dinner...a lesson learned.

Those of you who know how cheap I am with regards to spending money on food will hopefully appreciate this.
I didn't feel like making dinner tonight for the following reasons: I had just finished cleaning up from breakfast, everything eatable was in the freezer, I couldn't wipe off my counters one more time, and I was tired and didn't want to spend anytime doing anything that didn't involve sitting. I'm aware, all fabulously lazy reasons. so the doorbell rings and it's this sweet teenage boy selling a pizza cafe coupon book. Great, it's only $20 and we'll save so much money down the road...mistake number one. Next, we load up the kids for an enjoyable dinner in a nice Pizzaria. Finally, we get there after 30 minutes of bad traffic to find out it's only a delivery place, no dining in...ugh! We order, we pay more money because we can't use multiple coupons at once (my mistake), we wait in the parking lot for 20 minutes with 2 three year olds, we drive back home in traffic. So, after one hour in the car, we finally arrived home to eat our $30 meal that's probably worth $5 and I got to load dishes, wipe off the table and counters! But, the kids loved it! It was an adventure for them and a lesson learned for me....don't buy coupon books and just defrost the chicken in the freezer!