Friday..

Yeah, today is Friday!!! I didn't do anything I wanted to last night. I didn't get more icicles on the tree, didn't get Christmas cookies made, didn't do any crocheting. What did I do last night. Umm...cooked supper, got the kiddo in bed and watched a movie. Yep, what a lazy bum. Hopefully I will be more productive tonight.

Picture doesn't have anything to do with the post, I just think that it's a cute picture of my little one.

Snow Days

Oh my, I haven't updated in like months! Not a very good blogger, but I have several that I read everyday, oops, need to get better about blogging.

Yep, it snowed here last night! Which to many, probably isn't that big of a deal, but here in south Texas, we get all excited about the white stuff. We had probably about a 1 1/2! LR just loved it! Anyway, it was pretty exciting and that is all that everyone around here is talking about. Here are some pics...



For some reason, all LR wanted to do was eat the snow!! I guess as long as it wasn't yellow, I should be upset.

Newbie

Ok, I have been reading several blogs about doing the "CVSing" and finally decided to give it a try. I am so excited!! I only got one item that generated ECB's, because I wanted to make sure that it would work. But I took advantage of the Herbel Essence deal since I had a coupon for it.

Here is what I got:
Softsoap Spa $5.49
Herbel Essence Shampoo and Conditioner 3.99 each
Wrigley's gum 1.19

Coupon for the Softsoap 1.50 off
Coupon for Herbel Essense $3/2

OOP $ 6.68
ECB $5.49!

I got the Herbel Essence for .50 each! The Softsoap was basically free, with overage. Unfortunately I don't have another coupon for the Softsoap but I am thinking of getting a couple more since they are Free!!

I am so excited and now I have the CVS bug!!

After going there, I went over to the Hospice Store and got two sheets to make me two pairs of summer lounge pants. And then I scored on a vintage candy dish. I had a pretty good day today! WOOHOO!

New Year...

Wow, can't believe that it's the new year. I am very thankful that the holidays are over though. We ended up getting the turkey for the IL's Christmas dinner. I cooked it myself, my very first turkey, and it turned out pretty well if I may say so myself. LR had a blast playing with his cousins. The only disappointment or should I say what got me aggreviated is that somehow LR's movie "Shrek 3" is missing. Before we went to my MIL house, my mom came over and brought over their presents for LR. She got him Shrek 3, and of course, he wanted to take it to my MIL. We were the last to leave that night, mostly due to some of the guys were playing poker. LR and I had fallen asleep on the couch, and while dozing off, I remember the other kids watching the movie. At 12:30, I told BR that we really needed to leave if I was soppose to do the whole Santa thing. I started to get all of our things together, and for some reason, couldn't find the movie. OK...it's NOWHERE. My MIL said that she would look for it the next day so we left. Well, she never found it. She said that she looked everywhere and even called my SIL to see if her kids had it. So, LR had the movie for a whole 4 hours. You know, the more that I think about it, the more aggreviated I get about it.

We are such old people that we were asleep before midnight on New Year's eve. We don't go out, it's just to scary, cops just waiting to catch someone. We did pop some fireworks...then went to bed.

I did get some things done that I wanted, but then didn't get much on my list done. Didn't go through LR toys and get ride of the ones that he doesn't play with anymore, but I did get my all my windows cleaned (don't even ask how I started doing that). I got the flannel and one pair of LR's sleep pants cut out, just need to sew them and then make sure they turn out ok before I go cutting into the pricier material.

I started to think about some of my resolutions that I have for this New Year.

* try to do better at blogging and commenting. I am a lurker, and I know that everyone hates lurker, so I am going to try come out of the shadows.

* want to sew some more this year. I have several projects in mind.

* Don't let others bring me down. Don't let someone else's attitude effect me, either at work or when BR had a bad day at work and comes home all grumbly.

* Just be better to myself. I forget about me and then everyone suffers, family, work and friends. I am the most important person (besides my child) to me, and if ME isn't taken care of then I can't take care of family.

* and the one that almost everyone has on their list.....eat better and lose weight!

I hope everyone had a nice New Year's and a Merry Christmas, and see you on the flip side.....