Tonight, I saw for the first time, the love of a father to protect his daughter....
Jackson and Emma are now the proud owners of some razor scooters. They have been watching some kids ride them at the ballpark and all they had to do was think in their little brains, how much they would like to have one, and Peepaw will make their wish, his command.
So, tonight, while Dylan was playing an awesome game of baseball, one that warranted ice cream afterwards, Jackson and Emma occupied themselves with some scooters.
Wade had to call it an early night because he had to be at work soon, so he headed off towards the car. He didn't get very far before I heard a familiar little girl's voice say, "Daaaaaddddyyyyy, that boy took my scooter." I turned to see what was going on and mine and Wade's eyes met. His eyes said to me, "Damn it! I am going to have to kill a little boy right here in front of everyone! You gonna bail me out, woman?"
Momma's eyes: Go get 'em daddy!...
Daaaadddddyyyy: Well, that just ain't gonna work!
Emma: But, he won't give it back to me!
Meanwhile, Wade is walking toward the boy who is on the back of my princesses steed. Now, I don't know if all of you have seen my husband, but....he looks mean when he's not smiling. If I was the little boy...I would've been scared.
Daaadddddyyyy: He really doesn't have a choice!
As Wade got about 10 steps from the boy, the kid dropped the scooter and headed in the other direction.
The girl....she hopped back on and rode into the sunset. All thanks to her noble knight, who saved her!
Later....
Do you know that that little boy took my princesses steed again!!!! This time the Queen had to get off of her throne!!! UGH!!!...to go knock the evil jester of off the steed and tell him he had better not take it again....or else.....off with his head!
All was once again, well, in Fairytale Land...and that little boy, he came up the last time and asked if he could ride the steed. I thought, oh, how nice, he learned a lesson....."No!"
Maybe next time, he will try asking FIRST!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Michael Jackson, poor guy.
Jackson: Mom, (because remember, every sentence...)...how did Michael Jackson die?
Me: Well, he had a doctor that gave him....
Emma:.......................................because he had a disease that made him turn white and made him look like a girl. Mmmm hmmm.
Me: Ok...that about explains it.
Jackson: Really?!
Me: Well....
Malia
Me: Well, he had a doctor that gave him....
Emma:.......................................because he had a disease that made him turn white and made him look like a girl. Mmmm hmmm.
Me: Ok...that about explains it.
Jackson: Really?!
Me: Well....
Malia
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Malia's Hoooouuuuusssseeeee
Have you ever watched Run's House on MTV? Yeah, me neither, well....actually, I have watched a few episode's, but couldn't stand to watch anymore. Point is, at the end of each of his shows, the scene changes to Run in the bathtub with bubbles and candles and his iphone or Blackberry or whatever and he is typing some kind of inspirational message, because he is actually a reverend ya know, about his family's trials and tribulations for the week. So, tonight, I am Run, except I am not in a bathtub...well, because bathtubs and shower walls give me the creeps, so I try very hard not to touch them, no, I think I will be in a big bed, all alone, with about 10 feather pillows in my white satin robe, texting this inspirational message on my white phone of some sort (I know nothing about phone brands).
Today, algebra brought me to tears. For. Real. There was me. Sitting in class, sniffling. Thinking, "oh. my. God! This sucks! I hate this! This is stupid! Math is nothing but some crap that someone made up! I mean all these rules! Someone had to make it up! Someone had to decide that if you square a square root, then the square can be unsquarerooted! Who made this crap up!? Who has done this to me!!!!!!!!!"
Then the teacher, who calls herself, the best teacher ever, says, "I did something bad." "Do you want to know what it is?"
"Um, no, not really. You have ruined my life because you love algebra, you evil bi..."
"I made your mid-term multiple choice. That way if you pick C, and the answer was A. You got it wrong. Period."
"Sweet Jesus, thank you!!!!! You just saved me life! She really is the best teacher ever!"
So you see, just in case you doubted..... there is a God. He has nothing in common with imaginary numbers, though he is as complex as a quadratic equation. He can even show up in the middle of algebra class when you are fixing to make yourself look like a blubbering idiot and give you multiple choices.
Multiple choice and Jesus dried my tears.
Malia
Today, algebra brought me to tears. For. Real. There was me. Sitting in class, sniffling. Thinking, "oh. my. God! This sucks! I hate this! This is stupid! Math is nothing but some crap that someone made up! I mean all these rules! Someone had to make it up! Someone had to decide that if you square a square root, then the square can be unsquarerooted! Who made this crap up!? Who has done this to me!!!!!!!!!"
Then the teacher, who calls herself, the best teacher ever, says, "I did something bad." "Do you want to know what it is?"
"Um, no, not really. You have ruined my life because you love algebra, you evil bi..."
"I made your mid-term multiple choice. That way if you pick C, and the answer was A. You got it wrong. Period."
"Sweet Jesus, thank you!!!!! You just saved me life! She really is the best teacher ever!"
So you see, just in case you doubted..... there is a God. He has nothing in common with imaginary numbers, though he is as complex as a quadratic equation. He can even show up in the middle of algebra class when you are fixing to make yourself look like a blubbering idiot and give you multiple choices.
Multiple choice and Jesus dried my tears.
Malia
Monday, July 20, 2009
What's this, you ask?
Holy Schmoly!!! Why, that looks like.....
I know mom! A new baseball bat!!???
Nooooo......
Oooo, oooo, oooo, I know mom, it's a new boyfriend for me!
Um....no.
Oh yea! A new item for my farm collection.
You are so close Jackson.
This is the first fruit of our gardening labors! Yikes! I may have overgrown it a bit. I checked on these right before we left for vacation on 7/3 and there was nothing.....I can't wait to see what else might be out there.
Malia
Monday, June 29, 2009
My Savings 6/28
Some of you have heard me talk about how much I have been saving by couponing. While I vowed I would not be "one of those crazy people", I have become more and more excited about how much I can actually save. Whether or not you want to learn how to save more money yourself, or if you just want to look on in amazement as I save more, I thought I would begin sharing some of my trips with you.
I started out shopping at Walgreen's, CVS, Riteaid, Publix and Kroger. Occasionally, I would find some deals at Target. I have since, shut out Walgreen's! (Waaaay too complicated and no one was on the same page as to how their rewards system worked.) They actually lost me over $2.00. Oh well, their loss. I will not include Kroger in any of my pictures because....this is where I do my main grocery shopping and I buy things there that aren't always the best deal. I will be posting my Publix, Riteaid and CVS shops for you and any other great deals I find.
I hope you enjoy and I hope it inspires you to see just how much money you can actually save.
For this shop, I bought some extra stuff because we are going to Six Flags in a couple of days and will need some sandwich stuff, snacks and drinks. Also, we are going on vacation next week and I wanted to stock up on some snacks and such for that also.
So, here we are at Riteaid. I know this does not look like a lot, but you have to realize, those two sunscreens right there, cost over $10 each.
The total for these items: $39.53
I paid OOP(Out Of Pocket): $12.21
Total Saved $27.32!!!
That is a savings of 69%!!! Not bad, not bad AT ALL! I will end up saving more in the end because everything I bought, has a rebate attached to it. I will receive my check at the end of the month. Sweet!
How did I do this? Well, the Stayfree were BOGO, the sunscreen was BOGO and the nuts were BOGO. I had $4.50 in coupons and I had a $5.00 gift card that I had earned from Riteaid. I can use the nuts for snacks on vacation and at Six Flags and we will need the sunscreen all summer with the fair child and all the baseball time spent outdoors. Of course, the Stayfree....well, who can't use that? Oh, right, men! I was very pleased with this shopping trip.
At CVS, you earn Extra Care Bucks or ECB's. I have to start fresh because when we were in a money slump this past month, my ECB's from my last trip exprired. Usually, you have a to pay nothing OOP or very little if you have some ECB's from previous trips, but alas, I am starting fresh.
Again, I am shopping for more stuff than usual here because of vacation and Six Flags.
The total for these items: $44.29
I paid OOP $25.74
Total Saved $18.55!!!
That is a savings of 58%!!!! Still over a 50% savings!! Woohoo!!! While I wasn't too excited about this trip, I still ended up coming out better than I thought.
This is how I did it. I had coupons in the amount of $3.00. The Softsoap body wash was BOGO. We go through body wash like water around here! I wouldn't have normally bought those magazines, but it had some coupons I needed in it. While you may be asking the same thing Wade did, "So, you had a to spend a dollar to get a coupon that saved you $.50?!", this is not so. The coupon was work $1.00 each AND it is a coupon magazine, so it will have other coupons I need in it. It has already paid for itself! On this trip I earned $6.00 in ECB, which I can use like cash on my next trip!
Tuesday I am going to hit Kroger, which unfortunately will be a big shopping trip because my stockpile is WAY low! I may hit up Publix this week, but still not sure. We will have to see what deals I find first.
Hope you enjoyed watching me SAVE!!!
Malia
I started out shopping at Walgreen's, CVS, Riteaid, Publix and Kroger. Occasionally, I would find some deals at Target. I have since, shut out Walgreen's! (Waaaay too complicated and no one was on the same page as to how their rewards system worked.) They actually lost me over $2.00. Oh well, their loss. I will not include Kroger in any of my pictures because....this is where I do my main grocery shopping and I buy things there that aren't always the best deal. I will be posting my Publix, Riteaid and CVS shops for you and any other great deals I find.
I hope you enjoy and I hope it inspires you to see just how much money you can actually save.
For this shop, I bought some extra stuff because we are going to Six Flags in a couple of days and will need some sandwich stuff, snacks and drinks. Also, we are going on vacation next week and I wanted to stock up on some snacks and such for that also.
So, here we are at Riteaid. I know this does not look like a lot, but you have to realize, those two sunscreens right there, cost over $10 each.
The total for these items: $39.53
I paid OOP(Out Of Pocket): $12.21
Total Saved $27.32!!!
That is a savings of 69%!!! Not bad, not bad AT ALL! I will end up saving more in the end because everything I bought, has a rebate attached to it. I will receive my check at the end of the month. Sweet!
How did I do this? Well, the Stayfree were BOGO, the sunscreen was BOGO and the nuts were BOGO. I had $4.50 in coupons and I had a $5.00 gift card that I had earned from Riteaid. I can use the nuts for snacks on vacation and at Six Flags and we will need the sunscreen all summer with the fair child and all the baseball time spent outdoors. Of course, the Stayfree....well, who can't use that? Oh, right, men! I was very pleased with this shopping trip.
At CVS, you earn Extra Care Bucks or ECB's. I have to start fresh because when we were in a money slump this past month, my ECB's from my last trip exprired. Usually, you have a to pay nothing OOP or very little if you have some ECB's from previous trips, but alas, I am starting fresh.
Again, I am shopping for more stuff than usual here because of vacation and Six Flags.
The total for these items: $44.29
I paid OOP $25.74
Total Saved $18.55!!!
That is a savings of 58%!!!! Still over a 50% savings!! Woohoo!!! While I wasn't too excited about this trip, I still ended up coming out better than I thought.
This is how I did it. I had coupons in the amount of $3.00. The Softsoap body wash was BOGO. We go through body wash like water around here! I wouldn't have normally bought those magazines, but it had some coupons I needed in it. While you may be asking the same thing Wade did, "So, you had a to spend a dollar to get a coupon that saved you $.50?!", this is not so. The coupon was work $1.00 each AND it is a coupon magazine, so it will have other coupons I need in it. It has already paid for itself! On this trip I earned $6.00 in ECB, which I can use like cash on my next trip!
Tuesday I am going to hit Kroger, which unfortunately will be a big shopping trip because my stockpile is WAY low! I may hit up Publix this week, but still not sure. We will have to see what deals I find first.
Hope you enjoyed watching me SAVE!!!
Malia
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Southern Savers Giveaway
Southern Savers is giving away $50 to the Southern Savers grocery store of your choice. Go to Southernsavers.com to see how to enter and tell them happy birthday!
Malia
Malia
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Christy Says......
I have a friend that I work with and she just keeps me in stitches....the things she comes up with are just unbelievable. So unbelievable, in fact, that I have decided to give her, her own section on my blog. So, without further ado, the first Christy Says.....
Christy: (speaking about a co-worker and her husband) They are really nice. I went to church with them.
Malia: Oh? Did you like their church?
Christy: No, not really, it was all, you know....broomsticks and fire!
Malia: (thinking: What the hell are they? Wiccan?!)
Christy: (speaking about a co-worker and her husband) They are really nice. I went to church with them.
Malia: Oh? Did you like their church?
Christy: No, not really, it was all, you know....broomsticks and fire!
Malia: (thinking: What the hell are they? Wiccan?!)
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