- Mom ended up cutting Lexi’s hair yesterday. I would say at least 4 inches got cut off and it’s still long. Probably around the bottom of her rib cage now.
- I got free salad at Target today. Go to moneysavingmom.com for the details. Heather and Mom just called from there and said they’re about out so you’ll probably have to move fast on this one.
- We’re having company over tonight for a couple from our church that works with the youth group too. He has a construction company and he wants me to put together a website for him.
- Cuppycake Designs is currently making ME a new design for this site! Whoo Hoo! I’m so excited about it. Should be done in the next few days.
- There’s a new OTH episode tonight so we’ll have a little crowd over tonight to watch it while a live blog the episode.
- I used my elliptical last night. It was tough after 6 weeks of not exercising at all.
- Emma has pink eye. The girls didn’t go to school today.
- My house forgot to stay clean.
- I’m currently listening to Clumsy by Fergie, Apologize by OneRepublic/Timbaland and Hypnotized by Plies/Akon. What?? I needed new workout music.
Closure on the elliptical saga
Scott finally got fed up with our whole elliptical deal today and called the elliptical manufacturer Horizon and then Dick’s when Horizon was of ZERO help. I guess whatever he said to Dick’s folks worked because we have an upgraded elliptical in front of me now. Actually, Dick’s was overly helpful for us and absorbed the cost of the upgrade. We just finished putting it together and it’s so quiet and smooth! Much better! Now. Just have to get on it every day and get the ticker over there on the right moving.
I think I’m caught up
I’m sitting here realizing I think I’m finally caught up on everything. The house was cleaned this weekend, the laundry is winding down, I’m ahead in my Bible in 90 day reading, my CVS trip is planned for tomorrow, the girls are in bed, bills are paid, we have groceries, my other site is stable, we cleaned my closet yesterday, we cleaned out the girls bathroom today, the dishes are ok. I think everything is checked off my mental list and it’s only 9:30. Wow. I’m not sure the last time that happened.
But it won’t last for long.
S ended up coming to spend the night for the second time in history. They are still chatting in Emma’s room all piled on a palette on the floor. I’m very sure when they decide to wake up at the crack of dawn, my house will quickly and surely become a disaster zone. Turns out that Scott, thank goodness, is off tomorrow. He’ll help me reign the mess in. I’m planning to get them out some as I want to take Emma and Lexi to a new children’s salon to get their hair cut. Lexi is in desperate need of about 4 inches cut off the bottom. It’s beginning to get tangled easily and look a little shabby.
I really feel like this has been a weekend off. Even if it ended now. And it feels GREAT!
Sunday Scripture
Proverbs 31:30
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;
but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
I believe I may have used this Scripture on a past Sunday Scripture and since I haven’t been doing this for very long, it’s probably too soon to post on it again but this particular verse convicts me every time. This week it came up in our new youth pastor’s sermon Wednesday night. He was talking on the subject of how we look and wrong motivations for wanting to look good.
The first wrong motivation is so that someone else notices you. Fine, I’ve heard that before. Recently, in fact. Every time you invite someone to look at you, you are asking someone to make an idol out of you, worship you instead of pointing your life to Christ. Sounds a bit extreme, but I get that. Look at our fascination with people in Hollywood. We latch onto those people and in particular their looks in a heartbeat. It’s not an odd concept. And if we’re dressing and fixing ourselves up just for someone else to look at us, then we’re asking people to worship us. Well, ouch, that hurts.
But his second point hurt even worse. The second wrong motivation is so that WE notice ourselves. We become our own idol. Everyone likes to look good and when we do, it’s so easy to think highly of ourselves. Pictures, glances in the mirror, time spent dieting, exercising, shopping, primping, planning…so much time on our own looks just so we can enjoy looking at ourselves. Ouch, that really hurts.
It’s ok to want to be healthy and look good but when we are doing it for the wrong reasons…for attention from anyone including ourselves, it’s just not right. Pride comes before the fall and oh how we can fall when our pride is in our looks. Maybe it’s just me, but this verse hits home every time and I just have to remember being charming, it’s only deceptive. Beauty…it’s gone in a moment. But if we pour our lives and purpose into Christ, it is eternal.
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And I have two more days!
The weekend is going quite lovely for me. Starting last evening it’s gone something like this:
- Cooked dinner and ate in yesterday evening just the four of us
- Made a trip to CVS (posted on previously) which turned out well
- Put the kids to bed and J&J came over to watch Mr. Brooks (very sadistic but somehow good) and then talk about everything and nothing until after 1am
- Stayed in bed until 10:30
- Worked for about an hour for an implementation (probably the only downside except for the fact it went perfectly and solved two of our problems which makes me a happy woman)
- Scott took the kids to MIL’s and came back to help me completely rearrange and organize my closet. It looks awesome now.
- Finished up some other cleaning and laundry (Before today I didn’t realize so much needed done and yet it’s been running all day–need to go switch that in fact)
- Went to CVS to jump-start MIL and SIL on their CVSing when they brought the girls home–you would have thought we had won the lottery MIL was so happy with her deal. She paid .60 oop for about $90 worth of stuff in two transactions.
- Went out to eat with Heather and her boyfriend and daughter
- Came home and spent time with the girls. We played with Legos.
- Put the girls to bed and just finished watching The Illustionist. Everyone must watch this movie if they haven’t. And please add Edward Norton to my favorite actors list.
To top this off, Sunday School has been canceled because of our little snow/ice “storm” so we don’t have to be in a hurry to wake up tomorrow! And even better than that?? I don’t have to work on Monday either so I have two more days of this! Can you feel my excitement?!
CVS Deals January 13 2008
I didn’t think I was going to make a run this week but it turns out I needed Tampons and I really couldn’t be a normal person and go to the store and buy Tampons and leave. Oh no, I had to make a deal of it. Guess how much I spent oop? ZERO!
Here’s how I did it.
1 Box of Tampax Tampons (yes, I’m brand loyal on this one) $6.99
1 Control Glucose Monitor normally $79.99 on sale for $9.99
2 Colgate Children’s Toothbrushes @ $2.99
Used a $50 coupon on the Glucose Monitor which the cashier adjusted to $9.99
Used $2/10 coupon
Used $10 in ECBs.
My total was then $1.13 but she offered to adjust a $1 ECB to .97 and then I had a ZERO Balance. I didn’t know you could do that but it was the store manager that was checking me out and I thought that was very helpful of her.
I earned $9.99 ECBs from the monitor and $2 from the toothbrushes. Plus it spit out a $3/15 and some other coupons.
So basically I was given $1 to take home my Tampons I needed.
Works for me!
I found a new expensive indulgence
Scott and I went out on a little date for lunch today. Mom had taken the girls for her normal Friday outing and I didn’t care to eat a PB&J. We went to a local pub and had sandwiches and then decided to check out a new boutique called Chocolat Boutique. You can tell you aren’t going to get any chocolate 3/.99 but it’s chocolate! I had to check it out.
We walked in and see two cases of truffles. The lady comes out from the back to greet us and has some sort of European accent. She tells us half the truffles are brought in from Switzerland and Belgium and the other half are made in the store. We get the scoop on the most popular ones and I go for my standard peanut butter and chocolate mix and Scott gets an imported chocolate and caramel truffle. She puts it in a bag and sticks a store sticker to keep it shut. We hand over the card and the total is $4. For two pieces of chocolate.
We wait until we get to the car but I can’t hold out to eat it for a snack later so I rip the bag open and also threaten to eat Scott’s. I mmm and yum over every bite. Scott asks if it was $2 worth of mmm-ing and yum-ing. No, probably not, but truffles have been added to my list of expensive indulgences.
No School Snow Day
It snowed through the night last night and unfortunately it has been raining on and off all day so the girls have not gone outside. Since local schools were on a two hour delay, preschool was canceled so the girls spent the morning at home. They have been doing great and playing hard. And I have proof.
Every room pretty much looks like these:
And proof of the snow:
