Whooooo Hoooo Harris Teeter Trip

I awoke this beautiful rainy Wednesday and found to my utter surprise that Harris Teeter was having triple coupons this week. My morning is already full on Wednesdays with work an ballet. So I went here and here and found out what the best deals were (a.k.a. FREE). I took just a minute to gather what coupons I had and printed the others that I could. Won't be buying groceries for a few more days so did not need to be out much money. So I just picked up the things that were free or pretty close. The above picture is what I bought. The picture below is what I spent.

$2.58 for 22 items! I think that was good I don't care who you are:). I saved $47.35. Not bad for 15 minutes in and out of a grocery store. I need to menu plan out the next couple of weeks and see just how great I can do with triple coupons and all of the other deals going on around town. Use coupons with sales items....it works!

TRIPLE COUPONS AT HARRIS TEETER 4/29-5/2

YIPPPPEEEE!

Last Monday's Boy Scout Meeting...week before mouth injury...little late posting this:)

This is my boy. He is a Wolf Cub in the Cub Scouts.

This is the rest of his den.

The meeting was to inspect uniforms and the theme was on dinosaurs. Here he is creating a dinosaur on a neckerchief. He came up with a Jadasops.

Then came time to pass out patches. He is always very excited to receive this little bag of goodies. He was especially excited when he spied one of his patches.

Not sure who he got this look from (ahem don't say it mother or sis). Can you just feel his excitement? This is the Polar Bear patch. A scout can receive this patch for camping when it is below freezing. During Spring Break he went camping with a few friends and their dads and it was well below freezing.

Here he is with one of his Polar Bear Patch camping friends. They are wearing those patches proudly! This has also been one of his best buddies since Kindergarten. The other two were off getting their pictures made by their moms I am sure.

Who knew patches could bring such joy? The Cub Scouts of America that's who.

I love this time of year!

We will have fresh lettuce for our salads SOON! Blueberries will be coming to fruition before long!
Looks like a bumper crop of Nectarines coming on.

These Irises surprise me every year:)

Not sure where they came from but I love them!

My shade garden.

Pretty butter yellow Columbine

Lots of blooms right now around the mailbox. I know the purple flowers are Homestead Verbena but for the life of me I can not remember what the pink flowers are. At 2 a.m. I will remember:)

What is blooming in your neck of the woods?

Table in progress

Started staining table last night and just got through putting another coat on. Not sure if it will need anymore. If not I will add poly coat and then go find a lamp to put on it! The discolorations in the picture are from glare:)

My poor baby

Unfortunately gravity always wins in the battle of boy versus bicycle accident. He was trying to turn and was not going quite fast enough. Poor thing...luckily all teeth are still intact. This picture really doesn't even show how swollen that lip actually is.

He wants a full motorcycle type helmet...think I will go check that out!

Yard sale finds!

I put some of these on another post but wanted to join a linky party here.

I paid $3.00 for this bookshelf. Not to bad in this condition just needed a few cobwebs knocked off of it.Had a gallon of white paint and I have to say I like it better like this.Perfect fit in my daughters closet. The hot pink cubes we already had could not have been better made for this shelf.Bought this table at the same yard sale for $5.00. I am in the process of sanding it right now. Will post again when it is refinished.Toile curtain $1.00. YAY...had a great curtain here already but this is more Spring/Summer appropriate. I did add the grosgrain ribbon it came down further than I liked.Footed bowl with Target tags still on it...I paid $1.00. Added some shells and a little ribbon and viola!
So for $10.00 I had a pretty good day!

Fly Lady babysteps day #13

Check your Morning Routine in your Control Journal
Check your Before Bed Routine in your Control Journal
Today I want you to find one of Kelly’s Missions and go and do it. They are fast and easy! This is going to introduce you to how we break our home into zones so that we never have to spring clean again.
http://flylady.net/pages/FlightPlan_Missions.asp
Here is what we are doing so far. We are practicing our Morning Routines, decluttering for 15 minutes a day and doing our Before Bed Routines.

Before and After Bookshelf

Looked okay before....

.....but I like it better now.

Here it is in it's new home:)

Signs of warm weather

Friday my friend and I went to a bunch of yard sales. We hit pay dirt a couple of times. We loaded up our vehicles and then at two separate sales we loaded up the home owners truck and they delivered. I love yard sale time of year...we did find that we were a little rusty at scouting them out. We did okay though:) After we returned home she gave our two little silent partners a treat and let them play in the pool.I should have taken a picture of this table before I started sanding it...wasn't to bad but needed a little TLC and for 5 bucks I will give it!This little bookshelf was only 3 bucks and I am blogging in between coats of paint. It is now a beautiful white.This picture is from today...it is HOT! I don't know what it is about drinking out of the sprinkler but I have this picture of my boy EVERY year. Baby girl has been talking about playing in the sprinkler all week...and yes she found mud too. She always does!
We are going to be working in the garden this afternoon. I need to go and put another coat of paint on my bookshelf and my sis and her crew are coming to spend the night. HAPPY SATURDAY!

fly lady babystep day 11

Morning Routine
- Get up and get dressed to lace up shoes; fixing your hair and face

- Looking at your posted reminders in the kitchen and bathroom

- Reading 2 minutes of reminders- Recognizing the negative voices and changing them; YOU ARE FLYing NOW!

- Put out your Hot Spots for 2 minutes

- 5 Minute Room Rescue (pick any room in the house) set your timer and go!

-15 Minutes Decluttering each day. You can’t Organize Clutter!

Before Bed Routine
- Keep your sink shining

- Lay out your clothes for tomorrow

- Put out your Hot Spot (I have to do this twice a day) It makes me smile in the morning!

Today we are going to add another page to our Control Journals. We are going to call this our Inspirational Page. On this page I want you to spend 15 minutes writing down some of your favorite inspirational phrases. Some of mine are; You can do anything for 15 minutes, Housework done incorrectly still blesses your family and You can’t organize clutter; you can only get rid of it. I know you have others that you love. Use this page as a place to write them down when you see something that touches your heart.

Frist kind of Monday

Had a great morning at The Frist Center of Visual Arts...Art Museum. Two of my friends along with their beautiful daughters joined Punkindoodle and I for a culture outing. We saw the Medieval Art Exhibit and then headed up to ArtQuest for a few hours of creative fun. So glad we turned this cool yucky Monday morning into something memorable...when we walked out the front doors the sky cleared and the sun shone brightly. YAY!

FlyLady Babysteps Day #10

Morning Routine
- Get up and get dressed to lace up shoes; fixing your hair and face
- Looking at your posted reminders in the kitchen and bathroom
- Reading 2 minutes of reminders
- Recognizing the negative voices and changing them; YOU ARE FLYing NOW!
- Put out your Hot Spots for 2 minutes- 5 Minute Room Rescue (pick any room in the house) set your timer and go!

Before Bed Routine
- Keep your sink shining
- Lay out your clothes for tomorrow
- Put out your Hot Spot (I have to do this twice a day) It makes me smile in the morning!

We have already been using our timers for 2 minutes and now 5 minutes. Today we are going to learn the power of just 15 minutes. You can do anything for 15 minutes. This is all about getting started and giving ourselves permission to stop when the timer goes off. You cannot restart the timer either. This is not a race to finish in 15 minutes either! The timer helps to keep us focused on what we are doing.

Now set your timer for 15 minutes and go gather up all the trash you can find to throw away and put it in the garbage can outside. Then set your timer for another 15 minutes and sit down and put your feet up and read a favorite magazine till the timer goes off.

FlyLady Babystep Day #9

Here is what we are already doing; Look in your Control Journal; leave the sticky notes up to help remind you. It takes us 28 days to develop a new habit. These are just BabySteps on our way to a new way of living.

Morning Routine
- Get up and get dressed to lace up shoes; fixing your hair and face
- Looking at your posted reminders in the kitchen and bathroom
- Reading 2 minutes of reminders
- Recognizing the negative voices and changing them; YOU ARE FLYing NOW!
- Put out your Hot Spots for 2 minutes

Before Bed Routine
- Keep your sink shining
- Lay out your clothes for tomorrow
- Put out your Hot Spot (I have to do this twice a day) It makes me smile in the morning!

Today we are going to learn how to declutter our homes a few minutes at a time with some fun tools that I know you have been wondering about from the reminders you have been reading in our emails. Making it fun will get the job done!
http://flylady.net/pages/FLYingLessons_Declutter.asp
Add a 5 minute room rescue to your Morning Routine.

The making of a tree house

My boy loves to be outside. Hubby had to go into town this morning for a media appearance and left him outside playing. I went to check on him a little while ago and called out to him. "Hey Buddy what are you doing?" He said, "Oh, just sitting here on a log." He then tells me about all the wonderful things he saw. A raccoon and a black cat. He loves the outdoors so much that his dad is building him a tree house. He started it last year and just when he was making progress a tree fell on top of it. Yesterday he rebuilt the floor and raised a few walls. Looking good. My boy is already enjoying it...he just ran through to get his BB gun and is sitting on it with legs dangling shooting into the woods. He is in little boy paradise!

Felt a little creative so went on a treasure hunt.

Found this gravy boat at Goodwill for $0.99 and the birds were in a pack at the Dollar Tree. Found these plates at the Goodwill bought 3. 2 were 1/2 off so I got them for $0.24, the other one was $0.49. Bought 2 stamps out of the $1.00 bin at Michaels and VIOLA! The other plate is already in my kitchen window next to the gravy boat...you can see it in the above picture.

One of the many blogs I have been following lately gave me the idea about stamping a plate. Most of my inspiration though came from this post...Went to 2 different Dollar Trees looking for the flour sack tea towels...no luck...then I saw that he went in October.

Ear Infections are MEAN!

My baby has been fighting a cold all week. Thursday night an ear infection kept the two of us up all night. Do not like it when she is in pain...especially that much...nothing would relieve it. The doctor gave us an antibotic yesterday that has done wonders for her today...but last night not so much. She was crying every five minutes. Finally we found some ear drops that we had forgotten we had. Thank you Lord they gave her some relief from all the pressure. She slept through the night last night and feels like 1/2 million bucks today...still waiting on feeling like a million.

FlyLady Day#8

Here you are; you have been FLYing for a whole week. I am so proud of you. Lets review your new habits. I am going to break them down into what you do each morning and what you do each evening.

Morning Routine
- Get up and get dressed to lace up shoes; fixing your hair and face
- Looking at your posted reminders in the kitchen and bathroom
- Reading 2 minutes of reminders
- Recognizing the negative voices and changing them; YOU ARE FLYing NOW!
- Put out your Hot Spots for 2 minutes

Before Bed Routine
- Keep your sink shining
- Lay out your clothes for tomorrow
- Put out your Hot Spot (I have to do this twice a day) It makes me smile in the morning!

Over the last week we have introduced you to our reminders and the basis of our routines. As you establish these habits it will become easy to add another habit for you to practice.

Today I want you to find an old three ring binder and just put some paper in it. Then at the top of one page write Morning Routine and on the top of another page write Before Bed Routine all in pencil. This is a working document; do not allow your perfectionism to interfere with the process. Now you can write your simple routines on each page.