Surge Saturday

Since I'm taking the doctor's advice of staying active, we stayed busy last night doing things around the house. That continued this morning. I got up at 6 am and shortly after began getting ready for the day. We decided to all go to a few garage sales. There simply hasn't been nearly as many this year. I think we had 7 or so that we were going to this morning. The first one was like 2 blocks down. We found a few things today and several really cute Gymboree outfits last night to make the sales totally worthwhile.

Following the sales, we stopped by grandma's to check in before heading to a giant breakfast buffet! We ate to our heart's content, got a few groceries for an awesome deal and headed on our way. The store had one of those promos going that if you buy 6 boxes of Cheerios @ $1.88 each, they take $10 off immediately at the checkout. Not only that, but each box had a $1.00 off coupon on them making your total spent just under $5. On top of all that, the register gives you a $6 coupon to use the next time you shop!! Totally cool!

We headed to Target to use some coupons there for baby stuff. Target has a wonderful thing they do and this really is in there coupon policy. You can "stack" coupons there. In other words, if you have a Target coupon and a manufacturer's coupon for the same item, you can use them at the same time! Target sends out coupons as well as the register coupons that print when you shop there. This has been especially advantageous for stocking up on diapers and now formula. Today's deals...$2.50 Target coupon & $2.50 manuf. on Huggies diapers making them $3.99! I had 4 Similac coupons at $5.00 each off that they sent to me a few days ago. I didn't have any "stack" coupons, but Target had several cans of Similac formula on clearance for $10.20 each making them each $5.20 a can. If you have checked formula prices lately, you know...great deal! Tide detergent (my favorite)...they had a bottle of 48 load on clearance for $8.91 plus my $1.50 manuf. and $1.00 Target coupon making it $6.41! That is only approximately .13/load!!
We bought more, but there's more to the day so I'm moving along...

Mom called and asked us to stop by grandma's house after Target because grandpa was having a really bad sick spell. If he doesn't eat the right food or if he eats something he shouldn't there can be big problems. Well, today was one of those almost diabetic-coma like days. He couldn't remember what day it was nor what happened to grandma and he must have asked those questions 4 times each at least. He kept coming close to passing out and was pretty emotional. Grandma hasn't been able to "take care" of him like usual with her hospital stay. Obviously, something he ate triggered a really bad spell. Grandma said he hasn't had one this bad for a long time. It may go on and off for several days.
Anyway, while we were there, we decided to work on the yard situation. I've decided that older folks find a particular item they like and plant them everywhere or let them spread because they like them so much. They may have been able to keep it under control, but suddenly age takes over and they cannot. Well, this is the case at their house. We had abundant "fields of lavendar", Jerusalem artichokes that were over 7 feet tall and probably going for a good 20 foot stretch, and many many Rose of Sharon bushes that have grown way past what they should. The problem...lots of bugs, overgrown stuff and well you get the idea. We set to work and quickly ran out of trash cans for the "brush". We purchased lawn bags and proceeded to fill them up. The artichokes are now mowed down and gone, the lavendar has been trimmed out (most of the way), and the rose of sharon has been trimmed (the HUGE one anyway). It was a lot of sweat, but I didn't even go into labor!! Grandma & grandpa even sat out under the awning while we worked. We finished up after several hours and put a roast on for their lunch tomorrow.

We came home and kinda collapsed into our chairs for a brief snooze. It was dinner time and we did that, got gas for our car since we don't want to be empty when labor starts =). After coming home, we just worked on stuff that needs done...roast is on for our own lunch as well, laundry is done and put away, dishes done, house straightened up, and now we sit. My mom says this is that "surge of energy" before you go into labor. I guess we shall see about that.
Have a happy, blessed Sunday everyone!