Monday Madness

I managed to get everyone up and out on time again this morning, so a big yay there! Once I had the house cleared out, except for Hubby Brat, I did the chores that my dear sweet children neglected to do yesterday.. Cleaned the bathroom, started some laundry, swept and mopped the floors and straightened up the mess of my kitchen table a bit.

All the madness gave way to a pretty relaxing morning however.. With everyone else gone except Muppet whom passed back out after breakfast, the house was unusually quiet, so I got some much needed peace. Unfortunately the toll of getting up at 5:30 this morning is setting in, so now I don't really much want to do anything else on my To Do list lol. I don't think this is going to matter much however.. Tonight is going to be more madness..

Lily has cheer and band practice, BOY! has football practice and Car Man possibly has a scrimage tonight, we're still unsure if it's tonight or tomorrow night.. Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing if kids listened when their teachers or coaches speak? All of this on top of the typical Monday evening crazies of homework and folders full of papers to look at.. I'm going to be flying by the seat of my pants I think..

At least I've decided to have an easy dinner, Tyson's Any'tizer Honey BBQ Wings, Mac & Cheese, Peas and I might perhaps throw in some jalapeno poppers. Here's to making it through the day and hopefully semi sticking to our schedule!

In Full Swing

School's back in session now and though it still means keeping a crazy schedule, things are actually semi-starting to settle down a bit. I think it's just a matter of everyone getting use to everything that's going on so we can get adjusted to the initial routine. Luckily, as far as I know at this exact moment in time, today is going to be calm, at least in comparison to the other days of the week! No after school band practice, no football scrimages, games or practices. The kid portion of church hasn't started yet. We rushed around doing the shopping yesterday, not our typical day, but had to make changes due to work scheduling, so I don't have to spend today planning out the menu, list and couponing.. Honestly I just want to go back to bed and relax! However, there is some housework type stuff I need to get done, so I suppose I'll be trying to force myself to do that. On the plus side, if I manage to get the main jobs done today, tomorrow will virtually be a free day, so yay! Well, until evening hits anyway, as there are two football practices and cheerleading meeting and at some point I need to do some minor shopping because we didn't have quite enough time during yesterday's marathon. Well, I suppose I should stop putting the cleaning off and get to it!

Kaotic World

Yes, I know it's chaotic, but I had to misspell it for my hubby lol. Anyway..

I'm still kicking around the idea of posting my own extreme couponing info here, however the world inside our home has been a bit crazier than usual here lately. Lily is in the marching band this year, and though school hasn't quite started yet, has had band practice almost on a daily basis for a couple of weeks now. BOY! is playing tackle and having practice and scrimages several times a week. Car Man is also playing football, flag football, and has practices as well..

All this combined with my husband recently switching jobs, school starting this coming Monday, our own attempts with extreme couponing and now I've branched out into thinking about trying to following flylady.net's way of doing things.. It's a bit nuts lol!

By the way, if you, like myself, have issues keeping a presentable house, you might want to check out flylady.net.. I haven't starting trying out her process yet, but I've been reading up on it here and there the last couple of days and it looks promising. It's all about routines, which though works well for me, I've always found difficult to sticking to, so we'll see.

Anyhow, I should run as there is a scrimage tonight for BOY!, a practice for Car Man, some sort of band thing for Lily and meet the teachers night all going on at one time..

Lessons Learned

My husband and I learned the hard way that when it comes to extreme coupon shopping at local drugstores, such as CVS and Walgreens, that unless you hit the sale when it first starts, you're more than likely going to be leaving empty handed, or close to.. So a couple of weeks ago I sent him to take care of the drugstore shopping Sunday morning when the sale first started, and still, half of what we were after had already been wiped from the shelves. The next theory was, we can go shopping right after midnight Sunday morning! This was our plan this past weekend, however other things came up..Come to find out, it didn't matter! I was under the impression that CVS and Walgreens were open 24/7, wrong!

I spent yesterday evening revamping the drugstore list and jotting down the grocery list as well. The plan was to hit CVS, Walgreens, Kroger and Wal-Mart, all in one trip. There would still be small trips to Dollar General, Family Dollar and Brookshires, but we could deal with that later, as they are not 24/7 stores.. So, I plan it all out and we leave a bit after 2am.. We get over there just to find that neither of the drugstores are open! A bit annoying.. But it worked out in the end because at least we didn't make the run just to hit the drugstores..

We ended up just hitting Wal-Mart though and will have to make another trip tonight or tomorrow night.. This is just a prime example as to why planning is everything when it comes to the world of extreme couponing. Check and double check everything, especially when you're first starting out!

As for the Wal-Mart haul, nothing to really brag about. I shop Wal-Mart for all of the weekly purchases we make that there are not awesome deals on currently, as over all, they have the best day to day prices.