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The winner of week 4’s Holidaze Giveaway is Melanie! Melanie wins:
Puffets from Peas of Mind
Sesame Street Playground from Putumayo Kids
Treasury of 20 Storybook Classics DVD
The Night Before Christmas…and more classic holiday tales
The Free Spirit Toddler Tools Series
“Make Your Own Someday” by The Jimmies
Clothing from Global Goodie
$100 gift certificate to Spike and Annie – www.spikeandannie.com
Congratulations Melanie and thanks to all the companies who provided these great prizes!
I only went to CVS once this week, which is good since it was the week of Christmas and I should have been focusing on, you know, the birth of Christ rather than the multiplication of my ExtraCare Bucks! They had a kickin’ 2-day sale, which I hit Sunday. Here’s what I got:
Three Arm & Hammer cleaners $2.99 each = $8.97
Complete saline solution $8.99
Halls Naturals $2.59
Listerine $2.99
Excedrin $3.99
Starburst (filler) .79
Total = $28.32
Coupons used:
CVS $4/$20 email coupon
Three $1 off Arm & Hammer manu q’s
$1 off Listerine from CVS diabetes book
$2 off Excedrin manu q
$2 off Complete manu q
$2 off complete Rite Aid q (my CVS takes competitor coupons)
$1.50 off Listerine Rite Aid q
Total = $12.82
I paid with 12.50 in ExtraCare Bucks, and paid 89 cents cash and got back over 27 ECBs, as everything but the Starburst was free after ECB! Yay!! I love getting paid to shop!
That’s it for me this week! Hope you all did great as well!
The sky over our house was a busy place that night!
On Tuesday, as I was driving home from work, Andy called to tell me Kate had a problem with her tooth.
“Her gum is really red,” he said. “And the tooth is really loose.”
My immediate thought? We had skipped teeth-brushing one too many times.
She’s only 4.5, so we really thought something was wrong, not just that she was losing her first tooth. So Andy hit google and I called the dentist’s office, who assured me it was perfectly normal.
For whatever reason, this milestone hit me hard. It seems silly to say, but this just seemed like such a big kid thing! It also made me and Andy quite squeamish. Neither of us had the nerve to actually pull it, despite the fact that it was hanging by a thread.
Kate, on the other hand, was so excited.
On Christmas Eve, we were playing her new Flipping Frogs game (which is quite fun, btw), and I suggested Kate wiggle her tooth with her finger.
She pulled it right out!
So, that night, not only did Santa visit our house, but the tooth fairy did too. Kate hardly knew what to do first the next morning! What a great memory.
