Mommin' It Up!

August 1, 2008

Coupon Binder Show & Tell!

I originaly posted this a few months ago, but am re-posting it to enter Kingdom First Mom’s “Coupon Binder Show & Tell Contest”. I wanna WIN!!! For the other great entries, go here.

You may recall a couple of months ago that I shared with you how I was organizing my coupons in a coupon box. Weeeelll, due to my growing obsession, I quickly outgrew that method! Thanks to the encouragement of my friend Krista, I am now the ~~nerdy~~ proud owner of a coupon binder. And I am lovin’ it! The binder is really working well for me. Here’s how you too can organize your coupon binder if when you sink to that level of coupon nerdiness. (Click on the pictures for a larger view.)

Start with a zip-up binder:

Get some baseball card inserts and put your categorized coupons in them:

Get some sticky tabs and write your category names on them and stick them to the edge of the baseball card inserts:

Get some 4×6 picture inserts for larger coupons and rebate forms:

Ta-da! You have your coupons clearly organized and they’re easy to carry with you! SO, that’s what’s working for me these days…I can even take all my coupons when I have the kids with me!

July 31, 2008

Things I Love Thursday: NightLight Jewelry

I am a girly girll (have you noticed?) and I do looooves me some accessories, but I don’t wear a ton of jewelry every day. However, I always wear earrings cause seriously my naked ears are not a pretty sight. A couple of years ago for my birthday my cousin Anna (Emily’s fabulous younger sister) gave me a really pretty pair for my birthday. She explained to me that they were the best present ever because they were made by NightLight. Eh? I had no idea what she was talking about. She then further explained that NightLight is a jewelry business that was started as a way to provide employment opportunities and job training to women who were “employed” (aka trafficked/enslaved) in the sex trade in Thailand. As of January of this year 72 women who used to work in the sex trade were working for NightLight and receiving life skills training as well as job training.

The jewelry is beautiful and the cause is great – so go to NightLight’s website and check out all they have to offer. (They have a great selelction – much more than just earrings!) Consider buying yourself some bling and helping give a better life to a woman who needs it – if we had been born in Thailand, it could easily be any one of us searching for a way out of that life.

For more Things I Love Thursday goodies, go visit my bloggy BFF Jill at the Diaper Diaries!

July 30, 2008July 30, 2008

She Really DOES Eat Like a Bird

Recently I have had trouble getting Sophie to eat. (Hmm, yes, and before you ask, she is STILL nursing. Somebody…HELP…ME!) Rather than say, put her food in her mouth and chew it, she prefers to launch it from her tray into various parts of the house. Thanks to this favorite past time of hers, I had to buy ant traps yesterday. She throws it in places I don’t even find it until much later! So, lately I’ve been repeating the expression, “She eats like a bird” an awful lot. (One of my other favorites is “She eats barely enough to stay alive.”)

Yesterday the kids were playing on the porch and I was out there with them, but talking on the phone with my sister-in-law Elizabeth. We were happily chatting along when I looked up at Sophie and could see she had something in her mouth. “Uh-oh! Soph’s got something in her mouth.” I said to Elizabeth. I ran over to Sophie and dug out the foreign object amidst much indignant protesting.

It was a dead beetle.

“It’s a dead bug!” I exclaimed into the phone, while trying not to VOMIT.

“Ewww!” said Elizabeth.

“What What??” said my nephew upon hearing his mom’s disgust.

“Sophie had a dead bug in her mouth!” she told my nephew James.

“GROSS!” James howled.

“Tell Sophie it’s pretty impressive when a 9-year-old-boy is grossed out,” Elizabeth said back to me.

Yeah. Well. You can’t faze the Soph.

At least it wasn’t a worm. I’m pretty sure birds eat bugs though.