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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Faith Shines

My friend, Kelly makes the prettiest shirts/sweatshirts with faith based images. I have a black neckline tee and every time I wear it, I get lots of compliments. The pics on the website don't do them justice, they are gorgeous!! It's a great way to share your faith without saying a word. As a side note, the neckline tees are back in stock now, the website says they are out.
http://faithshines.com/services.html

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Love in a Bee Sting?

In the 13 years I have been a Mom, none of my kids had ever been stung by anything...until today. While walking through a field near a playground, a bee flew into Benny's shoe and stung him on the bottom of his toe. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with him, he instantly started screaming and couldn't walk, I thought maybe he had a sticker stuck on his foot or something. I looked at his foot and saw the stinger still stuck in him. I did the wrong thing and pulled it out instead of scraping it off(which prevents any venom still left from being excreted). Poor thing! I felt so bad for him, it would have been better if it happened to me. I scooped him up and we rushed him home, cleaned his wound with soap and water, put ice on it to reduce the swelling, made a baking soda paste and applied it, gave him Tylenol to help the pain, and finally blessed him with Holy Water(should have done this first!) Whew! Anyway, what does LOVE have to do with it all?? Well this has been a particularly bad week, the kids have been loud, fighting, loud, yelling, loud, running through the house, loud, teasing, and did I mention LOUD?? Well as Benny laid on the sofa...healing, I noticed a gathering around him. All the kids were trying to make him feel better, telling him stories about their past injuries, explaining the consequences to the bee, showing him pictures, and just loving him. For the first time this week, I saw genuine care and concern for the hardest people to love....our immediate family!

Monday, June 21, 2010

Cheap Entertainment!


Today we purchased tickets for only $4 to the Museum of World Treasure through


This is a great site and there is a new deal every day, a few weeks back I purchased scuba diving lessons for Noah for only $15! That is a great price. The deals are usually at least 50% off if not more.

Friday, June 18, 2010

World's Best Ice Cream!


My discovery all began with two of my favorite things...a sale and a coupon. Dillons currently has Turkey Hill ice cream on sale for $1.99(Awesome price!) I also had a $1 off coupon, so I bought Nutty Neopolitan for a whopping .99! Wahoo!! But the best part is the taste. I love Blue Bell's Homemade Vanilla, but it is sooo expensive, well this was way better, it tasted just like homemade...maybe even a little better. It DOESN'T have strawberry ice cream in it, instead it has Vanilla Bean, Chocolate and Buttered Almond....so it's my 3 favorite ice creams in one!!
If you are looking for a sweet treat, you've gotta give it a try...tell me what you think! Don and I finished it off ourselves in 2 days!

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Seas VBS...Awesome!


Hannah and Eli and for a short time, Benny have been loving SEAS' Vacation Bible School this week. I am impressed with how much they remember about the saints. It seems like a well organized and excellently executed program. Eli's favorite lesson was using a glass, penny, paper towel and water how our souls(penny) use grace(water) to get to Heaven(the glass) and how sin(paper towel) can be dissolved by grace and hope(water). Today they learned about St. Nicholas and even got to experience the beloved leaving out the shoe tradition complete with a treat. It's great to see a Catholic VBS....the first I've seen.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Coupon Clutch

I fell in love with a coupon clutch to organize coupons (www.couponclutch.com) Well as cute as they are, it would be $50 just to organize my coupons!! That is NOT in the budget right now. So, I decided to try to make my own. I went to Office Max and bought a cute binder($4.95),baseball sleeve inserts(10 for $3.99) and a few compartment pouches($1.09)to keep scissors,pens,calculator,large coupons and gift cards, and a lovely recycle tote to carry it.(80 cents!!!) I'm sure if I would have shopped around I could have done it much cheaper, but when I get a wild hair...I go for it. Sometimes not shopping around is worth the difference in cost!!

$50 Coupon ClutchMy Bargain Version $12.67Compartment Pouches
Baseball Card Insert Pages




Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Hannah's 1st Swim Meet

Coach Emily

A little motivation...


A ribbon for a good attempt.

My little girl is growing up!