Yes, it took a little, shall we say, debate, but Santa Claus WAS able to attend Owen’s school Christmas (I mean… “HOLIDAY”) party!!!  Owen was so excited he could have peed himself.  I don’t think he was as surprised as he was EXCITED.. I mean it is pretty cool that your Grandfather is Santa!  It was quite awesome to hear the excited squeals from all the kids in the classroom.  After Dad was done with our class, he also visited the other Kindergarten classrooms.  We hear that the first graders were very jealous

Shall we even TALK about the ornament debacle?  I ordered craft kits from Oriental Trading.  I ended up ordering EXTRA stuff to be able to get the free shipping and $10 off and THEN, my package arrives, TWO DAYS before the party, MINUS the ornament craft kit!  Well that was the whole purpose of my order!  So luckily, Oriental Trading was gracious enough to ship an alternate, overnight, to me for free.  Crisis averted!  Then I get ready to separate the kits and realize… there is NO WAY these things are staying together with elmers glue!  So Troy and I spent 2 hours gluing each of the 35 pieces together so all the kids had to do was glue the buttons on!  That was complicated enough!  I am really glad we premade them or it would have been a disaster!  This definitely was NOT a Kindergarten aged craft! 

Our neighbor, Chloe, who also happens to sit AT Owen’s table.  We thought it was hilarious to find out that our kids, who SHARE a fence line, also share a table in the SAME class!  Nice huh?

Chloe’s mom… my CO-homeroom parent…See Jamie… told you it would end up on the Internet!   (oooh I am in trouble!!!!!!!!!)

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My mother is the queen of Thrift shops!  Her new motto- why shop anywhere else?!!  Since she has the time, she frequents several of these and MOST of our Christmas gifts came from there.  MOST of those gifts were NEW IN THEIR PACKAGES.  She even got me a massaging chair pad for my computer chair [...]

Today, the first Sunday of January is the single biggest coupon edition of the paper that will occur in the year 2010!!!  You do NOT want to miss it!  I assure you!  Now, for those of you in Lexington, the big hitch here is that the Lexington Herald Leader notriously SUCKS for coupons.  We always [...]

Kohl’s is having a HUGE sale right now ONLINE (and in the store but in the store you cannot get the extra 20% off that I am going to list so they are a little more expensive!).  The infants and toddlers sleepers on a pretty SWEET sale and if you have a child who wears [...]

So… I am BACCCCCCCCCCCK on the coupons.  It takes a lot of energy and most weeks I have barely enough to get my normal life in plus couponing let alone blogging about it but I have been “doing the deals” but I have heard from enough people that they miss seeing the deals listed on [...]

If you haven’t been watching The Sing-Off on NBC… you should have been.  I was totally blown away by the amount of raw talent!  Troy and I kept seeing the previews and I am SO glad I remembered to set the TIVO!  We laughed, we cried, we cheered…. and our favorite won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What has faith done for you?  Its a simple question that I will venture to guess would have a lengthy answer from anyone you pose it to.  If you have been reading this blog for any amount of time you know that faith plays a big part in my life.  You know that i believe [...]

I was standing at the bus stop discussing the latest Walgreen’s deals with our next door neighbor and I told her that there was a huge Huggies deal and I was SO excited because I was able to stock about 25 packs (enough for roughly 6 mo of Kyleighness) for less than $150!  Now, this [...]

We all do it. We hide. Hide from problems and confrontations in life. We make things out to be a bigger deal than they have to be. We stress ourselves out worrying about things that may or may not even be. We hide from so many thing. We hide [...]

There have been so many “technical difficulties” around here lately… if you are a normal visitor to my blog… you probably recognize that something is WRONG.  I finally did too!!!  If you are viewing this in IE… it looks nothing like if you are looking at it in FF.  Also, somehow, it has started randomizing [...]