Mommin' It Up!

January 2, 2009January 2, 2009

Just Tryin’ to Hustle Up Some ECBs

I made it to CVS twice this week, basically just to make some ECBs. Nothing too exciting, although it was fun as always!

Early in the week, I did this transaction:
Contour meter $14.99
2 Colgate $5.98
Propel $.40 (clearance for some reason – this surprised me!)
Schick Intuition razor $8.99
Total = $30.36
Coupons I used:
CVS $3/$15 (for some reason this only took off $1.50, but i didn’t complain!)
up to $30 off Contour meter (-$14.99)
two $1.50 off Colgate q’s
$2 off Schick Intuition q
Total = $8.87
I paid with 8 ECB and paid, with tax $2.34. I got back 5 ECB for the meter, 4 for the toothpaste, and 5 for the razor, for a total of 14 ECB. Yay!

Then on Thursday, I had to ring in the New Year by getting those January monthly deals!

Two throat cooler pops $9.98
Nasogel $7.99
Clorox toilet wand refills (we needed these! My CVS has been out of them forever.) $3.89
Total = $21.86
Coupons:
CVS $3/$15
BOGO free throat cooler coupon $4.99
$2 off Nasogel coupon
Total = $11.87
I paid with an 8.99 and 3 ECB (adjusted down to 2.88) and paid 49 cents cash and got back 9.98 ECB for the throat cooler pops and 7.99 for the nasogel for a total of 17.97. Woohoo!

That’s all the fun I had this week, hope you all did great! For more CVS-capades, check out CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer.

January 2, 2009January 2, 2009

2008: A Year in Review

2008 was a great year for Emily and I and Mommin’ It Up! Em had a baby, I got my eyebrows waxed, and we launched our review blog! In case you missed any of it, I picked out a favorite post from each month of 2008…I hope you’ll join my trip down memory lane and read them all. Happy New Year everyone! We love and appreciate all of you!

January: I scare the meter reader and deal with mystery turd #1

February: Emily has a good laugh at my expense. Or lack of expense.

March: Emily and I hit the brand-new IKEA store in our area. And ALMOST buy the correct items!

April: Emily pops out baby Sammy, and more importantly, I don’t have to wait any longer to know if it’s a boy or a girl. GEEZ.

May: A kid on Kate’s t-ball team makes the best blog fodder. EVAH.

June: Emily smokes crack, and is therefore a much more fun mommy than I am.

July: Mystery Turd 2: Electric Boogaloo! Nancy Drew tries to solve the case.

August: An old lady pisses Emily off. Watch out, Grandma!

September: We got a hurricane in Ohio. It was WEIRD. And windy.

October: I FINALLY wean Sophie at 23 months. Oy.

November: Emily and Oprah are like twinsies. And also 83-year-old ladies are smart.

December: My lady business is perfect. (According to my OB-GYN. I’m just sayin’.)

I had way too much fun putting this together. I must say Emily and I crack me up! So…at least that’s one of us…I hope you all reminisce with me and have a laugh too!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Let’s make 2009 a great one!

January 1, 2009January 1, 2009

All I want for Christmas… is a good immune system.

On Saturday, we got up really early and drove to St. Louis to see my husband’s grandfather. We got there around noon, but when Andy called his mom to find out when the rest of them were going to arrive in the city, he found out that his sister, brother and niece, with whom we had celebrated Christmas with two days prior, had some sort of awful stomach bug, so their trip would be delayed.

Awesome.

We were all feeling fine, so we went to lunch at Albert Pujols’ restaurant (Andy is a HUGE Cardinals fan, so he was in heaven), and then we went to visit with Grandpa and Andy’s aunts, uncle and cousins. About an hour after we were there, Andy started to feel sick to his stomach.

Awesome.

After we got back to the hotel and got the kids to bed (reallllly late), Andy started throwing up. And throwing up. And throwing up. He was so sick. And let me just say that the “Man Cold” is absolutely nothing next to the “Man Intestinal Virus.” (Perhaps one of my New Year’s resolutions should be to become a more compassionate wife, eh?) The whole time I was thinking about how being closed up in a hotel room was about one step up from being stuck in an airplane in terms of germ-spreading.

Anyway, he was out for the count that night (which was great, because Sam woke up every hour on the hour) and pretty much all the next day. Before long, the kids and I were completely climbing the walls (and I could not keep Kate up off the floor – why she felt the need to wallow on the disgusting hotel carpet is beyond me), so the three of us went to a local outlet mall and let Kate run around the play area for a while.

Eventually, Andy was feeling better, and we went to the gathering of all his extended family at his grandfather’s house. And all the hassle and trouble of the previous 36 hours seemed worth it when we saw Andy’s 99-year-old grandpa with his great-grandchildren.

We finally got home Monday evening. About two hours after our arrival, we heard Kate yell “Daddy! I threw up in the living room!” And then she proceeded to throw up in the bathroom, the other bathroom, and the trash can for the rest of the night.

Awesome.

And then we got word that Grandpa came down with it, too. Andy felt terrible about passing it on to him. But, when Andy called to check on him yesterday, Grandpa assured him that this was worth getting sick:

Pretty adorable, huh?

Would anyone like to place a bet on when Sammy and I will become afflicted with this disease? Because I’m pretty sure it’s just a matter of time!