Ok So I hope I am not the only one who feels like they take one step forward and then two steps back. Lets start with the good news for the day. Here is my list of things I purchased with coupons and things that were on sale!!!
2 pkg of
huggies wipes
1 pkg of pampers diapers (unfortunately
Kimber is allergic to everything else)
4 boxes of Fruit Snacks
2 boxes of Yogurt Fruit Snacks
1 pkg of cough drops
3 (6cups in ea) pkg of applesauce~ These are nice for traveling or going to grandmas, its an easy and healthy snack
2
sippy cups
1 suction cup plate for
Kimbers food
1 box of Borax (so I can start making my laundry detergent and not spend so much)
1 Bottle of Shout Stain Remover
1 pkg of underwear for
Kimber (since she is about 75% potty trained I figured this might be the motivation I need as mom to finish getting her to be 100%. My goal is by 18 mo. we would be done with potty training so we are headed in the right direction)
and 2 shirts for mommy! and YES they were on clearance for $3.24 ea. So not too bad.
I will post a pic of my good deals when I get time. For now Drum Roll Please...
Grand Total Before sales and coupons:$88.16
GRAND Total After Sales and Coupons: $44.81
Saving Today: $43.35
Not to bad for my first time shopping with coupons! I had one mom ask me if I was ashamed to shop with coupons. I told her if anyone looks down on it they have not truly been put in the position to have to try and learn how to save money! I am not ashamed to shop with coupons...I just think wow look at my total going down! NICE!!! Then the person paying full price behind me ...
lol I think poor them! When they maybe thinking the same about me...oh well. They don't know me and I don't know them.
Now on to the next topic of saving money. As of April 3rd we will no longer have TV channels in our house! Wow...prayer does work and sometimes really fast. Well?? fast this time...I have been trying to get Eric to agree with me for about the last 6 mo to cancel the TV. I guess it was finally time...or maybe God was just tired of me praying about it!
hehe. I prayed right before I brought this topic up to my husband again and surprisingly he said as soon as his season of LOST is over we can cancel it and I think it ends Apr. 1 or 2. I am so excited!!! That is going to help a lot. One less monthly bill and we can always rent from the library. It may take a while to get the movie in but hey, its free that way!!! Double bonus.
I am truly motivated by my little girl to get out of debt as much as we can by the time she is 3. So in 2 yrs the only thing I want to have left is my student loan. I am not sure how that would be able to be paid off. Yet I know God is mysterious and has a way of working things out. So even a miracle that big could happen. For now I would be content not to have any credit cards (we have 2 we still have to pay off), not have a 4 wheeler, or car payment! We will keep you posted on the progress. I just pray God gives me the wisdom as to how to spend what he provides us with.
Kimber is out of the teething stage again...for a few days at least. The top canine teeth finally popped through so I think that gave her some relief today. yeah! She is her happy self again.:) She has gone through another one of those stages where I feel like she knows too much for her age. When giving her a bath the other night I asked her to hand me the colors yellow, blue, green, and purple...and she did!!! She would find all the yellow ones and say yellow as she handed them to me. When I would ask for another color she would hand all of that color to me! Ugh. She is growing up too fast. I am glad she is interested in learning things though. She has been trying to sing the ABC's and so as she and I sing together we are practicing signing the letters as well. So I will be interested to see how old she is when she can sign the whole
Alphabet by herself:) You probably think I am a
pushy mom and am overdoing it but my philosophy is if they are interested in it then you might as well expose them to it. They are like sponges and soak everything up so fast...we need to find ways to keep them interested or they get board with learning. I want learning to be fun for her so I am doing a lot of exposing her to new things as we have the time. Seriously how hard is it to count the snaps on her pants or the steps. When your cooking to point out the shape of the plate or pan you are using? Shapes, colors, numbers and letters are on pretty much everything. It is not like you need to invest in a bunch of toys just to practice these things. Hopefully she will continue to have fun with it. I know I have fun watching her learn and figure things out on her own.
Well I better sign off this is turning into a book! Good night and God Bless!!!
Poor little girl is so miserable and sad ...you know its gotta hurt. She is normally so happy. I miss her smiles. 
I took this pic for 2 reasons. One I said I would not put Kimber in bibs until she was able to walk. I just think they look too hard to crawl and roll around in. And second of all...she has the green magnet on the fridge that sings the alphabet and we have been signing the alphabet to her and she is look at her hands and trying to move them to the letters in the song. She is not really close to any of the real signs yet...but I still think it is cute how hard she is trying to accomplish it. She is so memorized with signing. She can totally be mad or upset and if you sign something to her she calms down a lot faster. 
Love the bare feet! She refuses to wear socks. haha
On our way home from town last week Kimber and I stopped on the side of the road near our house because there was a bald eagle in the tree. I had to get a picture and Kimber thought it was pretty cool because as we were leaving the eagle flew over the car and I am not sure she had ever paid attention to a bird before and how they can fly. So the rest of the way up the driveway she kept saying...bird, bird, bird, etc...
Here were my purchases from the other day that I told you about.
When I laid Kimber down for nap one day she decided she was going to go to the bathroom in her pants...I guess she decided she would try and get out of it because she stripped all the way to her undershirt before I heard the cute giggles coming from her room! I love her smile in this pic. Lately with her teeth bugging her she has cried so much I can't wait for her to get them in and be back to her happy self. When a child gets the giggles it is contagious.
I know this is a beautiful pic and it reminds me of how God makes everything beautiful. Yet deep down I can't help but wish it was spring. I know the calendar says it is spring but the weather outside didn't get the memo I guess:) For now I will have to be content with a warm house and a wonderful family and look out at the coldness and pray for spring ...soon! Until then this is the view from the kitchen window. :)
Kimber loves music and art. She was interested in mixing all the colors together. I wanted to keep this pic somewhat nice...so when I took the paper away and gave her another piece of paper to do whatever on she cried. I think she thought she had to be done. I just didn't want the whole picture to be brown though.
Her cute little hand covered in paint. How sweet.
Here she is hard at work. 
Well we should sign off for now. Not much is new here. We are planning on going to story time on Fri at the local library and then going swimming on Sat at the pool. Maybe going swimming will make me forget that it is still winter outside for a couple hours:) Eric and I are on the count down now to 5 yrs. 17 days. It seems just like yesterday that we got married. Does not seem possible that it has been 5 yrs already. Hopefully the next 5 will be just as wonderful as the first 5 were. I am looking for ideas as to what we should do. If you have any ideas that are close to home and inexpensive leave me a message. Have a wonderful night or day...depending on when you read this. Until next time, God Bless and stay warm.
I know I posted a pic similar to this one earlier but in this one Kimber has her finger on her chin and I just thought it was too cute not to post.
Thanks uncle Ry-Ry for my fun new toy. She loves her music table. She plays with this toy at least 2 a day. She likes dancing to the music.
Kimber decided she is not wanting to crawl anymore today. Today was the day that she tried walking everywhere. She did a lot of falling and wanted all her cloths off...thankfully the house was hot because the weather had warmed up and we had not turned the heat down.
I was sweetly surprised to received a dozen roses the other day.
