"You Must Like Bread"

"You must like bread." That's what the cashier said as I loaded up the belt with my 16 loaves of bread and 10 packages of bagels. "Why the heck would you buy all that bread," you ask?

While I was looking through the grocery ads yesterday I noticed that our Italian grocer, Caputo's, had Natural Ovens Bread and Bagels on sale for $1.99-A STEAL!!! If you have every had Natural Ovens bread you must know that it is the absolute best bread for you that you can buy. Made with the most wholesome ingredients and definitely NO High fructose corn syrup. Well, my hubby LOVES this bread and will settle for pretty much nothing less. At Woodman's I can find it for around $3.79 a loaf. You can see how I was pretty excited about the $1.99. If you know me by now you know I rarely make a purchase without a coupon. I was ready to clear out the store with the $1.99, BUT I found a coupon for 60cents off any Natural Ovens product! As an added bonus this is a .pdf coupon, which means you can print as many as you want until it expires!! That brings the cost down to $1.39 a loaf!! You can hardly get a loaf of your standard crapola white bread for that price. I literally felt like I stole a cart full of bread today.

And this, my friends, is another example of how you can still eat healthy and coupon at the same time :)

So, yes...I stocked up....but don't worry I left plenty for you :)

16 loaves of bread, 10 pkgs of bagels=$36.14+tax

They have a variety of yummy flavors, such as sunny millet, whole wheat, organic wheat with flax. The bagels: cinnamon raisin, blueberry, brainy.

Spontaneity

I woke up Friday with a hankerin' for doughnuts. Now, I'm not really a huge fan of doughnuts, but for some reason I had a craving. Byron didn't have to go into work, so he suggested go to Krispy Kream for breakfast and then go garage-saling. I'm not really a spontaneous person, but I went along with it. So, Byron found some garage sales to go to and mapped it all out. We were out of bed and out the door in 20 minutes.

Unfortunately, the closest Krispy Kreme is 35 minutes away. With our belly's grumbling it was a looong drive. When we finally got there we realized that we were at the actual Krispy Kreme factory-cool! As we were figuring out what we wanted to order we were handed two fresh baked glazed donuts (my fave!) for free! We were tempted to just order a milk chug and call it a day, but we were polite and ordered a few more. Plus, Gideon had to try his first donut! We enjoyed a nice and very sugary breakfast (maybe that's why my eye was twitching all day) and then went on to the garage sales.

Dad showing Gideon how it's done

He's a fast learner ;)

Needless to say the pickins were slim. Some of the ones we went to literally opened the garage door and called it a sale. We didn't even bother getting out of the car for half of them. Oh well. Better luck next time? It was still a fun morning and I got to spend it with my two favorite guys....and leftover Krispy Kreme as an added bonus!

"Garage sales are boring, dad"

My Kid is a Weirdo

One of the many joys in my life is watching my little man play. Today he was being such a well behaved cuddly kid. Here is one of the silly things he was doing (for several minutes before I got to film it). Boy, do I love this kid.

My 9 month Old

Have I really been a mom for 9 months already? It seems like just yesterday that I taking my little boy home from the hospital.

He's been keeping me busy these days. Always, ALWAYS moving. Can hardly keep up with him. Pulling himself up on everything. He went from slithering everywhere to doing a full out real crawl now.

Baby-Led weaning has been working out well for us. He eats a variety of foods. I was a little worried about the orange today, but he seemed to like it. His pincer grasp has developed quite well. He can pick up any small piece of food and get it to his mouth just fine.

G enjoying some watermelon

He also is "sharing." He likes to offer up whatever he's playing or eating. I pretend to take or eat it to encourage him to share.

I used to think I kept a pretty clean house until I found him finding little things (like pieces of fuzz) and putting them into his mouth.

He has 2 teeth on the bottom now and another one on the way. The poor kid is in a lot of pain and sleeps even worse than ever now. We have found two secret weapons (for the sleep) that seem to do the trick though: The vacuum and dancing with mom to Jack Johnson. Any suggestions on ways to help with the teething would be greatly appreciated.

G's first firework show

Hangin with Papa

Loves his daddy

Gideon Likes to Share

Michele & Shane~June 27, 2010

My sister was married off this weekend to a wonderful Godly man! Many blessings upon this Christ-centered marriage!

8 Months on the Potty

Okay, so I took a little break from elimination communication (Diaper Free Baby) due to the fact that Gideon got really heavy really fast and I couldn't hold him over the toilet anymore. A couple months ago he was able to start sitting on his potty on his own. He has a very predictable poop schedule: once in the morning within an hour of waking up. I've been putting him on the potty with his diaper on because he freaked out in the beginning when I would take it off and sit him down. He would poop in his diaper but be on the potty. I recently started putting him on the potty with no diaper. He was cool with it, but didn't actually go to the bathroom. TODAY HE DID IT! Yay! So, I can officially say that Gideon is pooping on the potty at 8 months and 3 weeks old. He peed on the potty too, but I haven't really been focusing the peeing part. I'm still a little unsure how to work on that part considering he is a boy and he can't even stand up on his own yet. One step at a time I suppose. Still hoping to have him potty trained around the age of one...so we'll see how it goes!