Mommin' It Up!

February 14, 2009February 14, 2009

The Stockpile Has Landed

I didn’t do ANY CVSing this week. Never darkened the door! There just weren’t any sales exciting enough to get me in the door. Shocking, I know. Hopefully this coming week will be better! I did, however, hit a super-awesome sale at Meijer! Here’s what I got:

It took me five transactions, but I got all of this – over $110 worth of groceries (at sale prices) for just $48.01! I got 24 boxes of Chex Mix/Fiber One bars, and at $2 apiece, those alone would have cost $48 without coupons. Every time you bought five boxes of these, you got a coupon back for $3.50 off your next order. I had coupons for $1 off (some that went to $1 when doubled) for all of these, so I’d pay $5, get $3.50 back, and then use that coupon to buy my next batch! On my last transaction I got 4 boxes, so I have a $2.50 coupon to use next time I go to Meijer. 🙂

I also got six boxes of cereal, five 6-packs of Yoplait kids yogurt, a bag of frozen chicken tenderloins, milk, pasta, frozen chicken nuggets, bananas, bread, five Lean Cuisines, Chex Mix, a fmaily size Hershey’s syrup (woot!), and two jars of Skippy peanut butter!

I haven’t had a haul this good in a long time, so I was really excited. Hope you all did great too! To see how everyone else did, check out Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom and Shopping Superstars at the Thirfty Mama.

February 13, 2009

I’m confused.

Are preschoolers a tough crowd these days? Do they actually pay attention to what the other kids are wearing? And worse, do they comment about it?

I find it hard to believe, but either that is the case or my daughter is losing her mind.

Kate’s now in her last semester of preschool (do preschools have semesters? Probably not. In any case, she’ll be done in the spring), and she is so worried about what she wears and what the other kids will think. When I stop to ponder it, it really kind of freaks me out. But in the morning when we’re trying to get out the door, it just annoys the crap out of me.

She is convinced that the other kids are going to make fun of her or laugh at her if she wears this shirt and not that shirt, this color instead of that color, these shoes and not those shoes. Truly, I don’t know how much stock to put in this worry. Is this her almost-five-year-old self-centeredness shining through? (Surely there’s a term to describe whatever stage of development she’s in, but it escapes me). If that’s the case, if the threat of being made fun of is something she worries about but isn’t actually going to happen, it almost seems easier to deal with. But even if that is the case, is it real to her? I guess that would still call for some compassion. (And I wasn’t feeling a whole lot of compassion for the girl who fuh-reaked out this morning because she wanted to wear and orange shirt – and not a red shirt – to her Valentine’s Day party today).

Or is it real? Like really real?

Please tell me it doesn’t start this early. Please, please tell me that she’s not getting made fun of. About her clothes, for the love of God. And please tell me she’s not making fun of anyone else.

February 12, 2009February 11, 2009

And I’m Spent

I just can’t seem to get back in my grooooove since getting home from BlissDom. My house is a wreck. I barely have any clean clothes. I only actually cooked dinner once this week so far. And now here I am, the night before homeschool co-op, when I have to have all Joshua’s valentine’s stuff ready for the party there, and I’ve got nothing accomplished. My hubby is making brownies for me to take because I forgot until approximately 9 p.m. tonight that we were supposed to take a treat to share in addition to the valentine’s and the box to put the valentine’s in. We got a flat tire tonight on the way to my parent’s house for dinner which resulted in us not getting home til about 8:30, which resulted in me having to postpone my grocery trip. So I’ll be running to the local McDonald’s tomorrow to get lunch for us to eat at co-op. ‘Cause Lord knows we don’t have anything in the house I can pack for us!

I need to get back to my routine, back to making my lists and actually crossing things OFF of them, back to going to bed at a decent hour, back to sweeping the living room floor once in a while.

How do I find my way back? What do you do to get back in the groove after a vacation or big event? I need someone to TELL ME WHAT TO DO! Boss me around, it’s ok, I like it!