Thank God for Coffee & Preschool!: July 2009

Thursday, July 23, 2009

A little something about me...

For those of you who KNOW me, this may not surprise you. But for those of you blog stalkers - I may be sharing a little too much of myself right now.

But the truth of the matter is...

(and I'm not scared to say it!)

is that I love to shop the Goodwill...

You may think less of me now but I really don't care because I find some GREAT stuff!!!!

A friend told me that she had gotten a huge bag of random happy meal type toys at Goodwill for cheap to take on their beach vacation for her 1 year old. She filled up a little pool on the beach and dumped the goodwill toys in and he was happy as a lark! Because they were cheap, she didn't care what happened to them and they could save them or trash them at the end of the week. So I told the kids we were going to Goodwill to pick out some toys for the beach! Here is the bag we scored for our beach trip!

The boys were so excited to go through each piece in the bag!!! It kept them occupied for hours! (Did you notice the price? $5.55!!!

Of course, we found a few other finds while we were there! Baby girl got a tambourine for .77 cents and about FREAKED OUT when I took it away from her to pay for it! (Another reason you might think less of me...yes, my daughter was chewing on her goodwill toy before it was sanitized!)

We also got her a few clothing items....how could you resist these 2 precious things at $1.60 a PIECE?

I'm so excited about this precious dress for the Fall and Winter when baby girl is walking! How cute will that be with white tights and brown mary janes? HOW FUN ARE GIRLS???

And....how fun is the Goodwill!!!!

Monday, July 13, 2009

Some fun new finds!

I just love blog world - I can't believe all the fun and inspiring things I've found that I can't wait to copy!!!! I wanted to share these blogs with you (and specifically the posts that I fell in love with!)

The first one has so many great things I don't even know where to begin! Her pictures are AWESOME, her children are precious, she is so creative and is always giving some sort of sewing, cooking or decorating project but this is the one post that I actually copied first. This recipe for Garden Recipe:Chicken Delight is so yummy!!! And not only is it yummy but it's easy, healthy and no clean up! I highly recommend it!

The next blog that I have become addicted to is this one. This girl is truly amazing! She is so creative and definitely inspires me to do all kinds of projects and makeovers around my house. I just wish I had the time and energy to get them all done! I do have an old antique dresser that I had actually listed to sale on Craigslist when I came upon her blog. Never mind Craigslist! Here is the post that has inspired me to give my new dresser a new look! (I promise to show you the before and after pics!) I love how she shows you every single tiny step and detail and I even emailed her to ask a question and she responded back that day! My husband asked if she could just paint the dresser for us but unfortunately she's in California.

And last but not least, I found this blog because our blog names are so similar and it seems we have so much in common! I mean "Harried Mom of Four - Can I have more coffee please?" That's me with three kids!!! Her description reads: "I'm a wine-drinking, coffee-loving at-home Mom who doesn't like to clean all that much;" ....uh, hello? THAT IS ME! And what's so fun is she is doing a giveaway for her 100th blog (see pic below)

(which I've seen alot lately and wonder why I didn't do that!!! Maybe I"ll do a giveaway for a random number like 133) so go check it out, enter into the drawing and see if you win something! Tell her I sent ya!