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This week I had the honor of shopping with my own ‘Coupon Coach’, and lucky me…It was the Coupon Queen herself. Now, let me say, with 7 kids at home, ages 12 to 2, I do everything I can to save money anyway, but Sarah pointed out things that I hadn’t really thought about before.
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It’s been a while since I’ve been on here, but I keep telling myself that I need to do it. The past 6 months have been a blur, and as time goes on, things seem to get blurrier and blurrier.
My four year-old son PJ started speech last summer, and things were going great, until we… Read More »

Wow, what a year it’s been. Already time for Thanksgiving, it seems like the kids just started school!
I’m usually a little more prepared for the holidays than I am this year. Hitting the sales, year-round, really makes Christmas shopping easier. That being said, since I was laid off more than a year ago, I haven’t… Read More »

What’s the old saying, “You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone?” Well, what about “You don’t know what you’ve got until your insurance company tells you you don’t?” Yup, that’s what it is.
PJ, my 4 year-old, started having seizures when he was 8 months old. There have been many tests; MRI’s, EEG’s, Cat… Read More »

#10. It is perfectly normal to tell the cashier who just complimented your perfume, you’re not sure what it is, because you rubbed it on from one of the magazines in your peditrician’s office. (You have to sit there half the day, anyway, why not make it productive?)
# 9.  You can almost always tell it’s… Read More »

I’m one of those mom’s that has to write everything down, and I do mean everything. Schedule and routine are the only things I can count on to make sure I’m going where I need to, when I need to.
That being said, changing my schedule and routine can lead to serious consequences.
5 of the 7… Read More »

We finally finished! School shopping that is, and it wasn’t easy. The bulk items we were able to get at Sam’s, (we needed 15 boxes of tissue, 12 bottles of hand sanitizer, etc…..) and the rest we got at Target and Wal-Mart. I won’t tell you how much we spent, but with everything we got,… Read More »

Raise your hand if back to school shopping isn’t the highlight of your year. I’d be raising both if I wasn’t typing. But I’ll share a few of the things we do to make it easier on everyone.
School requests change from year to year, so there are some things that I just can’t stock up… Read More »

Can someone please tell me when we stopped expecting our children to use their manners?
I think it’s very important to teach your children to be polite, not only in public, but at home as well. Not that my children are the most well mannered children ever. In fact, I’ve had to apologize to my share… Read More »