Company Girl Coffee on Saturday

Good morning! Come on in and grab a cup of coffee. Yesterday I found myself without coffee. In fact, my cupboards and fridge were quite bare! I ended up making a very long grocery list and heading for the store yesterday afternoon when my DH got home. I was very proud of myself because I was very organized and took advantage of the sale going on at our local grocery store. The deal was if you bought $30 in certain products, you would get back $15 in coupons towards your next shopping order. So I separated out my list and made three different transactions. The $15 I got back on the first one went towards the second one (which I only paid $8 for after coupons) and then the $15 I got back on the second one went towards the third transaction. There was a girl behind me in line that was asking all kinds of questions because she had just started using coupons and wanted to know how I was saving so much money. I love catalinas! The trick is to be prepared (know what products are included in the deal) before you go to the store and then stick to your list!

It's quiet here this morning. The kiddos are sleeping in. Before very long, Saturdays will be the only day that they can do that! I can't believe there are less than three weeks before school starts. We're headed out for vacation on Monday so what's left of summer will slip by quickly. Sadly, we have to leave their daddy behind because he doesn't have enough vacation stored up yet to go with us. We're going camping as a family Labor Day weekend though, so that will be fun.

I've been reading a book lately that I just can't seem to put down. It's called "Three Cups of Tea." I highly recommend it! My mom read it and then gave me a copy. Once I finally picked it up and started reading, I couldn't believe I waited that long.

Here's a review from the web site:

In Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time , Greg Mortenson, and journalist David Oliver Relin, recount the journey that led Mortenson from a failed 1993 attempt to climb Pakistan’s K2, the world’s second highest mountain, to successfully establish schools in some of the most remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. By replacing guns with pencils, rhetoric with reading, Mortenson combines his unique background with his intimate knowledge of the third-world to promote peace with books, not bombs, and successfully bring education and hope to remote communities in central Asia. Three Cups of Tea is at once an unforgettable adventure and the inspiring true story of how one man really is changing the world—one school at a time.

If you go to the Three Cups of Tea Web site and purchase the book there, 7 percent of your purchase will go toward a girls' education scholarship fund in Pakistan and Afghanistan. If you haven't already read it, I would encourage you to check it out yourself!

Well, the kiddos are finally stirring so I better get some breakfast started. I'm glad I could share coffee with you. Thanks for stopping by!