Chronic Ama

After an exhausting weekend with two trips to labor and delivery, I'm on watch. At first I woke up on Sunday morning with this horrible pain in my side that didn't go away no matter if I laid down, walked around or took Tylenol. I called the doctor and off the L&D I went. I got there having contractions, which we thought was where the pain was coming from. The doctor on call chalked it up to round ligament pain and sent me home with percocet. Between Sunday night and Monday morning, I was still having contractions. They were coming about 5 an hour, every hour and weren't stopping. I called my doctor's office to follow up and see if I could get an appointment, but they sent me back to L&D. Not really what I wanted to do, but I was miserable. Turns out I was indeed having contractions, averaging about 1 every 10 minutes and they weren't stopping. This was pretty much what I experienced when I had Bella. At 36 weeks, I started having contractions that really di

I honestly don't know what has sparked the subject matter job this blog. Perhaps the imminent life changing event about to unfold in the next 6ish weeks? Maybe the continued current state of the economy and the looming losses behind a life sustaining staple such as social security? Or may I've just been looking at old pictures and thinking too damn much. It's definitely NOT got Amy Winehouse finally died! Either way, my adult life this far has been filled with milestones that I never want to forget. I have accomplished a lot of the things I've wanted to do in my life so far and I plan on accomplishing more. So, here it goes.... At 18, I met the love of my life. At the time he was just another boyfriend passing through between the time I graduated high school and started college. Little did I know what I was in store for. By this time, I had also already been an assistant manager at two of my jobs and manager at another. Yeah, they weren't really important jobs, but

Fry's has their "Buy 10, Save $5" sale going on this week and Johnson&Johnson baby products are part of the sale. If you buy 10, they are only $2.50ea, plus, some have peelie coupons on them for $1 off, making them $1.50 a piece. It's a great deal since J&J products usually run about $3-$4 regular price. Target brand baby items aren't even this cheap! I stocked up on 20 bottles! Also, you can go to http://www.johnsonsbaby.com/offers to sign up for coupons to use on this deal. Don't forget that Fry's is still accepting competitor coupons, so you can use any Target coupons you have lying around on this deal too. Also great deals I got at Fry's this week... Free Colgate toothpaste... on sale for $1, use $.50off coupons = free Free candy bars (Nestle, 3Musketeers, M&M)... on sale for $.50, use a $.50off 2 $.17 Gerber Graduates Oatmeal... $1.17, use $.50off coupon (these coupons are avail is you sign up for Gerber online. they come in the mail

So, a lot of people always ask me what I do with all the stuff I buy when I coupon shop. Well, I plan out meals and make them with what's in my pantry. I try to plan out a week's worth of meals at a time just by using what's in the freezer and pantry. Also, since baby is due soon, I've been making a lot of simple meals and freezing them for when I don't feel like cooking. Here's some meal examples from yesterday and today... Yesterday: Porkchops (B1G1 free Fry's sale... so about $3.5 a pack or less) Stuffing to coat porkchops ($.50 clearance sale at Fry's. I bought 4 boxes) Lima beans ($.72 Fry's - regular price less Fry's coupon) Rice-A- Roni ($.50 at Fry's... sale plus coupon) Pillsbury French loaf ($.50 at Fry's... sale combined with coupon) Dinner for the 3 of us cost a total of $5.72 and there were leftovers for my husband's lunch! Today: Hamburger Meat ($1.66 price cut at Target) Taco shells ($.50 at Fry's... sale price p