I love post holiday shopping. Finding things for 1/4 of the regular price that you can pack away and use a year later is just too fun! That next holiday roles around and you feel like you are opening a present BEFORE the actually date of celebration. Valentine’s cards to send out, Easter egg decorations, and the all time favorite: Christmas decor!! I love to buy the little paper plates and such to go along with these holidays for next year’s parties too! However, today one post “holiday” shopping find proved to have use multiple times throughout the year. Halloween Costumes! We don’t go crazy for halloween, no need for 75% off spiders or bats in this house…but the $3-5 costumes are gold! Jason went out a couple days after Halloween and bought a bunch of great ones including Captain America some knights and Pirates!! My amazing sister bought them some additional ones for Christmas…if you have seen the family Christmas photo from my mother’s house you will notice we have a Buzz Lightyear and a Cars Pit Crew member in the photo. They LOVE these costumes. Really great for weeks like this when Jason and I have something every night including launching a new ministry and when new and creative things seem to be a daunting task for a Mom of 3 and a ministers wife!! Ha! But leave it up to my amazing sons’ imaginations to completely entertain me and them.
Oak and Pines 
been missing out on all these postings w/out the little reminders being posted on FB – I’m really happy that they like the costumes – who doesn’t like to dress up and be someone else for a little bit. Maybe one of these days I’ll join the blogging world but I don’t really think I have too much interesting stuff to say. I do enjoy reading yours though!!