Amateur couponing

I tried couponing today.  I mean, really couponing.  If I see a coupon in the Sunday paper that I think I'll use, I usually cut it out and stick it in my coupon wallet.  I may save a few dollars here and there with coupons, but I've never really planned anything out.  Today, I guess I was in the "saving money" mode, and as I was browsing the ads in the paper I decided I want to really try couponing.  There were quite a few deals at Walgreens that included things we needed or would use in the near future.  Ainsley was taking her afternoon nap, so I cut some coupons, grabbed the Walgreens ad, and headed to Jacksonville.  I really didn't know what I was doing, but I walked in with somewhat of a list of what I wanted.  Of course, I found other "deals" as I was in there that wasn't on my list or included in the ad, but I think I did pretty good for my first time!

Here's a picture of what I walked out with.

I got $150.78 worth of stuff and paid $52.39, which is a 65% savings!!!  I think that's pretty good for my first try.  I got each of us a razor, razor refills for mine, two packages of diapers, refill of wipes, two toothbrushes, two tubes of toothpaste, four big bags of M&M's, two deoderants, two body washes, two packages of Dayquil, and two packages of Nyquil.  The razor refills were $22 and each razor would have been $12/each, so I pretty much got everything else for free!  I was excited.  Now, Ethan, the assistant manager of Walgreens by Sonic wasn't as thrilled as I was.  I felt so bad for him.  Of course, it all didn't ring up correctly, so he had to go through everything and get my money for me.  I'm glad Joel wasn't with me....he would have been so embarrassed!!!

Last night we met Lou and Alaina for supper at Chubba's in White Hall.   Ainsley had already had a pretty busy day shopping with Mommy, Callie, and Madilynn and was getting tired.  She did good through supper, and we decided to stop and get ice cream in White Hall on our way home.  When we got in the car to head home, Ainsley was not a happy camper and cried, or maybe I should say wailed from the time we left and was still at it once we got out of Roodhouse.  The next thing I know, Joel is kicking off his boots in the passenger floor board of the car and is climbing to the back seat through the center console.  He gets into the back seat and tries calming Ainsley down.  I mean, he was doing everything...pulling out toys, talking, turning on the light, etc.   At one point, he was shaking one of her rattles and doing an Indian chant:  Hey-ya-ya-ya, hey-ya-ya-ya, hey-ya-ya-ya.  She finally calmed down about half way home, but we had to leave the light on the entire time.  She was so tired, hungry, and wore out.  We got home and I put her pajamas on her, gave her a bottle, and she was out for the night!  I love how Joel is a good Daddy, even if he won't do a lot of the things he does with Ainsley in front of other people.  He has a dance he does with the music her bug plays that hangs off of her carseat, but he says that dance is just between him and Ainsley and I've only seen pieces of it.  All I have to say, is that our daughter is in for it with Joel as her Daddy!  Here's what I found this morning when I got up (he was up with her this morning playing before leaving for Bluffs).  

Poor sock monkey!

I guess Joel was bored last weekend, because he found some new apps for my phone.  One of them was the "brostache" app.  Check out this video of Ainsley with a brostache!  Mom said how much Ainsley liked the puppy when she stayed the night earlier this week, so I went out and got her one like Mom's.  She really does like it.  Here's a video of her playing with it. 

Ainsley fell asleep again in her jumperoo earlier in the week.  I got a better video of her, and you can see at the very end that the phone ringing finally woke her up!  Here's a video of her shrieking.  She'll mimic me when I do it and she usually cracks herself up after she does it.  

I forgot that I had taken a few pictures of Ainsley's head Thursday morning after I took her helmet off, and when her head looked really bad.  I took this picture with my phone, so it isn't very good but you can see how red it was.