Good Bargains and Steady Work

I have always loved a good bargain, but never so much as since I had Faith. When you consider how short of a time they wear a certain size of clothes or play with specific toys, it's just not worth paying full price. I have officially been in love with the Mom 2 Mom sales since Faith was a baby and have plans to hit them the next two weekends. I am amazed at my mad skills when I hit these sales now and when I look at the retail prices, I feel pretty good about myself. I also learned that Ebay can be quite helpful, particularly for items such as Stride Rite shoes. When I recently went into the store recently to get Faith measured the woman looked at me in all seriousness and said "the shoes you want for her at this stage would bve $45 and she'd wear them for about 3 months". I think I laughed out loud a bit and thought to myself, do I want to write some articles to fund that little purchase? Um no, so I now enlist the services of Ebay and Mom 2 Mom sales!!

I have felt quite lucky to have steady work come in lately, and this makes all the hard work worthwhile. It allows me to feel like I'm contributing and of course helps with the spending money for our upcoming trip to Miami. I'm super excited for our first trip away but have never had so much anxiety for a getaway at the same time. I will miss Faith dearly and don't know how I will do with leaving her, though I know that she will be in good hands with Grandma! I just bid on several jobs today and am keeping my fingers crossed that some of them come in. It's a tough market out there, I see so much more competition lately which I'm sure has to do with the economy. I'm fortunate that I've had some good write ups from clients though so let's hope that they serve me well in getting more work. More work = more money for the Frederick household = more bargain shopping = happiness for everyone!!