Have a wonderful Sunday

This is one of my new favorite worship songs

Our God by Chirs Tomlin

(click to listen)

Water You turned into wine
Open the eyes of the blind
There’s no one like You
None like You
Into the darkness You shine
Out of the ashes we rise
There’s no one like You
None like You

CHORUS
Our God is greater, our God is stronger
God You are higher than any other
Our God is Healer, awesome in power
Our God, Our God…

Into the darkness you shining
Out of the ashes we Rise
There’s no One like You
None like You.

Our God is greater, our God is stronger
God You are higher than any other
Our God is Healer, awesome in power
Our God, Our God…
Our God is greater, our God is stronger
God You are higher than any other
Our God is Healer, awesome in power
Our God, Our God…

BRIDGE
And if Our God is for us, then who could ever stop us
And if our God is with us, then what can stand against?
And if Our God is for us, then who could ever stop us
And if our God is with us, then what can stand against?
What can stand against?

Our God is greater, our God is stronger
God You are higher than any other
Our God is Healer, awesome in power
Our God, Our God…
Our God is greater, our God is stronger
God You are higher than any other
Our God is Healer, awesome in power
Our God, Our God…

And if Our God is for us, then who could ever stop us
And if our God is with us, then what can stand against?
And if Our God is for us, then who can ever stop us
And if our God is with us, then what can stand against?
Then what can stand against?
Then what can stand against?

Our God is greater, our God is stronger
God You are higher than any other
Our God is Healer, awesome in power
Our God, Our God…
Our God is greater, our God is stronger
God You are higher than any other
Our God is Healer, awesome in power
Our God, Our God…

daddy sit time

Kelsey like most babies has her fussy time. It is usually between 5-6pm. Just as I am finishing up dinner or we are trying to eat. So, as many frustrated mom's do, I hand the baby off to daddy. And wouldn't you know it, she settles down. Steve says she just needs her "daddy sit time." Whatever it is, it sure works.

There is nothing like daddy.

coupon burn out

We have been couponing since about February. And a few weeks ago I think I experienced coupon burn out. I had stopped looking at the coupon blogs, I had stopped using coupons, I had even stopped clipping coupons. (we take 5 papers each Sunday, one week there were only 2 inserts and one week there were 4, you do the math. that was a lot of coupons.) But I had just had enough. I think it started to happen around the time I was starting to plan our school year. I was getting our schedules worked out, trying to see how to fit it all in and trying to figure out what to do with the baby. And couponing was the last thing I wanted to do.

I had read a post on a blog that talked about dealing with burn out, which come to find out most couponers deal with at one time or another. But she had some great suggestions...

1) Don't try to hit every store and get every deal. (check)

2) Price match at Walmart to save time. (check)

3) Take a break. (check)

and the one that got me

4) Look for only the really great deals.

I found on the same blog a great cereal deal. I was able to price match at Walmart cereal that was on sale for $.97, and I had a coupon for $5 off 5 boxes. That would make them free, well free plus 3 cents overage! And... I had 4 coupons. Yes, that would be 20 boxes for free, plus the overage. But wait. I had more coupons, not quite as good but still pretty good, I guess. I was able to get 20 boxes for 25 cents each. (for those of you following along at home, that make it 40 boxes of cereal! for $4.) Now if that is not going to get me back in the game then nothing will.

It did. I hit Walmart once again for double coupon Tuesday. Got free nexcare bandages, a free post-it note, a 2 pack of dry erase markers for $.47, and was able to price match some great deals on produce. It feels good to be back.

I have to learn how to make this work with our life. Even tonight during America's Got Talent I will be clipping coupons. My goal is to be caught up on the clipping before Sunday. I enjoy couponing, my mom would be so proud of the deals that I am getting. In fact our last conversation was about couponing. I was just getting into it and told her and she was excited for me. She was big couponer when I was young, so it must be in my blood.

socks!!!

For some reason Kelsey loves socks. They don't have to be hers or even clean ones. I have to keep my eye on her when I am doing the laundry, she steals the dirty socks!

Today Ellyn was folding the laundry, and Kelsey saw the socks!

The socks were even responsible for the first fit Kelsey threw.

We were getting ready to leave and she found some socks, and I decided that she didn't need to take my socks to the grocery store. So I told her we were going to leave the socks at home, and then I took them away...and boy was she mad!

camping...sort of

This past weekend we were going to go camping. We try to go at least once a year and we haven't been this year. I didn't get to go last year, I was very pregnant, so this was going to be our first time this year. But, the weather man told us it was going to rain, and I don't do camping in the rain. I have memories of going camping when I was a kid and it wasn't if it would rain, it was when it would rain. We would pack up camp and then come home and unpack in the front yard so everything could dry off.

We were all pretty bummed about not being able to go this weekend, so we tried to come up with some fun "camp-like" things to do. We had a "camp" dinner, hot dogs, burgers and corn. We made smores. And some how the idea got thrown around to sleep outside. To me that is just crazy. Why would I sleep outside when I can almost see my bed?

But Steve has memories of sleeping outside as a kid. So guess who got volunteered to camp out with the kids? They had a blast. They looked at stars, there were a few that peaked out from the clouds. They even got bit by mosquitoes. These are the things that our kids will remember.

Summer fun

What's a summer without a slip and slide? Well, thanks to Ellyn's cousin she won't have to find out.

something new...

the running joke in our marriage is that we are always learning something new about each other, and when we do we say, "that is our one new thing for the month", like...my husband loves butterfinger candy bars (i knew that) but i didn't know that he hates peanut butter (?). so that was my one new thing i learned about him.

just last night he asked me to rub his feet, i have issues with his feet. i don't like to be in the same room with them. so he knows i will not rub them, but he still asks. and i was kind of rubbing them with my feet and i found out that he is ticklish on his feet. who knew? after almost 13 years of marriage you would think we knew it all.