AMAZING Diaper Deal!!!

I know you all are just dying to hear about a great diaper deal! It's tomorrow (Friday, May 30th) ONLY at Walgreens. The only reason why I'm posting this is because we REALLY need diapers and I've been waiting for a good sale and it's finally here.

Buy:

3 packages of Huggies diapers for $9.49 ea.

-and-

1-24 pk. Excedrin Migraine for $1.99 (just a filler-it's free)

Total : $30.46

Use this $10 off $30 purchase coupon from Walgreens.com.

Use this $2.00 Excedrin Migraine coupon.

Use 3 manufacturers coupons (I'm using 2-$1.50 & 1-$1.00) saving me an extra $4.00. The $1.50 Huggies coupons came in the mail a few weeks ago.

Send in for this mail in rebate for $5.00 the purchase of 3 packs of Huggies on 1 receipt.

If you don't have manufacturers coupons your total would be $13.46 for approx. 102 size 4 diapers which is about $.13 cents a piece. Just on sale, they're $.27 cents a piece.

If you have the manufacturers coupons your total would be $9.46 for approx. 102 size 4 diapers, only $.09 cents a piece! This UNREAL!

I usually buy Luvs at Target because they're the cheapest I can find and they work awesome, but I usually pay $.19 cents a diaper for those. So, this is an AMAZING deal!

Coupon tip: make sure you hand them the Walgreens $10/$30 first and then hand them your other coupons or else your total will be lower that $30 and the computer won't accept it.

Chex Mix are also on sale for $.99 this week and you can use $1.00 printable coupons from coupons.com.

Infatuation Actually

I've watched a few movies on TV lately that I have never seen and now wish that I had never seen. The first was Wimbledon the second being Love Actually. I'm really disgusted right now by what the media would like to call "love". From both of the movies mentioned above "love" basically means meeting someone, and the next day or a few days later, deciding to have sex with them and calling it "falling in love". Or, being friends with somebody and just deciding you can't hold back your feelings any more for each other, who cares if you're married!!! What is it really? Complete and total infatuation. There is no foundation for these relationships, they are built 100% on feelings and looks. Feelings, which I'm afraid to say, can fool us; and looks, which are fleeting.

Don't get me wrong, I know that these movies aren't real. But these are the messages that we and our kids are being pumped full of! No wonder it's tough for teens to stay pure, they watch movies like these and are told that if it feels right it must be love.

Infatuation really is everywhere. (that's the last line of Love Acutally, only I changed the first word)

Disclaimer: There is a slight possibly I missed the main point of Love Actually because of TV editing due to too many sex scenes.

A Fresh Start

I'm not feeling 100%, but I'm feeling about 85%. My body is just feeling really tired. My brain seems to be functioning pretty well, but my body is just very tired. Hopefully, after a good nights' sleep tonight, I'll be feeling 100% tomorrow and can get my life back on track.

The kitchen's a disaster, our room is a mess, the floors need to be mopped, there are piles of laundry all around and our bathroom is very dirty.

Tomorrow is a new day and a fresh start. I've made a small, manageable list of things to accomplish and I'll try my hardest to finish it. But playing with and taking care of Maddox and taking care of my body are of utmost importance right now.

Here's to tomorrow.

Favorite Hat

Here is the newest addition to my baby hat collection and it's my favorite so far. I just wish I had a little head to try it on to see if it's as cute on as lying down. I basically made up the pattern just taking basic ideas from the book that I have. I found the flower pattern online yesterday. I think it turned out pretty stinkin' cute.

Early Morning

For some reason all of us were wide awake at 6:30 this morning. Maddox and I had both been awake, but laying in bed since about 5:45am. TOO EARLY! What weird is that I don't know why we woke up early, we didn't go to bed exceptionally early or anything and on a normal day we all sleep until 8. It was weird. But, we decided to just get up and snuggle on the couch and watch a movie since it is a day off for Kyle. And, since we're all recovering from being sick, it was perfect. Maddox fell asleep in my lap at 10:30 and we both slept on the couch until 12:30. Messed up our normal nap routine, but we both needed it!


Here's a picture of Maddox chilling in his chair having some dry cereal and milk.



And, here's my newest hat: It turned out okay, but was an a lot of work sewing on all of those petals. Next time, I'd leave off the stem, kinda dorky.


I'm thinking about opening up an Esty store selling my hats. I think I'm going to keep knitting all summer and then hopefully open it in the fall when I have a lot of hats made up. I'm making up my own pattern right now, it will probably be done tonight.

Just cuz' You Gotta See This Guy

My little lounger

Maddox showing off that he can get in his recliner all by himself.

Just a Note

So, my husband, aka. Kyle, is totally awesome. He's doted on me hand and foot and has helped out so much with Maddox. It has made this cold not seem quite so bad. Any way, I just needed to say how totally cool he is.

This cold is brutal. Complete and total nasal congestion, full body aches with side of a cough. I never get coughs, but this went straight for my lungs, dumb cold. I have no voice, I just whisper. Kyle likes it when I whisper at the dog assuming that she'll listen to me :-)

Maddox has seemed to be fine today, just a little bit of a runny nose. Kyle's coming down with it now, though. I had a feeling that would be the case, this thing seems to be quite nasty.

We're hoping to go see Prince Caspian tomorrow, but that will depend upon how Kyle is feeling.

Sick

I am very sick and have been for 3 days. Blah. Unfortunately, Maddox is sick, too. The poor guy just cried and cried and cried last night. Kyle is taking such good care of us, though and hope to be on the mend by the end of the day.

Please Excuse Me...

I know I've been missing in action as of late, but please excuse me because I've been enjoying the GORGEOUS weather with my family! Friday it was almost 100 degrees! Pretty unheard of in these parts this early in the year. So, we played in the hose and Kyle mowed the lawn. Yesterday, we went to Fred Meyer and picked up a blue plastic pool and we hung out in the backyard for a good part of the day yesterday. Basically, we just played all weekend and it was fun, but now my house is a mess! Here are a couple of pictures of our fun weekend:

Here are my three newest hats. I made the blue and green one for Maddox, but he won't keep it on, so I may need to give it to someone else. The two pink ones I made for my friend Iva who is having a little girl in couple of weeks. The pink stripe one took way more time that I was expecting it to and I finished it 5 minutes before I walked out the door to go to her shower. But, it turned out super cute and I was pleased. It's not perfect, but for how complicated it was, I'm not going to complain.

Newest Craft Project

Shelley started embroidering back in March and it intrigued me, so she hooked me up for my birthday with all of these wonderful supplies:Yesterday, I went to Barnes and Nobel and bought this amazing book with a gift card that I've had since Christmas. It has pages and pages and pages of some of the most wonderful simple iron-on patterns in it.

Last night, I started embroidering simple patterns on some new, plain white cloth diapers that work great for burp cloths. This is how they turned out:


I am making a set of 3 girly ones (pictured above) for a friend that is having a little girl in a few weeks and the other set with the car, a truck and a rocket, will be for a friend who is having a boy. They're so much fun and don't take more than about 20-30 min. a piece. The greatest part is that the middle part of the diapers is so thick that you don't even have to go through all the way to back, so no icky unsightly criss-crossed back.