I had an interesting experience at the grocery store this week. There I was with list in hand, standing in front of the bread rather miffed because they were out of the bread I normally buy. As I was standing there deciding which kind to buy, a stock dude came out with a cart full of bread. Before stocking the shelves, he picked up several loaves of bread, looked, presumably at the dates, and then tossed them onto his cart. I stood there for a minute and started to wonder: "Where is he going with all that bread? The sell by date doesn't mean the bread is bad. Is he going to throw all of that bread away??? Madness!!! There are people starving all over the world and here I am upset because MY brand of bread is gone. I grabbed a loaf and moved on.
Next I came to the meat section and was scouting for the extra lean ground beef when I stopped and looked around. Look at all this meat!!! That's insane! And in a couple of days half of it is going to be thrown away from people not buying it. Didn't I just hear something on the news about the amount of beef cattle being in short supply?
I continued around the store with a scowl on my face, ignoring my list. Maybe it was because it's the Christmas season, or that I really am that self absorbed that these things never occurred to me before. Then I realized something else: there's all this food in this store, and there are 6 more grocery stores within a 5 mile radius of me right now, full of more stuff. That's a lot of cows. That's a lot bread, milk, etc.
I unloaded all of this on Scott that evening when he got home and he kind of started to laugh and said, "and what would you like to do about it?"
I don't have a clue!!!!! I suppose there isn't much I can do. And I suppose my overall question is, why can't all of that food be donated?
I guess that's meant as a rhetorical question as I'm feeling like a very spoiled and ungrateful American.
Christmas morning with the fam and the fun that ensued.
Having Tom home for Christmas :)
Thomas Family Christmas party.
Janelle, Sara and Patty showing off their amazing lip-syncing talent.
Lots of time with my amazing hubby!! He has this whole week off and we're loving it! (And probably the best present we both could get - he passed calculus!!!
My first attempt at apple pies turned out fairly good.
We bought our first Christmas tree and we love it! 
