- Limiting myself to 1 Diet Coke, Diet Dr. Pepper or Cherry Coke Zero. Those are all my weaknesses and by the end of the day I am realizing that I've had 3 or 4. Insane!!!
- For those who know me well know I have a mouth like a sailor. I'm ashamed and it's sick. So for each time I cuss I have to put $1 in a jar known as the "swear jar". My co-worker said Oh my gosh, that's a lot for each word, why not a nickel? Well a nickel is easy but putting $1 in a jar for each time I cuss is much more difficult than putting a nickel in. And on Easter Sunday I'll add the swear jar monies to my Easter offering at Mass. It's Friday, 3 days into Lent and there's $7 in the swear jar.
Now Miss Madison's sacrifice is that she is not to ask for anything extra when we go into a store. She has every toy, electronic, stuffed animal, etc. imaginable to one human being. Yes I know that's my fault. But....I lost it on Tuesday when she dropped her brand new iPod touch that Santa brought her. The whole entire screen shattered. I was SICK! SICK! Do you hear me?! So I called around to see who fixed those kinds of things, I found one place that would charge $100 but voids the warranty with repair. I decided to call Apple to see what they said. Well lo and behold they are replacing the iPod for $99. Santa paid $199. Same amount as if I had it fixed here in town plus it's brand new. The catch is that I'm making Madison pay for it with her report card money, birthday money and lagniappe money. She didn't have the case on it like I asked her to and well needless to say she cleaned her entire room until she found it...UNDER THE BED! She's $25 from the $100 that she needs and I've informed her that she will EARN that money. She's nervous but I'm certain she will work hard to earn it. So that brings me back to sacrificing for Lent. She's my only kid and I'm not going to lie, I spoil the ever-loving poo outta her. My fault she's this way, I know. We go into Walgreens, oh Mom I like this, ok put it in the buggy. If it's not essential to her breathing and eating daily she's not getting it. Well with the exception of weather, like if it gets below 30 and she needs a heavy coat or something, lol but that's it!
Pray for us!!!!!! ;)
