The Wags Lady...

...keeps trying to trip me up! I swear she thinks I'm ripping the place off!

Has it really been 2 weeks since I blogged last? I need to catch up here. Things are starting to settle down around our home. Through the month of September and first week of October, Clint worked 2 weekends and I worked 12 hour days on Monday and Thursdays - that's a LOT of overtime for the two of us, and the checks were/are nice, but talk about EXHAUSTING. This week has been nice though, our babysitter's kids got sick, so I took Monday & Tuesday off to stay home with the girls - a MUCH needed break - and Clint took Wednesday off - so we had a nice little week of seeing what life was like when things weren't at a breakneck pace and how happy a family could be when it's properly rested! Very nice :)

Let's see what has happened these past couple weeks:

Well, Annie can now sit up by herself! Whoot! Whoot! It seems like she got really strong and grew a ton last week. She's eating fruits now. Have done nanas, pears and applesauce on her cereal. And, hey, don't even think of giving her plain cereal now - she will SCREAM...

Grace - in the grand tradition of Madison Hammond, also attempted giving herself a haircut. Yup - we caught her in the bedroom, she had found Gramma's spray bottle and scissors and did everything perfectly right - sprayed her hair soaking wet and began snipping. Fortunately for us she started with strands underneath, and didn't get very far - actually layered the one side up a little bit and I think it looks kind of cute! Ha! A subtle difference. So - I guess that's one perk of having hair cutting genes.

Was TOTALLY stoked yesterday to find that my WAGS rebate had come - only 2 1/2 weeks! That's not bad - I opted for the gift card loaded with my rebates (19.50) because they give you 10% extra for loading the rebates on to their gift card. Yeah - I've already used 12 dollars of it. This afternoon I ran to Wags on my lunch break and got 1 Cross Action Toothbrush toothbrush (for 4.49), 3 boxes of Kotex tampons (9.00) -just call me the Kotex Queen, and 4 Glade Plug-Ins. This all came up to about 22 dollars before coupons, I think. So I hand the cashier who doesn't like me, the coupons (3 $1.00 Kotex coupons, 2 B1G1 free Glade Plug-in coupons and 1 $3.00 RR from last week) and knocked my total down to 12.00. Swiped my Wags card and out spits 7.50 in RR :) whoo whoo - 4.50 for the toothbrush and 3 dollars for the Kotex. I'm also going to submit the Glade Plug-ins for rebates for October (that will make them free) so -in a manner of speaking - I really only paid $3.00 for the Kotex! Ha ha!

Everytime I have Wags Woman ring me up - she tries to say I did something wrong - "you won't get your rebates if you use a coupon, you can't use more than one IVC coupon, etc..." and today it was you can't use 3 coupons on 2 boxes of tampons. And I look confused at her, so she spells it out very slowly for me and I reply - "I have 3 boxes in there"

"You do?" says she. "Oh! My brain is fried"

Yeah - she's trying to trip me up. Does she think I don't know what I'm doing??? Come on - now, she's rung me up about 6 times now and everytime I'm doing it right. See - there are a lot of couponers out there who don't play by the rules, but I PLAY BY THE RULES, dude. And I'm thorough, so "Humph!"

I don't know why she can't be like Wags Boy who works nights - he gets a kick out of my and my 13 tubes of FREE Crest - you read that right. AND my 7 MASSIVE bottles of dirt cheap Fructis.

Just you wait, Wags Boy - just you wait - more to come, more to come.