Where the voices get to come out of my head and ramble elsewhere...
Monday, September 26, 2011
it's a tooth!
Micah wont be the toothless gummy grin face anymore, today I felt a tooth popping through! Pictures to follow, of course.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Papa's visit
Jamie's dad, Papa, was able to visit with us for a couple days while he had some meetings in the area. This worked out wonderfully, since Jamie has been in San Fran this week for work. Papa got to meet Matthew's bus one day and take him to school this morning. They all enjoyed Hide and Seek together and much more!
We love you Papa!
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
look who's STANDING!?
HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!?! Saturday he mastered sitting upright without leaning like a tripod or flopping over. Then Sunday, he started over to Jamie, hop-crawling to the couch, and then pulled up like he was a 10 month old. And he hasn't been sitting since. He goes back and forth from my chair to the couch to pull up, stand and laugh at himself. It's the most funny thing he's done so far. Pull up, stand there and chuckle. HA! Look what I did Mom! Ha. He's not so good about getting out of the standing though. He's not coordinated at all yet and doesn't understand gravity but he's standing. In a month when I write that my seven month old is walking, shoot me.
Mark saw me taking that picture and wanted to be in one, and it couldn't have been a cuter, sweeter pic if I posed it. Then he pulled up a book and was showing Micah the pictures in the book. Oh the sweetness. I love happy filled darling moments like this to make the mornings worth it all.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
free pineapple bites
This week there was supposed to be free pineapple bites from Walmart. I had saved my Walmart and CVS trips for Saturday so I could do them kidless. Shopping with coupons is so much faster kidless. However, Friday morning found Mark snotty and by Friday night I had a headache and sinus pressure of my own. Saturday morning, wearing my Christmas pj's and my fuzzy purple robe, in between sneezes, Jamie and I had this conversation:
Me: But it's (aaaachhhoo) sup pode to be free. I had (snnniffle) free pine abbles to get today. (Aaachhoo).
Jamie: You don't even eat pineapples.
Me: But they were apode to be (snifffff) free.
Him: I don't care about free pineapples.
Me: So you wont (cough, hack) go (sniff) get them? Mark lides them.(sniff)
As you can imagine, this conversation ended with me going back to bed and no free pineapple bites in this house. Maybe next time.
Any good or great deals you've had to leave at the stores recently?
Me: But it's (aaaachhhoo) sup pode to be free. I had (snnniffle) free pine abbles to get today. (Aaachhoo).
Jamie: You don't even eat pineapples.
Me: But they were apode to be (snifffff) free.
Him: I don't care about free pineapples.
Me: So you wont (cough, hack) go (sniff) get them? Mark lides them.(sniff)
As you can imagine, this conversation ended with me going back to bed and no free pineapple bites in this house. Maybe next time.
Any good or great deals you've had to leave at the stores recently?
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
6 Months
How is my baby six months old?
This will probably be the thought process at each new month marker. HOW is it that already? It goes so fast. Micah is starting to crawl. He's very much like a hoppin toad though, trying to lunge out not really crawling just yet, but he is moving now. And woe to the brother who leaves a cup on the floor, he spots it and starts at it, snake style, slithering fast! It's funny. He also started sitting upright at a kind of leaning position on Friday. So far no teeth yet, but I'm sure they are coming. Everything goes in his mouth, but not quite thinking he's "teething" yet. He's such a joy. I love this little bear so much.
Thank you God for this sweet baby to love and have and hold. It is really hard to believe that half a year has already passed. And equally hard to remember life without this blessing in the house.
This will probably be the thought process at each new month marker. HOW is it that already? It goes so fast. Micah is starting to crawl. He's very much like a hoppin toad though, trying to lunge out not really crawling just yet, but he is moving now. And woe to the brother who leaves a cup on the floor, he spots it and starts at it, snake style, slithering fast! It's funny. He also started sitting upright at a kind of leaning position on Friday. So far no teeth yet, but I'm sure they are coming. Everything goes in his mouth, but not quite thinking he's "teething" yet. He's such a joy. I love this little bear so much.
Thank you God for this sweet baby to love and have and hold. It is really hard to believe that half a year has already passed. And equally hard to remember life without this blessing in the house.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Are you ready for some Football?
It's Football season in this house....
Micah got to watch his first GT game.
Thankfully, they won!
Thursday, September 8, 2011
coupon ramblings
Some people have asked me recently (different people at different places) if I'd do a class or something about couponing. I've held one "mini workshop" before and shared with some friends what I'd been doing/learning. I liked this. It was neat. I'm no expert and I don't have wall to wall storage but I do enjoy the couponing game for sure.
If you're starting out, I'd really suggest deciding first what method is best for you. There is a binder method which is pretty popular, where you cut out all the coupons in the inserts or a folder method (which is what I do), where you keep the inserts whole.
Then the next obvious step is to start collecting coupons. We get two double papers most weeks. That's four papers on Sundays only. Then I purge out the inserts (Red Plum, Smart Source, Procter and Gamble) and put the inserts into folders labeled with that week's date. There are other places to get coupons: friends' papers, recycling, the internet... Please Note: Dumpster Diving is ILLEGAL in GA and several other states.
But then after that, find yourself a good site to get the deals and sales on (I live and breathe by Southernsavers.com) and use the information that's out there. There are so many blogs and sites it's just crazy, but sift through and find what works for you!
Also don't think you need to go out tomorrow, armed with 200 coupons and try to buy your whole shopping list at one time. Creating a stockpile is a slow process. And let me tell you, it is even slower if you're operating your coupon game on a budget. You can't just go buy jelly be/c it's on sale. You need to buy jelly when you have a coupon and it's on sale and it's the rock bottom price you want to spend on it. Then get *cough* ten or however many you have coupons for. I'll be getting **cough** ten or so jellies tomorrow at Publix. Along with four pasta sauce jars, four deodorants, an unknown number of chefboyarde and four 4 packs of yogurt. Now, can I feed my family with jelly, pasta sauce, deoderant and yogurt? No probably not. But, when it's time to buy more of those items, I don't have to buy them... I simply go to the storage room and get one off the shelf. Last week I bought eight dressings, eight shampoos, and eight boxes of cheerios. The amount of items purchased are usually small. The amount of those items purchased are dependent solely on the amount of coupons I have available to me for those items. Sure, I still have to buy meat and milk and produce. But each week I aim to only buy those type items and then "deal" the rest. I don't want to spend full price money for anything I don't have to. .... ah, but I've rambled on. Sorry. I meant to stick to this theme and my thoughts got carried away... Keep it small. Don't try to get the whole sale ad with coupons just be/c things are on sale. Get what's on sale AND at it's lowest best rock bottom price when you pair a coupon or two with it whenever possible.
Another popular question is "How much time does all this take?" Well... usually it takes me about an hour or so per store I'm dealing with. By the time I go through the sale ad, select the deals I want to do, sort through my coupons/print online coupons, organize the coupons, do the math with the deals to make sure it IS the deal I want it to be and then get to the store, actually shop and all. I'd say an hour or so per store. Often I'll do a lot of leg work on Wed after the Publix ad is out for the next week so that I can go to the store Thurs or Fri armed and ready for savings! Then I'll also spend time working on Sunday for the regular ads at other stores so I can go on Mondays to what's good deals. I don't go to each store every week. And if you're just starting out, I'd recommend focusing on ONE store for a while until you have it down. If you overwhelm yourself with store hopping at the start, then you're going to become burnt out fast.
Anyhow, these are my thoughts, hope they help someone.
Feel free to comment, I'll try to answer any questions if there are any.
If you're starting out, I'd really suggest deciding first what method is best for you. There is a binder method which is pretty popular, where you cut out all the coupons in the inserts or a folder method (which is what I do), where you keep the inserts whole.
Then the next obvious step is to start collecting coupons. We get two double papers most weeks. That's four papers on Sundays only. Then I purge out the inserts (Red Plum, Smart Source, Procter and Gamble) and put the inserts into folders labeled with that week's date. There are other places to get coupons: friends' papers, recycling, the internet... Please Note: Dumpster Diving is ILLEGAL in GA and several other states.
But then after that, find yourself a good site to get the deals and sales on (I live and breathe by Southernsavers.com) and use the information that's out there. There are so many blogs and sites it's just crazy, but sift through and find what works for you!
Also don't think you need to go out tomorrow, armed with 200 coupons and try to buy your whole shopping list at one time. Creating a stockpile is a slow process. And let me tell you, it is even slower if you're operating your coupon game on a budget. You can't just go buy jelly be/c it's on sale. You need to buy jelly when you have a coupon and it's on sale and it's the rock bottom price you want to spend on it. Then get *cough* ten or however many you have coupons for. I'll be getting **cough** ten or so jellies tomorrow at Publix. Along with four pasta sauce jars, four deodorants, an unknown number of chefboyarde and four 4 packs of yogurt. Now, can I feed my family with jelly, pasta sauce, deoderant and yogurt? No probably not. But, when it's time to buy more of those items, I don't have to buy them... I simply go to the storage room and get one off the shelf. Last week I bought eight dressings, eight shampoos, and eight boxes of cheerios. The amount of items purchased are usually small. The amount of those items purchased are dependent solely on the amount of coupons I have available to me for those items. Sure, I still have to buy meat and milk and produce. But each week I aim to only buy those type items and then "deal" the rest. I don't want to spend full price money for anything I don't have to. .... ah, but I've rambled on. Sorry. I meant to stick to this theme and my thoughts got carried away... Keep it small. Don't try to get the whole sale ad with coupons just be/c things are on sale. Get what's on sale AND at it's lowest best rock bottom price when you pair a coupon or two with it whenever possible.
Another popular question is "How much time does all this take?" Well... usually it takes me about an hour or so per store I'm dealing with. By the time I go through the sale ad, select the deals I want to do, sort through my coupons/print online coupons, organize the coupons, do the math with the deals to make sure it IS the deal I want it to be and then get to the store, actually shop and all. I'd say an hour or so per store. Often I'll do a lot of leg work on Wed after the Publix ad is out for the next week so that I can go to the store Thurs or Fri armed and ready for savings! Then I'll also spend time working on Sunday for the regular ads at other stores so I can go on Mondays to what's good deals. I don't go to each store every week. And if you're just starting out, I'd recommend focusing on ONE store for a while until you have it down. If you overwhelm yourself with store hopping at the start, then you're going to become burnt out fast.
Anyhow, these are my thoughts, hope they help someone.
Feel free to comment, I'll try to answer any questions if there are any.
Fun Run
Matthew participated in his first school fundraiser for the PTA last week. He raised $255.00 for his efforts. He walked/ran 29 of the 36 allowed laps for the walk. I was really impressed with him. He ran most of the time. Here are a couple shots of him from the event! And of course brothers were there to cheer him on too.
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