Saturday, May 7, 2016

Freebie Haul 5/2- 5/7

This week was an awesome week for freebie coupons. I can't wait to redeem them and the protein crunch bites are amazing. Cayce is in love with the viewers. I am ready for the next freebie week.

Monday: only two coupons today
free Organic Balance coupon

Free Back to Nature coupon

Tuesday: I got a Smiley360 mission kit today.
Pure Protein Crunch

Wednesday: We got two virtual reality viewers today. Cayce got his Captain America and I got the Iron Man. We were pissed off that out boxes that they came in were squished all to hell.
Unboxing the viewer

New Fruit loops bowl from Kellogg's Rewards

Iron Man viewer assembled

Redplum coupon insert

Thursday: We got some free whole coffee beans, now that means why have to buy a coffee grinder.
Revelator coffee beans

Friday: Got three freebies today.
another Iron Man virtual reality viewer from Kellogg's Rewards

stickers from Southern Marsh

June 2016 issue of Cycle World

Saturday: I got some awesome freebies today.. love them.
got another Iron Man virtual reality viewer for one of the kids

Free seventh generation laundry detergent coupon

Kellogg's Rewards book: Bar Code Rebellion

Friday, May 6, 2016

School Week 37 Recap

We have one more week left of school.... AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! It is exciting and nerve-wracking. This was a good week, but I don't know if I would call it a productive week or not. I am having a lot of anxiety issues and doubt about my ability to home school my kids properly. I had these same issues at the end of last year. Another reason for my anxiety is probably the fact that I am already planning for next school year. I want to get a good chunk of it done tomorrow, so I can relax all day on Sunday, so time to get this post done and finished with my other tasks for tonight.

Monday: I woke up with bad allergies this morning and my eyes were all puffy and my throat was sore throat. It was awful, but I pushed on. They did morning work and quiet time. We read library books, and it was painful.

After reading those two library books, Ariana did Easy Peasy and Samantha wanted to do a word search.
playing a colors game


When Samantha was done with her word search, she played 7 wonders and Ariana moved onto her Reading Eggs. She started a new map, but she only completed two lessons. Samantha finished her day with Reading Eggs. She did some drivers tests and did a spelling placement test.

Tuesday: We had an early start to the day. We just decided to start kicking the soccer ball around and then we started throwing and catching.  Then Cayce had them help him clean out the car. Cayce basically lives in the car because of his work schedule. After they got through, they came in to do morning work, Samantha did quiet time first while Ariana worked on Reading Eggs. 


My throat was feeling a little better, so I could finish reading library books. We read one of my childhood favorites, The story of Ferdinand. 

To end the day, Ariana did quiet time and Samantha worked on her Reading Eggs story lands.


Wednesday: We had a very late start day to the morning because we were waiting for Cayce and addy to get back. I also woke up early this morning to get work done. I made it a space day because it was May the 4th be with you day. We don't own the star wars movies, so we watched Space Buddies after they colored more Star Wars pages. 

Han Solo has met the modern age in Ariana's coloring.

After the movie, Ariana pitched a fit because she didn't want to do quiet time, and she wanted to do reading eggs. Samantha worked on three of her mathseeds lessons.

Ariana pouting

This is what Sammy is doing and she understands it.

Samantha finished her day with doing another wordsearch. Ariana finally got to do her reading eggs. 
She did two lessons. She will be finishing her map either tomorrow or on Friday.

Thursday: Morning work before we did work in the front yard and worked some more in the garden. That was what I wanted for my mother's day. 


Next Samantha did her quiet time while Ariana worked on her Easy Peasy lessons. After, they colored some cinco de mayo coloring pages.

To end the day we watched some Dinosaur train.

Friday: We began the day as soon as I was feeling up to it. This morning I was feeling very poorly. I was carrying a box of tissues like a lifeline. They did morning work and then did workbook pages. I didn't take pics of them doing their workbook pages. After, they did some mother's day coloring pages. Addy participated.


We then watched George of the Jungle. I hadn't seen this movie since I was a kid and I love it. The kids have never seen it and they fell in love too. After the movie, Samantha worked on Easy Peasy and Ariana did quiet time and then finished her day with Reading Eggs. 

Samantha making patterns with moon rocks

Ariana painting by color names.

This was a good school week and I am ready for next week, but my nervousness will be in high effect,                                  

Thursday, May 5, 2016

April Etsy Haul

I was only planning on two Etsy purchases for the month of April, but it ended up being 3 because I got a refund on a purchase I made back in February from a charity that is shady. Takes money and doesn't send out the merchandise and they call themselves a non-profit. I won't mention the "charity" because I don't want to be sued for slander.

The first shop I am going to be mentioning is a planner shop. She sells planner covers, journaling cards, dashboards, etc...

1. JeePapeterieShop
I have had my eye on her #Goal Digger planner covers for months. I just loved the colors and it was funny. The first time I saw it, I thought it was so clever.. I had to have it. She makes covers for the Erin Condren and Happy Planner. I have the happy planner, and the colors fit so well with the disks I have. I will be buying more from her shop in the future. Check her out!
Some journaling cards and the front & back covers 

I am in love with the hashtag and the colors. 


2. NikoSolod
This is a small small Etsy shop. This seller only has one item and she is based in the Ukraine. The shipping takes a while and once it leaves the deporting office in the Ukraine, the updates stop, so you won't know when it will arrive in the U.S. I had to get this shirt because it was available in my favorite color and I love the font.
The font is a collegiate style and I love that kind of font.


3. SandiLake
I noticed this shop when they were in the news for suing Target for basically stealing this desgin and selling it in their stores. They eventually won their lawsuit and Target had to remove it from their stores. This was a favorite ever since I saw it and I will be buying again from this shop for the girls. They have some cute kids tops. And once again, this is a hashtag!
Black Tank #merica

I will be sporting this around the fourth of July, and probably when we go on our trip to Six Flags this summer.

That is my Etsy haul for the month of April. I will probably be making only one purchase from Etsy this month because I need to be saving for Six Flags.

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Library Haul #35

It's the second to the last library haul for this school year. We are almost done and it is so freaking excited and heartbreaking at the same time. I still haven't made up my mind about doing these again next year. So, let's get on with the haul... shall we?? >>>>

1. The Story of Ferdinand
I have always loved this story as a child and I was glad when Ariana picked it out to read this week.

2. Marvel Avengers: Hulk Versus the World
I dislike this little book because Black Widow turns out to be a double agent for Hydra. OH HELL NO!

3. Pickles, Please!
 Pickles are nasty!

4. Dolores on Her Toes
This was a cute little book because she basically tortures her cat, and we do that with ours... not really torture, but bother uncontrollably.

5. Narcissus in Chains
Book 10. I plan on reading this one faster and hopefully be done with book 11 next weekend.

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Blue Moon Review

Time for another Anita Blake novel review. This one is my favorite because it is all about Richard the werewolf. I have formed a love for wolves ever since my friend John died in 2014 from a brain tumor. He was a Navajo Indian and he absolutely LOVED horses and wolves. So I associate wolves with the memory of my best friend.

This book starts off with Anita getting a phone call from Richard's brother saying that Richard has been arrested in Tennessee for attempted rape. So, Anita gets her panties in a twist and tries to go to his rescue. Jean-Claude shows up and says that she can't go because the local master vampire there would take that as a challenge for his territory.

She goes anyways with Damian and Asher, and two of her wereleopards Zane and Cherry. Jason also tags along because he is the treat for the vampires when they awaken every night. Anita sees Richard in jail and then she has a run in with the bad "good ole boys" who want to harm Richard. Richard gets out on bail and refuses to leave town because of the troll situation he is working on and he is also interviewing new lupas.... aka having sex with other women.

In this novel, Anita and Richard FINALLY have sex, the sheriff has his men and the "good ole boys" kidnap, torture and rape Richard's brother and mother to get Richard to leave town and to kill the troll population.

In the end, Anita makes a decision to stop seeing Richard and Jean-Claude both and learn how to control the marks between all three of them and take lessons from Marianne who is the witch psychic in the novel.

There is way more to this story, but then I will basically be re-writing the whole thing.

Monday, May 2, 2016

April Favorite Recipe

I broke a trend this month. I didn't make rice with this dinner, even though I thought about it. The weather is starting to get hot and that comes with a hot house, so the recipes for the next few months are going to be easy cooks.

A few months ago, we saw a deal on leg quarters and bought close to 40 pounds. We have been eating a lot of leg quarters. We have been experimenting a lot. At the beginning of April, Cayce made this recipe but he didn't shred the chicken and it was damn good.

To start we boiled the leg quarters until it was done. I am picky with my chicken. I am always cautious. After it was cooked, Cayce shredded it this time, which turns out I didn't like as well as I did when we kept it on the bone. We also changed ingredients this time around. We substituted onions with green onions from our garden.
gorgeous and vibrant green onions

mixing the onions in with the shredded chicken

We used an aluminum baking tin this time because I did NOT want to wash dishes. I have no dish washer in my house, so I have to wash by hand and I am the only one that will wash the dishes. Once we had the green onions mixed in with the chicken, we seasoned it with salt and pepper.
Sammy had to watch. 


Once Cayce was done seasoning the chicken, I mixed together the sauce that would be coating the chicken. The first time we made this, we used Cream of Mushroom & Cream of Chicken and onion soup mix with water. This time, we didn't have Cream of Chicken.

I have always loved this mixture on any type of meat since I made slow cooked pork cube steaks for my birthday one year. It will make your tongue slap your brain!!!! I swear it.
The sauce looks disgusting, but it is damn DELICIOUS!


Once I poured the sauce over the chicken and coated, it was time to put it in the oven. Since the chicken was already cooked, we put the oven on 350F, and put the chicken in for 25 minutes to warm it through. We ate this by itself with some bread.
#Yummy

For May's I will be making a Mexican dish. We will be making it for school, so it will be mentioned in this week's school post but the May favorite post will be up next month.

Sunday, May 1, 2016

Polyvore Outfit #8

I am going to change up the blog posts today and post an outfit. The library post will be up on Wednesday. This outfit set is called TV interview. I came up with this outfit when I was seeing pictures from Mockingjay Part 1 TV interviews.

  1. Women's hollow out bandage dress
  2. Steve Madden Lannaa High Heels
  3. Coach Pave Lock Heart Necklace
  4. C. Wonder Enamel Evil Eye Stud Earrings
  5. Last.fm

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