New Dishcloths Make Me Happy!

Ok, story starts with my mother getting a coupon for $10 off of any $75 household item purchase at Target. Below is the reason that I needed such a coupon and the resounding effects that my purchase today had on me!

Well, my children seem to find it amusing to think that they are Indiana Jones running from the boulder and another one of them will jump on the 'boulder' to save their brother or sister. In this instance, the 'boulder' is my laundry hamper. You know the plastic circular ones? Yep, you can imagine how it looks! It is split down the side absolutely disastrous and I have been meaning to get another one.

So, I go to Target to get some new hampers (seeing as how mine are destroyed) and I needed quite a few. So I knew that, seeing as how they are at least 8 bucks each, that would be around 32 bucks of the 75 that I needed to spend.

Well, I get there and they have ONE. Yes, that's right, ONE! Well, I decide to get that and settle for regular baskets for everything else. So, I get two baskets and the one hamper. I decided to get a new shower curtain for our main shower and then they actually had the shower stall size one for our second bathroom that has a really small shower in it, so I had to get one of those. I found a new floor mat for my kitchen to go in front of the sink in the floor. Then, I saw something that I just had to have!

I literally HAD to have it. Know what it was? Dishcloths! I had never seen any that were this cute and they came in a big pack with 8 of them! So, I got them. Well, they had another multi-pack that came with 2 potholders/2 kitchen towels/2 different kind of dishcloths. IT MATCHED! So, I had to have those and then I found microfiber cloths like I had just seen the other day on TV and wanted so badly! So, I got those!

Well, when I get up to check out, turns out that the hamper that they had was cracked! No wonder it was the only one left! So, the lady says she is sorry and took it off the receipt. No harm, no foul! I still got to use the reciept since my total purchase was more than 75 bucks, but I totally should not have spent that money! However, with mildew on the shower curtain no matter how much you clean it and having had the same hampers and dishcloths for over 3 years, I think I was due some new ones!

You would not believe how happy that those cloths made me! I am so happy to have new dishcloths. I was in the kitchen almost all day today catching up on dishes and cleaning since I had my new cloths. I wonder how long this will last!?!?!

Weekend In The Mountains

So, I am TOTALLY not a mountain girl. Or, so I thought. Hubby's work hosted their yearly company picnic at Chimney Rock (a mountain state park with trails and a waterfall). I absolutely LOVED it. The kids had a blast! They did a scavenger hunt trail walk thing for the kids and they had so much fun doing that. Then, we went to the top of 'The Rock' which is at 2280 feet! The kids were great! They posed for my pictures, loved the view, and loved the trails. After we got down from the top we went to the waterfall which was another trail that had to be hiked. (Which, trust me, my calves are STILL paying for! You don't realize just how out of shape you are until you hike a mountain!) I got some great pics and I hope to have them up soon!

Busy, busy, busy

Here lately I have been go, go, go all of the time. I find myself so very exhausted that I just want to sleep all day long, but far too much goes on in one day for me to pass it up!

I have to go shopping tomorrow to get the final things for Bryan's party and it will be a "me" day. I am dropping my little guy off in the morning to spend the day with my grandparents and the other two are staying with my husband. So, I will get to go for breakfast and relax while I shop! Is that not awesome!?!

Just remember me as I am trying to clean my entire house for the party on Saturday! Whew! Something says that tomorrow while I am shopping will be my last bit of peace!

Gallery Walk...

I am a devoted scrapbook.com-er. I am always on and most of the time, with no reason or excuse. But, that's over with! Ever since Imagine.lilacs started a "challenge" called the Gallery Walk, I am always on scanning galleries and having a blast catching the inspiration from them. I never actually sat and did that before. I was just aimlessly posting and waiting the PMs and questions that arose. So, I wanted to take a moment to post my immense thanks to imagine.lilacs for showing me a new reason to be online!!

For shame, for shame!

Ok, so I am very, very naughty. I realize this. However, with all that has been going on with me, the last thing on my mind was a blog. I don't really have all that much knowledge to share with anyone, so it is really not like I was missed or anything. But, I am making a pact with myself that I will try to write at least one time a week!!

So, Melinda does not make it? How on earth do you explain that?

I still don't see how in the world Melinda Doolittle did not make it. She is the only one (in my opinion) that can REALLLY sing and make me feel it, kwim? Jordin is all fine and dandy (and yes, I voted for her as well!) but I thought that based solely on singing that Blake should have been out. Don't get me wrong, I adore him. I listen to the iTunes that I have from him religiously, but I still think that Melinda deserved to go through to the next round more than he did. Even his own family was stunned that he made it through! Not that I am hating on him, because I am not....

I just don't get how it is fair that she was sent home, kwim?

Busy Mother's Day

Ok, so I know that I have not been faithful to ye blog... yet again. But, here I am now! Mother's Day was also my 23rd birthday, right? Well, to celebrate Mother's Day I got to go out! By out, I do not mean that I was at a club all night long drinking my heart out or anything wild like that. My idea of out is what you might ask? My idea of out is SHOPPING! ALL DAY LONG! As if that is not great enough, it was my mom, my grandmother, my daughter, and me! Is that not the greatest!? We had breakfast at Stax, who has the BEST waffles ever! Then, we went shopping at Ross, completely overshooting our time limit that we had set for ourselves which caused us to miss the Mother's Day banquet at church. Although, to be completely honest, I had more fun shopping than I would have had there I think! Anyway, my birthday gift from my mother was money for clothes. Although, I never SAW the money, she just bought my clothes for me! My grandmother that was with us (my mom's mom) gave me money for whatever I wanted to get for myself. My dad's mom had given me money to get new underwear that I have been dying for. Yes, I do realize how pathetic it is to want new underwear! LOL.

Anyway, I got all sorts of outfits from Ross and then we went to a place called BREAKOUT BRAS, which actually sold a bra that ACTUALLY fits me and holds me up! Yes, it is HIGHLY uncomfy, but it does the job! So, my mom bought me two bras and I used my money from my grandmother to get SPANX. Spanx are yet another spectacular invention!

Then, we went to Hamrick's and I just HAD to buy Max some shoes.

Then, we went out to Monterrey, our fave restaurant!

Then, Target.

Then, Wal-Mart.

Then, I got taken home. I was tired! LOL.

I had a blast and it was the best day that I have had in such a long time. Thank you so much for that mom. I appreciate it more than you know.

-mj