Our Family Blog – Mike, Louanne, Nadia, Amelie, & Dani
Today we attended Mike’s Aunt Vicky’s memorial service. The service was very sweet. My first memory of meeting her was the first Christmas Mike and I were together, when she hosted Christmas for the Baker family. Then 6 months later she hosted a party for us after our wedding reception, which was very sweet of her. She was quick with a laugh and will be missed by her family.
Nadia and Mr. Bear would like to wish you a wonderful 4th of July!
Our family is grateful for the service of our armed forces now and throughout history for providing the freedom that we enjoy living here in America.
$18.51 is what I paid for 18 jumbo packs of diapers today. Walgreen’s is having a MONSTER coupon deal on coupons. This is almost as good as the CVS diaper deal of 2005. Nadia is on her last pack of those diapers and I was looking at having to pay FULL PRICE for diapers 😉 **Since we brought Nadia home I have spent about $125 on diapers because I needed 1’s and 2’s for her when we got home and I didn’t get any of those sizes in 2005 since we didn’t know what age Nadia would be. And when we have gone on trips and run out we have just paid full price.**
Some laugh at my couponing, but it’s in areas like this that it pays off. Say I had to pay $10 a jumbo pack at Target. I just saved $160 on diapers. That’s 660 diapers for .02 each. What did it take?
I save us at least $2000 a year using coupons for items we would buy anyway. I also am able to stockpile a lot to share with charitable organizations like Pregnancy Lifeline. So don’t knock the coupons until you try ’em.
Hello all. We are just plain busy around here, but I thought I would upload some photos from the end of June. Here is Nadia with some of her second cousins who are in town this week.
Here she is on the zebra so many people have – it plays this funky disco music – but note the Pink Cowgirl Boots. It makes the photo.
Here she is chilling on the couch with everything she needs. 2 teddy bears, 2 “babies”, cup of water and a bag of Teddy Grahams.
