Fine, and you?

Life has been busy here in our home. For two weeks, our whole family took turns being sick. I started out as allergies, but for all of us it turned into either a sinus infection, bronchial cough, or both.

There were a couple of discoveries I had while being sick. 1) Gone are the days when I could crawl in bed, turn on QVC and just be sick. Both kids were sick while I was. I took them into the Doctor and wanted to beg her to give me the same stuff she was giving the kids. I refrained. 2) I discovered the Netti Pot.

Isn't this the most disturbing picture? I still plug my nose when I jump in the swimming pool, so the thought of pouring water into my nose on purpose wasn't too appealing. After having the cold / allergies for about 5 days, I got desperate and went on a mission to Walgreens. I purchased one, (I must have been really desperate because I paid $15.00 for a plastic tea pot) I used it, and could breathe again. I highly recommend getting one of these for yourself if you have any sinus issues this allergy season.

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In other news...

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About a week and a half ago I was recruited to start teaching coupon classes for Grocery Smarts. I was calling the director to reschedule a class for some friends and ended up talking to her about teaching. I am really excited. I have been addicted to couponing for a few months now and am excited to be able to teach the system to people around the valley. I spent Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in "training." It was a lot of fun learing how to be cheap, I'm sorry, frugal.

This was my purchase on Friday from Target.

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I bought...

2 large bottles of Soft Scrub

1 bottle of Pledge furniture polish

2 6 packs of applesauce

6 bars of soap

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All this for $5.49! I not only bought this on Friday night, I went back on Saturday morning and made the same purchase because I had more of the same coupons. Couponing is so addictive, but I figure saving my family money is a good hobby to have. I save an average of 65-70% each week on my groceries and household items, and it is all stuff that we would normally use.

On Thursday I got to go over to my friend Cathy's house and pretend like I was a photographer - something I always enjoy doing. She let me play around with her and the baby. All of my favorite shots are of her and her precious little girl. She was worried about not having done her hair or her make-up, but I thought she looked beautiful. This one was one of my favorites.

I usually don't post video, and here I am posting a second one of Clara in a matter of weeks. I had to share this with the out-of-town family (and you can watch it, too). Here she is getting a little distracted.

That about wraps up what we have been doing. Life if good.