Freebie Haul 8/15- 8/20

This week was a hella good one. I got some amazing freebies. Our first week of school was awesome. That post will be coming tomorrow I promise. I am just so tired and ready to go to sleep and that is what I will be doing after I schedule this.

Monday: The first day of school and I wasn't really into getting freebies because I was so concentrated on getting the girls situated and filling out papers that they will be doing the rest of the year. But, thankfully it was a magazine heavy day.

September 2016 issue of popular Photography

August 23, 2016 issue of Forbes

September 2016 issue of Seventeen magazine

September 2016 issue of marie claire

September 2016 issue of redbook

Tuesday: No Freebies

Wednesday: I got another mission kit to work on for the next month or two.

Montgomery Ward catalog.

redplum coupon insert

baby Orajel Naturals mission kit from Smiley 360

Thursday: Today was a big freebie day. My mailbox was full. I got another HouseParty package that will be a separate blog post. Cayce also stopped by a gas station on his way home from work and there was an event going on and he got some freebies.

September 2016 issue of Better Homes and Gardens

September 2016 issue of FamilyCircle

Cayce's Pinchme box containing Good Morning vitamins, Brylcreem hair cream, Purina Beyond coupons and Nexcare bandages.

the first U by Kotex box with tampons and liners

the second U by Kotex box containing tampons and liners

2 bags of Snyder's pretzels that Cayce brought home from the gas station event

gas station event freebie: Vanilla Nesquik Protein

gas station freebie bag. 3 koozies, energy drink, sticker, ticker, circle K coffee cup and 2 circle k clips

Friday: small freebie day... two magazines

August 25, 2016 issue of Rolling Stone

September 2016 issue of Elle magazine

Saturday: I got some expected freebies and a mystery reward from Disney Movie Rewards

Kellogg's Reward: Defy

mystery reward from Disney Movie Rewards: Anger from Inside Out

August 29, 2016 issue of Us Weekly

The 3 books down below are the girls rewards from completing their Barnes and Noble summer reading logs.

This week was a great freebie week. I loved all the stuff that the girls got. My favorite has to be Anger.

First Day of School

Today was the first day of my 3rd official year of homeschooling. It is just Samantha and Ariana again this year. I do have a schedule set for this year. We will be starting every day at 10AM and ending between 2:30 and 3:00PM. Then Adalyn will be doing a revised letter curriculum for 20 minutes every day until her speech improves and she answers my questions. She did well but not great today. I will be posting about everything on my weekly diary type post on Friday..... now onto the pictures.

Samantha:

Ariana:

Airy finally has her class shirt this year!!! Thank you Amazon.

Addy: I couldn't leave this sweet girl out who was excited to do her own little school work.

So, I will speak to you all again on Friday night. I am planning to have the post up by 8PM EST!

Freebie Haul 8/8- 8/13

This is freebie haul #52. On the 25th of this month, I will have been doing these freebie hauls for a year. I am posting this a day late because I have been dealing with school stuff the past week and our first day back is tomorrow. I will be starting my 3rd year of homeschooling. Samantha will be starting 2nd grade and Ariana will be starting 1st and Adalyn will be unofficially starting with her preparatory curriculum along with her speech on Wednesdays. So, with that said, there will not many posts this week. I will be posting first day of school pictures tomorrow night after I finish with Adalyn and then on Friday, I will be posting a photo diary to recap our week. Now on to the freebie haul.

Monday: I only got magazines today

September 2016 issue of Cosmopolitan

September 30, 2016 issue of Wine Spectator

Tuesday: Addy got another free book and I got a great freebie from Smiley360

Oh No. Gotta Go! book from Dolly Parton's imagination library

Deer Park sparkling water from Smiley360

Wednesday: OK freebie day. I didn't get my book until that night. That's one thing I hate about living in the country. I don't get my packages until late in the day or sometimes right at 8pm.

redplum coupon insert

Goodreads giveaway win: The Fortress

Thursday: Only got one sample from a Facebook sampler event

Flyjoy Ancient Grain Energy Bar

Friday: it was another good freebie day

Paracord bracelet with compass Skoal

Haagen-Dazs free coupon

August 22, 2016 issue of ESPN

Saturday: the best freebie day of the week

Nature's Dairy-Free Creamers Nutpods from Facebook Sampler event

August 22, 2016 issue of Us Weekly

September/ October 2016 issue of Taste of Home

Deer Park sparkling water coupon redemption

Chocolate Dark Chocolate Almonde Haagen-Dazs coupon redemption

I loved this freebie week and can't wait for next week. This are my favorite blog posts to do.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Review

This is going to be a short review since it is a small companion book in the Hogwarts Library collection. I wanted to read both of the books, this one and the screenplay, but my county library system doesn't have the screenplay.

This just talks about all the creatures in the Harry Potter universe and their rating on the danger scale. I loved all the notes written in the book by Harry, Ron and Hermione. It was a cute little read, and it's fun knowing all the origins of the creatures. Good job J.K. Rowling..... oops, I mean Newt Scamander!

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Review ***SPOILERS***

WARNING: If you have not yet read Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.... I suggest you go do so now and then come back to this review.

I got this book a day after it was released. Cayce bought it from Target and it came with a poster of Hogsmeade and Hogwarts. I was grinning ear to ear. If I wasn't already reading a different book that night, I would have sat my little happy ass down and read this book without stopping.

This story starts off where Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows stopped in the epilogue. Yes, it picks right up where it left off with Albus Severus Potter going to his first year at Hogwarts. He is going with his cousin Rose Granger Weasley. On the train, they meet Scorpius Malfoy who is outcasted and hated right away. I love Scorpius. He is my favorite character and so shy and awkward. He and Albus become best friends. Albus also gets sorted into Slytherin while his older brother and little sister are sorted into Gryffindor. He starts having an attitude problem towards Harry and they say words they don't mean.

But this story is not what you think it might be about. Scorpius is surrounded by rumors that he is not a true Malfoy and that he is Voldemort's son. WHHHAAATTT!!!!! Holy shit. This ties into the time turner disaster. During one of Albus' school breaks, Mr Diggory.... Cedric Diggory's father is still bitter about Harry being alive and Cedric dying during the triwizard tournamnt. Albus gets it in his head that he will go back in time with Scorpius and save Cedric Diggory's life.

This story is so crazy and good, I am going to stop because I have said enough. I loved how Professor Snape was back and fighting against Dolores Umbridge who was headmaster at Hogwarts and who was celebrating VOLDEMORT DAY! She was so against that he didn't return, that she is now celebrating him being in charge of the wizarding world. Dumbledore talks to Harry through paintings.

The one part that brought me to tears was where Harry went back in time to 1981 and basically couldn't interfere and had to stand aside and hear his parents pleading for his life and being murdered. I was not wanting that part in the book because it was so heartless and emotional.

I really want to go see the play in London. Hopefully, whenever I am able to go.. they will still be doing the show or it come to the states or become another movie.

Meet Luna!!!

We have a new member of the family. Her name is Luna. Cayce found her on the side of the road meowing her head off on July 21 and we became attached. We all love her and President Snow loves his new play buddy. Missy is the only one that is not comfortable yet.

We named her after Cayce's favorite Harry Potter character Luna Lovegood.He wanted to name her Katniss to mess around, but I said no. Her middle name is Trinket for Cayce's fave Hunger Games character.

She is a great addition and the last animal we will have for a while.

Skin Trade Review

A book where I now have a new ship in life. This is book 17 in the Anita Blake series and it was OK. I usually am all over the books that have Edward in them, but this one was just the same plot over and over.

The story starts off with a head. The head is from the body of a Las Vegas SWAT officer and it has been mailed to Anita from Vittorio, the master vampire who kills strippers and can control everybody in a hot second. We lean that she has been left a message at a crime scene in Vegas by Vittorio. She decides to go to Vegas and kill the bastard once and for all. She has been living with Jean-Claude under the circus after her trip with Jason, so it would show to the other masters, that Jean-Claude has a firm leash on his servant and this trip is going to blow all that hard work and showing off down the drain.

She gets to Vegas and is basically interrogated by the Vegas PD. They question her and ask about her sex life and throughout the whole story, she is basically having to prove herself and she is constantly saying the same thing over and over and it got old really quick. She then meets up with Edward, Olaf, and Bernardo. Here is where my new ship comes into play. Throughout the story, Edward and Anita have to pretend to be romantically involved to keep Olaf from being hounding Anita and harassing her. When Anita gets hurt, Edward is there by her side and gives her little kisses on the forehead or cheek every now and then and I now ship ANITA AND EDWARD. I know nothing will ever happen between this pair, she basically pushed him off the list if she needed to have an emergency feeding of the ardeur.

Anita also meets Max's wife, Bibi Chang who is head of the local white tiger clan and tries to mind fuck her into screwing the her powerful weretigers to make them even more powerful. Her son basically stops her and we get to find out that Anita gains two new tigers to call. A black tiger and a blue tiger.

The ending was very eventful and I got kind of creeped out by Truth the vampire because he was acting suspicious after feeding the arduer. This was a chunky book, but the chapters were short, which was alright. I really want something to happen between Anita and Edward!