Frugal Kid Gifts

Gina from the fabulous Moneywise Moms hosted a carnival on cheap gifts for kids. Since I have to do lots of kid's gifts due to all the siblings I have, I thought I'd add my two cents. Here are some recent popular birthday gifts I've given:

RM turned 8 recently so I used the Mars free chocolate coupons in conjunction with a Rite Aid BOGO sale and bought him 8 candy bars. That was a couple weeks ago and he's already eaten them all :p I've also seen people use this idea for cards (1 starburst, 2 M&Ms, etc.)

LA turned 6 in July & I got him a giant frisbee from Oriental Trading Co. for $5. Then I got a sharpie and wrote messages all over it. You could also use this idea for homemade kites - the idea is to cover the item in birthday wishes and fun phrases.

For my son's first birthday in a couple weeks, I am making banana shaped bean bags and my husband is going to make a bean bag toss out of a sheet of plywood and then I/my sister will paint it to look something like this:

Those are the most recent gifts I've done. I'm sure I could think of more, but my baby just woke up from his nap....

Moving on...

I'm back! Did you miss me oh imaginary blogger friends? Since my last post I:

Celebrated my third anniversary (with a great deal on steak from Giant & my wedding video now also known as the "daddy movie")

Turned twenty-four (I only changed 2 diapers on my birthday!!! That's a record for me :)

Got hired as a free-lance writer (something I have always wanted to do)

So what does this mean for the future? I won't be posting every day anymore so I can write for my job, but I will still update this blog once or twice a week about whatever I feel like.

I know there are more creative/focused/better blogs out there so if you are reading mine - THANK YOU! You deserve a medal or something :)

Vacation

I am on vacation for the next two weeks.  I want to think about the direction of my blog and maybe you'll see some changes here after that.  I also want to focus on my anniversary and birthday with my family.  So until then, I'll still be around and available, but I won't be blogging.

See you in June!

8 Things Meme

My friend Kathryn tagged me in a meme so here goes:

Eight Things I'm Looking Forward To:

• My Wonderful Hubby's Birthday in two weeks!
• My birthday at the end of the month
• My third wedding anniversary & celebrating with the best husband ever at Cheesecake Factory :) :) :)
• Evan's first birthday in August
• Christmas (cause I just love Christmas)
• Someday singing in church again
• Having my parents/in-laws over for dinner
• meeting my Lord in heaven & being in the presence of God! (borrowing this from Kathryn - thanks babe!)
  
  

Eight Things I Did Yesterday:

• Moved a futon by myself
• Went to the library
• Made dinner
• Changed poopy diapers
• Vacuumed
• Kissed my husband
• Texted my brother
• Read blogs/blogged

Eight Things I Wish I Could Do:

• shape-shift
• have a clean house without effort
• see through walls
• draw
• be perfectly in shape without exercising
• fly
• keep my laundry room empty
• sit and read books for hours

Eight Shows I Watch: (occasionally)

• Seinfeld
• American Idol
• Lie to Me
• Hell's Kitchen
• The Office
• Kitchen Nightmares
• Cops
• The Cosby Show

Eight People I Tag:

• Jessica @ Coles are Cool
• Christine @ The IE Mommy
• Laura @ Infinitely Blessed
• Nic & Missi @ Domestic Sophisticate
• Shannon @ For the Mommas
• the other Courtney @ A Blessed Mommy
• Missy @ It's Almost Naptime
• Cheri-Beri @ What is it NOW?

Unexpected Find

Tonight I was making homemade pizza for dinner.  I was scooping out the flour when I noticed something blue in my flour container.  This is what I fished out:

You just never know what (or where!) you'll discover next when you have kids :)

Random Photo Tagging

My friend Jessica tagged me in her random photo post so I am passing on the chain (insert evil laughter here). The instructions are to post the fourth picture from your fourth folder in your pictures folder. Here is mine:



This is a picture of my wonderful cat that I got for Christmas at age 6. He died when I was 18. He was the best cat ever in so many ways and for so many reasons!

I think I'm supposed to tag four more people now too. But, it's late and I can't think of anyone so, if you're reading this and feel like participating go for it and leave me a comment so I can come see your random cool picture :)

Finally Friday

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This has been one of those weeks where I've often thought "I can't wait until it's Friday!" Do you have weeks like that too?
It wasn't a bad week, just very busy. I am ready for this week to be over and looking forward to (hopefully) a quieter week coming up.
Finally, it's Friday.