..............saving some $$$

I have been very busy these last few weeks collecting my coupons to get a nice stash growing. I have found a couple websites where these wonderful ladies pretty much list out the sale ads and what coupons to use and where to get them if you don't have them. I can give you an example of some awesome deals I got this week by clipping some coupons and reading a blog:

Walgreens:

3 bottles of Triaminic @ 4.99 each (14.97) - $8.00 instant store rebate=$6.97 -3.50 (coupon from 10/18 ad off of 2 bottles of Triamini) and -1.50 (coupon from 10/18 ad off of 1 bottle)= GRAND TOTAL 2.47 for 3 bottle of Triaminic

Zantac 8.99 - 8.99 (instant store rebate)-1.00 (coupon from 10/18) = GRAND TOTAL +1.00 (Yep I made money on that one)

Oral B toothbrushes on sale 2/6.00 - 3.00 (instant rebate)- 1.00 (I used 1.00 coupons) = GRAND TOTAL $1.00 for 2 toothbrushes.

Just a couple examples of my purchases. I will be making more when I go to CVS later this week. My big bargain at CVS will be Halloween candy. I will be getting bags of candy for less than $1.00 each when most stores have it for 1.99-2.50 a bag. Trick or Treaters will love my house this year.

So jump over to www.wickedcooldeals.com or moneysavingmom.com

.......................House is on the Market

Yup...we finally did it. We have been looking on and off for some time now for a bigger house and nothing has really hit us like a house we found on Sunday. What a great day that was.

We have our eyes on a house that is double in size of our current house and in a great location. We are praying things go our way and we sell our house and they accept our offer for this new house. We can't put a offer in quite yet though. We need to have a offer on ours first so it looks good with the bank. This is a very exciting yet scary time for all of us.

SO if you could please think about us and hope & pray we can sell our house fairly quickly and then get accepted on the new house. That house is currently vacant and has been on the market since August so we don't have to jump on it the same day like we did for our current house. Our current house had like 5 offers all at once and that was just as nerve wracking as to who would be the lucky buyer. Great things do come to those that wait.

..................Progress

We are having great progress from Zachary these days. It starts out we started him in swim lessons (he knows how to swim but we thought a little aqua therapy would be great for him) and he is doing awesome in it with the kicking motion and bending of him knee more and more. He has been increasing his weights at therapy and doing more rep's of the exercises and has mastered the bear crawl as Dale calls it. Zachary is actually flying through that exercise now and just 2 weeks ago he struggled to do it about 10 ft.

Zachary has been dealing with headaches since August on a daily basis sometimes being so bad he is yelling his head is going to explode. Well I kept saying I think his back is out or something because I know I get them when mine is out. Well the peditrician said no thats not it, they ordered a MRI and it had no change so they ruled out the cysts bothering him. Well they started him on med which we thought was helping but after a few weeks the headaches where just as intense. Well after our Disney trip I insisted his PT check his back (he is a chiropractor also) so he did and realigned his back. He said it was a little out of wack so lets see how this works and we can readjust again if needed. Well we are entering week 3 of no headaches since that adjustment. I knew that was the issue just if people would listen to me sometimes I do know what I am talking about.

So all in all we have had a wonderful couple of weeks of progress in many areas. Thank you God

.............................Wordless Wednesday

.................................Back from Vacation

This is from the Safari at Animal Kingdom. The Giraffes where so close this time so I was clicking away because I love Giraffes.

Hello all. I know its been awhile but we where preparing for vacation, making sure school work was done before vacation and running like crazy with Marissa's schedule. We started the year off with soccer practice everyday after school and dance 2x a week. Well Marissa got asked to move into the teen class so that means longer dance on Tuesday (went from 6-7 to 6-830 now) and added Wednesday night also. So now 3 nights in a row of dance lessons. She is loving it so we can't complain.

September 23-29th Zachary & I went to DisneyWorld. We had a blast. We got to see lots of characters that we have never seen there, and the waits where very short for most things until the weekend came along then they jumped up big time. Luckily we had a guest assistance pass for Zachary so we got on everything almost immediately. They treat it as a fast pass for everything even character meet and greets. We also did the Mickeys Not So Scary Halloween Party. That was alot of fun. They close the park to only the people that bought tickets so crowds are alot less, they get to go trick or treating throughout the park and they have TONS of characters out with a really good parade. So here are a couple of pics from our vacation.

Zachary & his stash of candy from Trick or Treating in the Magic Kingdom

Zach & Lightning McQueen This and Handy Manny are all he wanted to see at Hollywood Studios.

...................First day of school for 2009-2010 school year

Yesterday was the first day of school for the kiddos. Zachary is going into 1st grade and Marissa is going into 8th grade. I can't believe 8th grade already. Before I know it she will be off to college. Both kids got up with out a problem and actually had a good 1st day - so they say. And to top it off I only had to buy 1 binder. Usually they come home with lists of new stuff they need that wasn't on their school supply list or the teacher changes their minds but not this year. Well hopefully it will be a great year for both.

......................MRI report

Well we got the report back on Zachary regarding his headaches and the dr says it shows no changes since the previous MRI in '05. It does say he has 2 subarachnoid cysts which will need to be followed. Dr is stumped as to why the headaches since no major changes. They started him on a medication to see if that helps and I thought oh my gos the first 3 days on it. He was miserable, falling asleep in the middle of the day, and the headaches seemed worse. He would grab his head and just yell his head was going to explode. Well he has been on it for 1 week now and we have been since friday without a headache. So that would be 3 days so far. Thank god because there was nothing I could do for him but give him tylonal & motrin and hope it would kick in. They are sending the MRI to Boston for the dr's to look at there and see what they think. So we are still up int he air.