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Call me crazy…

(Jenny, I know you’re going to accuse me of smoking more crack…)

But last night Andy and I booked a trip to Disney World!

And, against our better judgement, we’re taking the kids.

Andy, Kate and I went two years ago, when she was three, and it was sooooo great. We had planned to wait to go again until Sammy was about that age as well, but….

Have you seen the deals they have going right now?? You know the economy is bad when Disney is practically paying people to go there. (Ok so that’s not exactly true…). But seriously, right now they’re running a promotion where if you pay for four days/nights, you get three days/nights for free, including park admission!

I spent a lot of time pricing out different locales for our summer vacation, and really this is such a good deal we couldn’t pass it up. We’ve got Park Hopper passes and the Disney Dining Plan (I like to know exactly how much we’re going to spend – and have it paid for – before we go) and I am soooooo excited.

And feeling a slight bit nervous.

After all, we are going to Disney with a five-year-old and a 19-month-old.

Perhaps we are crazy.

So I need your help, readers, because I know many of you are Disney experts (that means you, Karen. Can you hear me out there or does the sounds of screaming from the Tower of Terror in your back yard drown me out?) and traveling-with-kids experts and just plain Mom experts. Please, leave a comment with your top suggestion for making this trip a success!

And Jenny, our plane tickets are non-refundable, so I don’t want to hear your top suggestion about cancelling the trip, stat. K?

My best traveling-with-a-kid-to-Disney-or-any-other-crowded-place can be found here.


I can’t wait!

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Pampers One Pack = One Vaccine Giveaway

Emily and I are proud to be joining Pampers in helping to spread the word about their One Pack = One Vaccine program. This program, is part of a global initiative with UNICEF to wipe out maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT). MNT is a preventable disease that claims the lives of approximately 128,000 infants and 30,000 mothers in less industrialized nations each year – that’s approximately one death every four minutes.

For every specially marked pack of Pampes diapers and wipes you purchase through May 1st in the U.S. and Canada, the funds for one life-saving vaccine will be donated! So by doing something you do ANYWAYS, you can help save a life! In addition, if you are part of the Pampers Gifts to Grow program, you can redeem Gifts to Grow points for a special onesie that will also trigger the donation of a vaccine.

Here’s what this awesome campaign has accomplished in past years, from the campaign’s website:

Funding from the “One Pack=One Vaccine” program has been essential to helping UNICEF provide much-needed tetanus vaccines to help protect moms and their newborn babies in developing nations against tetanus.

1. In the 2008 North America campaign, Pampers provided funding to UNICEF for over 50 million tetanus vaccines to help protect moms and their newborn babies against tetanus.
2. In the 2009 campaign in North America, Pampers aims to raise funds to help provide an additional 30 million vaccines.
3. Thanks to Pampers’ funding, the total global donations have helped UNICEF provide more than 100 million vaccines through August 31, 2008, and the North American goal was far exceeded.
4. The global campaign goal is to provide funding for more than 200 million life-saving tetanus vaccines over the next three years.

So go out and getcha some Pampers, and together we can save a life!! To get you excited about this campaign, Emily and I have a coupon for one FREE pack of Pampers to give away! Here’s how to enter:

1) Leave a comment on this post, telling us where you usually buy Pampers.

2) Tweet about this post on Twitter, then leave us a separate comment with your twitter URL telling us you did so.

3) Post about this contest on your blog, and leave us a separate comment with your post URL.

4) Subscribe to our feed and leave us a separate comment telling you did so (or already do).

One winner will be selected by Random.org on Friday, March 20th.

Hey, while you’re at it, go enter our giveaway here for a MyPublisher Photo Book! And, I’m guest posting today at To Think is To Create (starting at 9 a.m.). I’d love it if you’d head over there and show me some love!

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Couponin’ It Up!

This was a week where once again, I two-timed CVS with Walgreens, something which, until LAST week, I hadn’t done for months! But seriously people, I CANNOT pass up practically free diapers! So here is what I got at Wags:

Walgreens paid about $14 for all this

Three Huggies Supreme $10 each
1 Skippy peanut butter $3
Total = $33
Coupons:
Three $5 off Huggies printables
1 $8 RR from last week’s deals
Total with tax = $12.93
Got back 10 Register Rewards for the Huggies!

I used that RR and the 3.49 one I had from last week to buy the Splenda, grape jelly, orange juice, and milk and paid about $1.40 for all that! YAY!

Then I picked up some more Huggies for my friend and reader Gwen who broke her ankle recently. She was lamenting that she wouldn’t be able to get out of the house and get some cheap diapers, and I couldn’t let that happen! Because I??? LOVE my readers!!!

Next, I did of course go to CVS to get some sweet deals there as well. I needed some Garnier hair products to support my new penchant for wavy hair.

broke even on this - paid $2.37

3 Garnier hair stylers $10
Palmolive $1.49
Schick Quattro $8.99
Crest $2.99
Batteries BOGO free $5.99
Total = 29.46
Coupons:
$5/$25 Rite Aid coupon (my CVS takes competitor q’s)
three $1 off Garnier manu q’s
three $2 off Garnier Walgreens q’s
$4 off Schick Walgreens q
$1 off Crest manu q
total = $10.46, but the cashier missed one of my $1 off q’s, don’t know which one, but I didn’t make a fuss. I paid with 10 ECB and paid $2.37 cash including tax and got back 13 ECB! Yippee!

Well that’s all for me this week! I am hoping to hit CVS one more time on Saturday to get some of their great trash bags which are on sale but we’ll see. Hope you all did great too! To see how everyone else did, check out CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer, Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom and Shopping Superstars at the Thirfty Mama.

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