dishes

As part of my 'healthier lifestyle' I've gotten rid of my big plates and substituted salad plates instead . Finding smaller bowls tho has been a bit of an issue. Even Walmart doesn't have cheep small bowls GRRR. The size I want is the small desert bowls. They run about $3 each. A bit pricey for me since having two kids I have to buy 2 bowls for each of us. And as we all know I'm CHEEP.

On Tuesday, Deb drug me along shopping with her. This year Sean's school went to uniforms and they didn't tell the parents until 2 weeks before school was set to start. Deb is still trying to find deals on certain colored polo shirts and pants. Expensive little buggers. Anyway, Deb had 2 coupons for this one store but the stipulation was that only one coupon per visit. Since this store is on a side of town that we don't frequent often she wanted to purchase all she could if she could find what she was looking for.

While we were shopping together I found a four pack of little kids bowls for $3. Granted, NOT microwave safe, but all they hold is 3/4 c. So now I have 4 Dora bowls (2 blue and 2 purple) and 4 Disney Princess bowls (2 light and 2 dark pink). The pink bowls were Kira's addition.

It's amazing how doing something as simple as changing the size of your plates you can trick your mind into thinking that you have more food than you actually do and so therefore are full faster.

Each of my kids help me be healthy in different ways. Kira helps me to pick out the healthy food (Sam would rather have sugar). Sam helps by telling me we need to exercise and getting irked when we don't have time for a daily walk. There is an ulterior motive for the walks tho. If we walk to the Library (NOT the downtown one :P) they can play on the computers and then on the way home we pass the gas station and so we HAVE to get a slushie since we are sooooo thirsty! I love my children.