No matter how old he tries to act during the day, at the end of the day he is still my baby boy! I love you Danny!
Friday, April 29, 2011
My baby boy
No matter how old he tries to act during the day, at the end of the day he is still my baby boy! I love you Danny!
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
So it has been forever since I blogged. I can come up with a lot of excuses like
my husband is on the computer every night doing his second job, I am not feeling witty enough to blog, Pictures take FOREVER to load on blogger and it annoys me, I don’t think that anything interesting has happened. Honestly though if I was to tell the truth it would be just plain brain deadness. I am not sure if that is a real phrase or not but I like it, so I am going to use it. After a long day dealing with life and kid issues I am just too tired to sit down and tell the world what happened that day. Of course then the question could be asked “why do I have a blog them?” Sometimes I ask myself that same question. In theory I have a blog for two reasons. First, to keep a record of what is going on in our day to day lives and second to give our close friends and family a glimpse into our lives since they are not here. So my apologies to all those who faithfully check day after day and never give up on me even when there is nothing new for weeks on end. So here is a quick summary of my life over the past few weeks.
1) I continue coupon and am wondering why I did not start doing this earlier. All of the things below I paid $10.04.
2) I went on a ladies retreat with NRBC. It was a good weekend and I had fun being with just ladies for 2 straight days. I only took one picture the whole weekend, which is why this picture of my friend Elizabeth holding up a "trophy lamp" is the picture of choice to talk about the retreat.
3)Olivia is fearless. She loves going down the slide and she always goes head first!
4)Daniel learned how to cross the monkey bars.
5) Daniel continues to play soccer every Thursday and Saturday. He is loving it, and I have to brag, he is pretty good. His coaches (pictured with him here) are really great.
6) Daniel had spirit week at school. This was his outfit for "rock star day"
7) Olivia found a new hobby. She is in LOVE with Mrs. Frisby, our guinea pig. She has learned how to be gentle with her, and honestly believes that Mrs. Frisby is ALL hers. I guess this would be the place to mention that Olivia is in a possessive phase, you know the what is mine is mine and what is yours is mine attitude. Fun fun fun!
8) I very very rarely post pictures of myself on my blog, so I thought I would tonight. This was taken after Easter Sunday services.
9) It has become harder and harder to get a good picture of all 5 of us. This is our best attempt.
my husband is on the computer every night doing his second job, I am not feeling witty enough to blog, Pictures take FOREVER to load on blogger and it annoys me, I don’t think that anything interesting has happened. Honestly though if I was to tell the truth it would be just plain brain deadness. I am not sure if that is a real phrase or not but I like it, so I am going to use it. After a long day dealing with life and kid issues I am just too tired to sit down and tell the world what happened that day. Of course then the question could be asked “why do I have a blog them?” Sometimes I ask myself that same question. In theory I have a blog for two reasons. First, to keep a record of what is going on in our day to day lives and second to give our close friends and family a glimpse into our lives since they are not here. So my apologies to all those who faithfully check day after day and never give up on me even when there is nothing new for weeks on end. So here is a quick summary of my life over the past few weeks.
1) I continue coupon and am wondering why I did not start doing this earlier. All of the things below I paid $10.04.
2) I went on a ladies retreat with NRBC. It was a good weekend and I had fun being with just ladies for 2 straight days. I only took one picture the whole weekend, which is why this picture of my friend Elizabeth holding up a "trophy lamp" is the picture of choice to talk about the retreat.
3)Olivia is fearless. She loves going down the slide and she always goes head first!
4)Daniel learned how to cross the monkey bars.
5) Daniel continues to play soccer every Thursday and Saturday. He is loving it, and I have to brag, he is pretty good. His coaches (pictured with him here) are really great.
6) Daniel had spirit week at school. This was his outfit for "rock star day"
7) Olivia found a new hobby. She is in LOVE with Mrs. Frisby, our guinea pig. She has learned how to be gentle with her, and honestly believes that Mrs. Frisby is ALL hers. I guess this would be the place to mention that Olivia is in a possessive phase, you know the what is mine is mine and what is yours is mine attitude. Fun fun fun!
8) I very very rarely post pictures of myself on my blog, so I thought I would tonight. This was taken after Easter Sunday services.
9) It has become harder and harder to get a good picture of all 5 of us. This is our best attempt.
Thursday, April 07, 2011
Couponing
A couple of years ago we had friends over to the house and for the first time I heard the word "couponing" I asked "what is that?" The concept of going to the store and getting things for little to nothing was foreign to me and I have to admit I did not really believe it was possible. Over the past few years I have become friends with several couponer and each of them tell me with a little bit of research and organization you can be getting products for a fraction of their retail costs. After moving here a friend of mine explained in details what it meant to be couponer. I decided to start looking for opportunities to use coupons. My first try out of the gate I went and bought 6 boxes of cereal retailed at around $4.00/piece. I found the cereal on sale for $1.99/box and I had a coupon for $1.00/off 2 so I was able to get the cereal for $1.49/box. I also found Lysol products on sale buy one get one free. I had $1 any 2 Lysol product and I was told even though the second product is free it still counts toward the coupon requirements, so really it was like getting $1 off 1 and getting the second one free. So instead of paying $4.30 per cleaner I was paying $1.65 a piece. Also I found toothpaste on sale for .99 cents and I had a coupon for $1 off one toothpaste so I really made a penny on each one of my toothpastes.
Since that first trip I have found more good tooth paste sales and have gotten these tubes either free or for 50 cents a piece.
My greatest couponing effort came when I had a couple of buy one get one free coupons. CVS does this thing where you get extra bucks back on certain products that you buys. What that means is that they say if you buy a product for $4 they will give you $2 in extra bucks. You pay the $4 up front but then you get a coupon at the bottom of your receipt that is worth $2 on your next shopping trip. So with my extra bucks and my coupons I walked out of the store will all the following product with $4 in my pocket. That's right, I got it all free and ended up with $4 left over. What a high that was! These are all product my family uses on a daily basis, so I am thrilled that instead of paying $25 for all of these I walked away with the store giving me $4 to take them out. Since then I have bought 2 bottles of tums with a coupons $5 off 2, and my extra bucks making it where I bought 2 bottles of tums retailed at around $12 for $1.28. I am heading to the store tonight and I am planning on getting some dish soap and toothbrushes and other products I have see in the ad. I have not extended my couponing into groceries but I am working on it. I am so thankful that I have found a way to save my family money!
Since that first trip I have found more good tooth paste sales and have gotten these tubes either free or for 50 cents a piece.
My greatest couponing effort came when I had a couple of buy one get one free coupons. CVS does this thing where you get extra bucks back on certain products that you buys. What that means is that they say if you buy a product for $4 they will give you $2 in extra bucks. You pay the $4 up front but then you get a coupon at the bottom of your receipt that is worth $2 on your next shopping trip. So with my extra bucks and my coupons I walked out of the store will all the following product with $4 in my pocket. That's right, I got it all free and ended up with $4 left over. What a high that was! These are all product my family uses on a daily basis, so I am thrilled that instead of paying $25 for all of these I walked away with the store giving me $4 to take them out. Since then I have bought 2 bottles of tums with a coupons $5 off 2, and my extra bucks making it where I bought 2 bottles of tums retailed at around $12 for $1.28. I am heading to the store tonight and I am planning on getting some dish soap and toothbrushes and other products I have see in the ad. I have not extended my couponing into groceries but I am working on it. I am so thankful that I have found a way to save my family money!
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