A Very Special Day

October 17, 2010 was a very special day.  Our youngest daughter, Abbie, was baptized.  She had asked Jesus into her heart a few years back but for one reason or another had waited to join the church.  On Sunday, October 10th she walked down the aisle to make her public profession of faith. 
She is such a special girl and I am so thankful that God put her into our life.  I know God must have big plans for her and I can't wait to see what He has in store.  My world completely changed 12 years ago when I found out I was pregnant and it has been wonderful! 

Rite-Aid Savings

I ran into Rite-Aid today before work and picked up some candy for Trunk or Treat. 

I bought all of this candy for only $2.26, a savings of $24.00.  I also received $10.00 in UP rewards to use the next time I shop at Rite-Aid.

My coupon system

I have a rolling file folder cart that I have labeled with 12 hanging files for each month. In each hanging file I put in two file folders (one labeled Red Plum and the other one labeled Smart Source) When I buy the Sunday paper I use a marker to write the date on the front and then I file the entire coupon supplement in the correct folder. At this point I have not had to cut any coupons yet. Every week I go to the southernsavers.com website and I look at the stores I will be shopping at. This site will tell me what is on sale, what coupons are available and where I can find them. Then I can pull my coupons out of the file and cut the ones I will be using. I use a small envelope and write down on the envelope the name of the store and what I will be buying with my coupons listed. I then put all of the coupons in the envelope so they are handy for the store.


My rolling file cart that I use to store my coupons:

A close up of my files:

A picture of how I label my coupon papers by date:

Church Bulletin Board

Here's the new bulletin board Abbie and I made for the adult Sunday school class.

Walgreens shopping Trip

This is what I bought today at Walgreens for only $3.41! 

Jesus Healing the Blind Man

Today we are looking at John 9: 1-11. 
How many times are we blind to what God wants us to do?   How different do you think your life would be if you had eyes of faith?  A lot of times we can't even see what is right in front of us. 

All of us have a "blind spot"  In the back of our eyeballs is a part called the retina.  The retina is made of light-sensitive materal that sends information it sees to the brain.  Every retina has a "blind spot" or a place that doesn't have that light sensitive material.

Blind spot experiment:

Draw a smiley face on the left part of a sheet of paper and on the right side place the number one and count up to nine, writing right to left.  Close your right eye and look at the number one with your left eye.  See the smiley face with your peripheral vision!  Without moving your head or the paper look at the other numbers (the 2, then the 3, then 4 etc.)  You will notice that the smiley face disappears around the number four and will reappear around number 7.

Blackberry

We have had our little guinea pig, Abbie named Blackberry, since April 27th.  She was just a little baby when we got her then and she has grown so much!   Here's a new picture of her: