Archive for May 2008
I am just giving you an advance news flash that their will be a blog makeover. My techie friend Nikki is working on it and has come up with a fantastic looking header. I originally felt that the girl who made this current picture, with the shopping girls, made it look so unique that it’s uniqueness could not be duplicated. However, Nikki did a fabulous job. So, Keep Your Eyes Open for a fresh new look!
A few of you have been emailing me asking if I will keep doing my bargain blog even though I have moved. The answer is a big YES! I love helping moms find great deals and you bless me so much!
Go here to check out the Barnes and Noble Summer Book Club. There is an interview with Andrew Clements, the author of Frindle. It may be the most exciting third grade book I have ever read. You have to get your kids into it!
The three Chick-Fil-A winners are :
Kelley (at aol.com)
Congratulations! I think I may have been the only person flying last week with three envelopes full of coupons in my diaper bag! (I didn’t want your coupons to get lost in all the packing!) Please email me your address (by using the contact me link on the right!)
I went shopping with my hubs today and was driving along when we spotted a Texas Roadhouse in Connecticut! I was ecstatic and we stopped immediately to eat there for lunch. It helped any feelings of being homesick since we moved to the North East. They honored a 10% off coupon that I had from Texas! (Managers give these out on occasion.) Here’s another Texas Roadhouse coupon tip, if you know you are going there in advance, sign up for their email list online. They will email you a free appetizer coupon in about 24 hours. (Thanks Kelley!)
Don’t forget to sign up for Travelzoo for the best travel deals!
Enjoy a complimentary overnight stay on Thursday, June 5, 2008!
Reserve your room May 15-18, 2008:
Log onto www.TakeOverTheTower.com
and enter code NYC (in CAPS),
or call 1-888-477-8315 and mention code NYC.
In small print: Must provide credit card at time of reservation & at check in. Additional taxes/room fees not included. Offer subject to availability. Must be 21 years of age or older to check in. Must provide Photo ID at check in. Reservations must be cancelled 72 hours prior or credit card will be subject to $100 cancellation fee. Management reserves the right to change or cancel this promotion at any time without notice. Must be 21 or older to gamble, enter and remain in a New Jersey casino or participate in any Harrah’s resort promotion.
(Some readers have reported that the taxes may come out to $11.)
Stop by Dunkin Donuts between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. on Thursday, May 15th to get a free 16 oz iced coffee. Yum!
Our flight to New England was from Dallas to Hartford. I am in charge of finding the best deal on the tickets for most trips and I enjoy hunting for them. With kids, we like to fly nonstop but that’s not always affordable. In this case, there was an $800 per ticket American Airlines flight that was nonstop. I opted to get us $110 a flight on another airline and found the best deal on Orbitz. We knew we could only check four complimentary bags with the new check in rule, but we ended up having eight! (There were quite a few things that we didn’t get to pack on the truck that we needed.) Four bags would be free and four bags would cost $25 each to fly. We checked four in to the sky cap at the entry. Then we headed up to check in. We checked four more bags and apparently the sky cap gentleman did not mark that we had already checked four bags. So they were allowing us to check all eight bags for free, saving us $100!
What we didn’t know is that we were then headed in for a big adventure! We took off from the gate only to pull back and wait an hour for the maintenance man to work on the air conditioning. At this point it was getting extremely hot. Then we pulled off and one of the passengers was having trouble breathing and chest pain because it was so hot earlier. We had to pull back and get medical attention for him.
At this point, we had now been on the runway with TWO toddlers for a total of TWO hours and missed our connecting flight. They made an announcement and they were going to provide a hotel stay for us all in North Carolina. I called my mom and she said ” Just stay cool and think of it as a fun unexpected vacation.” I took her advise and stayed as cool as possible while entertaining my children. However, we got off the plane in NC at midnight, we got our new boarding passes only to find that we had to race to the hotel and get five hours of sleep.
I was thinking of calling the airline to explain that you never wake a sleeping toddler and we would have to change our flight. We stuck with it, the boys did extremely well under the circumstances, and we made it to Hartford the next morning for Mother’s Day.
We are currently working on our New England Cottage, which is absolutely beautiful. I am still in shock that God gave us such a beautiful gift and that the seller took our offer. We have painted the house and I am working on a special faux painting kitchen project like this only in red. The buyer left us beautiful rustic laminate flooring that my husband is in the process of putting down for me. In fact, he found a treasure yesterday, while he was pulling up the carpet, part of the house has gorgeous oak flooring from the 1940′s. We may shine that part up if we can and put the laminate on the rest of the house. Yesterday we saw cute chipmunks that live in our stone wall and a deer about 50 yards from our house! I’ll post pictures soon!
Printing coupons online can save you a lot of time and money. Here are printable coupons to save money for your baby:
Print Cheerios and tons of cereal coupons at coupons.com.
Print Baby Food coupons at Gerber.
Print Huggies Little Swimmers at coupons.com.
I just wanted to take a second to say Happy Mother’s Day Mom! You are an amazing mom. I love how you are the best example of what it is like to be a godly mom by serving others. Know that even though we moved pretty far from Houston that I am only a phone call or plane ride away. I love you!
Happy Mother’s Day to all of our bargain shopper moms!
Love,
Lori
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