I am doing much better tonight - it seems that I am terrible until about 2pm, then I get a rush of energy until about 5 and then I'm sick again.

Ryan has his first Dentist appointment in the morning, so we'll see how that goes! I'm a little nervous, but I think we'll just have prayer before we go in and hopefully he'll be fine.

Ryan did fall off the deck tonight - it's 5 feet off the ground and he went right through the slats. I was changing the bulbs in the deck lights and I heard him scream - knowing instantly what had happened I raced to the rails, and he was trying to get up from the mulched flower beds. My poor baby!!! He's completely fine though - a teeny scratch on his forehead is all that shows he fell at all.

I have had lots and lots of thoughts today, but I'm trying to help my mom through a tough situation with my sister. She doesn't know Jesus and is being awful rebellious, so it's really causing shock waves in the family.

My scripture for today was "for he has performed that which is appointed for me - found in Job 23 - all our life is appointed, not a thing happens that God Himself doesn't know about. :)

I am 7 weeks today - further than the last pregnancy when I lost my second set of twins. We're still holding on to God that this baby will make it, and that we will get to kiss his sweet face!!!

I desperately need a bath, so I can't stay long...but I'll do my best to come back with something delightfully frugal tomorrow!

I will try to get a real post up this afternoon - my heavy sickness has returned and I'm spending most of my time curled up on the couch trying not to cry or vomit from the nausea. Please pray that I can overcome this again - and if you have any ideas on dealing with extreme morning sickness and a toddler please leave me a comment!!!!!



Love and prayers,

Amy

Menu Plan Monday!!!

(picture compliments of tonights supper - rice krispy chicken & scalloped potatoes!)

How can it be MPM already!!! Wow!!

Breakfasts:

Cinnamon Rolls, fruit

Canned Biscuits, Country Ham

Cereal, Strawberries

Toast, scrambled cheesy eggs

Lunch:

"sketti"

homemade lunchables (meat & crackers)

hot dogs, chips

chicken nuggets, green beans

mc'ds for mommies & ry's date

Suppers:

Rice Krispy Chicken, Scalloped Potatoes & Green Beans

Taco Soup & Mexican Cornbread

Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, steamed veggies w/cheese

Fried Fish (just for DH!) greens, mac n cheese, cornbread

Frito Chili Pie, fruit salad

Roast, potatoes & carrots, leftover green veggies from the week (Sunday's meal)

We're trying not to eat out this week at all but Ryan's date with me. We have a birthday party on Friday that will take care of our supper, so that's why there's only 6 suppers. :)

Let the week begin!!!

Grocery Shopping Part 2!

Grocery Shopping Round 2!

Kroger
2 dozen eggs @ $1.81 each
18 taco shells - $1.89
6 pkgs chicken breasts -
loaf bread - $.99
2 rolls cottonelle - $.99 - $.50 coupons, $.49 total
Orange Juice - $3.85 - OUCH
Decaf Tea Bags - $1.81
6 rolls sausage - $3.69 each, BOGO - $1.84 each
2 pkgs balogna - $.99 each
(all below were in the buy 10 get $5 off)
2 canned breadsticks - $1 - $.50 promo, - $1.00/2 coupons - free
2 pkgs Kraft Cheese - $2.00 - $.50 promo = $1.50 each
2 windex's - $2 - $.50 promo, - $.80 coupon = $.70 each
2 antibacterial windex's - $2 - $.50 promo - BOGO coupon, - $.75 coupons = FREE
Cheezit's - $2 - $.50 promo = $1.50

Total order had $5 off from the promo, and I had another moving $5 coupon. Total ended up
to be $48.09

Publix
2 lbs strawberries - $3.98
Bananas - $.79
Canteloupe - $1.50
Hot Dog Buns - $1.00
Tortilla Chips - $2.29 (didn't know this until afterI paid, or I wouldn't have bought overpriced CHIPS!)
$.01 item for the week was a jumbo roll of Bounty Paper Towels. :)

Total Spent - $10.95

Total spent this week: $70 - which is $8 more than our weekly budget, but I had $10 left over from last week, so it ended up PERFECTLY! I have lots of sausage & chicken to freeze, so it was a stocking week as well. Now all I have to get is a few things from Walmart, but they aren't food items, AND I have a gift card left over anyway. So....I'm good on the budget. YAY! :)

Kroger Run #1 - 3/30/2008









Our Kroger (southeast) has an aweseome sale going on right now!!! I left and spent an hour there this afternoon while DH was napping - little man is with his grandma today.









I got all this:















$11.00 OOP!!!! I saved $73.65 with my store card and coupons!! YAY!

If you bought 10 of any participating item, it took $5 off your order, limit of 3 times. For that sake, Each item was $.50 off after that promotion.

14 grands canned items were $1.00 - $.50 promo - $1/2 coupons - FREE

6 cans of hormel chili - $1.00 - $.50 promo - $.55/3 coupon - $.31 each

Cheetos - $1.50 - $.50 promo = $1.00

Fritos - $1.50 - $.50 promo = $1.00

Cottonelle Toilet paper - 4 rolls x 2 - $.99 (no promo) - $.50 coupon - $.49 each

2 Goldfish Crackers - $1.00 - $.50 promo = $.50 per pkg

Cherrio Mix (ryan's favorite) $1.50 - $1.00 coupon = $.50 per bag



3 muffin mixes = $2.00 - $.50 promo - $1.00 coupon = $.50 per box



2 Scalloped Potatoes - $1.50 - $.50 promo - $.70 coupon = $.30 per box



Then I had a $5 coupon too from moving into the house, so it rocked!!! I saved 87% on these groceries - the best I have ever ever ever done! I am thrilled!!!! EEK!!! I get to go back tomorrow too - That's so cool!!!!

3 days later...

I'm sorry I disappeared for 3 days, it's been crazy around here! Easter Sunday was wonderful, after morning service my grandparents came over for lunch. I fixed a simple meal - Ham, mashed potatoes, pinto beans, green beans, cornbread, apple cake and brownies. After we ate, I had plenty of leftovers so I went and invited our next door neighbors over. They also took plates, and we STILL had plenty! Evening Service ended, and we had our youth from church over for a while - it was very spur of the moment, and they all chose to go get fast food of their choice and then congregated here to hang out together. It was fun. There's a new young man in church, has been here for almost a year. Bless his heart, he's 31, and due to the life he used to live he's not all there mentally. He sat here until 1am with my husband and I, giving his testimony of how he's seen people shot, beaten, done all kinds of drugs, etc. etc. It was utterly heartbreaking. I literally went to bed in TEARS after he was telling us of his father beating him, telling him he was worthless, and no good. How SAD. It made me so thankful that I grew up in a Christian home. It also makes me even more determined to cherish my family and home for sure.

The pregnancy is really hard on me this go around as well. With my first little, I had HG, and I lost lots of weight to start with. Finally around 27 weeks with medication I finally got to the point of functioning. I'm very nauseated with this baby, and so very very tired. I've allowed my self the last few days to do almost nothing, and my house is suffering. Dh even raised his eyebrows yesterday. My MIL was a wonder-woman, and I sometimes think I never will live up to her legacy in his mind. Still, I'm making myself do things and keeping hard candy in my mouth and sipping lots of water.

I wasn't around to post my Tackle-It-Tuesdays or Works for me Wednesdays, but I'll post quickly here.

My Tuesday idea was Ryan's little toy bins. Here's the before:

No, not bad, but it did have a lot of little pieces that he didn't play with, but eventually wound up all over the floor because they were there. Plus there were lots of things there that were from when he was much smaller. Here's the after:

Now for my other big project, I'm embarassed to say this, but I had let my ironing go for 5 whole weeks!!!!! I'm mortified! With moving, I just haven't taken the time. Sadly - it only took 1.5 hours to do it all, and here I've been putting it off, putting it off. I finally said this morning - NO MORE!

See?? Embarassing!!!

And then after a short little time listening to Adventures in Odyssey (yes, I'm a kid at heart still!) I had this:

That makes me so happy!!! Now I have to vow to stay on top of things!!

Supper tonight is as per the menu a rack of ribs (they're slowcooking in the oven now and YUM they smell good!), baked potatoes, corn on the cob (leftover from last year's garden) and yummy pinto beans! Can't WAIT! Although I do have some weird food aversions, usually as I sit down to the meal I've been craving to eat!

I just adore flowers!!!

I stopped by Publix this morning, as I always do, and I went straight for the floral department. See, I have my own blow money each week, and one thing I treat myself to is a little $3.33 bouquet of roses every week from Publix. These go on my kitchen table, and they are the highlight of my shopping day - I just simply adore them.

And today, they were OUT.

*gasp*

What was a girl to do!!!! I noticed a gentleman standing there, and asked him about the 3/10 flowers. He mentioned that there was a cart full of Easter bouquets he was about to mark down. I got these flowers for $2.99, marked down from $10!!! YAY for me! The bouquet was huge, I now have flowers in the living room, kitchen, dining room & bathroom! Such JOY!