SALE at Vera Bradley.com

Vera Bradley is having a HUGE sale on their website. I just got a purse for $20! Click HERE to go directly to the site OR to make the deal even better......Click HERE to go to the website through EBATES, and earn a percentage back in cash on your purchase! Happy Shopping!!

20 FREE Digital Prints At Walgreens TODAY ONLY

Click HERE to go to the Walgreens Photo Center website where you can get 20 FREE 4X6 digital prints TODAY only!

Killer deals at Harris Teeter this week!

I got all this for just $9.52 today!

~ 3 Six-packs of Jell-O gelatin w/antioxidants (what DOESN'T have antioxidants in it these days?)...$2.50 each - $0.60 printable coupon HERE doubled. Then if you bought 3, an additional $3 was taken off the total, so I paid just $0.90 for all 3 six-packs!

~ Fruit Roll Up Variety packs $2.50 each - $0.75/2 printable coupons HERE doubled

~ Curves granola bars $2.50 - $0.75 printable coupon HERE doubled

~ Chex Mix bars $2.50 - $0.60 printable coupon HERE doubled

~ 4 Progresso bread crumbs $1 each - $1/2 printable coupon HERE doubled

~ 2 Progresso soups B1G1 making them 2/$2.69 - $0.50/2 coupon doubled

THEN, for purchasing 10 General Mills items, an additional $4 was taken off my order!

~ 3 Ball Park franks B1G2, making them 3/$3 - $1/2 coupon

~ Baguette bread B1G1, I buy their bread whenever it is on sale as it is YUMMY!!

Soooo....grand total was $9.52, I saved $39.08. Have I mentioned I love Harris Teeter!!

Welcome to the 21st century

I am officially old. And in denial. My 11 year old is now the proud owner of her very own cell phone. And it is cooler than mine. And.... I had to upgrade my plan to include unlimited texting as apparantly it is not nearly as cool to simply TALK on the phone. God help us all.

Free SWAGBUCKS code!

Thanks to Mommies With Cents for the heads up on earning one free Swagbuck!Simply go to Swagbucks.com (If you don't have an account already, click HERE). Once you are registered, click on your points, enter the code BeMine (do NOT copy and paste!) in the space provided and click "Gimme". Voila, one free Swagbuck! These babies add up quickly, I often earn 3-5 at a time just by running searches through their website. Swagbucks can be redeemed for great prizes such as gift cards and electronics. It's FREE and easy to start earning prizes today!

Bird Seed Biscuits

The kids made this bird seed biscuit recipe from Family Fun Magazine today, since there was no school (again LOL). It was really easy and they could do it all by themselves with items we already had on hand. We hung them out back for our birdie friends to enjoy!



Recipe (makes 2 biscuits, we doubled it to make 4):
3/4 cup bird seed
1 tbl. flour
2 tbl. water

~Mix ingredients in a small bowl.

~Grease the inside of shaped cookie cutters (we used a heart, flower, tree, and cat LOL).

~Press mixture into cutters and place on foil lined baking sheet.

~Insert a 2" section of a plastic drinking straw into each biscuit to create a hole for hanging.

~Bake at 170 degrees for one hour, with straws intact.

~Cool completely, remove straws, and tie ribbon or string for hanging.

Snow Day!

We got about 3-4" of snow so of course school was cancelled LOL! The kids had a blast playing in it pretty much all day today. It was also nice to have them home so we could watch the inauguration together.

WOW! Great customer service at Harris Teeter!

The other day I bought a cantaloupe at Harris Teeter which was supposed to ring up half price beacuse they are on sale Buy One Get One Free this week. When I got home I realized that it had rung up full price at $3.99. Since I had to go back this morning to pick up some more sale items, I took my receipt up to the service desk to get my $2 refunded. The customer service lady was so nice, she gave me a full refund of $4.07 since "It was our mistake". AND...she told me to go grab another cantaloupe at NO charge! WOW!! Really made my morning! And the kids will be thrilled since between the 3 of them they can devour a cantaloupe in oh....1.4 seconds!

Dear Panthers.....

Evan and his best buddy across the cul de sac had a cute idea today, they wrote "fan mail" to some Panthers players. They have gone to a couple of games together recently and are really big fans. The cute thing was the "fan mail" consisted not of telling the players why they are so great and how much they admire them, but of asking them to send them stuff LOL like free tickets and a signed ball. Evan's buddy's dad is a cop and works in a swanky town nearby where alot of the players live, so they asked him if he could leave these letters in their mailboxes! Evan's says something like "My friend and I would like some tickets to a home game please. I would aprishate (appreciate) it." His buddy's says "My best friend would like some tickets to a home game", guess he's not taking the fall for being greedy! They made a few others as well, it was really cute!

My big girl (sniff)

Hannah came home from a sleepover all made up (even mascara!!) and with her hair done, she looked SO grownup! And then I of course made her wash it off, we don't "do" makeup just yet! Here she is holding the little girl I take care of fulltime, she is such a doll-baby.

Isn't it great to be pampered?

LOL, I took this cute pic of my kitten Charlie grooming our other cat, Mia. Usually she takes a motherly role (she's 18 months or so) and grooms him but today she just closed her eyes and enjoyed the spa treatment!

Christmas has come and gone......

Gosh, where did December go?!? I can't believe Christmas is past already but we sure enjoyed ourselves. Ours was pretty low-key and relaxing. Today I put all of the decorations away, inside and out, in preparation for Evan's birthday on Saturday (my baby will be 7!!). Here's a few pics of the kids with some of their loot. Santa scaled back quite a bit this year, I guess he feels the effects of the economy as well.








Happy New Year and here's to a healthy, happy, and prosperous 2009!

The Christmas Photo

One of my least favorite things to get done for the holidays is to capture that perfect photo to include in our Christmas cards. I don't know why it seems like such a chore to me, but this year was no exception. The kids didn't want to wear what I wanted them to wear, they insisted on either scowling or fake smiling, which irks me to no end. Once we finally got our photo (not perfect, but acceptable) I tried to order cards online and the website wouldn't load.....just not meant to be this year. So anyway, here is the pose I decided on. I just had some prints made and taped one into each card. Pretty basic and boring but at least the cards are mailed, one more thing crossed off the list!

Busy, Busy, Busy!

It has been non-stop around here, shopping, wrapping, decorating....still can't believe Christmas is next week! Today we got some supplies to make our annual gingerbread houses out of graham crackers, vanilla icing, and candy. Here are the finished products, the kids had a blast!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

The kids wanted to put the tree and other decorations up the *second* we got back for our trip LOL. This is the first year that they did the ornaments on the tree all by themselves without our help and they did a fantastic job! The only thing I added was the bow to the top. Here is a pic of the family room fireplace and tree. The lights never look as pretty in a photo as they do in person.

We're off!

We are getting ready to head off on a 13 hour drive to MA tomorrow to spend Thanksgiving with family. Wish us luck LOL we will need it :)

BRITAX MARATHON CARSEAT for $42.99 w/FREE Shipping!

At Target.com, I just ordered a Britax Marathon Carseat (MSRP $279.99) for $42.99 with FREE shipping!! Orders ship in 2-6 weeks but for that price, you can't beat it!! These never go down lower than about $170 or so!! If you need a convertible car seat, these are the BEST brand, hands down!! Click HERE to order yours!

UPDATE! Looks like this was an error but word is Target *may* honor the posted price for those who ordered. So we shall see...

UPDATE #2! Looks like all of these orders have been CANCELLED due to a "website pricing error". Drat, it was too good to be true!

A new pet?

LOL, not really but Madi found the cutest little lizards out back today. She managed to catch one of the fast little buggers.

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Fall Leaves

The kids just LOVE fall now that we have a home with lot of trees in the yard and leaves to play in once again. When we lived in MA, our yard had 20+ old oak trees and we had more leaves than we knew what to do with. In the fall, they would be 2 feet deep all across our yard. Then when we first moved to NC, our yard had only 2 brand new trees, that's it. Brand new neighborhood = no trees. I was so happy, no more messy leaves to rake and blow! I had no idea how much we'd miss it. That first fall was just not the same. Now our new home has woods behind it and now that the leaves have started to fall, I predict that once again we will have more leaves than we can handle. The kids are in heaven and it truly feels like home.