Fabulessly frugal really is fabulous!

My sister led me to a couponing blog www.fabulesslyfrugal.com and I it is right up my alley. I think it may be one of my new favorites. They are based out of Idaho, but the Northwest region is usually the same with grocery store chains.

Check out some of the deals they share this week starting 3/03 at albertsons:

Fruit snacks: .10 cents a box . . . .you heard me! and there is more. . .I am just too lazy to list them all. later

aaahhhhh the New Year!

Christmas break was soooo great. . . I really needed it. I feel renewed and ready for life again. I feel good even though it is grey and rainy. . . I am trying to get my house organized one small step at a time. It really does make me feel more in control of my life when things are in order. I read a good tip in a magazine about organizing one thing a day. . .such as a kitchen drawer or a closet, etc. By the end of the month that is 30 things and that is progress so that is what I am aiming for with baby steps.

I also joined a volleyball league for the first time in six years. . . I think it will be good for me. I really do love playing sports and it makes me happy. It should be fun, we start this week.

Merry Days. . . .

 

This is wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. . . we hope it feels magical and special as we celebrate the Savior’s Birth, and give to those we love. 

Happy Happy Birthday!

Each year I try to be happy for my wonderful Husband whose birthday falls just before Christmas. I have tried to talk him into celebrating it in the summer when it would be lots more fun. . . ha ha. . . but I feel for all those who have birthday's landing near the most major Holiday of the year. . . And I feel much more for those who are responsible for making it special and standout. . ish next to the whopper of Christmas. It is pretty difficult to not use Christmas wrapping paper to wrap the Birthday Gifts. . . after all I am a total creature of comfort and convenience. . . and to be honest . . fairly burned out as Christmas nears. In my defense I did wrap his gifts in non Christmas paper this year. . wahooooo!

So enough about the woes of me. . . since this day isn't about me. . (Grin)

Today we Celebrate the man who loves my children and I unconditionally, the one who tries to have great faith and lead and teach his family to be moral and Christlike individuals, the one who delights in knowledge, and is a light in the room to be with.

Happy Birthday Love!

The Lighthouse at Fort Casey

 

 

Halloween Madness is Coming!

We have a busy week ahead of us. . . as we were sitting at dinner tonight discussing all the days this week that have multiple activities occurring at the same time. . . oh boy!. . . that is all I have to say.   I hate picking and choosing what will trump the other, but that is definitely the case this week.  Saturday will be the hardest with a soccer game and our snack day, football game, foot ball banquet, 1birthday party, 1 Halloween party, 1 neighborhood Halloween carnival that we are helping at a booth, not to mention trick or treating in itself. . . and to top it all off we need to figure out costumes still.  The other days seem fairly easy compared to Saturday.  

RS Craft Night!

I came upon this great blog that we have picked up some ideas for a RS Meeting Craft Night from Windmill lettering click here to see what they have been doing. We are doing the Christmas Countdown blocks (although we are doing our own kits. . . thanks for the idea though). I can't help it if I have every tool to cut wood known to man. . . kidding. . . not quite. . . but close. . . and Michele has a vinyl lettering machine which means if you are in our RS you are hooked up.

So the other night when I was up in the wee hours of the night surfing random blogs I came across www.tipjunkie.com and they were talking about their craft group which is called "not your mama's craft group" NYMCG. I thought it was hilarious and fabulous, and I wish I was that clever, but I am not so I will just use ideas from other people's handy blogs to facilitate the activities that we create at church.