Thursday, March 3, 2011

What a Week ( or two) !

We have had alot going on this last week or so, Jeff had some major decisions regarding school, we have started using some different techniques to get Abby to hopefully gain weight before her 18 month check up, and I have made a small but great money saving ( couoning) breakthrough !

First Jeff and school, around the middle of last week he was begining to think that getting into the Masters program that he has been looking into might not work. So he called Florida State and asked if his bachelors degree from Eagfle Gate would transfer, and of course he had gone to one of the few schools that Florida won't accept. So he talked to an instructor at Eagle Gate who told him to check out Columbia College which has a camopus here in Murray( sweet). Turns out that if he transfered his credits and finishes his Bachelors at Columbia the degree will transfer to Florida State and he will be able to get into the online masters of Forensic Science program! Can I just tell you all we were sooooo excited and this is just more proof that prayer works !

We were very worried about Abby's weight gain or lack thereof so I began googling " High Calorie Diet for Toddlers" and came up with many good suggestions, such as mixing 1/2 and 1/2 with her whole milk, feeding her whole milk yogurt ( I never knew there was such a thing) , and using spreads like cream cheese, peanut butter, extra butter , on just about anything she eats. She hasn't minded the 1/2 and 1/2 milk, and doesn't seem to mind the whole milk yogurt, which I found in the baby isle, made by gerber ( go figure) ! I also found a recipie for peanut butter dough, using equal amounts of peanut butter and dry milk, it is supposed to make a dough that can be rolled into balls for eating, kids supposedly love it. I need to get the dry milk and try it out.

I am learing more about money saving and combining coupons with sales and getting coupons for future purchases from the registers!


This all came to a grand total of $8 , I fugured it originally came to around $52 so it was about an %85 savings !!!!

1 comment:

  1. Why are you worried? She is fine!!! All the kids in my family were low on the charts, and we had 2% instead of whole milk. Don't worry about chunking her up before her appt...Mel's Dr. freaked out a bit about her too when she was newborn.

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