Third Day - Blessed Assurance

My favorite band, singing my FAVORITE hymn!!

Helllooooo Blog!

WOW, I didnt realize it had been SUCH a long time since Id blogged! My computer's hard drive was killed, and I had to use my daughters little mini laptop, which is NOT an easy task! I couldnt upload pictures onto hers either, so it was no fun to use!

Anyway, some brilliant gentlemen resurrected my old hard drive and was able to restore it to factory settings! And, he did it for FREE!! It saved me and arm and a leg and now I can reconnect with the outside world!

So much has happened, and Ive had so many fabulous savings in the time since Ive been away! I will begin blogging about it all shortly.

Until then!! ♥

This weeks cool deals!

I took pictures, but they turned out badly, so anyway, lets talk DIAPERS!

Pampers brand diapers at Food Lion cost $10.99 a pack. Thats only 27 diapers, so I cant see how anyone in their right mind would EVER pay that. This past weekend our FL had a special 3 day sale and the diapers were on sale for &7.99 a pack. Still, not a great price. I had two coupons for $3.00 off one bag of Pampers, so I bought two bags. I also had a store coupon for $2.00 off a $15.00 baby purchase (7.99 x 2 = 15.98). So, our Pampers that should have cost $21.98, only cost me a total of $7.98. $14.00 in savings!

I scored a free tube of Colgate Toothpaste, a BIG one too! ADA approved, of course. At Walmart it was $1.50, on sale for $1.00 and I had a $1.00 off Q.

At Toys R Us, there was a big B1G1 half sale on some of my kids favorites, like Littlest Pet Shop and Zhu Zhu Pets. I got 2 Zhu Zhu pets, 2 Zhu Zhu carriers, and 2 Littlest Pet Shops (each with two toys in the pack). I also had a B1G1 Free LPS Q, so of course I got the 1/2 price one for free. All in all not bad, 8 toys for $21.03. {I put them away for Christmas} At regular price, these toys would have been $38.94. Not a super amazing deal, but still a nice savings. I absolutely refuse to pay ffull price for anything!!

All of this for ONE dollar!

As you know, I SO love a deal, so last week Food Lion was a good place for me to be! FL had a deal where if you bought 5 of a certain set of products (mix and match) that you'd save $5.00. Sooo, I looked around and the Bomb Pops (popsicles) caughy my eye! We LOVED these as kids! They were $2.99, but B1G1 free. Also, the Cool Whip, which I do use in recipes from time to time, was on sale for 2/$2.00 or $1.00 each. They are normally $1.89. I ended up buying 3 Bomb Pops and 2 Cool Whips. The normal price for these things would be $12.75. With the in-store savings, these things would be $6.50. With $5.00 off, they were down to $1.50, AND I had a save .50 cents off your next shopping order Q, so my grand total was a cool ONE dollar!! So cool was this deal that I went back the next day and replayed the entire scenario, minus the .50 cent Q so paid $1.50 for the same goods.

For two days of shopping, I could have (but would NEVER) spent $25.50, but I actually only spent $2.50. Thats a WHOPPING savings of 23 BUCKS! These things make me SO happy - like Ive achieved something grrrreat!

PS - I feel it necessary to mention that the Bomb Pops have 12 in each box! ;)

Happy 4th of July!

My newest cake... double layer white with homemade buttercream icing...mmmm... Im certianly not a great decorator, but Im pleased with it!

I ♥ Hydrangeas

Ooooh, these beautiful flowers - Ive loved them my whole life! I couldnt wait to grow up so that I could have my own hydrangea bushes! I finally planted some last year and they were gorgeous, but this year my bushes have grown enormously, producing HUGE blossoms in a beautiful periwinkle color.


The first cut




a couple of cakes I made.

I have a couple of purple hydrangea bushes as well, but they dont grow or produce blossoms nearly as well as the blue bushes. I havent figured that one out yet!

Lime green, its a white thing...

You wouldnt understand.



These are my very trusty walking shoes! I ♥ them SO much. These shoes and I have been on such a journey together that they definitly deserve a mention.

As you know (or, uh...dont), Im a cancer survivor.. more specifically, a Hodgkins Lymphoma survivor. Just to reiterate my story a bit, I was diagnosed with stage IV Hodgkins Lymphoma less than two weeks after giving birth to our youngest child. That was in October of 2008. I did six months of chemotherapy and have been in remission since May of 2009.

The awareness ribbon for Lymphoma is lime green. Each day I wear a "Hope Angel" lymphoma awareness pin, which of course, is an angel holding a lime green ribbon. I chose these shoes, of course, because of their lime green swoosh! Any time I have the option of choosing something in lime green, I take it. I proudly wear lime green for myself and all other Lymphoma patients out there. Awareness is key, and the Lymphomas receive little in comparison to other cancers such as Breast Cancer.

Each day as Im walking and I look down to see the blur of the green swoosh on my Nikes, Im reminded of how far Ive come and that I can go anywhere. I think of all the survivors and for all of those that werent so lucky. These shoes are my Awareness, my rememberance, my peace.

I challenge each of you readers to wear something lime green. Its a fun, summery, color! More than that, I challenge you to think of Lymphoma while you are wearing it.

Become a Lymphoma Warrior! You dont have to be a survivor/patient to be a Warrior! Check out the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society website here