Mommin' It Up!

April 2, 2008

I Rocked Kroger’s Mega-Sale!

Kroger is having a mega, mega, mega-sale this week so I am joining in the fun at Money Saving Mom and showing you all how I worked it! I got all this, which rang up to $46.17:

for $14.77!!!

Kroger’s Mega-Sale is a promotion where if you buy 10 of certain items, you get $5 off your order. You could do this up to 3 times per order. I had coupons for the Welch’s juice, Hot Pockets Calzones, Betty Crocker potatoes, Hormel Chili, and Lipton side dishes. Everything I bought was part of the promotion except the bananas and canned fruit. After the promotion, my total went down to $31.17, and after coupons, $14.77. I was GIDDY when I left the store!!

So get to Kroger and work that Mega-Sale!! To see how others worked it, check out Money Saving Mom’s Kroger Mega-Sale carnival here.

April 1, 2008April 1, 2008

No April Fools Here, Just April THRILLS

Happy April everybody! I for one am glad to kick March Madness out the door. For you see, ever since March 7th, the night of the Great Blizzard of ’08, someone has been sick in my house. First Joshua, then Sophie, then last week Bobby’s butt was kicked by a bronchial infection, and now it’s my turn. I’ve got a sore throat and ears but no fever or anything that could qualify me for a “real” illness, that would necessitate days in bed resting or a prescription that would net me a $25 CVS gift card. Nooo, I’m not that lucky. But anyhoo, we have a lot to look forward to here at Mommin’ It Up in April. So stay tuned!

First of all, Emily is going to thrill us by having another baby!! And more importantly, once it is born she will no longer be able to hide the gender from me! Hallelujah! The suspense is really killing me on that one, but now we have new drama. Will the baby turn on time? Will Emily have a vaginal birth or c-section? Induced or scheduled? OR will her water just break? I’m on the edge of my seat!!

Mid-month, I’m going to be taking an adventure of my own. I’m going out of town for two days. Like, way out. On an airplane. BY MYSELF. With no hubby or babies!! Now since I am a big baby myself and haven’t flown in five years, I am already sweating about whether I will survive the plane ride, and if I DO, how will I EVER make it from the airport to the hotel BY MYSELF with no car??? Such things terrify me!! Can I handle it or will I just crumple up into the fetal position at baggage claim? Since Sophie shows no signs of weaning, will she survive while I am gone? More importantly, will her tempestuousness and longing for Mama KILL my husband while I am gone? Will I be able to pump enough while I am there or will my breasts explode and flood my entire hotel with milk? The cliffhangers are just myriad in numbers, my peeps!

One more April Thrill to look forward to: after Emily pops that baby out, we are going to have a really awesome contest to celebrate! That’s right, it’s a Baby’s Birthday Giveaway and you are gonna LOVE it. I know you will all be racing to leave your comments on the contest post as soon as you see it!

So thanks for sticking with us through the March Madness! But let’s move on to April Thrills together!

March 31, 2008

Now all we need is a baby.

I know you’ve all been waiting to see the results of our fabled Ikea trip (What’s that? You haven’t been waiting on tenterhooks? I’m shocked!)… it’s taken a while to get all that stuff put together! But the nursery’s finally (almost) ready, so I thought I’d do some before-and-after pics!

Here’s what the baby’s room looked like before…

As you can see, we were going for the Russian orphanage look.

Kate finally couldn’t take it anymore, so she took the situation into her own hands and decorated the walls.

As you can see, something had to be done! So two trips to Ikea, a whole lot of money and lots of time spent with an allen wrench later, here’s what we’ve got.

This was what I went there to buy.

This was what I accidentally bought.

The rug’s from Ikea, the kid is ours.

I wish that we had painted the walls, but we never got around to it, and given my track record in picking paint colors (Kate’s room is “Bonita Berry,” otherwise known as the color of Dora’s shirt), that may not be a bad thing.

Speaking of that, anyone have a great idea for turning an insanely bright pink Dora room into one we don’t need sunglasses to enter? That will be my next before-and-after post!