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Friday I nursed my little Sophie girl for the last time. It was high time, as she is 23 months old, and I’ve been complaining about wanting to wean her on this here blog for months. We had been down to one feeding, only in the morning, for two weeks, and I knew that with my husband home on Saturday, I could just hide (a.k.a. SLEEP IN) in the morning and avoid nursing her that way. So that’s what we did, and it worked just fine. She tried to nurse once in the afternoon but I just told her “all done” and cuddled her while she fussed. She got over it pretty quickly. Sunday we did the same thing, and it wasn’t a problem at all.
Friday morning when I was nursing her, I knew it was more than likely going to be the last time. So I savored it. I stroked her face and her hair and relished her sweetness. Then she finished up, jumped up, and got to the business of playing.
She didn’t know it was going to be the last time. I’m trying not to feel guilty about that. What do you think she would have done if she had known?
I know I should be happy, feel liberated, be elated even. Part of me is all those things. I loooove wearing a regular bra! I look forward to my hormones balancing out and to being able to take an aspirin for goodness sake!
But right now, looking at her, watching her play, listening to her babble, knowing she’s my last baby, it’s all I can do to keep myself from pulling up my shirt and goin’ one more round.
I’m riding the emotional roller coaster and the “off” switch appears to be broken…could someone call a handy carnie and shut this thing down?
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve conducted two different coupon classes (one with a part 2 scheduled soon!) and I’ve been invited to do a third. Plus I’ve given one private lesson to my friend Elizabeth. What I’ve discovered through this is I LOVE TEACHING PEOPLE ABOUT COUPONING!! It’s really fun. I look forward to doing it again soon, but I think I may need to work on my presentation a little bit. I’m thinking maybe sequins and a few musical numbers should be involved? Anyone wanna jump in and help me write some coupon love songs? No? Oh well…
Anyhoo, here’s what I scored at CVS this week! I also went to Walgreens but my #@!& Register Rewards didn’t print, reminding me again why I hate Walgreens. So once again, I have resolved to just using Walgreens coupons at CVS, since my CVS takes competitor q’s!!
Just for Men $7.99
2 Brach’s Candy Corn $1.29 each
Excedrin $1.99
Powerade $1.69
2 Funlights $.99 each
Total = $16.23
Coupons:
CVS $3/$15
$2 off Just for Men manu q
$2 off Excedrin manu q
$3 off Excedrin CRT
Total = $6.23
I paid with 5.29 in ECB and paid $1.11 cash and got back 14.24 ECB! 7.99 for Just for Men, 1.69 for Powerade, 1.98 for the funlights, and 2.58 for the candy corn! Plus I sent in for the full rebate for the Just for Men so I’ll get back a $7.99 check! YES!!
This one I just did to make the $$. 🙂
3 Pert Plus $3.99 each
1 Colgate scented toothbrush $2.99
Frappucino $1.99
Total = 16.95
Coupons:
CVS $3/$15
3 $1 off Pert Plus manu q’s
3 $2.50 off Pert Plus Walgreens Easy Saver q’s (my store takes these)
$2 off Colgate toothbrush CRT
Total = $1.45
I paid $1.63 cash including tax, used zero ECB and got back 7 ECB!! 5 for the Pert and 2 for the toothbrush. HOLLA!!
Finally, my favorite steal of the week!
2 Huggies Jumbo packs $9.99 each
2 Huggies wipes $2.79 each
Total = $25.56
Coupons
$5/$20 Walgreens q (thanks for putting this out Friday, Wags!)
$2 off Huggies manu q (home mailer)
$1.50 off Huggies q (home mailer)
$3/2 Huggies wipes q (home mailer)
$3 off Huggies diapers and wipes Walgreens q (sent to me by a friend)
Total – $11.06
Paid with 10 ECB and paid $2.14 cash and got back 10 ECB! Now that, my friends is the way to buy diapers and wipes!!
Hope you all had fun with coupons this week! For more great savings, check out CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer and Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!