Busy, Busy Week!

I have an incredibly busy week this week, so I won't be blogging. Well, I will have to add something Thursday or Friday-I have been busy cleaning and organizing as well! I have 3 cakes to bake and decorate this week-2 for Friday, 1 for Saturday. The one for Saturday is for Jenna's birthday. :) Cinderella. So up on deck are cakes representing Sweet 16, Tangled, and Cinderella. Family will be coming in this weekend, so that means cleaning! It's so hard to believe my baby is turning 4!! But that's for another post. ;)

So, let me close this post by showing you what I found to buy the girls. I love frugal shopping and finding great bargains and I did with this purchase. This 12-year old girl wanted to sell her barbie house, massive limo for Barbie, about 10 Barbies, a doll head to fix hair, etc. Tons of clothes and accessories. and all the furniture to the house. AND when I picked it up she had added about 6-7 kid Barbies. WOW! The girls were so excited!



I see the car is not in the picture, oh well. I got all of that for $55.00-Money well spent. Cade put the house together and organized it-He is sooooo good at that!

Frugal Friday

This was worthy of a Frugal Friday post:

Diapers from the Dollar Store

I never knew those things could be so cheap! And they have held up! So, you don't have to buy namebrand diapers thinking they are the best. Save your money and buy from the Dollar Store or even the generic brand at the great big WM. I spent about $6.00 on a pack of diapers that would cost $8-9 in the name brand.

I discovered Dollar Store diapers quite by accident and so glad I did!

Happy Saving!
Lauree

Clothes Fairies

I LOVE clothes fairies-they save me soooo much money! I've had 3 visits recently and man, oh man, my cheap self loves it! First, my nephew had a growth spurt. Yea for me! He is the same age as Cade but now a little bigger so we got 2-3 sacks of clothes-wow! And shoes-woohoo! Cade is covered for the winter-what a blessing!!

Little miss KK that I keep during the week had some of her stuff cleaned out and Jenna got a bag full of clothes. She went from zero coats this winter to 4-wow. She won't need 4 so maybe I can be a clothes fairy for someone. She does need a Church coat, saw a cute one at T@rget last night, but, alas, I really have become cheap and wouldn't pay $24.99 for it. I believe she is covered for winter (definitely in pants and dresses) but may still need a couple of pjs and long sleeve shirts.

Cloee has had 2 clothes fairies recently: Jenna and her friend Jolie. She now has a clothing bag full of shoes from Jolie and winter pjs and well, everything. I was cleaning out the girls' closet and found 2 huge garbage bags of winter clothes I saved from Jenna. 18-months! perfect! Cloee needs NOTHING for winter and probably has too much! Jenna had lots of clothes because that was when I was working and was ignorant about being frugal! I may even clean out some of those winter clothes to bless someone else with. If I do that, then there's less laundry for me to do, and really, I like that!

This should have been a Frugal Friday post but well, I didn't feel so hot, so never got around to posting. I love my clothing fairies! I hope you are lucky enough to have one or two. BTW, that cute term "clothes fairies" is from my friend, Jennifer-not sure I would have come up with that all by myself! And if you count the fairies it was actually 4, I just didn't count Jenna. ;)

Have a great weekend!

Frugal Friday

I got Jenna's dress for $1.00 - cute little play dress and she loves it. It came from a consignment shop in Tyler. And of course those freezer popsicles are cheap and awesome during the summer. Jenna loves them and thinks everytime we go outside it's time for a "big" popsicle.

Frugal Friday

Garage sale success last weekend. Noone at this house needs clothes but Jenna is into dresses and skirts so I thought I would look for a couple of things. I found this sweet little dress and denim skirt with polka dots. Jenna loved them. No marks or stains. The dress was a whopping $1.00 and the skirt $.50. I was very proud of these finds! Jeff was extremely excited about the price - go figure!

Frugal Friday

I'm very excited about 2 purchases I made yesterday. I stopped by 3 consignment stores-2 of which are VERY proud of their used clothes. But one had some "garage sale" prices I thought.

Jenna is loving dresses right now. Isn't that a cute dress? I love it! And who wouldn't want a pair of hot pink cowgirl boots? The boots I got for $6.00-I was okay with that one, I saw their price in the store last year. The dress I got for $1.50! I love it-there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. I'm going to some garage sales in the morning to see if I can find a couple of more dresses for Jenna and some art/craft supplies for Jenna's "school boxes" in the fall.

Then I bought some of our homeschool curriculum:

It does NOT belong on frugal Friday! But I feel better now that I have started making the purchases.

Cloee has her first tooth and Frugal Friday

Yep, she does!  She never even got very cranky but she slobbers alot and sticks everything in her mouth.  She turns 8 months on May 1st.

Frugal Friday:  I've become very cheap frugal since becoming a stay at home mom.  I'm always looking for bargains and ways to save money.  I menu plan and have cut our grocery bill significantly.  So I thought I would post a meal I made that was yummy, homemade, quick and cheap economical.

Tuna Noodle Casserole:

-2 cups dry elbow macaroni
-2  6-oz. cans tuna, packed in water
-2  10-3/4 oz. cans of cream of mushroom soup
-2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
-salt and pepper to taste
-1 cup frozen peas, optional (I HIGHLY recommend them-yum)
-3/4 cup cornflake crumbs, optional  (didn't have any so I used crumbled crackers)

1. Cook macaroni according to package directions.  drain.  Place cooked pasta in large mixing bowl.
2. Stir in tuna, soup, cheese, salt and pepper, and peas if you wish.  Stir together gently until well mixed. 
    Top with cornflake crumbs if you want.
3. Place in lightly greased 2-quart casserole dish. 
4. Bake uncovered at 350 degrees for 30-45 minutes, or until heated through and bubbly.

And there you have it.  I used generic round crackers (like Ritz) and crumbled it on after I took it out of the oven.  Throw in your favorite salad and you have a yummy meal! VERY easy and the family LOVED it!