May

I know May isn't over yet, but I thought I would just write a little post anyway. It's just been crazy around my house. No way, not with 6 kids and a daycare you say!

The kids are completely and totally excited about summer time. They say this is going to be the best summer EVER! We found out at the beginning of the month that Grandpa & Grandma (hubby's Dad & Stepmom) were going to visit. They have never been to our house. Then we find out they aren't going to visit. So the kids were pretty sad about this. However, I planned a trip to Georgia to visit my family. My mom, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. They are totally excited! Not only are we visiting family, but my cousin is getting married so that means they are going to see all sorts of family, and my mom's church does a big 4th of July party. So we will be there for the 4th. Great Grandma & Grandpa live out in the country and have a pond for fishing, and their neighbors have horses. Oh the excitement coming from my kids. The only bad part is Daddy can't go with us because he can't get off work:(

Oh but the week that my inlaws were coming hubby is already off work so we've got exciting things planned then. We are going to the lake one day for swimming, and cooking out fun! Then hubby is building my raised garden beds and I'm planting veggies. My tomatoes are already growing. So excited! I'm planning a huge garden this year. Please God give us some food off of it this year. I had no luck at all the last garden I planted.

Oh and I broke down and put the kids a trampoline in layaway awhile back and we will be getting that out in June. Totally excited about that! Of course we are going to set up the pool Grandpa got them last year also.

I'm hoping to plan a family weekend trip also. Not sure where we will be heading though.

Right now I'm fighting a really bad sinus infection. It's been awful. I'm on day 2 of meds though. I was hoping to fix it on my own at home so my not wanting to go to the DR has causes me a lot of pain. Thankfully, I feel a lot better than I did.

May I also got back into my couponing again. I had gotten so far behind and we were living off our stockpile. Now it's time to stock it back up. Hit Harris Teeter's triple coupons last week though and got $351 worth of groceries for $82. Rocked that sale! I've got to figure my budget out a little better for next month. With all the kids being out of school I'll have them all home for 3 meals and 2 snacks. Plus 2 extra kids for a little while. Gotta get stocked up on some things. I've got a nice stockpile on drinks for the summer. I'm good there. I've just found myself completely wiped out of somethings and we are hurting these past 2 weeks.

I'm thinking until I'm back at being pretty much fully stocked up that I need to do a big once a month shopping trip and then weekly "sales" shopping. Since hubby gets paid monthly and I get paid weekly (daily).

My "baby" girl is going to be done with middle school next week and then will officially be in high school. I'm freaking out! How is she old enough to be in high school? Wasn't I just bringing her home from the hospital? I've also got another "baby" going to be in Kindergarten. Not sure how that happen either. My kids need to slow down on growing up just a little.

I'm hoping that June is a better month than May was. It wasn't a horrible month just a rough month. I'm hoping June is more fun!!

Jess