Finals

How many of you got to take some finals early? Some of my teachers posted them early and I got to finish them up. I was really excited when I took 2 finals last night and got A's on both of them. What a relief! I get really nervous when taking tests. I actually get test anxiety which makes it worse for me and sometimes I get not so good grades. I'm happy to announce I did pretty well this semester with all of my tests.

I really enjoyed blogging this semester. I enjoyed even more reading everyone's blogs. I liked to hear about what was going on in all of your lives and enjoyed reading about the interesting information you put on your blogs. I feel like this blog did help with my writing skills and I enjoyed the assignment. I will honestly probably take a break in blogging, but I will keep doing it. I will start again after my husband has back surgery. He goes in on December 29th. It's going to be a long healing process, and I'm excited for him to start feeling better. It will be nice to have my husband back. He's been in so much pain and I hate seeing that. he also can't wait to play with the kids again. He loves to be on the floor wrestling and playing with the kids. He has missed that so much. It will still be a few months before he can do that again, but I know he is counting down the days. The boys cherish story time with their dad so much at night time, because that is the most he can do for them. That used to be my job, but I let him do it now so he can have that time with the boys.

I enjoyed reading all of the blogs this semester and I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Semester is almost done....

I can't believe that this semester is already almost over. I'm happy though. I'm need of a break. Although it won't be much of a break since the hubby is having back surgery in December. Hopefully that will give him some relief though. I need help with the kids again. It gets overwhelming having to do everything and to keep up with school work. I'm very grateful that he will get this surgery so he can heal and feel better. I feel horrible having to watch him in pain everyday. It's not fair to see him like that. He's always so strong. He's still been extremely strong through all of this. His doctor said he's shocked that Jon is doing as much as he is.
I'm not ready for finals in one class. I have to watch a bunch of lectures for psychology and I'm not ready for it yet. I still have a little over a week, but I wish there was a little more time.

I very much love the Christmas season. I love the decorations, I love the spirit of Christmas that I constantly feel around my family, I love that I have such a wonderful family to spend it with, and I love being able to provide a good Christmas for my kids. I also like to be able to help other families during Christmas and the Holidays to teach my children about giving and that they need to give also. It is not always about receiving. They are still learning about that, but it's a process I'm willing to work at. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season and remembers the true meaning of Christmas. It's not all about gifts.

Until next time.....

Happy Thanksgiving!!

What a wonderful week! I'm so grateful for my family, and I'm truly blessed for what I have. What a wonderful week to remind me of the blessings I have. We had 3 thanksgiving feasts with family and they were all fantastic. I love the time I get to spend with my family. I couldn't ask for a better family. They mean the world to me.

I did black friday shopping and did pretty well for myself and family of course. People get a little to greedy of course. I had a lady literally take a lego box out of my hand because it was the last one on the pallet and I was grabbing it. I just let her have it because I didn't feel my children needed something that much to fight over. She was very greedy and I didn't want it to upset my day. I told my mom about it and she went to her walmart and found the legos. So it all worked out and there was absolutely no need to be greedy. I went to Old Navy after walmart and was able to get my children about $300 worth of clothes for $150. I was pretty excited about that. It was awesome.

My favorite shopping trip was of course walgreens. They practically had everything free and with coupons I made money on a lot of items. My trip was the best one I've ever done. I got $538 worth of stuff for $7.32. BEST DAY EVER. That included 12 bottles of laundry detergent, a bunch of toothpaste that i'm donating, lip gloss, toothbrushes, shave gel, face wash and the list could go on and on. I'm to the point where my husband is finally going to have to buy me shelving. I'm pretty excited to be building my stockpile. It's great to be able to feel the comfort of having enough food and personal needs items if something were to happen. I love to be able to donate as well. I can't always donate money, so this makes me feel better to donate all these items I can get for free with my coupons. Whatever my family doesn't need, I always donate. In fact, I took my neighbor a little bag with 2 tubes of toothpaste, toothbrushes, razors, body spray, and lip gloss. She was so excited. I love being able to share.

Until Next time......

Fall Festival

So my kids have a fall festival/carnival tonight at their school. They have all types of games, an auction, and all kinds of fun stuff. They sent home a note with the kids yesterday saying they desperately needed desserts made because they hadn't been recieving any. Needless to say, I got to work. I made a cake and a pan of brownies last night, and then today I've made another pan of brownies, 2 cakes and 2 dozen chocolate chip cookies. Hopefully it will help a little bit. They are having a cake walk, so I made the round cakes for that. It was a lot of fun. I've been so consumed with homework recently that I havent had time to bake much. I love to bake.

My kids also get to do a performance for each of their classes. I'm excited for that. My littlest Logan who is 1 year old is under the weather, so hopefully his cold won't effect him too much to where we have to leave early. Maybe he and the hubby can go home since my hubby ins't supposed to do much anyway. I'm still loving my new car. Why wouldn't I? It's so smooth riding and it's just pretty. Well I'll be back later with pictures from the fall festival.

Until Next time.....

Disbelief

I can't believe how fast this semester has gone. I'm kind of shocked that we are into week 13. I'm very glad though. I'm ready for christmas break. Well, you are going to see a lot from me this week. I forgot to blog last week, so i'm going to blog 4 times this week to make up for it. Even if I don't get credit for it, I still do the assignment that was assigned.

So my local grocery store, Summerfresh, had a great deal going on Saturday and Sunday this last week. They were doubling coupons up to $1. That never happens. So I got all of my coupons out and went to the store Friday night to map everything out. There were a bunch of other people there as well, so I knew I would have to get there early. I got there about 20 minutes early and luckily I was the first person in the store. I only ended up not getting one item. 2 girls decided to completely clear the shelf of some uncle ben's boxes of rice that I was going to get for $.49. I asked if they could spare a couple and they said no. I moved on and got everything else I wanted. It was a great grocery trip. I ended up getting $150 worth of groceries for $35! Needless to say when I walked in with bags and bags and my hubby found out how much I spent, he was so excited. I love my coupons.

My husband is starting to get a little relief. He has been going to a chiropractor about every other day since the neurosurgeon hasn't scheduled his appt yet. He can walk a little straighter and is feeling a little better.

Some also very exciting news.....Since I've started couponing I've saved my family a ton of money. For my hard work and effort, my husband bought me a brand new Toyota 4Runner. I've never had a new vehicle in my life and I'm so excited about it. The payments aren't too high because we had a lot of equity in my other vehicle.

Until next time.....

Husband

So my husband got his MRI results back this morning, and he has a vertabrae out of place! How ridiculous is that?? They are now sending him to a neurologist. They said it will probably be a month before he can get in. How can they expect a person to be so immobile and not do anything about it? He's having such a hard time. Hopefully they can get him in sooner. It get's hard for me to get everything done and take care of him like I would like too. He deserves my constant attention and I can't give it to him with the kids and school.

I'll write more in the morning

Until nex time......

What a week...

I have never seen a hospital so much as I have this last week. As I wrote before my oldest son was in the hospital, and then my husband had to go to the hospital on Sunday. They did a cat scan on him and he has 2 bulging discs in his back. They could rupture at any moment which would mean back surgery. He has to go back for the 3rd time tomorrow and get an MRI. So not only has he already been to the hospital twice already, we have to go back tomorrow. We have to drive to Fayetteville because he is a Veteran and has to go to the VA hospital, which means we drive about 3 hours round trip each time we go. Luckily, my father-in-law came down here for vacation before all this happened and we have had his help. I don't know what I would have done without him here.

It has been hard to do all of these hospital visits, get homework done, take care of the house and kids, and my husband. I'm so burnt out. I'm not  getting any sleep because I'm acting as a full time nurse to my husband. He hasn't been sleeping at night and so I don't sleep either because I'm so worried about him. I keep praying for him to get better and that we don't have to do surgery.

Other than that, life has been great! When you have such a big family, there is always something going on. Busy, busy, busy. I still manage to do some couponing too! I haven't done as much since I've been in school because it takes a lot of work, and I concentrate more on school then I do my couponing.

Until next time.....