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A Little Stocked Up

Because I like to give Emily ample opportunity to make fun of me, I thought I’d post this sweeet CVS deal I got Saturday night! I do enjoy posting my deals each week, but I’ve been finding if I wait until Saturday to do it, I just won’t get around to it. So, I’m just gonna spew my nerdy yet heroic acts of couponery up on this here blog anytime I FEEL like it! MMkay?

(And let me say that as I write this, my kitchen floor is being re-done by my wonderful husband as a 10th anniversary present! I am so excited! But most of my kitchen is now in my dining room which means the only clean surface I had to take this picture on was my couch!)

Lemme tell you a little secret which you may already know. A lot of CVS stores start the following week’s deals on Saturday afternoon instead of Sunday morning. *So* if you are a nerd like me and look ahead on the internetz to what is going to be on sale the next week, you can shop on Saturday night and get the current week’s deals PLUS the next week’s deals. Which is what I did this week! And it was awesome! Here’s how it played out:

Pampers $8.97 (current week’s deal)

2 Huggies $17.98 (next week’s deal)

3 Listerine $5.97 (next week’s deal)

Huggies wipes $3.49 (regular price)

Secret deodorant $1.37 (clearance I could not resist!)

Total = $37.78

coupons:

CVS $5/$30 email coupon (expired but my store takes for 30 days)

– $1.50 Pampers manu q

– $6 two Huggies $3 off printables

– $3 three Listerine manu q’s (from paper and printables)

-$3 off 3 Listerine CVS printable coupon from CVS.com

-.75 Huggies printable q

-$.50 off Secret manu q

– $4 CVS CRT when you buy Huggies wipes and diapers

– $3 CVS CRT any Huggies Supreme diapers

– $2 CVS CRT off any $10 baby care purchase

total = $9.03

I paid with 7 ECB, paid $4.21 cash including tax, and got back 8 ECB – 3 for the Pampers and 5 for the Huggies!  Holla!  I was super-excited to be able to use all those CVS CRT’s from the magic coupon machine at the same time!!

Thanks to the great diaper sales at CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens lately, I am SUPER-STOCKED on diapers and wipes.  I keep buying them even though I am going to start to work with Sophie on the potty training thing again soon because a) she is still REALLY opposed to the idea and b) if I don’t use them I have a few good friends with babies in size 4 I can give them to!  Here’s my giant stockpile!

Um, there’s also an unopened jumbo pack of Huggies in Sophie’s bedroom!

Ok, so I may have a little problem…but I’m not going over budget…no one’s getting hurt, right!??

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He liked it. So, he put a ring on it.

That’s right, before Beyonce was Beyonce and Jay-Z probably went by the name Chester or something cool like that, I met a boy named Bobby Rapson in the sixth grade.  He was the new kid.  And he liiiiked me.

I thought he was nice.

But he was persistent, and after a couple years he captured my heart.  And then he ripped it out and stomped on it.  (He doesn’t like it when I talk about that part.)  And then a couple of years later, he captured it again.  This time for good.  And then a few years after that, he put a ring on it.  A very nice ring!  And then another.  And now, it has been, I can’t  believe I am writing this, ten years.

Ten years ago today, Bobby and I took our vows in front of God and everybody.  TEN YEARS!  We’ve been married for ten years.  We were kids playing house, but somehow we transitioned into adults living life and even giving life to our own children.

Inside Bobby’s wedding ring, I had the French phrase Vous et nul autre engraved.  This is partly because I was a French minor in college and thought French was cool, but mostly because it translates “You and no other”.  It was sweet, and romantic for me as a 22-year-old bride to put a ring with that saying on my new husband’s finger.  But  it was also serious and intentional.  And every day that we are together, it becomes more so.  Our marriage has been about so much more than just the one day.  It has been about, with God’s help, choosing each other, and only each other, every single day.

Bobby has chosen me again and again when I have not been the most lovable, beautiful, or sweet girl around.  And I have done the same for him.  Because we said we would.  And it has been so very worth it.

I love you, Bobby Rapson!  Let’s choose each other again tomorrow.  After we celebrate tonight!

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Sleepless in Cousinville

So last night, per usual, I woke up in the middle of ye olde night and couldn’t sleep.  Shocking, I know.  My sleep doctor told me when this happens I should get out of bed and not get back in until I’m really sleepy, so I shuffled wearily into my living room and turned on my laptop.

After chatting with my cousin Donovan, who was also awake at in the middle of the night, on Facebook for a few minutes at about 2:30-2:45,  I clicked over to TweetDeck and lo and behold, saw this tweet from my dear cousin Emily.

So apparently, if you are a first cousin of mine, you may have had trouble sleeping last night!  Emily must have wandered back to her bed, though, cause I got nuttin’ in response to the tweet I sent her:

{crickets}

About 3:30, Sophie started fussing.  I SWEAR to you that girl has “mommy is awake” radar.  So I soothed her and then got back into bed myself, where I had both night sweats and nightmares for a couple hours, until Bobby’s alarm started going off around 5:45.  Apparently I also told him *twice* that he was snoring and to roll over…when he was awake and therefore not snoring.  So all in all, it was a night of delirium, cousinly bonding, and a sad, sad, lack of ice cream (for me).

What were YOU doing in the middle of the night last night?  Wait.  Don’t answer that!

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