Cheat Code!

Well tonight for our family activity for family home evening we were playing "Sister may I" our version of "Mother May I", but Whitney has bronchitis and was laying on the couch and was the sister. We start at the top of the stairs, have to go through the kitchen and hallway and to the couch- whoever gets there first wins. After 1 0r 2 of us had taken a turn, Andrew asked "sister may I give you a dollar?" Naturally she said yes - Andrew was down the steps yelling "cheat code, cheat code" went through the kitchen, stopped off in his bedroom for a dollar, through the hall and gave Whitney a dollar. He was mighty pleased with his "cheat code". We didn't let Whitney keep the dollar, but did let Andrew use the cheat code to get out of playing the rest of the game- which included Dad doing ballerina twirls, and Mom crawling like a turtle. My kids are funny.

And so it goes...

No Baptist Church Here! ( No offense!)

When I was growing up I remember often pulling into the driveway and my Dad saying it looked like our house was a Baptist church- now I don't know why ( I don't think I've ever attended a Baptist church), but that meant that we had lots of lights on. (Do they have lots of lights??) The saying has stuck and I've thought it myself a few times- but no more at the Ashead house!! A month or so ago I was talking to my sister and was amazed when she mentioned how little her electric bill was- about $100 less than ours! How could that be??? Yes her house is a little smaller, and there is 3 people there instead of our 5, but that seemed to be such a huge difference that it was time to see what we could do about our electric bill. So Richard and I did some research and then talked to the kids. It seemed like a big $ waster was leaving our computers on when they weren't being used, knowing that someone would want to use them sometime- so that has definitley decreased, also sometimes the kids would leave their lights on when they left for school but I wouldn't know it because their doors were shut. Anyhow- we tried to get everyone on board to TURN OFF THOSE LIGHTS! and such- and the amazing happy result- we just got our bill and it is over $50 less than the previous month. Next bill we're waiting for- water. We put in a low flow shower head- what will the savings be???

And so it goes...