March hair check:
April Hair Check:
June Hair Check before protective hair styles:
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Growing Healthy Hair
Back in March I ran across the YouTube channel of Kim Luv. I love her scientific approach to hair health. My daughter, 11, has natural hair; she does not have any chemicals such as relaxers or texturizers in her hair. So I decided to try Kim Love's suggestions and see if we could see some faster growth. Well at first I was very religious about using the leave in conditioner recipe and I did love the way her hair felt. But then I fell off the wagon so to speak. Since C is out of school for the summer, I've decided to get focus on growing her hair longer. We will mainly be doing protective styles on her hair. Currently she has mini twists. I put them in a week ago and want to try to keep them in for 3 weeks. We will evaluate how things are looking at 2 weeks. Hopefully by the time she starts school we will see a couple inches of growth or maintained ends, however you want to say it. I will try to update with pictures of styles.
March hair check:
April Hair Check:
June Hair Check before protective hair styles:
March hair check:
April Hair Check:
June Hair Check before protective hair styles:
Shopping Week 1 Trip 2 Grocery Challenge
Spent $42.79--Left $17.93
I didn't get to go to Super Dollar where I want to get meat for the week so with 3 kids in tow we ventured out trying not to blow the budget. I resisted buying lunch (so proud of me) no matter how loud the pleas were. We went to 3 stores but I did okay.
1st Store--Walgreens. I ran in quick to use a $1 reward that expired today. I bouoght eggs that were on sale with a store coupon for $.99 and 2 boxes of Royal Gelatin on sale for $.19.
Pre Cost: $3.10
Paid (post cost after coupons and previously received RR): $.40
2nd Store--Super Dollar.
Food items: 3.10 lbs boneless pork sirloin chops; 2.65 lbs boneless pork sirloin chops; 2.42 lbs Sirloin beef steak; 2.29 lbs chicken wings; 5--32 oz. thirst quenchers; 2 packs hamburger buns; 3 packs hotdog buns; 1 pack carrots; 3 lemons; 3 limes; 2.22 lbs vidalia onions
Paid: $37.41
3rd store--CVS--Very proud of this trip, just had to take a pic!!
Food items: 3 9.9 oz packs M&Ms; 5--32 oz Powerade; Hershey's Candy Bar; 2--2L Sprites; 2 dove bars
Pre Cost: $37.62
Paid (post cost after coupons and previously recieved ECB): $4.98
ECB Received: $7.00
I didn't get to go to Super Dollar where I want to get meat for the week so with 3 kids in tow we ventured out trying not to blow the budget. I resisted buying lunch (so proud of me) no matter how loud the pleas were. We went to 3 stores but I did okay.
1st Store--Walgreens. I ran in quick to use a $1 reward that expired today. I bouoght eggs that were on sale with a store coupon for $.99 and 2 boxes of Royal Gelatin on sale for $.19.
Pre Cost: $3.10
Paid (post cost after coupons and previously received RR): $.40
2nd Store--Super Dollar.
Food items: 3.10 lbs boneless pork sirloin chops; 2.65 lbs boneless pork sirloin chops; 2.42 lbs Sirloin beef steak; 2.29 lbs chicken wings; 5--32 oz. thirst quenchers; 2 packs hamburger buns; 3 packs hotdog buns; 1 pack carrots; 3 lemons; 3 limes; 2.22 lbs vidalia onions
Paid: $37.41
3rd store--CVS--Very proud of this trip, just had to take a pic!!
Food items: 3 9.9 oz packs M&Ms; 5--32 oz Powerade; Hershey's Candy Bar; 2--2L Sprites; 2 dove bars
Pre Cost: $37.62
Paid (post cost after coupons and previously recieved ECB): $4.98
ECB Received: $7.00
Shopping Week 1 Trip 1 Grocery Challenge
2 Days of shopping food costs--$64.28---$60.72 left for the week
So I signed up for this Grocery Challenge at "All You" Magazine. In this challenge I have to stay in a budget of $125 a week ($25 per person) including eating out. Also need to be creative and balanced meals. In starting this challenge, I am having a little trouble with the 'creatively balanced' meals but I'm hoping this will come with time.
Monday morning I got up early before my husband went to work to go grocery shopping by myself. I went to 4 stores.
The only food items I purchased at my 1st stop, CVS, were a bag of Hershey's Chocolate Bliss. I paid $5.99-$1.00 coupon out of pocket and received $5.99 Extra Care Bucks (ECB) to use on a future purchase.
My totals (all items)
Pre coupon: $19.34
Paid (Post coupons and previously received ECB): $11.34
ECB Receieved: $11.99 and $5.00
My second stop was Walgreens but again very few items were food but I paid out of pocket such a small amount I will include it in my weekly total.
Food items purchased: 3--8 oz. cans Hunts tomato sauce; 1 box orange jello.
Pre coupon: $21.02
Paid (Post coupons and previously received RR): $3.76
My 3rd stop was Walmart. Only 2 non food item this time.
Food items: 10 packs Tic Tacs; 3 packs Mentos UP2U gum; 2 boxes of Jello; 2 Boxes Hungry Jack Potatoes; 2-2L Sodas
Pre coupon: $25.00
Paid (Post coupons): $11.72
Paid (food items only): $7.77
My 4th and final stop was Kroger. Here I purchased all food items.
Food items: 3 lbs ground beef; 10 packs Bar-s Franks; 9 lb Ham Shank; Frozen hamburger patties; 3 bags Lay's Chips; 1 Gallon 2% milk; French mustard; 3 loaved sandwich bread; 2 pack goldfish crackers; 2 lbs tomatoes; 1 dozen large eggs;
Pre coupon: $66.39
Paid (post coupons and plus card savings): $41.41
So I signed up for this Grocery Challenge at "All You" Magazine. In this challenge I have to stay in a budget of $125 a week ($25 per person) including eating out. Also need to be creative and balanced meals. In starting this challenge, I am having a little trouble with the 'creatively balanced' meals but I'm hoping this will come with time.
Monday morning I got up early before my husband went to work to go grocery shopping by myself. I went to 4 stores.
The only food items I purchased at my 1st stop, CVS, were a bag of Hershey's Chocolate Bliss. I paid $5.99-$1.00 coupon out of pocket and received $5.99 Extra Care Bucks (ECB) to use on a future purchase.
My totals (all items)
Pre coupon: $19.34
Paid (Post coupons and previously received ECB): $11.34
ECB Receieved: $11.99 and $5.00
My second stop was Walgreens but again very few items were food but I paid out of pocket such a small amount I will include it in my weekly total.
Food items purchased: 3--8 oz. cans Hunts tomato sauce; 1 box orange jello.
Pre coupon: $21.02
Paid (Post coupons and previously received RR): $3.76
My 3rd stop was Walmart. Only 2 non food item this time.
Food items: 10 packs Tic Tacs; 3 packs Mentos UP2U gum; 2 boxes of Jello; 2 Boxes Hungry Jack Potatoes; 2-2L Sodas
Pre coupon: $25.00
Paid (Post coupons): $11.72
Paid (food items only): $7.77
My 4th and final stop was Kroger. Here I purchased all food items.
Food items: 3 lbs ground beef; 10 packs Bar-s Franks; 9 lb Ham Shank; Frozen hamburger patties; 3 bags Lay's Chips; 1 Gallon 2% milk; French mustard; 3 loaved sandwich bread; 2 pack goldfish crackers; 2 lbs tomatoes; 1 dozen large eggs;
Pre coupon: $66.39
Paid (post coupons and plus card savings): $41.41
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Day 2 and 3 Food Challenge
So day 2 of the grocery food challenge, Monday June 20th. Breakfast everyone had cereal with milk and juice or tea. For lunch my husband took leftovers from the Father's Day cookout. My kids and I had hotdogs and french fries. For dinner a fixed Hamburger and Onion Gravy, mashed potatoes (instant) and Steamfresh broccoli (pictured below).
I also went grocery shopping and that information will be in a future post.
Day 3 Tuesday June 21st. Another cereal morning for all. Lunch hamburgers and potato chips. Again my husband took leftovers from dinner the night before. For dinner, pork loin chops baked with stuffing and cream soup. No pictures taken. Also went to grocery store for meat for the week, post to come.
I also went grocery shopping and that information will be in a future post.
Day 3 Tuesday June 21st. Another cereal morning for all. Lunch hamburgers and potato chips. Again my husband took leftovers from dinner the night before. For dinner, pork loin chops baked with stuffing and cream soup. No pictures taken. Also went to grocery store for meat for the week, post to come.
Monday, June 20, 2011
So the Challenge Begins
Yesterday June 19, 2011 officially started the Grocery Challenge given by All You Magazine. It's a contest to only use $25 per person per week for food including eating out. I have a family of 5 do $125 per week. Yesterday's menu was pretty easy. Being Father's Day, my grandmother through a cookout right after church. Lunch and dinner taken care of!! For breakfast we all ate cereal and milk which we already had. I'm looking forward to this challenge and using what we already have inour pantry and adding inexpensive ingredients to it.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Faithbooking
About a year or so ago I was looking for religious scrapbook papers online and came across FaithfullyYours.net. I signed up for their newsletter and learned more about Faithbooking. I love scrapbooking and and I'm striving to become a better Christian so I was excited about this notion of reflecting on my faith through scrapbooking. It seemed easy enough. I never really started my faithbook though. I kept all of the weekly emails and filed them away in their own folder but never really gave them any real thought. After all, I was (still am) a working mother of 2 who was also going to school full time. In the last few months I have found the time to read over the emails and see online how others are faithbooking. The weekly emails that I just stashed away seemed to be written just for me. Email after email addressed something that I was facing. The more a read the more I could see that not having the time to reflect on my faith and work on it and strengthen it could no longer be an option. Without the reflection and learning faith begins to sway and deteriorate. But with strong roots it can grow and grow and with stand any storm. So today begins a challenge. I am going to start my faithbooking journey with a journal. I will write in it daily and weekly I will my a faithbook entry to illustrate what I am learning in hopes that it will not only be a tool for me to grow but also my children or anyone who reads it.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Do Over
It seems I always have grand ideas but terrible follow through. I wanted to begin a blog to have an electronic diary of sorts that would also keep me in accountable for what I think and say and do. I guess I fell a little short.
In the last year and a half since my last and only entry life has been a roller coaster ride of emotions to say the least. I began the Masters portion of my curriculum spring 2008. Through poor planning and over commitment on my part, I did not do too well in Fall of 2008, the semester before I was to begin student teaching. Long story short I did student teach, 50 miles away, but not under the MS program but licensure only. I also have not found a teaching job or even had an interview and that is depressing on it's on. I am determined to follow this through this time even though I feel like throwing in the towel. I will continue working my part time job and subbing on my days off. As I think of the up coming school year, my stomach turns with anxiousness, excitement, fear, and at the same time a bit of relief. I still will like to obtain my Masters in Elementary Curriculum or Reading. Maybe while I'm subbing and working part time I maybe able to do just that.
We also hit financial hardships that we are still working through. I do not know at this time exactly how we will come out it, but I do have hope and faith that we will make it through.
Hopefully this is first of many posts as a continue this journey we call life.
In the last year and a half since my last and only entry life has been a roller coaster ride of emotions to say the least. I began the Masters portion of my curriculum spring 2008. Through poor planning and over commitment on my part, I did not do too well in Fall of 2008, the semester before I was to begin student teaching. Long story short I did student teach, 50 miles away, but not under the MS program but licensure only. I also have not found a teaching job or even had an interview and that is depressing on it's on. I am determined to follow this through this time even though I feel like throwing in the towel. I will continue working my part time job and subbing on my days off. As I think of the up coming school year, my stomach turns with anxiousness, excitement, fear, and at the same time a bit of relief. I still will like to obtain my Masters in Elementary Curriculum or Reading. Maybe while I'm subbing and working part time I maybe able to do just that.
We also hit financial hardships that we are still working through. I do not know at this time exactly how we will come out it, but I do have hope and faith that we will make it through.
Hopefully this is first of many posts as a continue this journey we call life.
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