Expired Coupons

It's that time of the year, when I need to clean out my coupon binder! I haven't done so since I started back couponing in February. I almost couldn't pick up my binder without struggling. Just four months of coupons are back breaking!
I just cleared out an entire month worth of expired coupon inserts, all the way to March 9th. When looking thru my first set of March 16 I found a few that didn't expire until the middle of this month, and I decided to stop there.
So, if your following me, you can throw out all of the coupon inserts before March 16. I also tossed a few P&G's- just go thru your stack and normally you can look at one date in the P&G inserts to tell you if they are expired. They tend to expire at the end of the month.
Let me tell you now- cleaning out this many inserts, made my binder feel a world different! I won't have to struggle anymore. :)

Tot school week 7

Okay,  I promise this week will be better!  Or at least bit more organized. We spent the week away again, and that meant a lot of time outside in the heat,  and some time in the little pool trying keep cool.  The only organized activites that we did this week was a few sensory "bins." Just easy things to put together easily.  The first thing we did was play with a bit of shaving cream and food coloring. Very simple,  I took a clear box and sprayed some Dollar Tree shaving cream into it, then added a couple of drops of red food coloring.   

See how pretty?

N didn't know what to do with it at first, then finally she really dug into the fun foam.

The next activity that was planned didn't quite go as well as I thought. I tried to make goop, you know- the stuff that is liquid when still and a solid when touched?
Well, I read that I just have to mix cornstarch with water,  and I'd be done.  Yeah,  that didn't work! It was a mess!  However,  N loved playing the milky water. 

We started looking other recipes up to figure out what I did wrong,  and we saw that I could add baking soda to the mix.
A box of baking soda later and we still had a mess on our hands.  N still enjoyed splashing around.  We noticed as we were pouring the mixture out that it was kinda of slimy on bottom.  We finally made something to play with! Although at this point N was done and I had more fun playing. 

We had a great time on walks and playing in the rocks. We made a camping baby out of her.  It was a very fun week, but very exhausting at the same time.  I am so happy to be home,  and ready to start our next week.

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Where did the days go?

   Holidays always  mess me up, do they for you as well? It doesn't help that we had two holidays back to back just about. Last Monday was  Memorial Day and yesterday was Jeff Davis' birthday. Happy Birthday to you. :) I am going  to go on and say  that tomorrow is a personal holiday as well. MY birthday! Happy Birthday to me! I've realized since I  have had N - that birthdays are really all a blurr. I've recently downloaded TimeHop and saw that two and three years ago around this time, I was counting down the hours until my Birthday. Now, I am just lucky I remember I have a birthday. Back to my holiday rant- with it being a holiday, I didn't plan anything for Natalie, (plus I am trying out the 6 weeks on- 1 week off thing) but I also didn't stick to my cleaning schedule. WHY OH WHY!? I went all week- sitting on my bum being super lazy. We went camping this past weekend, which meant noone was at home to make a mess, but came back last night and I was appalled. This house was a wreck! I didn't do anything, of course, besides the laundry and dishes. So do you want to know what happened when I woke up this morning? I about had a panic attack! There were clothes all over the living room, things all over my counter in the kitchen, dishes still in the sink and food left on the stove that I told myself over and over to go put up last night. The quote "it looks like a tornado came thru" was quite quite true this morning, and I just wanted to sit on the floor and cry! I almost called my grandmother to tell her I was not coming back to camp today.  Seeing as I really want to go back to my retreat and have another few days of vacation- I decided I wouldn't do that, but I was going to clean first!
    I also started getting these emails  that contain interviews from Mothers and entrepreneurs talking about balancing your life as a mother. To learn more about this go to Lisa's page at wellgroundsite.com. I listened to the first interview this morning, while cleaning the kitchen. It was an interview  from Renee Trudeau who spoke about her book  The Mother's Guide to Self-Renewal: How to Reclaim, Rejuvenate and Re-Balance Your Life.  *note  that I am in  no way an affiliate of this book or anything dealing with wellgroundedsite.com- I simply want to share.*
I really want  to go to  the library right now and find it! She isn't talking about going and getting a massage and pedicures, she is talking about actually renewing your life from the inside out. If you have a minute, go to Lisa's page sign up to get the emails, if you have 45 minutes everyday, for 9 days. It may be worth your while. 
   Okay sorry, I got off on another subject. That would be the coffee working it's magic. :) Anyway. I got my butt to work this morning. I cleaned up the kitchen, got all of our clothes in their bags and put by the door, dusted the entire house, and picked up all the clutter in the living room. I am now waiting on the clothes in the dryer to finish up, so I can fold and put away. Thankfully I have a husband who doesn't mind vacuuming and I have asked him to do so this afternoon for me. I feel refreshed knowing that my house is clean again. It's not perfect, but it's ten times better than  it was. :) 
   I am off now, to get everything loaded in the van and head back out to camp. This is going to be an awesome week- just the girls. (At least during the day) 

Until next time. 

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