…you find a meatball in your purse, from yesterday no less.

Coming soon, a post about the last two weeks, which will include details on a flood, a makeover, yucky sickness, camping, and maybe other things.

I got a new haircut this week. Chris wanted to see it, so here’s a picture:

Paw-paw and Savannah found baby frogs in the garden, a highlight of her week! Paw-paw caught them and put them in a jar for her. She put the jar in a doll stroller and took the babies for a walk. Here is the proud mommy with her frog babies.

And to wrap this up, here is a message for Daddy from Savannah and Caleb.

And I love you too, dear hubby!

We had a great time at the Zoo of Acadiana this morning! It was a fun place and so nice. My Aunt Halina and her two kids came joined us. Here are some pics!

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Sarah and I and our little sweeties are in Lafayette visiting with mom and dad. My hubby is in Nashville with Sarah’s hubby and a bunch of other guys working a boy’s program at a home school conference. I miss my hubby so much. Part of me is missing. I’m so proud of him though. He’s serving his heart out up there, and I know he’ll be a blessing to the boys.

On Saturday, we had a Perkins family get-together with aunts and uncles and cousins. It was fun to see everyone, and hug necks, and eat boiled crawfish!

We also got a little pool for Caleb and Savannah to play in. They love it! Well, Caleb took a little while to get used to the idea. For the longest time he would only stand on the slide and bounce. I guess once he saw how much fun Savannah was having, he “dove” in!

Other than swimming, we’ve been enjoying relaxing together and shopping. Caleb and Savannah have mommy and Aunt Sarah’s old toys to play with and “new” cars and blocks to play with from their cousins!

I will try to be better at taking pictures the rest of this week. Tomorrow we’re headed to the zoo, then Thursday my grandma is coming to visit for a few days!

I love you Chris, and I miss you so much!!!

Since the beginning of this year I’ve been learning about how to shop at CVS. It is so much fun! Today, I went shopping, and CVS paid me 48 cents!

So here is my attempt at telling you how that worked out.

Saturday trip to CVS:

The Aussie shampoo and styling mousse were on sale for $2.99 each and receive $2 reward bucks for each. I also used a coupon for buy one Aussie shampoo, get $2 off an Aussie styling product. So I paid $4 plus tax for the hair products, and got back $4 reward bucks, making them free excluding tax!

Today’s trip to CVS:

Transaction 1 – Gillette men’s body wash was on sale for $4 and receive $4 reward bucks. I used the $4 reward bucks from Saturday to buy one body wash and used a buy one get one free coupon for the second body wash. The two bottles rang up free and I got back $8 reward bucks.

Transaction 2 – Little Swimmers were on sale for $6.99, and I also used a $1 off coupon. BBQ sauce was on sale for $1.50 and I used a $1 off coupon. Mentos were 99 cents (see story about mentos below). So my total was $7.52.  I used $8 reward bucks from first transaction. So, I got paid 48 cents! YAY!

All in all, out of pocket for everything in the picture, I paid $3.52 plus tax.

The mentos would not be in the picture if it wasn’t for my sugar loving genes passed on to Savannah. She picked them up and opened them while I was figuring out everything at the cash register. She knows better now, and mommy enjoyed the chewy munchies on the way home! Daddy enjoyed more of them while I was taking the picture. Here’s a rabbit trail, Savannah got new markers today for staying dry and clean for 2 days! Yay, Savannah!

So really and truthfully, does how I explained everything above make any sense? Not about the mentos – about the shopping at CVS? Here’s a link to the first article I read about it: Money Saving Mom – CVS 101. I’m very grateful to the Lord for introducing me to Money Saving Mom’s blog. I come home from grocery shopping excited! Thank you Lord for teaching us new things, and for Your sweet provision!