I don't know about you but I have to make a grocery meal menu to stay within my budget. One time I tried no menu and went to the store and it was terrible. I came out with a lot of stuff and spent a lot of money, but didn't really have much to make meals with through the week. I have done the once a month grocery shopping before and I like it, but we have moved to a much smaller house and I don't have the room to keep a months worth of groceries. So this past week I made our menu and went shopping. I was a very very happy momma! I got what I needed and was able to get ALOT of fruit and bought the kids three boxes of ice cream (uh oh) and they wanted a box of mini pancakes (yikes). My total for 8 days of groceries and all the extras was a grand total of $90!!! Woohoo!!! How well have you done on groceries? Do you budget? Do you plan a menu? I will be posting my menu for you in a couple of days so you can see what we are eating this week.

My grocery items for $90

This is the tube top from walmart. It is a size small from the women's section. You can find them near the bathing suits.

Here it is as a skirt!!! Pretty awesome. It fit her perfectly.

The white piece is the inside flap of the tube top. You pull it up and that becomes the waist band which allows the top to become a longer skirt. No material is needed to be added and I didn't even have to take it in at the waist.

Needless to say...this momma was very happy to be able to get her 4 new "skirts" for only $3 a piece.

We don't eat out a lot. It usually is once a week or every other week. But when we would, we would always get pops for everyone. I've always had the idea of getting water when we eat out, but my husband would always say that he really didn't like that idea. My husband is a big cherry coke zero drinker. I have my moments with pop. Sometimes that's all I want to drink and then there are other times I want tea. I have never been good at drinking water and it's something I always want to do more, but.... (you get the picture). So anyways...we went to cici's pizza buffet a few weeks ago with the kids and we decided we would get water for everyone. My husband and I were blown away. By drinking water with our meal, we saved ourselves $7. Many times you will pay around 2.50 a glass for pop. We have five people in our family right now. Have you done the math as to how much money that saves me when we eat out. Many times the gas stations have 32oz pops for .89. My husband and I decided that if we wanted a pop that bad after eating we could get 32 oz for everyone and still save money. Anyways, you should try it. See how much money you can save by everyone drinking water instead of pop when you eat out.

I know I have been very terrible about posting on my blog. And I have missed it very much. I haven't even been able to read the blogs I love to follow. For the past couple of months we have been trying to move from Ohio to Kentucky. I also got pregnant and have been very very sick. And the last couple of weeks I have been soo sick that I had to stay in bed for nearly a week and all I could do was Puke and puke. I went a whole week without eating. I was finally able to get some medicine and am getting better little by little. I have not been able to unpack our house due to my sickness. So I'm providing two pictures so you can see what I'm dealing with. It has been a bumpy road and I don't think we are going to be on track for a couple of months. I will try my best to keep up, but if you see me go awhile then you know what is happening.

To all my readers...I'm soo sorry there hasn't been a post in a while. We are in the middle of moving to Kentucky, homeschooling children, wrapping up the last days of my full time job, and in the midst of it...I'm pregnant with our fourth child. And morning sickness has hit. HARD! I spend my mornings running to the toilet and by the time I'm done after lunch, I try to eat something little and keep the kids going on with school. It is very very difficult right now. We will be moving Easter weekend. So my posts maybe very sporadic until then. I have a huge house that needs finished packing and there isn't much energy right now to do it.

On a lighter note...we are very excited about the arrival of our fourth. The kids are ready for a girl and so is there mother. My due date is October 26th. I hope that everyone is doing great and I can't wait until we get moved and get back on our schedule. You don't realize how much you use or need a schedule until your off.

Ever have those days where you KNOW you need something extra to help get you going? I wake up and immediately my mind goes to the list that runs through my brain at 100 miles an hour. And sometimes my mind just wants to shut down and go back to sleep and forget about it all. But in that moment, I have child 1, 2 or 3 that says, "Mom, I'm hungry. What's there to eat." So I try to grab a few minutes real quick to grab that wonderful cup of Mo Jo. Sometimes I can get it then, and then sometimes it is late in the morning before I get it. But when I smell that coffee perking in the pot it is the most wonderful smell ever. Well, anyways I just felt like rambling about coffee. It was definitely rambling.