What We've Been Up To...

I'm planning on posting a few catch-up posts... This is #1.

What have we been up to? One of the many things is this website...

www.hydebuilders.com

This is my dad's business. Danny built the website; I added the pictures. We had a different site done and this is the updated version. I think Danny is so talented and I love this design. He sort of stole the idea from somebody else, but he did do all the programming and made it really easy for me to update the pictures on it. Yeah, he's really talented!

Singing My Baby To Sleep

Last night Ellie did not want to go to bed. She kept saying, "Wanna hold you!"

I finally pointed out to her that her baby needed to sleep too. Because, of course, her baby was very tired and needed to get some rest. To this she said, "I sing her to sleep."

Mom: "You want to sing her to sleep? What song are you going to sing?"

Ellie: "Twinkle Star."

Mom: "Good idea! Maybe you should sing your sunbeam song too."

Ellie: "Yes."

Mom: "And maybe, 'I Am A Child Of God'."

Ellie: "Yes."

Mom: "Ok... You sing to her til she falls asleep. I love you, Ellie."

Ellie: "Too, Mom." (She always just says the last word to that phrase.)

I went out of the bedroom and listened. She started with Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, singing as loud as she could. She always gets stuck on the next song and all I could hear was... "A sunBEAM, a sunBEAM! A sunBEAM, a sunBEAM! A sunBEAM, a sunBEAM!" By the time she got to her final number, I could tell she was getting tired. She quietly sang the last song and then all was quiet.

Until about an hour later... when she woke up crying cause now she wanted Daddy. Oh well... It was worth a try. :)

May Coupon Report

This is for my own records more than anything else. You can even skip this post if you'd like. :)

For the month of May, I spent $494.98 while couponing. That was for $1,468.05 worth of groceries. That's a 66.28% savings for the month of May.

Some of the things that I stocked up on...

Toilet Paper

Razors for Danny (x)

Body Wash for Danny (x)

Peanut Butter (x)

Wheat Thin Sticks (new family fav.) (x)

Chips (x)

BBQ Sauce (x)

Soy Sauce

Spaghetti Sauce (x)

Pickles (x)

Bread

Cheese

S'mores for camping (x)

Hot Dogs for camping

Oatmeal

LOTS of Cereal (x)

LOTS of Pop Tarts (x)

Pasta (x)

Ice Cream

Pork Chops

Chicken & Steak for camping (x)

Laundry Soap (x)

Stain Remover (x)

Eye Solution (x)

Pain Medicine (x)

Again, this list is for me. I want to keep track of how much I save as well as what I was able to stock up on during this time of year. The things that made this list were the purchases that will last at least a couple of months. Some of the items on the list (the ones I marked with an x) I now have enough to last months and months.

I'm back in the saddle, baby. :)

Oh, and can you tell we are planning on camping a lot this summer? :)