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For the Love of Viva!

With last Sunday being Easter, and since I was leaving for Chicago the next day, I didn’t think I was going to make it to CVS until after we got home. This made me kind of sad because I figured by the time we got back, all the “freebies” would be gone. However it was a sacrifice I was willing to make in order to celebrate our Lord’s Ressurrection and get ready for my trip.

Until I saw that Viva paper towels were on ECBs, and I lit out of my house like a bat out of hell to go get some! You see, Viva are my faaaavorite paper towels. They are like luxury paper towels. I always try to get them when they are on ECBs, and since we were about to leave my mom with two kids and 1/2 a roll of CVS brand (sandpaper) “green” paper towels, I decided I better go get some Viva!! My husband loves them too. We are now paper towel snobs, thanks to CVS. So here it what I got:

my favorite paper towels. yes, I have a favorite.

Viva $7.49
Softsoap body was $4.99
Colgate $3.99
Ellin Lavar ThermMist (love it for flatironing my hair!) $7.99

Total = $$24.46

coupons:
CVS $4/$20 email coupon
$1 off Softsoap manu q
75 cents off Colgate manu q
$2 off Ellin Lavar CRT
$3 off Ellin Lavar CVS email q

Total = $13.71
I paid with 10 ECB and about $4 on my CVS gift card and got back 4.99 ECB for the Softsoap, 3.99 for the Colgate and 2 ECB for the VIVA! Yay!!

That’s all I got to do this week! I tried to go get the FREE Purex laundry detergent but my CVS only had ONE left! I might go to another one today if I have time. We shall see! To see how everyone else did this week, check out CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer, Shopping Superstars at the Thrifty Mama and Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!

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The Grass Isn’t Always Greener

The other day I was changing Sophie’s diaper when Joshua asked me something I had been waiting for him to ask me for, well, ever since Sophie was born…two and a half years ago. He looked at Sophie, then looked at me and said, “Why does Sophie’s pee-pee look like that?”

Finally! I was beginning to think maybe he was blind or just so self-obsessed that he didn’t even notice his sister was different from him down there.

“Well,” I answered matter-of-factly, “Girls have different private parts than boys do. You and Daddy have the same kind of pee-pee and Sophie and Mommy have the same kind of pee-pee.”

Joshua regarded his sister with a look that can only be described as pity mixed with relief. “It’s a good thing I’m not a girl,” he said with a shake of his head.

“Why do you think that?” I asked

“Because I would NOT want my pee-pee to look like THAT!” He gestured toward Sophie with a look of disgust.

I stifled a giggle. ‘Cause seriously ladies? How many times have you thanked the Lord that you DON’T have man parts? Yeah, I think I’ll stick with what I got (which according to my OB-GYN is pretty great)!

It’s nice to know Joshua is comfortable with what he’s got too…and that we won’t be on Oprah discussing transgender tweens in a few years.

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High Society

The past couple of days I have been on a little adventure. My husband had a training for work in the suburbs of Chicago, and I decided to tag along. We left the kids with my mom – it was the first time both of us had been away from them at the same time! Bobby works for a Lexus dealership, so they gave us a 2008 Lexus IS300 to drive on our trip.

So, while my husband was in class, I was let loose to roam the suburbs of Chicago in a fancy car. Which, thank goodness, also has a fancy navigation system, because I have no sense of direction whatsoever (unlike Emily, who I like to call the Human GPS). Said car was so fancy, that you don’t even have to use the key to start it or unlock it. All you have to do is have the key (called a Smart Key) on your person, and get near the car, and it unlocks. Then you get in the car and you press a button to start it and turn it off. When you get out of the car, you just press a button on the door handle to lock it. Woo-wee! I love it! It’s always a pain to mess with my keys when I am trying to carry my kids and groceries and whatever else. So needless to say, I am very sad to give this car back and give up my precious, precious Smart Key. *Le Sigh*.

But anyhoo, in my fancy car, I tooled around the fancy suburbs and went shopping at the fancy outlet malls. It was super-fun. And after Bobby’s day of training was over, we tooled around together, eating out at fancy places and getting coffee at the fancy Starbucks and just generally being awesome. We had a great time together.

Of course, we really missed the kids. Our second night away, I was just longing for my babies.

But I’m so glad Bobby and I got the chance to have a bunch of fun just being together (and being very fancy.)

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