Adding a Pinecone check to the challenge

Prev. Balance $1,063.96
Pinecone Check $ 3.00
New Total $1,066.96

Okay, so I am really getting cabin fever here. I live in Michigan and we have had so much snow. I mean, come on, enough is enough when it comes to snow. I am not a skier, so that is out of the question.

Well, I would like to take my two youngest children somewhere in the near future for some fun. Possibly within a day's driving range.

I need some ideas. What I do like is free resources for places to visit that are either free or cheap like museums, historical places, factory tours, festivals, etc., hotel discount codes, coupons for eating out or any great ideas that you'all have been keeping to yourself.

Time to give us all of your great ideas for places to visit on the cheap, or if better suited, frugally.

Thanks for all of your anticipated input.

I have always told my oldest child that he was a test. Well, just the other day we had lunch together. So he says to me "Mom, you know that I just found out that not everyone has a song"

I was confused. Jonthan, what are you talking about. He said "it came up with friends the other day when I asked them what their song was" and they said "we don't have a song". Jon said "You don't have a song, everybody has a song, just like a birthstone". So that said, what is yours. Jon said "Forever Young".

Well, of course he was just teasing, but it was pretty funny. I keep reminding him that he was a test model and he shouldn't take everything I say so literally. I mean, afterall, I was in the hospital 3 days wondering what I should name him.