Thank you Kmart....

...for doing SUPER DOUBLE COUPONS right after I decided to try to keep up with them again (with Sha Sha and NiNi's help!)

I saved $90 today with coupons and will not need to buy shampoo, soap, deodorant and feminine products for the next year!!!

Now to find somewhere to store the loot!!!

The boy got his hair gel too - as soon as he gets his haircut he'll have spiky hair!!!

What I'm thankful for

My God
My family
My Hubby
My wonderful children
My church
My friends
My many blessings daily
Turkey
Chocolate
Pumpkin Pie
Cranberries
An opportunity to stay in my pjs all day.......

It wouldn't be Friday...

The last two Friday nights One of my children have come home feeling poorly from school and running a fever.

Ick!

The good news is that we haven't had any major plans either weekend. So it's been okay to just hang out at home. More good news, no quick trips to the bathroom, if you know what I mean.

Just a fever and the whininess that goes along with it.

So nothing exciting for blog fodder will probably happen this weekend. Then again, who knows?

Stylish

My son has decided he wants "spiky" hair. I imagine he is wanting it because some of the boys at school have it. I have tried mousse and his hair doesn't respond - it goes back to flat in a matter of minutes. I guess hair gel is the next step. Anyway, Saturday after his bath he came down with spiky hair. I asked him what he used and he just replied, "Something in the bathroom". I asked him to bring me the bottle.



And yes - that is my tropical shave gel. Not only does it make your legs dramatically smooth and moisturized, but it also does wonders to spike the hair of 5 yr olds!!

Potty success?

GiGi is sitting on the potty some and asking to be changed right after she goes. I am hoping that is a good sign.

She has even filled the potty once.




No - her urine has not turned pink - that is the whole bottle of strawberry shampoo that she dumped in the potty on Saturday. It was all over her and the floor too. Boy do tile floors get slippery when covered in shampoo.

Upside - She knows to fill the potty with something - just not the right thing - AND the potty smells like strawberries!

Fooling myself

I am wondering if I start going to bed at 8 pm if I can fool myself into thinking its morning and time to get up when GiGi decides to wake at 4:30?

My Mother's Wish

I have to admit that this book was not what I expected. I expected a modern-day Tiny Tim and Scrooge story. What I got was more of a prodigal returned home via a dawning realization and divine intervention story. It is a very easy read but I have to share a passage and what was impressed upon me.

After a rough and tumble truck driver in a diner sings sacred music with the voice of an angel -

"It wasn't simply that Grandfather had sung these songs, but that he had had these songs within him to sing, and a voice that could charm snakes with which to sing them. He looked so much like the others that I had thought him ordinary; now I thought that perhaps each of the others might be equally extraordinary in his own way. I looked again along the line of Big Men and was surprised to see that each profile was now absolutely unique; each face bore its own distinctive road map of creases and wrinkles to track its journey. That was the precise moment I realized that they were not merely Farmers and Big Men; they might well be Heroes and Giants....."


Why can't we look at everyone this way, look past the exterior flaws and see them like Jesus does? Why isn't it enough to love and be loved and accept others despite the flaws?

An affecting tale, My Mother’s Wish by Jerry Camery-Hoggattt will remind you of the power of grand hopes and effect of impossible expectations. You’ll witness the influence every life has on another, and you’ll find new reasons to believe in the comfort and joy in an everyday, American version of the story of Christmas: being known and loved, just as you are.

I think I need to read it again. I'm sure I missed something good.

I also have a hard cover copy to give away. Leave me a comment and I'll pick a random winner on Friday, November 21! (Just in time for the holidays!)