AND I will be going back tonight, just waiting for my sweet husband to get home :)
Sunday, December 21, 2008
HAVE to tell you
Again, I am not doing great posting here, but I have to tell you,there are some ROCK'N deals at CVS this week (well they are for two days only, Sunday and Monday!). I was there at 7am, then again at 8, since the store manager was late morning...anyways...I got LOTS of free stuff spent about 5 dollars AND walked away with a TON of ECB's, like I started with 16.59, I know have almost 30!!! YAY here is my loot~
AND I will be going back tonight, just waiting for my sweet husband to get home :)
AND I will be going back tonight, just waiting for my sweet husband to get home :)
Friday, December 12, 2008
QUICK!
HEY! All you Raleigh area people. My friend Terra is giving away some really cool packages. She has four of them, you should go here and here to enter to win them! I am excited to try this stuff out. Maybe if you win you can tell me about it! Anyway go here and here and check her out! Tell her I sent you :)
Monday, December 8, 2008
Time for a Schedule
Well, I have no excuses for why I haven't been posting. It makes me sad to look and see that I had been posting almost daily (sometimes more) and now it has been a week. I love this blog and I love to post, hopefully I will be more regular soon. I may just have to begin scheduling my day so that I can do this. I am not and have never been a schedule person. We (my family) have always just done what we needed when we needed, but with all that is going on in our lives and the ages of our children, I think it would be good for us to start some sort of schedule. I plan to start working on a schedule this month with the plans to actually START the schedule in January, when we are done traveling and my husband and I are back in school.
Why do I think we need a schedule?
Well, I think it would be better for my kids to have some sort of idea as to what to expect. Maybe some of our behavior issues come from not knowing what is next and too much free play time. Hopefully with some structure and planning they will be more content and less likely to find trouble.
I also need to find time for homeschooling my 3 1/2 year old. No, he doesn't have to be home schooled yet, but he really enjoys it and I think it would be good for us. I would also like to know if homeschooling is really an option for our family before it is time to actually do it. I have wanted to home school for a long time, but if I can't be organized enough to do it,then I need to know sooner verses later.
Finally I need to get a routine in my own life so that I can manage the basics of housekeeping. You know, laundry, dishes, floors, all the things mommies are supposed to do. I feel like I work all day and get nothing done. Maybe that is how it is supposed to be but I need to see some sort of progress. We have also discovered that our 3 1/2 year old (my oldest) can be quite the helper here around the house. He can clean off the table (complete with wiping it off and wiping off the chairs), he can help with sweeping the kitchen (he uses the small dustpan and broom), he can help collect the trash, and he can make his bed (okay, well we are still going to have to work on that).
I think my oldest is bored (though he doesn't know the word, so PLEASE don't teach him). I think with some structure, chores and discipline (from our whole family) that we could really improve on some things in this house.
What suggestions do you have? Do your kids help out? If so what are there ages and what can they do? Do you have a home school plan for preschoolers?
I saw a really interesting schedule here of one lady. I think that some of her ideas are great and some are great since she has girls, but some wouldn't work for my boys. Her blog is what got me thinking about the fact that we really need some structure around here. There are some ideas I would love to borrow from her. She seems to be an awesome woman with her act together. I could really stand to take notes!
I really would like to hear from you (if I didn't lose you while I was being lazy and not blogging). What works for you?
Why do I think we need a schedule?
Well, I think it would be better for my kids to have some sort of idea as to what to expect. Maybe some of our behavior issues come from not knowing what is next and too much free play time. Hopefully with some structure and planning they will be more content and less likely to find trouble.
I also need to find time for homeschooling my 3 1/2 year old. No, he doesn't have to be home schooled yet, but he really enjoys it and I think it would be good for us. I would also like to know if homeschooling is really an option for our family before it is time to actually do it. I have wanted to home school for a long time, but if I can't be organized enough to do it,then I need to know sooner verses later.
Finally I need to get a routine in my own life so that I can manage the basics of housekeeping. You know, laundry, dishes, floors, all the things mommies are supposed to do. I feel like I work all day and get nothing done. Maybe that is how it is supposed to be but I need to see some sort of progress. We have also discovered that our 3 1/2 year old (my oldest) can be quite the helper here around the house. He can clean off the table (complete with wiping it off and wiping off the chairs), he can help with sweeping the kitchen (he uses the small dustpan and broom), he can help collect the trash, and he can make his bed (okay, well we are still going to have to work on that).
I think my oldest is bored (though he doesn't know the word, so PLEASE don't teach him). I think with some structure, chores and discipline (from our whole family) that we could really improve on some things in this house.
What suggestions do you have? Do your kids help out? If so what are there ages and what can they do? Do you have a home school plan for preschoolers?
I saw a really interesting schedule here of one lady. I think that some of her ideas are great and some are great since she has girls, but some wouldn't work for my boys. Her blog is what got me thinking about the fact that we really need some structure around here. There are some ideas I would love to borrow from her. She seems to be an awesome woman with her act together. I could really stand to take notes!
I really would like to hear from you (if I didn't lose you while I was being lazy and not blogging). What works for you?
Monday, December 1, 2008
Whew
Wow! What a weekend! The holidays are here and we are busy! The calender is full. I am overwhelmed, must be that time again! I do love this time of year.
Okay, well the truth is we are extremely busy. I have more going on this week than I care to think about. I will try to post some here and there. I am not overly impressed with CVS or Walgreens this week. I did do a little bit at Walgreens, but only because my Register Rewards were about to expire. I may not even go to CVS this week...gasp...this could be a first in a really long time!
Also, K-Mart is doing a double coupon deal, where you can double coupons up to $2. I stopped in there tonight on our way home and I was not overly impressed. The best deals I got were Kelloggs cereal for .50 a box...that is good, but that was about all that was good.
I will be back. I will get better! I miss talking to you all. I hope to get more regular here closer to the end of the week.
Okay, well the truth is we are extremely busy. I have more going on this week than I care to think about. I will try to post some here and there. I am not overly impressed with CVS or Walgreens this week. I did do a little bit at Walgreens, but only because my Register Rewards were about to expire. I may not even go to CVS this week...gasp...this could be a first in a really long time!
Also, K-Mart is doing a double coupon deal, where you can double coupons up to $2. I stopped in there tonight on our way home and I was not overly impressed. The best deals I got were Kelloggs cereal for .50 a box...that is good, but that was about all that was good.
I will be back. I will get better! I miss talking to you all. I hope to get more regular here closer to the end of the week.
Friday, November 28, 2008
BLACK FRIDAY SALES
Hey Guys here is a link to the Black Friday deals at Usborne Books! I LOVE THESE BOOKS! Enjoy shopping! Also, we really like the "That's not my..." series. You might enjoy some of them too! But we haven't really found much at Usborne Books that we don't like. The only thing we have not liked is the Bible stories. Feel free to email me and we can talk about that, if you have questions.
HERE is the link. Happy Shopping!
HERE is the link. Happy Shopping!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
A few things to tell you about...
Well, first and foremost I don't think I have mentioned that I sell Usborne books. Well, I do, and they are having some REALLY cool deals come the day after Thanksgiving. The sale begins at Midnight on the 28th and runs through Dec. 1. It will only last 4 days. So, stop by and see what great books they have HERE! I LOVE Usborne books and I think you will too! PLUS, what a great gift. WE all love Usborne books and enjoy giving and getting them :)
Also, if you haven't seen them yet there are some SMOKIN' HOT DEALS at CVS for black Friday. The big secret is that THEIRS starts THURSDAY! YAY! I plan to get up at 7am and go! I can't wait! Check it all out HERE!
Finally, there is a new blog in town. Go here to enter her giveaway. She has some really cute stuff. I think you might find a few things you like! Go on over and check her out HERE! Oh, and tell her Jess sent you ;)
Okay, well I may be somewhat quiet for a while. The family comes in tomorrow night and I can't wait to get my hands on my niece! The goal: to teach her to walk! I actually expect by the time they leave that she will be running (away from my boys!) :)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Also, if you haven't seen them yet there are some SMOKIN' HOT DEALS at CVS for black Friday. The big secret is that THEIRS starts THURSDAY! YAY! I plan to get up at 7am and go! I can't wait! Check it all out HERE!
Finally, there is a new blog in town. Go here to enter her giveaway. She has some really cute stuff. I think you might find a few things you like! Go on over and check her out HERE! Oh, and tell her Jess sent you ;)
Okay, well I may be somewhat quiet for a while. The family comes in tomorrow night and I can't wait to get my hands on my niece! The goal: to teach her to walk! I actually expect by the time they leave that she will be running (away from my boys!) :)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Monday, November 24, 2008
For REAL?
Okay, well lets just keep things real here. What is a mom to do after one of the WORST days in recorded history with her children? Who can she really vent to that may possibly understand? Well, you of course. THAT is, after all, why I am here. To share my life with you. I don't even have time to share this on the phone with a girlfriend and I think they all read this now, so here we go.
First off, lets just say I have bitten off WAY more than I can chew. One thing I love is to be a host. Having people in my home is one of my favorite things. So, my Daddy, Sister, Brother-in-law, and niece coming into town Wed. night is VERY exciting to me. That said I have totally BLOWN my budget. I honestly don't even know where we are in the month or in my spending. I simply have not had time to take photos of EVERY purchase that I have made to post it here. I am sorry. I really didn't think about this before I took this project on. SO, I have decided to admit to you, the WORLD wide web, that I failed and fell flat on my face in the dirt (as one of my sweet friends would say)! I am going to try to post about the REALLY good finds that I find AND about life. Because, I really wanted to post more about life anyway. Maybe in Feb. when things slow down (lol, I will be back in school then) I can do this month by month challenge thing. I do plan to get back on schedule with my $160 a month. It is killing me that I don't know what I have spent and where. So I will try to let you know where we are and what good deals I find, but if it is nothing special I probably won't post about it :)
THAT said, I have a real question. HOW DO MOMS DO THIS? Today had to be the hardest day I have had in a long time. There were times today where I honestly thought, "Can I quit?" Don't get me wrong, I love my children. However, the age span, the gender differences and just plan being busy make some seasons VERY hard.
My middle child (22 months), ran a 104 fever for four days. Yesterday was his first fever free day. So, I had big plans for today. However, I failed to take into account all that had happened in the previous four days. Like the fact that we had watched BOAT LOADS of tv. We don't usually watch much tv at all. I also decided last night when the kids didn't eat their dinner that we were NOT wasting it any more. After all, there are starving kids in Africa, we know some personally ;)...and my kids need to eat their food and NOT waste it. SO they now have to eat their food or see it at the next meal.
SO all that said, we started the day with leftover spaghetti for breakfast. That did not go over well at all. However my oldest (3 1/2 years) decided to go ahead an quickly eat the leftovers and move on to the nice warm usual breakfast. I could only wish that my middle child would have done the same. It was almost 2pm before I finally got the last three bites in him (and it was not a lot to start with maybe 5 bites). Stubborn child. Must take after his daddy. Just kidding, I think that was what made the day even harder is that I was just stubborn enough to insist that he eat it.
All of that while I "secretly" wondered if this by chance had anything to do with the sickness that we had experienced earlier. Clearly he isn't still sick. He was FINE tonight with his daddy.
And while he was screaming his head off, he decided at 11am that he would rather go to bed than eat the left over spaghetti. Which was fine, he went right to sleep which was nice. UNTIL his sweet three year old brother decided to jump off their play table while pretending to fly. WHY DO THREE YEAR OLD BOYS THINK THEY CAN FLY? Needless to say, he fell HARD on his bottom and it hurt bad. So he screamed VERY loudly waking up his brother, but thankfully not his sister (my five month old). Where was the mother during all of this?....I figured you might ask. I had retreated to the office so that I might post my "great deals" for the world to see. It was not worth the effort.
And somewhere in the mix of things I let them write in their notebooks with a pencil. Yeah, another BAD idea. Usually this goes well, but not today. No, today my middle child decided to draw all over my table (those marks are still there) and then he went to his sister to um, decorate her face. HER FACE WITH A PENCIL. I remind you that he is not even two and he had a pencil on her face, and she is only five months. Poor child.
Which brings me to a question. WHY? Why did God choose to give me a girl? She rocks. She is so funny and cute. BUT we are SO protective of her. All of the sudden I cringe when I see my boys go near her. I never did that with the first and second. We are questioning the vaccinations more and nothing is easy. I promise we are treating her like most do their first. SHE is my third. I am supposed to be much more laid back.
Well, okay. I think that is enough ranting for today. Oh, I am sure I could tell you more and that I left out some hair raising part of this story. Like all of the discipline issues I had because I chose to let them watch only one hour of tv today. GASP. Only an hour. Oh, I am sure our sweet friends in Africa (the ones who are starving) would love an hour of tv ;).
Geez. All of that to say that at the end of the day when things are quiet and I finally get to sit and vent all of this to you, I am thrilled to be their mom. It makes me smile to think about the few fun things we fit into the day (and even a few of the rough moments make me smile, eventually, I mean who wouldn't think that the three year old superhero isn't cute). And I am so thankful that God has blessed us with three precious children. We have friends who would love just one, and for some reason God chose to give us three. I praise Him for that. My three year old is in Awana and has been learning Scripture like crazy (and praying daily for our friends). It is totally awesome to hear him quote John 3:16 while I am raging with anger about some silly toys in the floor. He just sits quietly in the mix of them all, playing and saying his verses. It truly blows my mind that he is even meditating on the Scripture. Maybe that is the whole point. Maybe that is what I should be doing. No maybes, that IS what I should be doing. WOW! Maybe that is why God gave me my precious children. When God uses my children to convict me of things in my life that need improving, sometimes that stings and sticks more than anything anyone else could say. They are just so real.
First off, lets just say I have bitten off WAY more than I can chew. One thing I love is to be a host. Having people in my home is one of my favorite things. So, my Daddy, Sister, Brother-in-law, and niece coming into town Wed. night is VERY exciting to me. That said I have totally BLOWN my budget. I honestly don't even know where we are in the month or in my spending. I simply have not had time to take photos of EVERY purchase that I have made to post it here. I am sorry. I really didn't think about this before I took this project on. SO, I have decided to admit to you, the WORLD wide web, that I failed and fell flat on my face in the dirt (as one of my sweet friends would say)! I am going to try to post about the REALLY good finds that I find AND about life. Because, I really wanted to post more about life anyway. Maybe in Feb. when things slow down (lol, I will be back in school then) I can do this month by month challenge thing. I do plan to get back on schedule with my $160 a month. It is killing me that I don't know what I have spent and where. So I will try to let you know where we are and what good deals I find, but if it is nothing special I probably won't post about it :)
THAT said, I have a real question. HOW DO MOMS DO THIS? Today had to be the hardest day I have had in a long time. There were times today where I honestly thought, "Can I quit?" Don't get me wrong, I love my children. However, the age span, the gender differences and just plan being busy make some seasons VERY hard.
My middle child (22 months), ran a 104 fever for four days. Yesterday was his first fever free day. So, I had big plans for today. However, I failed to take into account all that had happened in the previous four days. Like the fact that we had watched BOAT LOADS of tv. We don't usually watch much tv at all. I also decided last night when the kids didn't eat their dinner that we were NOT wasting it any more. After all, there are starving kids in Africa, we know some personally ;)...and my kids need to eat their food and NOT waste it. SO they now have to eat their food or see it at the next meal.
SO all that said, we started the day with leftover spaghetti for breakfast. That did not go over well at all. However my oldest (3 1/2 years) decided to go ahead an quickly eat the leftovers and move on to the nice warm usual breakfast. I could only wish that my middle child would have done the same. It was almost 2pm before I finally got the last three bites in him (and it was not a lot to start with maybe 5 bites). Stubborn child. Must take after his daddy. Just kidding, I think that was what made the day even harder is that I was just stubborn enough to insist that he eat it.
All of that while I "secretly" wondered if this by chance had anything to do with the sickness that we had experienced earlier. Clearly he isn't still sick. He was FINE tonight with his daddy.
And while he was screaming his head off, he decided at 11am that he would rather go to bed than eat the left over spaghetti. Which was fine, he went right to sleep which was nice. UNTIL his sweet three year old brother decided to jump off their play table while pretending to fly. WHY DO THREE YEAR OLD BOYS THINK THEY CAN FLY? Needless to say, he fell HARD on his bottom and it hurt bad. So he screamed VERY loudly waking up his brother, but thankfully not his sister (my five month old). Where was the mother during all of this?....I figured you might ask. I had retreated to the office so that I might post my "great deals" for the world to see. It was not worth the effort.
And somewhere in the mix of things I let them write in their notebooks with a pencil. Yeah, another BAD idea. Usually this goes well, but not today. No, today my middle child decided to draw all over my table (those marks are still there) and then he went to his sister to um, decorate her face. HER FACE WITH A PENCIL. I remind you that he is not even two and he had a pencil on her face, and she is only five months. Poor child.
Which brings me to a question. WHY? Why did God choose to give me a girl? She rocks. She is so funny and cute. BUT we are SO protective of her. All of the sudden I cringe when I see my boys go near her. I never did that with the first and second. We are questioning the vaccinations more and nothing is easy. I promise we are treating her like most do their first. SHE is my third. I am supposed to be much more laid back.
Well, okay. I think that is enough ranting for today. Oh, I am sure I could tell you more and that I left out some hair raising part of this story. Like all of the discipline issues I had because I chose to let them watch only one hour of tv today. GASP. Only an hour. Oh, I am sure our sweet friends in Africa (the ones who are starving) would love an hour of tv ;).
Geez. All of that to say that at the end of the day when things are quiet and I finally get to sit and vent all of this to you, I am thrilled to be their mom. It makes me smile to think about the few fun things we fit into the day (and even a few of the rough moments make me smile, eventually, I mean who wouldn't think that the three year old superhero isn't cute). And I am so thankful that God has blessed us with three precious children. We have friends who would love just one, and for some reason God chose to give us three. I praise Him for that. My three year old is in Awana and has been learning Scripture like crazy (and praying daily for our friends). It is totally awesome to hear him quote John 3:16 while I am raging with anger about some silly toys in the floor. He just sits quietly in the mix of them all, playing and saying his verses. It truly blows my mind that he is even meditating on the Scripture. Maybe that is the whole point. Maybe that is what I should be doing. No maybes, that IS what I should be doing. WOW! Maybe that is why God gave me my precious children. When God uses my children to convict me of things in my life that need improving, sometimes that stings and sticks more than anything anyone else could say. They are just so real.
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