Walgreens

I looooove my Walgreens. I drive 8 miles further than any other Wags to shop here. :) I had placed a special order for 15 Contour meters, and when I got there today the mgr went to get them for me (Wednesday truck). She said you know you have to ring these up in separate transactions. I said yep. :) So turns out the warehouse only sent 12 of the 15. And my regular cashier asked me if I would give up two of them for her. :) It was worth it to me to keep my Wags cashier happy!! (She gives me overage) So I got 10, but have 6 more q's. We are going to try a raincheck, and see if they can do it for me when they get in. fingers crossed.

oh, I'll be donating the meters. :) Since even were I diabetic, which I am not, I wouldn't need ten of them.


10 Contour monitors
2 bags Planters Trail mix
1 Wind chime
2 Ecotrin
2 Bayer Quick release crystals
3 Nivea body wash
1 Burt's chapstick (my favorite!)
1 Coffeemaker (ask Doug)
5 Hallmark Gift Wrap

Total oop: $27.42
Total savings: $848.12
and... rr's left: $45

Soccer, take...five

Natalya had her second practice tonight- they have mini-games. It's very, VERY loosely organized. They have fun, but try to introduce the rules. Natalya is such a rule-follower. She's one of the youngest on her team, but the most focused. She doesn't wander off the field in the middle of the game like some of the others.

She also has never touched the ball with her hands- unlike most of the other kids. Tonight they were playing and a kid picked up the ball to move it where he had a better angle at the goal and the ref (college soccer player) said hand ball. Then N went up to him and said "NO HANDS!" and flashed both her palms at him. lol!! He said, that's right! and high-fived her ;)
She is really enjoying it- I just wish the Saturdays didn't start so early! (we have to get up at 6ish)

Tonight she was really getting into it- following the ball more and getting her feet into the mix of kids. She fell a few times and got back up and right back in. . . and at one point she totally body-checked a girl and stole the ball! (Doug was so proud ;) ) She is really having fun with it!

Publix , Food Lion, and Target

Due to the Advantage Buy being in-between specials, I didn't really have any mm's, no time to look around, so I didn't do as great as normal, and I had to buy a bottle of infant tylenol (not on sale, no coupons! *gasp*) for my sick baby, but still did pretty decent. :) Decent enough to have the guy behind me asking me all kinds of questions and saying he was going to have to talk to his wife about coupons! lol. oh and made sure to get in my fave cashier, Ben's, lane. Hi Ben! luv ya!

1 Glucerna cereal
1 Horizon half-gallon milk
3 Michelina pasta al dente
3 Muir Glen tomato sauce
4 Suave hair product
2 Blue Diamond Almonds
1 Tylenol Infant drops
2 Silk Soy milk
2 cans Black Beans
1 pack carrots
1 bag romaine mix
2 Sargento sliced cheese
1 5lb bag red potatoes
Total oop: $20.39
Total savings: $47.40 (60% savings)

Then a quick stop today for a few items I found new coupons for

4 Blue Diamond Almonds
1 Juicy Juice Immunity
total oop: $5.38
Total savings: $13.75 (61% savings)

Three separate trips to Food Lion (two for me and one for Doug, who was very proud of himself for getting the free reusable bag (I didn't ask him about it because I didn't want to overwhelm him :) )
3 Scott Naturals toilet paper
3 Entemenn's Salt&Pepper Pistachios (clearanced, Doug's favorite)
2 reusable Food Lion bags
total oop: $6.86
Total savings: $15.85 (57% savings); my savings on the tp, the item I went in for: 83%

And...at Target, a Special K overdose! :)
20 boxes Special K (various flavors)
total oop: 9.96
Total savings: $74.80 (87% savings)

Waitress, we'll have four rounds of antibiotics please

Hello, my name is Dr. X, how can I help you today?

Well, let's see, today we're feeling a bit like something the truck ran over, so ... let's take a look at the menu.

mmmhmmm

Allright, I believe I'll have one of the azithromax, since penicillin doesn't sit well and some flonase on the side.
Doug'll be having the classic penicillin
Natalya will try the Doxycycline, although we'd like to trade the side of possible gray teeth for nothing on the side
and for Zachary? How about the Omnicef, the one that smells like fruit punch- that way when he spits half of it back on me it will at least smell good, okay?

Great! Four rounds of antibiotics coming up.

And.... hopefully we'll all be well in a week! ACk!

Reposting... trouble with my blog posts for some reason

So here's the latest Publix visit . . . And, we're all on the mend, although my headache just came back and my throat is killing me. DH's throat is still hurting too. Natalya is actually taking a nap today and Z is also sleeping. I may go join them.

"Dave Says it's ok!" Ah the first time I got to use that phrase. Thank you so much Starbucksgirl! (Kelly) lol. I went to Publix today, and after almost having a heart attack because Natalya dropped one of my coupon envelopes (worth about $100 to me, might as well have dropped a hundred dollar bill, but someone turned it in to customer service intact. whew! I must have good coupon karma), had fun waiting while the cashier/asst manager looked over all my coupons. fun stuff. Then said, "we can't take this, it's over $5" talking about the grill coupon, I informed him that a friend of mine spoke with Tim (I was at the Nippers Corners store) and Dave (regional csm) and both said it was ok. He said, oh, ok. And then he wasn't sure about my 10/100 competitor coupon, but Tim came over and okayed it. :)

It has been a long week, two sick children, a sick husband, and while checking out, I started getting dizzy and suddenly got hot and felt like I was going to pass out. I grabbed a card off the cashier's stand and started fanning myself with it, and put Z down, since his body temp of 103 was making it worse. Finally started feeling better.

But here's what I got...(the lady behind me was in awe of my coupon/discount total.)
12 bags Birdseye frozen veggies (with a raincheck)
1 bag charcoal
2 Revlon emery board packs
2 Revlon nail clippers
2 Teddy Grahams
6 Michelina pasta al dente
2 Juicy Juice Immunity apple juice
1 Glad sandwich bags
2 Hunt's ketchup
2 Yoplait GoGurt
1 Del Monte Orchard Select fruit
2 Muir Glen tomato sauce
2 Silk Soymilk
6 Rice-a-Roni whole grains
4 Sundown vitamins
4 Suave hair product
12 Skippy natural peanut butter
1 bag red potatoes
1 lb shrimp
1 pack pork cutlets

Total oop: $18.18 (could've done better, but a few things I wanted were gone and I started feeling bad and didn't get a few mm's)
Total saved: $143.60 (87% savings)

My stockpile goes the way of $144

Mom was involved in a massive yardsale yesterday at her company- and I gave her my two+ bins of stockpiled health and beauty items, most of which I only paid tax for, some I paid $.25 for, and some were moneymakers, so I didn't pay anything for them. I had been using these things in gift bags/baskets, but I am running out of room! I know I will be getting more deals and I thught I'd pass along these deals at 1/4 of retail price, making a little profit, and helping other people get good deals on new brand name products at the same time.

Result: $143.85

The illness continues

Well, now I have it. Woke up with a 100.4 fever and horrid headache that still won't go away. Z was up all night screaming in my ear, and Doug left to go sleep on the couch around 1am, with no luck. Now Z doesn't want to sleep. He is happy as long as I don't lay down with him. As soon as he lays down he starts screaming (and this kid can SCREAM...in my ear...and me with a headache)- what's up with that???

Now that all four of us have had some variation of this same thing, and Natalya has been confirmed as having something bacterial...and she's feeling much better (and on antibiotics) I am wondering if we all were exposed to the same bacteria somewhere over the last week. Since Z likes to stick everything in his mouth, it's very possible. Which means we all need antibiotics. I will call the dr on Monday to ask his opinion. Doug still has a lingering headache, I have a fever of 99.6 (even with all the tylenol I've been taking all day) and Z is really unhappy, especially when his fever flares up (I've been trying to keep the motrin in him because he is miserable and makes me miserable when his temp goes up).

Please send healing vibes our way!