The reward for persistence

is $8.

Yep, that's right. After round 4 of cashing in our Christmas stocking scratch-off lottery tickets, we are big winners. Each round, we continually got 2-3 "free ticket" or "$1.00" winners, so we decided to persistently trade for another ticket in hopes of the big bucks. And this is about as "big" as it gets, I guess (except my brother-in-law got an instant $50 out of one ticket.... although what has he learned about persistence? hm?).

So hooray for us. I wanted to continue our little gamble, just for the fun of it. But, my usually free-spending husband has decided to pull back the reins and cash in. Gotta love life's little lessons.