So today started out pretty good. We slept in until after 8:00 am, which was much needed. Then after breakfast and checking the web to see if there were any new deals posted I packed the kids up in the car and headed out. I had planned six stops: Walgreens, CVS, JCPenney, Walmart, Lowes Foods, & Sam's Club. I was running ahead of schedule so JCPenney wasn't open yet so we skipped it.
Walgreens & CVS were a bust because I thought that you could get the Infusium 23 shampoo for free and it was only the spray leave-in treatment. Then I read that if you bought the men's Shick quatro titanium razors then you got two register rewards (RR) $3 & $1 but I was too scared to try it. So I walked out with nothing. I had also read that at CVS the coupon machine was printing coupons for $5 off the Lysol no-touch hand soap dispenser and paired with the $5 mfg. coupon and pair those two coupons with the sale price of $9.99 then it would be free. Well, I wasn't lucky enough to get that great coupon. So I left there empty handed.
Then on to Walmart. I tried out some deals that I had struck out with at Target earlier this week. I got two Benadryl Itch Relief Sticks, two twin pkgs of the Nivea Lip Care, and one pkg of 12 Schick Disposable Razors. See my picture. My total before coupons $12.79. The amount I actually paid was $2.22. Not a bad deal especially given that the Benadryl Itch Sticks were $2.38 each! The coupons I used were: $5 off any 2 Benadryl items, $3 off any package of Schick disposable razors, and Buy One Get One Free (BOGO) coupon for Nivia Lip Care.
So at Lowes Foods I went mostly to get milk. They sell organic milk by the gallon there and it's cheaper than buying two half gallons or even one half gal. of organic and one half gal. of regular which I had been doing. I also got the ingredients for a couple of baby food recipes that I need to make for my son. One for beef and veggies and the other chicken and veggies. He's moving on to the meats and needs some meals to eat. I am still pureeing everything because he gags on any solid food I give him.
At Sam's Club I needed to stock up on my meats which we had gotten very low on due to fewer trips to the grocery store to try to save money and clean out the freezer. I also got two king size pillows that I was needing for the pillow shams that went with my new comforter set. My husband just happened to be in town and in between jobs so he stopped by for a minute to kiss the kids and help me load the car. Oh yea, I can't go to Sam's at meal time and not take advantage of the very affordable hot dog combo. A jumbo Nathan's hot dog and 32 oz soda for $1.83. It's hard to beat that.
The kids were surprisingly well behaved in every store but once we got home they showed their true selves. I fed them lunch and let them play for a little bit then put my daughter in her room for quiet time with a movie and tried to get my son to take a nap. He fought it so hard. I'd lay him down and he would get still and then get up and crawl around and then plop his head down and rub his eyes and then get up and do it all over again. He managed to stay awake until a reasonable time for his bottle and then was still fighting it so I just layed him down in his crib and let him play it out and he did. Now why do I not lay my 3 yr. old down for a nap? Well, if I can get her to fall asleep she will sleep a good 2 to 3 hrs. and we won't get her back to sleep until 10:00 at night. So we just decided to try this quiet time approach and move her bedtime up to 7:30. So far she has been going to bed much easier and falling asleep much faster. While I loved nap time especially on the days when I needed one I would much rather her go to bed earlier and have that time to my self to unwind from the day.
The one thing that I didn't get was a small notebook for the new Bible study that I am starting on in the book of Proverbs with Beth Moore (my favorite). Well, I've got some loose leaf paper I guess I'll just use that for now. I'm really excited about it. I've been out of my daily quiet time since just before my son was born and hopefully this will be the thing to get me back into the swing of things. My biggest challenge is having a long enough uninterrupted pocket of time. Perhaps I should get up with my husband but that is so hard because I am not a morning person. Plus I never know how early my son will wake up and it could be all for nothing.
Well, now for the most dreaded question of the day: What's for dinner? Tonight it's beef tips with peppers & onions, rice, and corn. It seemed to go over well. After dinner it was baths and then bedtime. My daughter fought us a little because she caught a 20 min. nap this afternoon just by passing out while she was playing. Once they were in bed I had my bowl of ice cream and watched Sherlock Holmes with my hubby. Over all I give the movie a thumbs up. At times it was really fast paced and I had a hard time catching everything. It's one of those movies that I will probably catch more of the second time around.
So that was my day today - boring with one good deal at Walmart. Tomorrow I think that we are going to have a play date with I guess my only friend here and her three kids since there has been some upheaval of my usual Sat. play date.
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