May 15, 2008

It's that special day that I love looking forward to...Triple Coupon Day! It happens around six times a year and it is by far my best weeks of grocery savings. Today was the first day of Triples at Harris Teeter and since Scott will be leaving for Denver tomorrow, we hit up the store this afternoon. I used 20 coupons and he used 20 coupons. Here's what we scored:

• 2 packages of Nature's Own Bagels
• 4 Jif to Go Peanut Butter
• 2 jars Duke's mayonnaise
• 3 cans French's French Fried Onions
• 6 boxes Barilla Piccolini Pasta
• 4 cans Valley Fresh Canned Chicken
• 4 boxes Chocolate Chex
• 4 Nestle Nesqik Powder
• 4 Nestle Syrup
• 2 Nestle Ready to Drink Milkshake
• 2 bags Inland Valley Curley QQQs Frozen Potatoes
• 2 jars Salsa verde
• 4 McCormicks GrillMates

Now, you guess how much that would cost?? It normally would cost $110.25....but we only spent $29.43. So, we saved $80 only items that we will use!

May 14, 2008

Today I got to spend some great quality time with Dallin. He is such a sweet boy and I love him so much! We went to the park as soon as we dropped Kylie off at preschool this morning. Corbin slept in his seat the whole time we were there. I felt like Dallin had a fun time playing and he loved for me to play games with him while he was swinging. He loves to say "Butterfly in the sky, I can fly twice as high" to get to go higher in the swing. And he loves to say, "Under the Rainbow" if he wants me to push him high and run under the swing. He thinks it's hilarious and as soon as I get done running under, he is already saying, "AGAIN!!!"

I am glad I get those tender moments of quality time with my kids. I love Dallin.

May 13, 2008

Friends--What a tender mercy.
I spent the evening tonight helping one of our best friends, the Bartholomews, clean her apartment before she moves tomorrow morning. I'm full of emotion thinking of just how many of our friends will be moving away this summer. It's so sad to part ways, but exciting to think about the beginning of a new phase in their lives. It's also exciting and sad to think that we will be in this position a year from now. We will finally be the ones moving away from Chapel Hill.

What a wonderful blessing our Heavenly Father has given us in friends. I am thankful for my ability to make friends easily (although I do feel anxiety when I think about having to be social and make new friends again)! We have really been truly blessed with some great friendships here!

May 12, 2008

Mondays are usually a dreadful day at school for Scott. It's the day that the residents are responsible for treating Dental Facial Deformities patients. It makes for a long day with a lot of treatment planning workups that have to be finished by the next week. Anyway, today was the last day of DFD for Scott....and he didn't get a new patient! So, a great day for him!

May 11, 2008

Corbin has begun sleeping really well at night, waking up at around 1:30am and 5am. This is great...and he is sleeping in his own bed now! The extra sleep has felt so good to my body and mind and has helped me get to the end of the day much easier and happier now.

May 10, 2008

Three things of note today:
#1...We were under a Tornado Watch last night and we had terrible thunderstorms during the night. The sound of the pounding hail against our windows woke 4 of us up. Kylie and Dallin were terrified of the sound! It sounded like our apartment building just might be pounded down. I wondered if a tornado was coming our way. It didn't and our new van was spared from getting hit with hail. The place where we were parked in the garage was clearly open to the hail, but none damaged the van. What a blessing!

#2...Again, another blessing with our van! This afternoon as Scott was returning home from helping a family move, he pulled into the garage underneath our apartment building. There was a car driving in front of him and when that car got about halfway into the garage, Scott saw their reverse lights come on. Before he could stop and put the van in reverse to get out of their way, the car in front of him floored the gas on their car and it didn't look like they would stop in time from hitting our van. Scott laid on the horn as fast as he could. The car came to a halting stop just inches from the van. What a blessing that we didn't get hit and that Scott is safe.

#3...Last night at Kylie's ballet recital, we somehow made the mistake of not turning on the camcorder when we thought that we were recording her dance. I was so sad last night afterward and even cried that I now don't have that memory recorded for her. I found someone this morning though who recorded Kylie's class and I asked if I could have a copy of it. Hopefully, I get it!

May 8, 2008

I am so thankful for an easygoing baby. Comparing this experience of being a mother to the experience I had when I became a mother to Kylie, this experience is so much more relaxing and comforting. It's been very enjoyable so far! Corbin has been such a blessing to our family! He eats well, sleeps well, and is so cuddly.

May 3, 2008

I received in the mail today two pieces of mail that I had been waiting and hoping for. #1...an acceptance from Medicaid for Corbin to be on Medicaid insurance for the next year. #2...Corbin's Medicaid card. Both arrived today. Medicaid sure has been a huge blessing in our lives since we've had three children while being students.

We haven't had to pay for Dallin or Corbin's pregnancies or deliveries, all of the antibiotics Dallin has had to be on because of his ear infections, Dallin's surgery to get tubes in his ears, and all of the copays that we would have had to pay without it.

It has saved us literally thousands of dollars.

May 2, 2008

It's a blessing to have healthy, thriving children. Corbin had his one month well-child checkup today with Dr. Goldbach.

He weighed 11 pounds 5 ounces and was 21 1/2 inches long which puts him off the charts in weight. That's quite the stark contrast of his 4 day old appointment where he weighed 7 pounds 2 ounces and the doctor was worried that he wasn't gaining weight.

We have no need to worry in that area. What a blessing from our Heavenly Father.