Raising Blessings

This week’s Thrifty Shopper post is pretty bad. I have two pictures out of 3 shopping trips and I lost all my receipts so I can’t completely break down the deals. At least I use my American Express card to buy almost everything (so I can get money back each year!) So I know how [...]

For me the saddest local news story recently is that of 4 year old Ethan Stacy whose mother and stepfather are facing charges of his death. His father who lives in Virgina wanted full custody of Ethan because his mother had abandoned him before and he believed she was unstable. However, a Florida judge ordered [...]

This is my mothers day picture, it was taken a week late but at least I got one! I look huge but that’s ok   The discomforts of pregnancy and craziness of toddlers and preschoolers is a small price to pay to be a mother of precious little girls. JJ and I happily give up [...]

I am now preparing for the daily “have you had the baby yet?” and “How much longer until your due date?”. Sariah and Rebekah were both born during the 40th week so I’m not expecting anything to happen before then – I wouldn’t mind of course! I was thinking this morning how at 9:00 pm on March [...]

If you want to learn about wrinkle creams you might go to www.wrinklecreamsthatwork.net and if you want to learn about cloth diaper myths and facts you might go to the Pampers website or at least that is what Pampers wants you to do. I find it funny that Pampers feels threatened enough by cloth diapers [...]

China is currently the world’s biggest tobacco consumer and hopefully visitors and residents of China will be able to breathe a little easier soon because China plans to ban smoking in public building and transportation by 2011. Utah has the lowest smoking rate in the US so when we travel some where else, cigarette fumes [...]

Well they call it doubling but that’s not exactly accurate. Today and tomorrow all coupons from 25 cents to $1.00 are worth $1.00 off! This is great for those cheap items that have 25 cents and 50 cents off coupons because this means FREE stuff! This morning I got chocolate covered pretzels, 3 Musketeer Truffles,  [...]

Tomorrow Sherwin Williams is having their annual anniversary sale so we are going to buy paint for Sariah and Rebekah’s room as well as some more paint to finish painting the kitchen.  JJ worked for College Pro painters one summer 3 years ago and he still feels loyalty towards Sherwin Williams (the only paint store [...]