Not only can you get a free cookie at Mrs. Fields tomorrow from 11am-1pm, but you can also get a free cookie at Great American Cookies anytime in October!
All you have to do is sign up for their email list. Everyone who signs up for their email list through October 31, 2009 will receive a coupon good for a free regular Original Chocolate Chip Cookie.
Go here to sign up.
Fall is upon us. The windows are open. I've already made chocolate chip pumpkin cake. And socks are on my feet. I love the summer as you may have read about here and we spent alot of time outdoors this summer but you still get all hot and sticky. So fall brings a welcome change to being outside.
On Monday after a quick trip to the grocery store to buy a few ingredients needed for the aforementioned cake we spent a little time in the front "yard". (I used the term "yard" very loosely because it mainly consists of a wooden platform, sidewalk, rocks and mulch.) Jude took this opportunity to remind me that he is a BOY! While I sat in a comfy chair talking on the phone he moved a large portion of our rock bed to the sidewalk, then back again to the rock bed. This went on for about 15-20 minutes until he decided to eat a few rocks which he quickly learned was a bad idea. He was covered in dirt by the end of our time outside. What can I say? He's a boy!
Chanda at Rambles, Rants and Raves has awarded me my very first blog award! Thanks Chanda!
The rules of the "One Lovely Blog Award" are:
Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link. Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.
Here are my 15 fave blogs:
The Foster Family
Growing A Better Me
Raising Z
I Thode You So
The Actors Diet
The Daily Dose
Dry As Toast
Piece of Cake Decorating
Feeling Fit with Dana
Guessing All the Way...
lilkidthings
PocketSmiles
Onward Hoe!
Defying Gravity
Kara's Kitchen Creations
I totally stole this post idea from Alas 3 Lads but hopefully she won't mind.
I'm really looking forward to this movie! I love Ricky Gervais.
The highlight of my weekend was: Going grocery shopping alone while my boys went to see a FREE movie.
The goals for the week are: Finish setting up Adwords for Alpha Accounting. Menu Planning. Museum with friends. Keep the house clean. Walk.
My marriage goal for the week is: Take care of house stuff so when he get's home from work we can spend time relaxing as a family.
A parenting goal for the week is: Spend more time outside. Hopefully the weather will cooperate.
A personal goal I hope to achieve this week is: Get back into our daily walks to the park. Benefits everyone.
The thing I'm most looking forward to this week is: Community Group tonight! U2 Concert Saturday!
Beginning Monday, September 28, you can get FREE Smucker's Uncrustables.
Beginning September 28, The Smucker Company is giving away 80,000 Smucker’s Uncrustables sandwiches. Register online at http://www.uncrustables.com/. Simply submit an after school organization tip to receive a coupon for one free box of Smucker’s Uncrustables sandwiches. Offer is valid through October 30, 2009, while supplies last; a maximum of 20,000 coupons will be awarded per day.
This morning my boys went to see Toy Story 3D and I went to the grocery store... alone!
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Thursday are hard for me. I can feel the weekend lurking right around the corner but it's just out of reach. By Thursday I'm in desperate need of encouragement so I thought I'd start a blog meme and have everyone tell me how they get through the final hours of their week.
Friday IS On It's Way
What was your greatest struggle this week? No Naps. Jude didn't want to take his afternoon nap which resulted in a cranky baby. This is never fun for anyone.
How did you power through? Instead of fighting for a nap I gave in and watched Yo Gabba Gabba with him until daddy came home.
What kept you going when you wanted to give up? Brownies and Listening to Kings of Convenience. Date night last night with my husband to see The Informant!
What are you looking forward to this weekend? Spending time relaxing with my family. Pay Day is Friday too!
To Share how you're Making it Till Friday
1. Post my Button or Link on your site.
2. Link to me with Mr. Linky
It's been one of those days and the one thing that keeps me sane is some fun yet calming music. So enjoy while i deal with a screaming baby!
Hey folks in the Triangle check this out.
Become a fan of Sara Lee on Facebook HERE and get a $3/1 pre-sliced deli meat coupon!
It's officially the first day of Fall! In Raleigh it's a cool and rainy day which seem appropriate for such an occasion.
So I made two more trips to Harris Teeter for triples but somehow I lost one of my receipts so I'll just recap my last trip.
I realized yesterday morning that we were almost out of dishwasher detergent so I rationalized my trip and while I was there I picked up a few things. Specifically using coupons from this Sunday's paper.
Mt. Olive Pickles
Tic Tac Chill
2 Mentos Gums
2 Mahatma Rice
7th Generation Dish Detergent
Bread
Luigi Italian Ice
McCain Sweet Potato Fries
Total: $27.04
OOP: $9.94
I spent a little more than our allotted grocery budget for this week but I justified it by recharging my stockpile.
There wasn't anything exceptionally noteworthy about Saturday but I think that's what made is so great. Just a relaxing day with my family. We slept in. Cleaned the house a bit. Joe practiced guitar for Sunday church while Jude watched from his highchair. I read a little. Jude took a nap. Joe made grilled cheese, avocado and tomato sandwiches for lunch.
After lunch we decided to spend a little time outside so we went downtown to check out the SparkCon activities. We browsed the local vendors, side-walk chalk drawings, graffiti artists and another bizarre creature by the creator of the infamous Barrel Monster.
September 24th Cold Stone Creamery is holding the 8th Annual World's Largest Ice Cream Social.
When you make a donation to Make a Wish you can get a free 3 oz sundae.
On September 26th get free admission to National Parks, Smithsonian Affiliate Museums and National Public Land.
Today Jude and I took advantage of the membership to the NCMLS that Joe's parents bought for us this past weekend. We met some friends and had a lot of fun playing indoors during such a rainy day.
As of lately I've been killing the deals at Whole Foods. Thanks to my obsessive coupon blog followings and from following my local store on Twitter I've come home with some great stuff.
Today I went to get my Free Organic Bagged Salad and Salad Dressing with a coupon I picked up in the store for September Madness. While there I check out the other deals and picked up some Apple Crisps for $.99. But somehow my order looked like this
Organic Bagged Salad
Salad Dressing
Apple Crisps
Total: $.11
The cashier was just as confused as I was but didn't seem to care.
Now every now and then Whole Foods has coupons for FREE items in the store. They are on a first come basis and there isn't really much notification of when they will put them out. I looked all of the store for some but didn't find any until I was putting my cart away and noticed something in another cart. Low and behold there was a 3 coupon sheet for FREE items in October. Including Free Milk, Free Rolls, and a Free Pumpkin! SCORE
Well it's not Monday but I'm finally getting around to our meal plan. Monday and Tuesday were days off from cooking as we were celebrating our anniversary. You can read about our adventures here, here and here. Now the cabinets are well stocked thanks to Triples.
Wednesday - Sun-dried Tomato Artichoke Chicken with Rice
Thursday - Black Bean Burritos
Friday - Pizza
Saturday - Baked Chicken, Fried Orzo with Zucchini and Basil
Sunday -BBQ Pork, Sweet Potato Fries & Peas
Monday - CG - Cincinnati Chili
Tuesday - Black Bean Burritos
Wednesday - Baked Ziti
Thursday - Chicken Tacos w/ homemade tortillas
Friday - Pizza
Saturday - TBD
It's triples again. Jude and I got up relatively early to hit the store and walked out with some pretty good loot.
2 Tabasco Sauces
Kix Cereal
2 Mahatma Yellow Rice
Mahatma White Rice
Kashi Cereal
2 Archway Cookies
2 Hershey Take 5
Alexia Potato Crisps
Skippy PB
Uncle Bens Rice
Famous Amos Cookies
Barilla Pasta
Barilla Whole Wheat Pasta
Barilla Plus Pasta
Barilla Pasta Sauce
Bananas
Cucumber
Eggos
Organic Valley Cream Cheese
2 Shamrock Milk
Total: $68.02
OOP: 15.06
Yesterday was the last day of our stay-cation and our actual Wedding Anniversary. We decided to take it easy and made no real plans to do anything.
We started off the day with a walk to the park where Jude played and we enjoyed the nice weather. Then we took our time getting ready for the day while Jude took a nap. After he woke up we ran a few errands before going to lunch at Sosta Cafe (thanks Kiona) where they have great food and most importantly the best root beer ever, Sprecher!
After lunch we laid low at home until our stomachs needed to be recharged. We went to Whole Foods to pick up some FREE things. However, they were out of Rotisserie chickens so we had to go to back up plan B for dinner. While there Joe did get me some lovely flowers that were FREE with a coupon. (Those are the best kind of flowers!) We ate dinner at Chick-fil-a where we used our Free Order Friday receipt.
After dinner we went home, put the babe to bed and watch an episode of the X-Files. Overall it was a fairly uneventful Anniversary but a great relaxing day with my family.
Yesterday we took Jude to the beach for the first time. It was a gorgeous September day and we had a great time. We went to Wrightsville Beach and then spent a little time in downtown Wilmington. Other than some construction traffic on the way there and then getting a little turned around trying to come home it was a pretty perfect day.
The $5/1 Luvs coupon is now available! Go here and click on "Get the Coupon" and you'll be able to sign up for it. If you already have an account with Luvs, just login to your account, and click on the box on the sidebar which mentions the $5/1 coupon and then save your changes.
On September, 15th Joe and I will be celebrating our 2nd Wedding Anniversary. I think Wedding Anniversaries are awesome and deserve much celebration. Not because we are celebrating "making it this far" but because "on this day several years ago we made a life changing covenant".
We decided to take a little "stay-cation" this year. Joe hasn't taken off any vacation time from work so we thought this would be the perfect opportunity. We're about half-way through our "stay-cation" and so far it's been packed full of fun.
It all started Friday evening after Joe FINALLY got off work at 7pm. We had a lovely dinner at home, spent some down time as a family and then Joe's parents arrived to visit for a few days. Saturday morning/afternoon we spent at the NC Museum of Life Science specifically to check out the special event, Hero's, Villan's and Special Effects. It's already a great museum as I explained here but thrown in some Storm Troopers, Foley, Special Make-up and Model Artist and Joe was in heaven. Oh yeah, Jude had a good time too!
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