Small Town On A Saturday Night

On this wonderful Saturday night, my husband and I decided to stay at home and save some mu-lah. This whole house purchasing ordeal has us spending and shelling out money left and right! So... we've decided to go ahead and start the budget that we will be on after we buy the house. The budget has been a HUGE wake-up call for the both of us. We sat down one night and looked at exactly how much we make a month,  subtracted our expenses, and analyzed what was left over for the month. After deducting our bills, the remaining amount was sickening. I'm not even going to type out a number, but it was sickening to know that we were blowing that much money each month. The biggest place we were spending our money was food. In order to start saving money, we are going to live on a budget each and every month. 


Anyways, that's not really the reason why I'm blogging tonight. I'm blogging tonight about small towns and the people that live in small towns. I LOVE small towns. Grew up in a small town and loved every single minute of it. Moved to a BIG city (Springfield, MO) and was okay with it, but my heart resided else where. Now, my husband and I live in a small town (different town than I grew up in; has approx. 2000 population). What cracked me up tonight is that even though times have changed, morals have changed, etc. the boys of a small town still act the same: they want to impress girls. While sitting at Sonic this evening with my husband, the local teenagers were hanging out and cruising around Sonic. While pulling out of Sonic and onto the main drag, several teenage boys pulled their old trucks out on the main drag and revved up their engines as loud as they would go, squalling tires, etc. Like I said, times may have changed, but boys have not. 


Another item on my mind this evening is decorations. Hopefully, we will be closing and taking possession of our new home at the end of June. Therefore, decorating is on my mind. At our home right now, we are just renting. That means no painting, no demo-ing, etc. Basically, no flair, pizazz, no nothing. I can't wait to close on the house, move in, and decorate the house with our personality. My favorite style of decorating is English Country. There's just something about that style that is country and elegant at the same time. Below are some ideas that I'm just gonna have to steal!  


I hope everyone has a good weekend! GOD BLESS!