Couponing and house

So, first of all publix has been practically giving away fiber one cereal again! Dusty and I don't need any, but both of our parents want/need some and a family with kids we know. So over the course of a few days we bought 60-70 boxes of cereal!! What did we pay you might ask? 0 dollars! The deal was fiber one was on sale for 2.50 a box, then for this sale ad publix put a 2.00 off general mills cereal. Right there you get a box for .50, but if you got manufacture coupons for the fiber one (ex. 1.00 off two; .75 off one) and you could get it free!! You might think 70 is overkill. Well, it's not going to one family, but like my brother and parents bought 40 boxes last time the sale happened and they are almost out! So, don't fret people will eat it up and usually the people we shopped for would give some boxes to people they know would need it. We also got a decent deal on tuna. They had these ready to eat light tuna packs 100 calories for 10 for 10 or 1.00 each. Publix has a store coupon for 1.00 off two. Basically .50 a pack. Not free, but I looked it is about the same amount of tuna in a can and it is lunch ready and cheaper than a can! So we bought a bunch for lunches. Publix also had this up to u gum on sale for .99 and dusty bought coupons for 1.00 off and we stocked up on free gum!! It is nice not to have to pay full price for gum. I think I will be set for almost a year! That is not all we bought, but those were the big free items. We go to CVS usually on Sundays and we shop for my mom as well as for ourselves. So, we go not thinking we would get much this week. We just follow ads and just regenerate CVS bucks, so we were minding our own business and started picking out deodorant for a deal when this other couple come in the aisle and start grabbing bottles of shaving cream. Now this is a telltale sign that someone stumbled on a great deal. Lol we know because we have been there. Apparently, if you bought two cans you would get 4.00 in CVS bucks. Well, there were 2.00 off coupons on some of the cans. I think they were slightly under 4.00 so basically free! We didn't get any of that, but they opened our eyes to some clearance deodorant deals. By the end of the two CVS we went to we got my mom : 3 American greeting cards, a Cadbury egg, physicians formula mascara, 2 irish spring body wash, and 19 deodorants..... For three dollars. We also got a clinical strength deodorant for myself two newspapers, cards, and 2 cadbury eggs for under a dollar I think. So, my mom loves when we shop for her! We shop then magically leave stuff on her counter usually when she is not home. She says the coupon fairies bring her gifts! Lol :) I know my family didn't need 19 deodorants in all,but if we had not bought so many we would not have gotten the deals we got. Plus, it gives them the opportunity to give!! It feels amazing to be able to bless people. To keep it short basically there was a buy one get one coupon in paper. Irish spring deodorant was a 1.00 but the coupon took off 3.98 so you buy two and you have 1.98 to spend on whatever you want! We did that more than once, plus you can use more than one coupon in a transaction.. Ok so enough about all that. The house. We put up pics back on the wall and rearranged from last time. Plus now that we moved furniture we have this blank wall that needed stuff. We bought a entry table from Target and printed out abstract nature pics and put them in cute square frames that hang by a ribbon, and my black trivets are now hanging on the side of my kitchen wall looking pretty and easily accessible! Not quite done with everything, but party is Sat!

Friday...

Decent day.... Birthday is coming soon! House is still in disarray from painting. The hall is unfinished, but should be complete this weekend. I have much to do:). Tomorrow we hang pictures back up and put our touches in our house to make it our home. I love my Hubbie!

Ramblings...

Yesterday I sent off my paperwork for my passport! My pic is not much better than my last one at 13! Yikes! Lol. I am excited for our cruise in May. We want to do at least one excursion, but not sure what yet. Dolphin ones are pretty popular though and expensive. I have much to do, write thank you cards, get my Ingred. List for my party, put back our picture frames, and other things....

Monday...

Woke up with a headache.... Bells refused to kiss me and just snuggled closer to dusty.... I drove to the wrong school... Late to work... It's muggy....

Birthday excitement!

So, I am excited! I know it's silly and I should be lying about my age and maybe devastated, but I really don't think I am! I am thankful I am 26! Man, I logged those experience years under my belt and don't want to relive those again. Not saying I have had a terrible life up until now, quite the opposite! At the same time, I don't want to relive those years. I am planning a birthday party!! I don't think I will ever grow out a party. I always like hanging out with friends! I like gifts too, but I have pretty much all I want right now:) Well, I do need a new purse... Mine is a bit sorry! Besides, V day is soon so got to spread out the love between both! Lol:)I think I am going to make choc covered strawberries for dusty. Wow this post is a bit jumpy, but who is really surprised? Not me :) hmmm I should buy a new shirt to go with my new jeans.. I also need to go and get my nails done(redeem Christmas voucher). Anyway ttyl!

Night shifts suck!

Sometimes I don't mind, but I am hoping to work on Monday. If that is so I can't sleep all day today with my hubby.. Even though I didn't sleep till after 4am. I have a headache, possibly needing caffeine and meds and maybe some food... Boo, I am in bed trying to not sleep and it's awful! Maybe I should just succumb to it and sleep....ZZZZzzzzz:)

Life as a music teacher:)

I am not the only substitute today! So, two teachers for the one room. All the boys are gone on a field trip, just the girls are left. What might the lesson plans be you might ask? Well to watch "fiddler on the roof" of course! Hehe!

Friday

I am a music teacher today:) should be fun! I am currently procrastinating on the bed dressed, while my two babies are sleeping away. Both have woken up to give me kisses, but both are fast asleep.... This weekend dusty works nights, so just the girls the next few nights. Thanks to one of my friends I found out about this website called etsy. Basically you can sell homemade stuff! It is .20 cents to list one item for two months. Then 3.5 % is taken out once it sells. Plus PayPal. So really not that bad! I am working on setting it up this weekend:) I am working on my second pink scarf, which I can list as a Valentines scarf! We will see how this goes.. Dusty is a little tired of me talking about dog treats. I have been trying to figure out what to charge, how to package, how to make it pretty, and all that stuff. It makes me nervous, I am just praying it works, I really want to do this! Anyway, I still need to get ready...

Off to work I go, hi ho hi ho ....

Decent mood this morning:) had fun last night, went to a birthday party with friends. And then we went home and took everything off the walls and moved things off the counters. It looks so weird, like we just moved in! The reason is that my dad is painting this morning!!!! Yeah! I moved in a year and a half ago and was fine with paint color, now it must go! I think it will really feel like we put a mark on the house too. :) once I figure out how to post pics I will!

Sigh... Ideas ideas!

So, I get these really good ideas about selling stuff I make... But it is a lot of work to actually sell it, market it, and make a profit! My pumpkin dog treats turned out so well that I am in the process of marketing them with samples. Who knows if this will actually work, but I this past Christmas I sold some scarves and realized I can probably post them on EBay pretty easily. I know it's a long shot, but I want to try anyway.

Homemade Dog treats!

Pumpkin Dog Biscuits

• 2 eggs 
• 1/2 cup canned pumpkin puree
• 2Tbspn dry milk pwdr
• 21/2 cups of white or ww flour (if you want really healthy treats I have heard brown rice flour is good?) Where would one get this kind of flour? not really sure.

1. Preheat oven to 350* 
2. In a bowl stir together the eggs, pumpkin, milk pwdr, and flour. Add 2 tsp. of water or enough so that the dough comes together.
3. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough 1/2 inch thick. Cut into fun cookie cutter shapes. Repeat until dough is used. ( I use holiday appropriate ones and dog bone shapes)
4. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 20 min. Flip. Bake for another 20. You want them really dried out, so if they look burned that is ok! 
5. Let cool. Once completely cooled you can store in airtight container and/box up and give away!

Homemade Calzones! Recipe

Spinach Calzones

• 1 pound of meat: Chicken, sausage, or vegetarian option-mushrooms
• 1 small onion
• 2Tbspns of olive oil
• Italian seasoning-or a seasoning of choice
• 10 ounces frozen spinach-thawed and drained.
• 8 ounces of ricotta cheese
• 8 ounces/1cup of mozzarella cheese-shredded
• 1tsp minced garlic
• 1Tbspn Parsely
• 4tsp Parmesan cheese
• 1 egg white-no yolk!
• Pizza dough- homemade or store bought (just make sure its actual dough not a crust)
• For topping - optional egg white, butter, garlic powder, parmesan cheese
• Serve with a yummy red sauce of choice - we did a garlic and onion one =)

1. Cut meat/mushrooms and onion and cook/saute. Season while cooking and use the oil while sauteing. Set aside.
2. Mix spinach, ricotta, mozz., garlic, parsely, parmesan, and 1 egg white until blended. Add meat or mushrooms, stir in. 
3. Take pizza dough and divide into 6 or more portions (I made six and 1 calzone was filling when served with a salad at dinner)
4. Roll out on floured surface -or cornmeal, or both and fill it with filling. (I rolled out on floured surface then when full with stuffing i layed the bottom in cornmeal.
5. To seal edges i folded over the edge and pressed a fork on it. You can also brush beaten egg white to really seal it up. For the top, you can brush it with egg white or butter and then sprinkle with garlic powder and/or parmesan cheese.
6. Bake at 350* for 15-20 minutes.  Serve with sauce for dipping! Enjoy!

Ok so I have been trying to post for days

Busy busy busy! Granddad is finally home with dusty's family. That was Thursday night around eight! Dusty and I were exhausted. We stopped by o' Charley's on the way home for dinner. It was pretty decent actually. Friday morning I had physical therapy, I was so sore afterwards!! I was limping on the way back... We did errands and house cleaning all day. I took four IB profun and used heating pad that night. I woke up on sat better but it soon became sore. Sat we reorganized the kitchen and pantry. Cleared out junk and just made it more functional for my use. oh yeah Friday we bought paint!! We are painting tuesday. Well my dad is and we are helping. It is part of my birthday present. And dusty is building me a spice shelf above the oven! Anyway, back to sat night. I made calzones! Yummy, I made spinach and chicken calzones! I wanted to take pictures and post but I haven't taken the time to figure it out yet. I used my new kitchen aid mixer. I love it! I will write out the recipe I used later. By the time I crawled into bed my back and leg were in so much pain that I had taken a lortab after dinner! If I don't take it with food I get sick. I have therapy tonight and will need to talk to them about how sore I was. Sunday morning we woke up pretty refreshed surprisingly and went to harvest's early service! Then we stopped at two CVS stores and did our weekly couponing. My husband found me some awesome makeup deals!! I think overall we spent 8 dollars and we bought 7 greeting cards, 4 mascaras, 1 liquid foundation, 1 (11 dollar) blush, and two eyeshadows!!!!! I am giving some of the makeup away as a birthday gift for someone. But I was pretty happy! Sunday afternoon I got a little bored... We ended up stopping by my parents for an hour. We bought her some things so we dropped that off. We made dinner and then went to a meeting at harvest about what the church believes and things. Anyway, I am about to get up and make coffee:) ttyl!

Fog in the morning

I went to physical therapy yesterday. Good news! The therapist is thinking I should improve greatly! Pretty much stretching and some strength training. And at the end they put electrodes on my lower back and had me lay on a heat wrap. So possibly heat and shock therapy? I am scheduled to go twice a week for now. And stretch twice a day.i am also excited because Saturday we are going to paint!! My dad is going to help as my birthday present. But he is going to let me help paint the kitchen!:) It will be nice not to have yellow walls!

Thankful :)

I am thankful for my dog:) her name is Bella. Bella has definitely been an experience, but good. She gets excited when I come home, she kisses me, and she cuddles with me. I absolutely love my husband too! All of us together make a family. I am very happy with my life:)

Thursday's thoughts

Woke up with drainage... Yuck! But not as tired as I have been. I am currently in bed trying to stay warm, resisting the cold. Lately I have been watching pregnancy vlogs. No, not ready just curious. You get to see the whole journey week by week. Their symptoms and just their journey through it. It helps me to see what other ladies are experiencing. I think my biggest fear was/is how much weight I gain and then lose. Before, I was thinner and it was more concerning. Now that I have already gained ( still working on losing it) I would be concerned about not gaining much more. I know I hope to lose weight before I am ready to start having kids, but either way I think that scares me the most. I did good yesterday, I drank 10 glasses of water! Of course I peed accordingly lol! And I tried limiting my starches and such. I think I did pretty good. I also danced for about 5 songs on dance central. I have to be careful with my herniated disk, but I did good. Goodness look at the time! I must go for now. Talk to you soon.

Old fogies

We officially became old fogies today. We bought two recliners today! Lol ... Not feeling the best today. Not very talkative either. Had a good new years with friends.