Happy Tummy Chef

I want to brag on my oldest. She is a wonderful daughter. Tenderhearted sister. She has embraced her little brothers' food allergies and become my right hand in the kitchen. She experimented with substitutions and is now able to make cookies, brownies and bread without their allergens. She even rose one morning at 6 to grind oatmeal for cookies for her brothers. My heart is soo moved and tears come to my eyes at her love and thoughtfulness. The grinding of the oatmeal was all her own idea. She wanted to make oatmeal cookies and set to finding a recipe. The one she found said to grind the oatmeal in a blender. That did not work for her, so she put the oatmeal in a bowl and proceeded to use a glass to grind it into a powder. I personally would not have ever done that. I would have just used the oats as they were. So for Exhibition Night for our homeschool group they were to provide a display of something they had done this last year.
I had her type up her recipes and I created this display. I wanted everyone to know how wonderful and talented is my daughter.

Grandma and D

Grandma stole some moments to show D the clouds. Grandma was able to keep his attention when she found a man running from a dragon shooting fire down on him. "Dragon" "Dragon" as soon as she moved onto butterflies, etc. he was done. So D see that Dragon.

Wal-Mart Savings

This happened in early April. Just now getting around to posting. It was one of my first crazy deals. We needed milk and I had been lurking around on the Money Saving Mom website. So I gathered up all my free with coupons and overages. I spent less that the gallon of milk itself when all was said and done. My dear husband asked me, "Is that legal?" Now he just laughs when I tell him my latest deal.

I'll never forget my dad

This last week dad has been in California. On Wednesday, N out of the blue, tells me "I'll never forget my dad, I like to play tackle time with him." I have been blessed this last week to not have loads of melt downs from my children, who are deeply attached to their daddy, but the heartsickness was there. Friday morning, N couldn't hold it together anymore and was crying for his Daddy. Technology is a wonderful thing. We typed his flight number into google and a website came up which allowed us to follow the plane across the state. He was able to see his daddy getting closer. So grateful for the internet.

While dad was gone, Grandmama Mac came to visit. I will get pics posted later. She taught D to say "I love you, Grandma, truly." and "I love you, Grandma, dearly". He is even able to make the transition to saying it to mommy now.

Today is our frivolous free day

We went to Home Depot for the kid's clinic. All the kids made pencil box flower pots. (Thinking Mother's Day for Grandmas and special peeps in their lives....) Even D made one. The certificate is for the project completed and the safety skills acquired. We learned to not hit momma in the face with the hammer or momma's fingers. I managed to dodge the hammer on all accounts, but there was plenty of instruction in keeping control of the tool.

Then thanks to our friend Maryann's heads up we were off to Prairie Dog Comic Books and the kids each got a free comic book of their choice. Dad intervened and previewed them. On the way home we stopped for Redbox movie. Used the "MAYDAY' code. Something for the kids to watch in turns while showering and getting ready for Sunday morning tonight.

Yesterday was my big shopping day. Case Lot Sale at the Commissary. Very cool deals, I went only $20 over this week's grocery budget. Best part as we were leaving they were giving away free BallPark hot dogs and cans of Pop. My ravenous 6 yr. old and I grabbed some lunch and headed home. What deals! ! !

I made my husband laugh!

Tonight I took all 5 kids with me to Walgreens. I did 7 transactions and spent $52.18 on my debit card. I will be reimbursed 24.69 from our flex account. I received $13 in Register Rewards. I get 4.99 + .50 in rebate. Total cost.... $9.50
This is what I got :
2 Neosporins to go,
4 boxes of bandaids
3 of the Hunt's choc. pudding.
4 cans of broth
10 (YES 10) rolls of papertowels
6 BIG boxes of Kleenex
8 colgate toothbrushes
1 Oral B toothbrush (far)
Airheads (bribery for my younger two.)
Men's Speedstick (.24 after coupons)
3 pkgs of tissue paper
3 pkgs of wrapping paper
An oval willow basket for my inlaws gift

It's a Deal! !

I spoke with someone from Orajel and the rebate is good. So now I wait for my coupons. I left a message. Shall wait till later in the month to make my purchase. My 4 yr. old is begging for Scooby Doo mouthwash. I will just have to hide the ads from him for now.

Manufacturer Rebate for Orajel Revealing Rinse???

http://www.orajel.com/rebate.pdf
So I went looking for a coupon for the Orajel Revealing Rinse that is free after rebate at Walgreen's this month. I found this rebate instead! Never did find a coupon, but hey this isn't so bad. I will try and call orajel this week and see if this rebate applies to the rinse. I could not find the rinse listed as one of their products on their website. Weird.