Our Last Presby Preschooler

In the midst of our busy schedules these past few weeks.. I forgot to recognize one special graduation! Alex has graduated from preschool and is now officially registered to enter Kindergarten this fall. He's so ready to go onto a big school and become a Harrison Husky with his older brothers. Next year will be the only year that all three of our sons will be in the same school together. Alex has grown into quite the special little boy and we are so excited for him to be going to kindergarten. Not excited in the fact that he is growing up so fast, but excited because he is going to do so well and is going to have fun being a Husky.

I (heart) CVS too!

Made a trip to CVS yesterday- picked up the June monthly ECB book and purchased a few things that we needed. I had 3 transactions - I had it all planned out ahead of time... items circled on the flyer, coupons found and clipped, everything written down - line by line - Here's what I got....
Transaction #1
1 gallon of Milk 2.79 (Had a .55 coupon)
4 4pack of Double A batteries (Had 4 coupons 3.50 total)
2 9roll packs of toilet paper (yep- had 2 coupons .50)
Total 18.73 -- WAIT, I have 3 ECB totalling: 11.68, so my out of pocket was:
$9.22 (includes tax) and I received a 10.00 ECB to use on transaction number 2:



Transaction number 2:
2 packs of Wrigleys multi pack gum (on sale BOGO 2.49 1.00 coupon)
1 bottle of kids Listerine (3.49 had 1.00 coupon)
1 Brut Deodorant (3.19 NO COUPON- unbelievable, I know)
1 box CVS Bandages (1.99 no coupon, I know......)
1 box of Centrum Cardio vitamins (8.99 had a 3.00 coupon)
Total: 14.65 -- used the 10.00 ECB coupon from first tranasaction, brought my total out of pocket to: 4.65 +tax..... I received 8.49 in ECB AND-- AND-- AND-- I will get 8.99 back from Centrum because I had a mail in rebate!
On to transaction number 3:



4 2liters of Mountain dew (4 for 5.00 had a 2.00 coupon)
3 bags of Chex mix (on sale 1.00each had 3 /1.00 coupons)
2 bottles of Dawn (on sale for 1.00 each had 50 coupon)
1 box CVS bandages (1.99 - no coupon)
3 CVS sunscreen chapsticks (1.99 each)
1 CVS sunscreen stick for face (3.99 )
When I first went into CVS, I went to the kiosk and it printed out a 3.00 of 10.00 purchase of CVS items- hence the sunscreen) So-- the deal went down like this:
total before coupons: 21.95
after coupons: 13.45
ECB used: 10.78
total out of pocket: 2.67 AND I received 2.99 in ECB to use before July 1st. WAIT---- CVS had in their flyer that if you bought 4 2 liters of PEPSI products, you could mail in the reciept and upc for a REBATE of $5.00!
--- I only put 1 2liter in the pix- Doug confiscated the others and put them in the fridge--


It all ads up to: My initail out of pocket for the day: $16.56 (includes tax)
Rebates to be refunded to me: $13.99 - I will put that 13.99 back into my CVS envelope to replensh my CVS spending money- which by the way is not more than 20.00 for the month and trust me-- I ALWAYS have CHANGE!!!
AND - ECb I have yet to use from transactions: $8.49

I don't know which store I heart more-- Walgreens or CVS ....

June Already.

Wow- has it really been a month since I last posted? Time has flown these last few weeks. We have had some medical issues come up with Doug's Grandma and my dad, Doug
tried to kill his dad and myself, we've been sitting at ball parks and soccer fields, preschool graduation, keeping the house picked up for showings and of course, trying to get the kids in the house before 9pm on a school night. WE LOVE IT!
I can't wait for next Monday morning... I'll be able to get up, close the boys' bedroom doors, make a pot of coffee (add a little carmel sauce), turn on the today show and watch in peace. No bus to worry about- nobody's house to clean but my own,- no where to go.............. ahhhh sounds like a little slice of heaven.