My Mommy Adventure

RE: hey

2013-03-25T17:03:00.000-04:00

http://www.afrikasafaris.info/includes/hibook.php?rjotttrv711qg-------------------------------She's out the door before the condom comes off. -- Reality Bites

Dollar Tree Accepts Coupons

2012-08-31T22:50:00.000-04:00

For those of you who haven't hear yet, Dollar Tree began accepting coupons last Sunday. I am so excited. I was in the store the other day to scout out the products that they had in stock so that I can do a trip tomorrow. In the meantime here are some highlights from their new coupon policy and the link to the Dollar Tree Coupon Policy on Living Rich With Coupons. So as far a I can tell they

Cooking with Kids - Weelicious Receipes and some other favorites

2012-08-25T15:36:00.003-04:00

My 7 year old and I came across the website Weelicious on Punchfork. He loves cooking with us so we went through the receipes with beautiful, yummy looking pictures and he picked a couple of things that he wanted to make this weekend. 1.) Crockpot Oatmeal for Sunday breakfast 2.) Oatmeal on the go bars I was happy that he picked the oatmeal options because with school starting we are

Did you know that you can cure a headache using a lime????

2012-08-24T21:43:00.000-04:00

I would like to take credit for this, but unfortunately I found this on another site: Budget Savvy Diva She suggests that if you have a mild headache it will be relieved by cutting a lime in half and rubbing the middle part of the lime onto the portion of your head that hurts. I have no idea if it really works, but I can promise that I will be trying it next time I have a headache. Have you

My Summer "to-do" list

2012-07-19T23:37:00.000-04:00

Another one of my Pinterest finds was a list of things of 100 things to do this summer. The original post is here. I want to see how many items we can check off as a family and we are making some good progress. Here is what we have accomplished so far: 1.) We have been to the beach 2.) The boys went to the zoo (with my mom and some cousins) 3.) Blowing bubbles (of course this has been done

On a Pinterest kick today...

2012-07-18T21:38:00.000-04:00

So I, like many others out there constantly pin all of these ideas that I think sound so great.....but I never get around to trying them. So I decided it is now time to start trying some of those pins that sound so interesting when I am sitting in front of my computer. My microwave needed a cleaning VERY badly...so bad that I wouldn't take a picture to include in the post. I went to my trusty

Walmart employees please learn your coupon policy

2012-06-27T20:51:00.000-04:00

I sent my husband to Walmart today with a bunch of Bayer coupons ($0.78 moneymaker on each one, with the $3 off 1 coupons in last Sunday's paper), some ball pectin coupons ($0.03 moneymaker on each one), some cutter citronella candle coupons (free) and a list of some other items that we were buying with the overage. He was shopping with the two kids so it took forever, but he had it planned

Shopping Trip: Shop Rite

2012-03-31T23:13:00.002-04:00

Last night my husband and I stayed up until the wee hours of the morning working on a Shop Rite trip for today. A lot of the items that we purchased were things that we currently needed (not stockpile items) so that always makes the trip a little bit tougher, since when you need specific items you can only do as good as the store sale/coupons are for that week. I sent my husband and the 6 year

My 6 year old planned his first couponing trip

2012-03-24T20:23:00.001-04:00

My 6 year old has been asking me to help him to put together a coupon shopping trip, of course he wanted to buy candy so with Easter Candy Sales combined with coupons this was a perfect time to help him put together a shopping list. Tomorrow morning we will be heading to CVS for his first couponing trip as a mini couponer. Here's what he is getting: (1) Gold Emblem Jely Beans - $0.99 (4) Mars

Catching up on my couponing

2012-03-22T21:58:00.001-04:00

I have been traveling for work this week so I haven't even had a chance to see my Sunday papers. My husband just pulled out a big Rubbermaid container of newspapers that he collected on Monday. Have I told you how much I love that my husband has spoken to multiple local gas stations and has them saving unsold newspaper inserts for me. The rest of my night will be spent picking through my

"Free Play" St. Patrick's Day Goop

2012-03-17T23:46:00.000-04:00

I am always looking for things around the house that we can use or incorporate into our activity time and today was no different. Today I planned a play-dough activity (I was going to make it but decided to just use play-doh that we had around the house) and to make some green "St. Patricks Day" Goop to play with. My two year old is always questionable when it comes to "messy" play so I try

Mid-week Shopping Trip: Stop&Shop

2012-03-13T23:20:00.000-04:00

I sent my husband to Stop&Shop tonight to get a couple deals that are ending Thursday. We ended up with $33 worth of items for just over $1. Here is what we got: 18 Yakisoba meals 1 Jif omega 3 peanut butter 1 Breyers ice cream 2lbs of cabbage 1 roll of Viva paper towels Coupons used: 9 - $0.50/1 Yakisoba coupons 1 - Free Jif (with $15 purchase) Stop&Shop mailer coupon 1 - $0.85/1 Viva

Sight Words/Spelling Word Games: Parking Lot Game

2012-03-13T23:02:00.001-04:00

I wish that I could take credit for this idea, but I actually found this on my newest obsession - Pinterest. Here is the original blog post from jugglingwithkids. I made this for my 6 year old last weekend, what a better way to get your little ones to work on their words than to make it into a game. I took some cardstock paper and made line for parking spaces. In the parking spaces I wrote

My favorite coupons this week

2012-03-13T22:20:00.001-04:00

We generally only purchase a couple of papers, but we have a few local gas stations that will let us have the unsold paper so that is generally ow I obtain my coupons. We are up to about 4 stores that save them for us now. Here is my haul from Sunday (picked up on Monday). My favorite coupons that I got this week were from the New York Post (we ended up with inserts from 4 or 5 different

Cooking with Kids - Chocolate Pudding Ice Cream

2012-03-04T23:37:00.000-05:00

My boys LOVE cooking with us so we try to let them be a part of our cooking whenever possible. Not I know that this isn't technically cooking but they loved it and it was perfect for both boys even the two year old. Since we were working with the 2 year old on "A" this week, we let him wear an apron and reinforced that apron begins with "A". I like to let them experiment when we are cooking so

Letter of the week "A"

2012-03-04T00:14:00.001-05:00

My husband is a stay at home dad and I have challenged him to begin working with our 2 year (27 months)old in a more school like format. He has been spending time working with our little man on letters, colors, shapes, etc...but on a less planned format. We started this week with the letter A and our little man is doing great and is so proud of himself. Using pictures, activities, play,

"Free Play" Playing with Jello

2012-03-03T23:04:00.001-05:00

I am always looking for things around the house that we can use or incorporate into our activity time and today was no different. I know that Jello isn't technically free, but it is super cheap so it is a very good item to incorporate into you "Free" play activities. My boys almost never have Jello and we never keep it in the house, so I sent my husband out this morning to pick some up. Before

Teaching Your Toddler - St Patricks Day

2012-03-02T22:57:00.001-05:00

March is here and I know that I for one am always looking for ways to incorporate new themes into some of the activities that we do with our boys. I found this site - Teaching Your Toddler that has put together a St. Patricks day themed lesson plan and I will definately be trying this with my 2 year old. I also plan to modify some of the ideas so that our 6 year old can play/learn with us too

"Free Play" Shaving Cream Fun

2012-03-02T22:37:00.002-05:00

I am always looking for things around the house that we can use or incorporate into our activity time and today was no different. Our latest activity, which was initially designed with the 2 year old in mind was shaving cream play. We pulled out some of our free shaving creams (we almost always get free shaving cream with coupons)and brought out toys to play with (small dinosuars, spoons, cups,

"Free" Play - Guess that Food

2012-02-20T00:39:00.001-05:00

I am always looking for things around the house that we can use or incorporate into our activity time and today was no different. While planning our sensory activity for the 2 year old, our 6 year old decided that he wanted a sensory activity too. We decided to play "Guess That Food". This is great because you can not only do this with the items that you have around the house, but you only

"Free" Play - Bread Crumbs

2012-02-20T00:11:00.000-05:00

I am always looking for things around the house that we can use or incorporate into our activity time and today was no different. We were planning on doing sensory activities with the 2 year old and our 6 year old got really excited about helping me plan what we would do. He also wanted us to incorporate an activity for him. The original plan was to let the 2 year old do a shaving cream

ShopRite Deals for the week of 1/29/12

2012-01-28T22:15:00.001-05:00

My Saturday nights have evolved into the night that I begin planning my shopping trips for the following week. To put together my shopping list I use various sites, one of wich is livingrichwithcoupons. These are some of my favorite deals that they posted for the coming week. Golden Ripe Bananas - $0.49 Barilla Pasta - $0.88 $1/2 Barilla Pasta printable $0.55/1 Barilla Whole Grain Pasta,

I got an "F" on my couponing trip today...

2012-01-28T20:58:00.004-05:00

I am not really what I would consider an "Extreme Couponer" but I am relatively good and generally save at least 75% to 100%. Even relatively savy couponers have a bad day sometimes. I went to Walmart for two items (a) Schick disposable razors, priced at $1.97 with $2.00 off coupons and (b) Bic pens, priced at $0.97 with $1.00 off coupons. I planned to buy 10 of each and my whole trip would

Valentines Crafts: Heart Stamps

2012-01-27T23:06:00.000-05:00

I have been searching for ideas for Valentines crafts to do with my little guys. The 6 year old is easier, but I was having trouble coming up with ideas for the 2 year old. I came across a great (and super affordable) idea on rustsunshine. All you need is: An empty toilet paper roll A little Paint Blank cards/cardstock or construction paper Flatten out the toilet paper roll and then form

Rainbow Shaving Cream Bath Paint

2012-01-23T00:20:00.002-05:00

I have been looking for fun bathtime ideas and came across this post for Shaving Cream Bath Paint...I can't believe that I never thought of this. What you'll need: foaming shaving cream food coloring container - Try a muffin tin paint brushes *Added benefit for the couponing parents out there...you probably have a stockpile of free or almost free shaving cream, so that makes the cost almost