups milk:  .46

lunch menu:  scrambled eggs, cinnamon rolls, canned cherries

Cost:  $1.12

6  eggs, scrambled:  .50

6 cinnamon rolls:  .28

pint of cherries:  .50

snack:  carrots

Cost:  $.09

Supper:  tacos

Cost:  $2.45

hamburger, 1 lb:  .99

pinto beans, refried:  .24

lettuce:  .35

cheese:  .19

fresh homemade tortillas:  .40

salsa:  .24

butter on tortillas:  .04

chopped cilantro:  .05

Today's total pricetag:  $4.90 (feeding 6 people today)