The Planner Addict Tag

I have been wanting to do this tag for a while and figured it would be a good comeback post after a couple of days from the blogging world. I am having a hard time with time management and I have pushed this blog to the back burner until I can get our lives back on track. Cayce's new job is the reason for all our time issues at the moment. I haven't actually had time to plan my week in my planner for a while now, and it's kind of stressing.

1.) How many planner do you have/own? I own one planner, and that's the happy planner
2.) How many planner do you actually use at one time? I only use one, and I barely have time for that one
3.) When did you first start using a paper planner? December 2015
4.) When did you start decorating your planner? February 2016
5.) If you could use only ONE embellishment to decorate your planner, what would you use? stickers
6.)What is your favourite pen to write with? Pilot Acroball
7.) Favourite place to shop for planner goodies (Can also be your favourite Etsy seller) Amazon & Etsy
8.)What is the most you have spent at a store for planner supplies? $30.00
9.) What is your planning routine? Sometimes, I plan my weeks out, or I usually do a plan as I go throughout the week. I don't really have a routine.
10.) If you had to pick only ONE planner, which one would you use and why? I would choose the MAMBI Happy Planner because I feel like you can do so much more with it than the Erin Condren.
11.) *BONUS QUESTION* Show us your washi tape stash. Is it out of control?

My washi stash is not too out of control, but everytime I do go into the Dollar Tree, I search for washi and if I see some I like, I will get it. Cayce always gets some washi too if he is out an about.

I want to start sharing my weekly spreads, like a plan with me Monday. I don't know how that would go. Comment down below if you would like to see my week spreads.

Freebie Haul 9/12- 9/17

Freebie haul time once again and I loved this week. Monday my mailbox was packed full and it was a happy sight. It was a great week and I am looking forward to next week because I have that feeling that I am going to be getting some great stuff.

Monday: It was a big magazine day!

Walmart New Baby box. 

Got this for a friend who just gave birth to her first son a couple days ago. Congrats Maya!

September 22, 2016 issue of Rolling Stone

October 2016 issue of Men's Health

October 2016 issue of Women's Health

September 19, 2016 issue of Us Weekly

October 2016 issue of Redbook

October 2016 issue of Seventeen

Tuesday: No freebies

Wednesday: I got my most wanted freebies today

Tampax Pocket Pearl crowdkit from Crowdtap

Kellogg's Family Rewards books

Thursday: I had hell with the post office today and this little freebie that I thought would never get here, brightened up my day because I ran out of coconut oil days ago.

Vita Coco Coconut Oil

Friday: The only freebie I got with a huge stack of bills and junk mail.

Cayce's pinchme box: Goddess Garden Sunscreen and firming primer & Sheba wet cat food

The cat food went to Luna since the others go to Missy and President Snow

Saturday: I only got 1 freebie today along with more bills... #ugh

October 2016 issue of Marie Claire

I am really happy with this week's haulage. I am hoping that I don't get as much magazines next week and I probably wont. I have been getting a lot of digital freebies this week as well. And those have been making up the lack of physical freebies from the past weeks. 

School Week 5 Photo Diary

I can't believe that we are already through our 5th week of the school year. We have been doing school for a month yesterday and it is going by so quickly. The girls are loving it. They are telling me stuff that they want to learn about, and I will choose one day from the week to focus on that topic the whole day, if it doesn't fit that weeks lessons I have planned or if we have those lessons later on in the year. They want to learn about crocodiles and alligators, so we will be doing that on Monday next week.

Monday: We started the day off with watching a movie..... I know, I know. I went against my own rules, but the girls were still on that science high that we did last week and they wanted to look at other scientific stuff. I had them draw pictures after the movie and they want to make their own memory scanners and time machines... I say go ahead darlings.

The rest of the day was spent more on science. It turned into a full on science day. They watched Sid the Science Kid and learned more about science tools and observation.

Tuesday: Today was a language arts day and we spent the majority of it on the Three Billy Goats Gruff.

 After we read and discussed and watched some YouTube videos, I printed them out some play-doh mats around the three billy goats gruff and they had so much fun creating the needed objects.

To finish the day, they did quiet time and reading eggs. They are doing so great with their reading eggs and then Samantha read aloud from Mr Brown Can Moo by herself while Ariana worked on Long vowel word searches and she did amazing.

Wednesday: Day off to celebrate mine and Cayce's 9 year anniversary and now I am regretting that decision because with his new job, he couldn't take the day off and I was home doing nothing, so that was a day wasted.

Thursday: Today was a big computer and life skills day. They spent a good hour and a half at the start cleaning their rooms, putting away clothes and getting their selves ready for the day. I make them get dressed and make sure they brush hair and teeth. My kids are not going to be looking like slobs.

 They did Easy Peasy and they listened to Story time Online from the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. They listened to A Bad Case of Stripes, Stellaluna, and Guji Guji. We also ended the day with starting a new book called Mae the Panda Fairy.

Friday: Today was a late start, and not many pictures. They had their first cooking lesson of this school year. They helped cook their breakfast this morning, which was apple pie oatmeal. They did amazing and they also learned more kitchen rules.

The rest of the day, we all did quiet time together, and they did a lot of workbook pages and we finished reading Mae the Panda Fairy and they finished the day off with watching the movie Pan. It was a good one.

I am so looking forward to next week. This week was a good one. I have that feeling of wanting to make up Wednesday, even though I scheduled it as a day off when I counted my 180 days.

Apple Pie Oatmeal

I noticed this recipe on YouTube. I was watching Katytastic Vlogs and she made this oatmeal recipe. I had to make it because one day, that was all we had in the house for breakfast, and the girls love it.

You start with an apple. It can be any size or type, it's up to you. 

Peel the apple and cut it up into bite sized pieces. Soften the apples with some boiling water and then add milk and bring it  to a boil.

These are the oats I am using. I am not a fan of oatmeal, but Cayce and the kids are so we buy it. When the milk starts boiling, I put in one cup of oats and stir it and reduce the heat a little and cover it for 5 minutes to let it cook. I don't take the lid off within that 5 minutes.

When the 5 minutes are up, I sprinkle cinnamon into the oatmeal and mix it together and plate it.

 I then add a little bit more cinnamon on top and top it all off with some syrup so it's not bland.

And voila!!! Apple Pie Oatmeal!!

The first time I made this for the girls, they wanted me to make more right after they finished their helping and then wanted more that night for supper. 

Also, go check out Katytastic Vlogs on youtube... she is flipping hilarious and it's good comedy!

HAPPY 9 Year Anniversary

The Man in the High Castle

I had to read this book when I watched the first episode of the Amazon series. I had never heard of this book until I first heard about the show and I am always fascinated with WW2 and Nazi Germany and the Japanese facts. I have been obsessed with learning all about it since we first learned about it in 5th grade. I had never heard of this book until last year.

So as I was saying, I watched the pilot that was free on Amazon and I shouldn't have done that. When I first started reading this book, I was instantly comparing it to the one episode I had watched. Since finishing this book, I am starting to watch the rest of season 1 before season 2 releases later this year and I have to say that I like the show better than this book. It was confusing to me and the jumping around point of views. I couldn't tell if Mr. Baynes was actually someone else. The Marshall from the show is nowhere in this story. Frank gets arrested near the end of the book and it doesn't mention his family getting gassed by the Kempenai.

Basically, this book is about the united states being run by the Nazi's and the Japanese with a neutral zone between them. The character names are the same, but I wished they would have kept to the book order in some way and not skipped around. The book mentions slavery is legal once again but it briefly mentions them and that they should always be there to help the Japanese or the Americans at the drop of a hat.

This tie in edition gives a misinterpretation to the actual novel because no where in this story is Julianna ACTUALLY IN San Francisco. She starts off and eventually goes back to San Francisco in the show. I wish they kept the book the same in the show, but the film reel and the forbidden bibles were a nice change.

Freebie Haul 9/5- 9/10

This week was not such a great week for freebies. We had one good day and that was Wednesday and that is usually a slack or no freebie day for us.

Monday: no freebies. LABOR DAY

Tuesday:Only got two magazines today

September 13, 2016 issue of Forbes

October 2016 issue of Cosmopolitan

Wednesday: a good freebie day

redplum insert

redplum insert

Curel wet moisturizer crowdkit from Crowdtap

Truvia nectar

Dolly Parton Imagination Library book: Otis and the Puppy

Thursday: no freebies

Friday: got one magazine with a damn good dawg on the cover. Todd Gurley!!!!

September 19, 2016 issue of ESPN magazine

Saturday: no freebies.

I am hoping that next week will be better, but I am having my doubts. There have just not been any freebie signups or request forms coming in and when they do, they either cancel the request because demand was too high or they run out before I can finish the signup process.