Diebergs...Worth Blogging About...

If you are in the St. Louis area you should be familiar with Dierbergs grocery store. Today they had one of their 15 hour sales, not having shopped at Dierbergs for awhile I decided that some of the prices for this sale were to good to pass up.

For $20.XX this is what I purchased:

-5 lbs. of potatoes
-2 bags of salad
-1 2-liter of Pepsi (my downfall)
-2 Duncan Hines brownie mixes
-4 packages of ready to cook cinnamon rolls
-2 boxes of North Star 100 calorie fudge bars
-3 boxes of cereal
-2 packages of Kellogs Pop Tarts

Hmmm... I think that is it. While none of it is really all that exciting, it is perfect for us since next week I will be having a couple of extra kiddos for breakfast, lunch and snacks. (Babysitting for one of my best friends) I figure I at least have the breakfast covered for a couple of days, as well as snacks. My lunch should be covered with the salads...ok who am I kidding, it will probably be more like a baked potato and salad at lunch...lol!!

Summer is Here

So this is my first summer in a long while that I am able to be home with the kids. I am so excited.

I am anxious to give them a good great summer. They deserve it! My three older ones who are in school, ended their school year with great grades...I think they get that from me!! LOL - ok maybe not!

Since we no longer have my full time income, we certainly will have to stay within budget when it comes to our summer outings, however, I am excited about what there is to do around town for free or nearly free.

Some of things that we have tentatively planned include:

-Parks... we are fortunate and live within minutes of several parks. A little picnic lunch and we are set.

-Zoo... we live near one of the best zoos in the country.. and its free. We actually visited this over the weekend and had a blast. While we were there till it closed, we still did not see everything, so we will be going back.

-Six Flags..my daughter has a free ticket from school and with the coupons that are always around, this really should not be too costly.

-Local Drive In - this drive in allows two kids per each paying adult. So my husband and I each pay and all of our kiddos are free. They play two movies. Our plan is to go this Friday, bring our own snacks and enjoy a couple of movies under the stars.

-Chicago - I have family that lives up there and we absolutely love it up there.

-Kentucky - We go there for an annual family reunion. We do a little shopping and a whole lot of swimming at the hotel we stay at. My kids look forward to it every year.

-Great Wolf Lodge.. this is happening in just a couple of weeks. Looking extremely forward to this. We were able to find some other things in the area for the kids to do.. best of all they are free.

-Springfield, IL.. so much history there and I heard there is great shopping too!! LOL

I know that there will be more that will make it onto our summer vacation to do list and I am so excited!!! I will try to post about our outings and how we did staying within budget!!

Have a safe and happy summer everyone!!

WOOOHOOOO!!!!!

What a great day today!! I should say great mail day today!!! Two things came in the mail that was unexpected... one was unexpected money...hello.. gotta love that!!!
The second and the most exciting thing is we received a letter from the school that our children attend, telling us that my eight year old daughter has been nominated for the Northwestern Mutual Character Award. Her teacher nominated her for being caring... I can hear you awwwwing now, I know I still am. They are going to recognize her, as well as, the other character nominees on May 27th at 7:00. Ironic thing is that is the tenth anniversary of my dad's passing away, one his strongest character traits...caring.

I am one proud mama!!!

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What a Whirlwind

The past couple of weeks have been a blur..

I had an unexpected trip out of town to see my sister who was ill (thankfully she is better now - just had us scared!)

My son has had a strange rash for almost two weeks now.. apparently it is a virus that just has to run its course.

The course....can last up to six weeks or so.

Nice.

Finally decided to have my garage sale.

The weekend my husband was out of town.

Not my smartest move.

I survived and actually made a little bit out of it.

Now that things have seeminly calmed down, I am going to try to get back on track with everything. Let's see how that goes... I promise to let you know.