New Blog

Hello faithful followers. I have started a new blog. It's more focused, will have more goodies and is more simple. As I figure out this journey of marriage, being a wife, a mom, following Christ, simplifying my life, building a business, growing and learning about myself and this world, I will share with you the process, the things I learn and and wisdom bestowed upon me over at my new blog www.MomsSimplePath.blogspot.com. Please follow me there. To see the topics I will focus on read through my profile. I will continue to share more personal family info at our family blog www.thehickmanadventure.blogspot.com.
See ya on the other side!!!!


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Cloth Diapers

If you follow my family blog you will have already seen this post there. But HERE is the link to my post on Cloth Diapering.....Enjoy!!!!

Here, There, EVERYWHERE

I can't decide what to post where. Sometimes I post couponing stuff here, sometimes on my family blog. Perhaps I should just do one blog?! Or maybe I will do all my stuff here and just put family pictures and stories on the family blog.

So if you want to see my great couponing finds this past week go here. But I'll try to get them on this blog from now on.

Soon I will be posting about my experience with cloth diapers, simplifying my life and more.....
Any topics you would like to hear about?

Sleep anyone?

I went to bed at 10pm. Got up at 8:30am. (of course there were a few night feedings and diaper changing) But I had to STILL drag myself out of bed. I will admit - I do LOVE sleep but this is getting a little ridiculous. I want to get up early, do yoga and my personal quite time with the Lord before my boys wake up and the day is unending chaos. I can't seem to get myself to get OUT of bed in the morning. Am I depressed? Not getting enough sleep? Addicted to sleep? This all is resulting in huge frustration with myself. I know what I want but am struggling getting there.

I know people can relate. I know people have succeed in this area. My own husband is the most disciplined person I know! Why is it sooo hard for me?

What is your solution to this problem?

My Awesome Coupon Finds for the week

In this weeks P&G there was an awesome coupon for $2 off Pampers wipes. And at Walmart they are only $1.97. So you know what that means......FREE wipes!! WoooHooo! All I had to pay was tax which was $1.68.

This trip was from Safeway. I was planning on getting A LOT more free stuff to go with this order but it didn't work out. However, I couldn't walk away too upset when I got all of this for $4.56

Walgreen's had a glitch in their system. And it was ringing up the body was as buy one get one free. So I took advantage of it (the cashier helped me as it was my first attempt at couponing at Walgreen's ). I received all of the body wash for free plus $12 in rewards (in-store money). I also scored 11 toothbrushes for free. They were one sale for $.99 and I had $1 off coupons. The only thing I had to pay for was the tax of course which amounted to $1.41 - Sweet!

So overall I MADE MONEY this week :)

Walmart = $1.68

Safeway= $4.56

Walgreen's = $1.41

Total = $7.65 - $12 that I made at Walgreen's means

I made $4.35 this week shopping. Awesome!

Deodorant

Today I came across a post about making your own deodorant. Some may think this is weird or odd but I think its awesome. I have always wanted to try to do something like that. So I will try. The ingredients are pretty simple and the reviews say it works awesome. I will let you know how that goes.

One of my new friends taught me how to coupon too. She did it in Utah before she moved here and is awesome at it! So I am giving that a go as well. I tried it once before and read all about it but it was pretty confusing. However, when she showed me her system and the way it works- its pretty simple! I have been collecting coupons but haven't gotten enough courage to DO anything yet. But this week I will, hopefully. She gotten some awesome deals. I can't wait till I can come home with a butt load of stuff for only $10. Its gonna be awesome. Again I will keep you posted on that as well.

Another Monday

Today was a great day! Despite the fact my baby was fussy and blah all day, we got a lot done! Office stuff in the morning, lunch with Curtis then we went on a walk, drove to Park Meadows Mall for an interview, stopped at a gas station and got gas (for 2.86 per gallon- geeppers!) and a carwash, went to Sunflower Market and got lots of yummy yummy fruits and veggies, stopped at King Soopers and got the essentials (milk and bread), came home and fixed hamburgers at 4pm (we were starving!), ate the hamburgers. I worked on CARES stuff and tried to keep Samuel happy while Curtis cleaned the bathroom (willingly- yeah I know I got an amazing husband) then I spent two hours rocking Samuel to sleep, feeding Samuel, rocking him to sleep, bouncing Samuel, feeding Samuel, laying Samuel down, picking Samuel up, rocking, feeding, bouncing, rocking, finally he passed out at 8 (love being a mom :o) ), did pilates, stretched, cleaned out my purse, ate some icecream and now I'm blogging! I wish I could blog everyday. I love it. But I love all the things I did today.

I love the feeling of having a fridge stocked full of fresh fruit and veggies. Sunflower Market has GREAT prices on fresh fruit and veggies, everything else is rather expensive so I just browse the produce section and I'm out. I can't wait to cook up some yummy meals with the stuff I bought. Hopefully I will have time to share them on here!

I think my baby is getting tooth in, he is fussy and irritable all the time, its hard for him to take good naps during the day and he wakes up screaming if he does fall asleep. I'm not sure what exactly is causing this since I can't seem to locate an incoming tooth but I cant think of what else it is. Whatever it is I hope it passes, but in the mean time I just take each minute at a time and understand I can't do everything and being a mom and wife is most important.

Cheers!

Monday Modifying

I have been thinking about doing this for a while and a blog I was reading really helped me to make sure it happens. My day will be Mondays- you can choose which ever day works best for you and your family but ours will be Mondays.

Every Monday we will go through our house and modify things- simplify- get rid of stuff we don't need, don't really use or could see someone else using more than us!

When we were in China we really loved the idea of living simply (hence the blog) and really wanted to try to continue living that kind of life when we moved back to America. Its been very difficult- but we have stayed aways from the stores well. Now its all about getting rid of the 'stuff' in the house that has little to no meaning and is just taking up space, and in the end making it much more difficult to clean than necessary.

I am very excited about this project. And it will be a good thing for our family to get in the habit of. Even if its just a few things each Monday- if we don't love it or use it regularly, what's it doing in our house!?

Today- I got rid of some 'decorative' pieces that were given to us ( I don't even know when) and they are pretty but I don't love them and don't really know what to do with them. So they have sat awkwardly in our house until today. I'm sure someone will LOVE them and they will be used in another home. I also got rid of some clothes. If they fit awkwardly or they are the shirts that Í might were someday" they have been put in the box to be given away.

Now I will start on my stations. More to come on this idea later =)