Mommin' It Up!

January 12, 2009January 11, 2009

An anatomy lesson, brought to you by Emily and Jenny

As I have mentioned numerous times on this blog recently, I had a baby shower at my house for my friend Megan Saturday. On Friday, Joshua was watching me as I did some cleaning in preparation for the party. Though I had told him before, he asked me why we were having a party.

“Because Miss Megan’s going to have a baby and we’re going to give her presents she can use for the baby.” I replied.

He thought about that for a second, then out popped THE question: “Mommy, how does the baby get out of the mommy’s tummy?”

I froze, and wished I could hide behind the broom I was holding. “Uh…well… you know how your pee-pee is different than a girl’s pee pee?”

He nods.

“Well, mommies have a special place for a baby to come out where they go pee-pee.”

My answer TOTALLY blew Joshua’s mind. His eyes got HUGE and he jumped a little, like he was startled, and he drew his breath in and made a little – huh! – gasp.

“That’s just the way God made mommies’ bodies, so they can have babies. Isn’t that cool?”

Joshua nodded, still wide-eyed and mute. At this point I was afraid I had scarred the kid for life, so I did whatever I do when I have a serious problem: I ran to my laptop and IMed Emily. The following is our IMversation:

Jenny says: OMG Joshua just asked me how babies get out of the mommy’s tummy

Emily says: tell him the doctor gets them out.
Emily says: and then when he questions you further, tell him they come out where mommy goes potty
Emily says: and then watch the look of revulsion on his face
Emily says: bdtd

Jenny says: i DID tell him it comes out where mommy’s go potty!! and he was SHOCKED!

Emily says: wow, great minds think alike!

Jenny says: his eyes got HUGE

Emily says: Now just wait until he tells Bobby that, and watch the look of shock on HIS face.

Jenny says: hee hee can’t wait!!

I was glad to know that my answer wasn’t too far off what Emily would have said! I tried to get Joshua to tell Bobby about it later that night, but he was NOT saying a word. He did NOT want to talk about it. Then I thought a minute and told him his head was too big too fit out where mommy went pee-pee and the doctor had taken him out of a hole in my tummy. He liked THAT explanation much better. You could totally see the relief on his face. Hilarious!!

So readers, how did you (or will you) answer this question? Because if it hasn’t come up yet… trust us, it will!

January 11, 2009January 11, 2009

I’ve Got the Soy Joy, Soy Joy, Up in My Pantry! (Where?)

Sorry I am late in posting my deals. I know you all sit by your computers and hit “refresh” on your browsers all weekend long until I post them so I’m really sorry for the delay. But you see I had this baby shower for my friend Megan Saturday which just kept me away from my laptop. But it is over, and it was great, and now you can all heave a sigh of relief as my coupon adventures are about to be displayed for all the world. 🙂

I got a TON of Soy Joys this week! My little Sophie, the world’s pickiest eater, loves Soy Joys for some reason. So I got 10 for $5 at Rite Aid, used my $3/10 coupon, paid $2 out-of-pocket, and will get back a $5 single check rebate. So I made $3 on that! Woohoo! CVS also has 6-packs of Soy Joys for $6 with 6 ECBs back. So, the other night I got this:

2 boxes of Soy Joy $12
2 CVS baby wipes $4.50 (they were B1G1 50% off)
M&Ms 50 cents
Total = $17
Coupons:
CVS $3/$15
Soy Joy $3/10
$3 off CVS Brand purchase
total= $8
I paid with a 7.99 ECB – I can’t remember how much I paid in cash – less than a dollar – and got back 12 ECB for the Soy Joy! Yay! I loves me some profit!

Next, I got this:

4 infants/children’s motrin $22
CVS baby wipes $2.99
Total = $24.99
Coupons:
CVS $3/$15
$2/$10 pain reliever purchase CVS CRT
two $2.50/2 Children’s/infants motrin
three $2 off Children’s/infants motrin Walgreens coupons (I had 4 but the cashier missed one. no biggie)
$3 off CVS Brand purchase
Total = 5.99
I used a 5.99 ECB to pay, paid $1.30 cash in tax and got back 10 ECB for the Motrin! Woohoo!

Finally, I stopped back by one day for some Fiber One bars (YUMMY!) and more Soy Joy:

Fiber one two-pack $6.99
Soy Joy 6-pack $6
CVS wipes $2.99
Sweet Tarts $.50
Total = $16.48
Coupons:
CVS $3/$15
$1/5 Soy Joy coupon
50 cents off Fiber One coupon
$3 off CVS Brand purchase coupon
total = $8.98
I paid with an 8.98 ECB, paid zero out-of pocket and got back 9 ECB. Ta-da!!

Needless to say, Megan got a lot of baby wipes with her shower gift. 🙂

That’s all for me this week! Hope you did great! To see what everyone else was up to, check out CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer!

January 9, 2009January 8, 2009

Putting Away the Loot

Christmas is past (by fifteen days), a new year has begun, and I’m…stuck in a living room with twice as much crap in it as it had before. You see, my problem with the post-Christmas clean-up isn’t putting away the tree, the ornaments, or the stockings. That’s a snap.

(Because my husband does it.)

My problem is: Where do I put all this new STUFF? Specifically, all my kids’ new stuff. Like, the FIVE new board games Joshua received:

Or Sophie’s new posse (it’s a real tough bunch. You do NOT want to mess with Soph and her crew):

And then, there are the toys that are actually more like pieces of furniture. Exhibit A, Joshua’s (Christmas dream come true) Fisher Price GeoTrax set:

Exhibit B: Sophie’s Leap Frog learning table (which she adores!):

I’m throwing a baby shower for a friend of mine Saturday (if she doesn’t have the baby today. ‘Cause she was having contractions all day Thursday. Squeeze those legs together Megan!), so I am sitting here pondering where to put all of this new stuff that Santa brought, cause really, everysinglecarfromcarsmovie and all of Sophie’s posse are not invited to the shower. Aside from just throwing it all in the kids’ rooms until the shower’s over, I don’t have a clue!

My post-Christmas clean-up? It’s still not done! But it will be by Saturday! How about yours? What’s your biggest Christmas clean-up hang-up?

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By the way, this post is part of a Blog Blast sponsored at Parent Bloggers Network and Right@Home. I like to visit Right@Home to print coupons for some of my favorite SC Johnson products (like Glade candles. ALSO Emily’s favorite.) but the site also has great cleaning and organization tips and yummy recipes too! I’m headed over there now to see if they can solve all my problems for me, and you should too!