• Posts Tagged ‘Weekend’

    Cleaning, Shopping & Never-Ending Battles Over The Kid

    by  • September 12, 2011 • Home Life

    This weekend consisted of cleaning, cleaning, and more cleaning…with a little work and shopping thrown in. Saturday, James and I thoroughly cleaned the living room and kitchen. That evening, I alternated between playing video games with him and working. While he was gone to Pennsylvania, I bought him Need for Speed Undercover for the PS 3. He only had one of the game (Little Big Planet), and he enjoys racing games so I surprised him with it. Back when we had the Nintendo Game Cube, we had Need for Speed Underground 1 & 2. This one just isn’t the same, but I like it nonetheless.

    Sunday, we got up and James took Sawyer to meet my mom so he could go to church with her. On the way home, James grabbed a newspaper for the coupons and breakfast. After we ate and got ready, we headed to town for groceries and few other things. I was able to get 4 Cascade trial packs of their dishwashing action pacs for free with my coupons. I also got a few jars of baby food for free as well. We also got what we hope is Sawyer’s last container of formula. It’s a bittersweet moment to know that we soon won’t have to pay for formula anymore, but that only means our little monkey is growing up.  :worried:

    After shopping, James and I came back and finished the rest of the house. We cleaned both bathrooms, our room, and Sawyer’s room. I started to tackle the guest bedroom, but just couldn’t get into it. So, I just organized the clutter a bit instead. You can now walk though it! :) We also wrapped Sawyer’s presents and filled the favor bags for his party. Later, we went to my mom’s to get Sawyer and eat dinner. It turned out that they cooked fish, so I munched on a few hushpuppies and fries and then ate dinner when I got home.

    While I was preparing leftovers (mashed potatoes, beans, carrots, and peas) for Sawyer, I look over to see my step-dad feeding him fish. I told him to stop, that Sawyer isn’t supposed to have seafood. Of course, I got the third degree for that. He asked why, then his mom’s long time boyfriend started talking about it too. It wasn’t enough that I just said not to feed him fish.

    So I got mad and ranted a bit about how tired I was of everyone trying to feed MY son what they thought he should be eating, and how I am just going by what his doctor said. I don’t want him to have an allergic reaction to something. It would be an embarrassment to me if I had to take Sawyer to the doctor and tell him that he ate fish and had a reaction, because I know his pediatrician would be thinking, I told you no seafood… It would make me look like a bad parent, even though it wasn’t me doing the feeding.

    When I sat down to the table to feed Sawyer, my step-dad sarcastically said, “Well did his doctor say he could have potatoes???” And I looked at him and said, “He didn’t say he couldn’t…” He didn’t speak to me for the rest of the time we were there. I am sure it isn’t the end of the food battles, because there are many others in my family that love to just fill him full of chocolate and whatever else they can get him to put in his mouth. However, I’m tired of being so passive about it and will be putting my foot down from now on because my son isn’t going to be raised on junk food and be overweight by the time he’s 10 like I was.

     

    The Weekend of Saving Money

    by  • August 11, 2011 • Shopping

    We had quite the busy weekend here. Saturday, we took advantage of lots of deals and coupons. We started out shopping adventure at Walgreen’s, where I used a handful of coupons to save over 50% of my purchase. Thanks to their Register Rewards, I was also able to go back on Sunday and get 216 Huggies Wipes for free! After Walgreen’s, we drove up to Tennessee for some tax free shopping.

    Our first stop was Target. For some reason, diapers were included in the tax free weekend (and too bad hunting binoculars weren’t or my brother would have been with us!), so we used coupons and got 96 Pampers diapers and 64 Pampers wipes for $15. I also got Sawyer three shirts there. Then, we headed over to the mall where we stopped at the food court for a quick bite to eat. We ate at Great Wraps, which is a very yummy wrap place that I rarely get because we don’t go up there much, and when we do, we usually eat Red Robin or something like that.

    After lunch, we stopped by Justice for a gift card for my little cousin’s birthday. That store is like the Hollister for little girls…they had long sleeved t-shirts that were ON SALE for 40% off that were still $30. Way too much to pay for kids clothing in my opinion. Anyways, after the gift card (and waiting almost 25 minutes in line to get it), we made a beeline to The Children’s Place. There, I picked up 2 pairs of jeans, 1 pair of track pants, 2 short sleeved shirts, 1 button down shirt, and 1 pair of shorts for next summer for Sawyer, and all for $45. I felt like I got a really good deal, and he’s pretty much set for fall/winter.

    After the shopping was finished, we headed back to Georgia for my cousin’s birthday party. She had it at one of those indoor fun places with all the inflatable bouncers and arcade games. Sawyer didn’t care for the slides, but he liked bouncing around in one of the more open houses so James could be right there with him. We stopped by a deli on the way home for a quick dinner, and then I went with my mom and sister to Wal-Mart while James took Sawyer on home…Needless to say, that little boy was completely exhausted he made it to his crib!

    Sunday was more of a relaxing day that consisted of being lazy in the morning and then swimming in the afternoon. So far, this week has been fairly uneventful. Just playing with the baby, spending time with the hubby, blogging, and working. I haven’t missed a day in the Veracity Blogathon (go me!) and I am trying to also do some personal posts in between when I can.

    Happy July 4th Americans!

    by  • July 4, 2011 • Ramblings

    This weekend has been the best one that I have had in a while. Nothing too exciting as happened, but we have had lots of fun.

    Saturday was a bit uneventful, but we were able to watch the city fireworks from our back deck. We had considered taking Sawyer down to the recreation department where they are shot off, but decided against it. The kid loves his sleep, and he would have either: 1) Fell asleep long before the fireworks began at 10pm or 2) Been very unpleasant by the time the fireworks began. Next year he will be almost 2, so we think we will take him then.

    Sunday, we all had a lazy morning. Around 1:30pm, James and I took Sawyer to my mom’s because he was staying overnight. Everyone was already at the pool so we lathered him up in Mary Kay sunscreen, changed him into this swim clothes, and dropped into my step-dad’s mom’s lap (she was drifting on a float) before leaving. When we left, we contemplated what we were going to do with our child-free night. The idea of drinking a little alcohol was brought up, but we didn’t have much of that in our freezer. Therefore, we decided to make a quick trip to TN to grab something to drink (since you can’t buy alcohol here on Sundays). We settled with Mike’s Hard Lemonade, and also grabbed a few snacks on our way home.

    When we got home, we cleaned up the living room and kitchen that were in desperate need of a little TLC. We then showered, ordered pizza, and sat down for dinner and a movie. We decided on watching The Killers with Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl. Great movie! Afterwards, we broke out the Mike’s as well as what we had left of the 99 Bananas and Parrot Bay that we have had for a couple months. The rest of the night consisted of us drinking, talking, watching TV, and James falling asleep before midnight. I then stayed up until almost 3am, a little annoyed that my husband got buzzed and passed out, but still enjoyed the alone time.

    Today, we slept in and then went up to my parent’s house for swimming and a cookout. Tomorrow James is off again due to having to drive to Ohio and back a couple a few weeks ago. Because he is on salary, he couldn’t get paid overtime for driving on a Sunday or late Friday evening, so his boss gave him a couple extra days off. He used one back in June, and the other is being used tomorrow. No definite plans right now, other than I am going to enjoy one more day of sleeping in. We are thinking of driving up to a park in Chattanooga where they have fountains that Sawyer can play in.