April Coker, Author

Author: aencoker

  • RANDOM FRIDAY: Sales everywhere!

    Where to go, where to go?  Weekends in October are jam-packed with choices.  There are all kinds of festivals, garage sales, yard sales, highway sales, and barn sales!  Yesterday I took Mom for a haircut, met my sister Sharon and her hubby and daughter for lunch at a little sandwich shop in Mineola, Texas, and…

  • THRIFTY HUNTER THURSDAY: The hunted hunter. . .

    It’s finally archery season.  Hunters have been waiting for this time of the year.  They have set up their deer stands and blinds, planted and reaped tempting corn and oat crops, set up and filled feeders, bought or repaired their bows, practiced shooting targets, and bought their hunting licenses.  They, like my husband Jimmy and…

  • CHEAP WEDDING WEDNESDAY! A bridal shower!

    My sister Sharon was gracious enough to host a bridal shower for Natalie, my bride-to-be daughter, this past weekend.  Sharon  is thriftier than I ever could be, being a stay-at-home wife and mom to three children.  She is a bit creative as well, a trait her mother and sisters recently discovered as her kids have…

  • TEACHER TUESDAY: Trials of a young teacher. . .

    When I started my teaching career fresh out of college in 1982, I was 23 and totally ignorant of the challenges I would be facing for the next 30 years.  What first-year teacher isn’t?  And thank the good Lord we can’t see into the future.  If I had I might have run screaming the other…

  • AT HOME MONDAY: Oh, the joy of thriftin’. . .

    It’s “At Home Monday” but I did not stay home today.  Mom invited me to lunch with my aunt and cousin, so we met and had a very nice alfresco meal at a Mexican restaurant near their workplace. My aunt and cousin had to return to work, so Mom and I made the best of…