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We are starting the adoption journey now with the hopes of our homestudy taking place come Janurary.

We are going the interstate adoption route with a local agency

The fundraising will start shortly for our adoption


We are on the track to move to a bigger home late this year early 2012 making room for a child or sibling group to call home.

Please pray for us on this journey



Step one - have family photo taken

Step two - paper chase

Step three -  take our cert. training class

Step four - Make 1st payment to agency for homestudy

Step five - Homestudy

Step six - Searching system/refferal

Step seven - accepting

Step eight - waiting on states prociding

Step nine - visiting

Step ten -WAITING

Step eleven - welcoming home

Step twelve- home visits

Step thirteen - finialization

The time is nearing

It's been a while since I have been on here but I've been working hard.


You see we have been working towards some goals for our life story and we are about to embark on an exciting time in our life story. We are in the last stage until we start the search coming January.

Yes you heard me right SEARCH.

We are making our last repairs on our credit (medical..I state because it happened right between medical coverage IT HAPPENS) we are now at the point of recovery and just working on the savings point for the down payment.

We will start the search come January. Why January because it's after the busiest time of the year for us, the FALL. January is our slow time so it will allow us to really focus on what we're looking for. We are in all hopes that we are moving by April to a bigger house with a room for school and siblings for the K man. Yes, we will start that process shortly after we move to a house which will allow for us to adopt our little girls.

K is excited for siblings and he knows we will be moving sometime after Christmas from the house he's lived in for the past 6.5 yrs. A special place yes but just way too small for us and our growing family.

Can't wait to start the search and yes I will be blogging and vloging the process. Will be looking for a starter that we can put our touches on. Mr. Handyman is wanting to fix something for our own house and not just for friends.

Keep watching....Until January not much besides for how things are coming together for January's search.

Birthday wish ~ WINK~

Dear hubs,

if you are wondering what you can get me for my birthday this year a gift card from Sephora would be amazing. I need a couple new make-up brushes so I'm not picking little whiskers off my face because mine is shedding.

A new wallet from Coach would be amazing as well. I want one that has a zipper closure would be awesome I think they are called billfolds but I really have no idea.

Love you hun

I've been busy..Ponce 10wks

I am in one of my house cleaning modes again...LOL They always hit in the spring and right before Christmas. I tend to just load it all up and sending it off to a local thrift store. This time I am going to try to have a yard sale. My son asked me if he can make cookies and lemonade to sell and donate to a blog friend of ours. So next weekend we are setting up to sell off our stuff. I have no idea how it will go but worth a try.

K and I have been busy with our new summer school schedule. We are traveling around the world (not really traveling just learning about different places) This week we're in Mexico.

Our baby Ponce is now 10 weeks almost 11 wks..Photo posted above. So we are potty training and getting ready to start leash training in another week (12 wks)

On top of all of this I am working on things with my mom and currently have her dog at our place. He's a nice doggy but untrained.

I'm working on a video project for all the stay at home moms or just moms. That's I'm going to say for now of the project as not sure when I will get to post my 1st video as I'm having camera issues right now.

Keep watching for my post.

I've have a few amazing hauls from loft shopping to , drug store shopping with coupons and so on.

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Walgreen 5-27- 5-29 90% savings

Walgreens

Spent a total of $5.78 on $60.40 worth of stuff

Photo is missing 1 box of mac and cheese and some red vine licorice


They were out of a couple of things on my list but I still did an amazing job. Would of been a little better of a deal had they had the products in stock. But those deals last all week so I will try again later this week when I am out and about.

Happy Couponing

my coupon book

These are my coupons. and my shopping list. I have different days I do different types of shopping. I am by far not an extreme coupon er, but I do try my best to save money. Why do I coupon? I do it to save money for other important things like ADOPTING, buying a house and just being smart with the money that my husband works hard to make. I do my part with making our funds stay in our pockets instead of paying full price on food. Yes there are lots of coupons out there for processed food but you don't have to eat ONLY processed food. In fact I round out our meals keeping sugar, salts lower. I guess I should say within a healthily limit based on the cdc standards.


I started couponing with just clipping coupons of products that I wanted or needed just at that moment on sale or not. did that for years. About a year ago I started to match coupons with sales but not seriously. 4 months ago I really started to take couponing seriously. Go figured I didn't start this when we dealt with money issues with furloughs with hubs job back in 2008. I started getting serious about it when jobs have improved. oh well I'll be ready if anything happens. My biggest save today is 99% but that is NOT common for me. My excuse is that I live in one of the toughest states to coupon in. Do double couponing here. Can't wait for my fall trip to SC to give doubling a shot. Washington were i use to live even doubles now :o(

in my coupon book i have my coupons sorted by category and in baseball card sheets and in my coupon holder I have my clipped coupons going to be used for each shopping transaction and also my coupons about to expire, online coupon codes.

i get my coupons online, Catalina's, peelies, blinkies and the news paper. My stores do alot of BOGO so I always get at least 2 of each coupon. cost my $8 a month in news papers but I save far more then I spend getting coupons. at first it took me a few hours a day getting everything put together but now it takes maybe 2 hours a week to clip my coupons, put them in the binder, make my shopping list& matches and pull all coupons and so on. I schedule my couponing and shopping trips through out the week and for most of my couponing is at night once son is in bed or out with his dad and normally while catching up on shows recorded (criminal minds and the talk normally)

Well that is my brief on my couponing