Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes. It was not a very good birthday! I was soooooo sick all weekend! We had to cancel going to MA on Saturday. I could NOT get out of bed Saturday and didn't get up at all Sunday either. I couldn't even eat cake! Plus I couldn't watch the kids long enough for Josh to go buy one anyway. Sore throat, fever, chest cold - I was miserable.
Saturday night Josh agreed to get up with Jesse (who has started getting up at 3am again) but that didn't go very well and we both ended up getting up, which so wasn't the point. I did manage to get in a hot bath yesterday and Josh changed my sheets while I was in there, so that was nice. Josh slept in Timothy's room the last 2 nights and I've barely seen the kids except when Jesse comes in to nurse. Finally last night around midnight I woke up DRENCHED in sweat (and milk! I had leaked all over myself! I haven't leaked at night in like a year!) and now that I don't have a fever I feel much better. I got up with Jesse at 4 and we went back to sleep together until 7.
I'm still in bed but did actually go downstairs this morning for about 20 min and had some breakfast like a normal person. Lunch and dinner were in bed though. Timothy has been cute - comes to check on me every couple hours and brings me drinks and such. So far no one else is sick and I hope it stays that way! If Josh gets this I will be sooooo screwed.
I did buy myself a new purse and wallet for my birthday and those arrived Saturday so I sat in bed and cleaned out my old purse and set up my new purse, so that was fun I guess. Today and yesterday I watched 2 different full seasons of America's Next Top Model- there's a thrill. Today Jocelyn sat in bed with me and colored while Jesse napped and Josh took Timothy and Morgan to the grocery store (when he got home he said he refuses to ever grocery shop with kids again, that's it, he's going alone or he's not going). I joined thegrocerygame.com this week and today was my first time sending him with *the list*. The game is that this lady maintains a database of rockbottom prices and makes you a list of all the good deals for the week, matching them up with any coupons out there, and then you stock up on the good deals and only buy minimums of what you NEED and eventually you get a stockpile of everything and never have to buy things not on sale again. A friend online said she went from spending $150/week for groceries to $30. We usually spend about $300 per TRIP to the grocery store and while *usually* there is only one trip per week - not always! Today Josh got a full cart of groceries for $130!! The receipt says we saved $51 but that doesn't count changing brands or whatever. I'd say that's pretty successful! Plus we have about a month's supply of rice and a couple other things included in that. Oh, and of course Josh bought beer too - I didn't have a coupon for that!
I have lists to 4 stores total (the price is $1 for the first 4 weeks and then after that it will be $25 every 8 weeks) so I'm trying to talk Josh into going to CVS tonight since I'm still too sick to go out. Then I'll try to hit Walgreen's tomorrow and have him go to Shaw's tomorrow night (today was Stop & Shop) and then we'll be done for the week. We'll probably still spend about $300 but will have gotten WAY more stuff. Some of the things at CVS end up being free! I only wish I had started saving the coupons from the papers a while ago. She matches coupons with sale items and says which week the coupons come from (so you don't even have to clip coupons really, you just have to file them by date) but since I only started coupons this week I couldn't get as good deals as if I had the coupons. I've never been much of a coupon clipper - but this is pretty fun! I definitely see why they call it a game! If anyone gets inspired to join, please say that I referred you as I then get free weeks.
The boys are on school vacation this week, which will be fine as long as Josh stays healthy. I have to go back to work tomorrow whether I'm bleeding out my eyes or not, so I hope not!
Let's see -the kids must have done something fun this week. Oh, on Friday Josh went to get Morgan up for the day and it went something like this:
Josh: "Come on Morgan, time to get up and go to school"
Morgan: "Awww, I went to school YESterday."
hahahaha - Josh said he could tell it was from some show, but it was still funny.
Jocelyn's new thing is randomly singing to herself. Pretty cute! I also got some of those color wonder finger paints - the kind that only works on the special paper - and that kept her busy for a good 2 hours today while Josh was out shopping.
Jesse's new phrase is “that one?” as he points to things and then if you hand him the wrong thing he says "noooooo" while shaking his head and points again "that one?" Pretty funny.
Timothy's been invited for a sleepover later this week - first one! We'll see how that goes. He's supposed to have an orthodontist consult Friday morning but now I have to sub for my boss in a meeting so will need to move that.
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