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Friday, April 16, 2010

Freebies I received this week

This week my diligence in signing up for freebies online has started to pay off. I received Kotex pads and tampons, Benefiber, Stayfree tampons, dog food, fabric softener and a pen in the mail. Pretty awesome! It makes the bills a little easier to take.

Today I'm expecting two new Motorola DROID A855 Android Phone (Verizon Wireless) from Amazon. Squeeee!!!!!! My husband and I are so damn excited to get them. I've got my head in the sand regarding the larger cell phone bill we will be getting now, but it's about time we had new phones. Can't wait to get home tonight!

I hate eczema (and reflux too)

I really thought that we were going to get to skip eczema with the new baby. He was doing great for months and then all of a sudden his face is covered in eczema (I always have a hard time spelling that word!). Mason, my older son, had a really bad case of eczema and cradle cap. Picture oozing green yuck coming from the poor baby's head. It was stressful, mainly because nothing really helped except for just growing out of it. We tried all the creams and ointments, changed his diet, etc. and nothing would work to any great extent.

The new baby has had his share of other issues with reflux which I think we finally have control of, but now the eczema. I can tell he is itchy and now on top of the Prevacid he needs to take for reflux, we need to put steroid ointment on his face. Boo.

I know there can be many worse things, but jeeze, I'm so frustrated. The hardest part for me is not knowing exactly what is causing it. It could be his milk based formula. It could be the rice starch in the Enfamil AR we use. It could be someone's fabric softener or perfume. It could be the cats or dog. He's too young for allergy testing apparently so no real way of knowing.

We're giving the ointment a try before we change much else (except for switching to the Free fabric softener). I really don't want to have to switch to the very expensive hypoallergenic formula.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Shopping Self Control

I'm like many women, I love to shop. Clothes shopping is not necessarily my favorite thing to do because I'm not the size I wish I was, but it still feels awesome to get a great deal. Getting a great deal always feels good to me, no matter what it is. In the past couple of weeks I've become obsessed with coupons, deals, rebates, etc. I've joined ebates, swagbucks, and I've started following lots of blogs that report on great deals and coupons.
The problem? Our budget is very tight and it's been really hard to resist the bargains for things that we don't *need*. Last week there was a great deal on Halo pajamas for infants on Kids Woot and I jumped on it. I picked out what I wanted and went to check out. Then the voice in my head told me to stop. We don't need pajamas, even if they are an excellent deal. So I closed the browser window, and cursed in my head.
My goal is to find a balance between enjoying my new hobbie (deal finding) and not allowing myself to go crazy and buy things we don't need in order to get the high of getting a great deal. Balance is what I'm going for.
Maybe all those freebies I've signed up for recently will start making their way to my mailbox and that will make me feel better :)

I’m trying hard to try hard

Tonight I’m going to my second Weight Watchers meeting. I went to my first last week after I got fed up with my laziness with regard to weight loss. I thought that paying for and attending meetings would add a layer of accountability that being accountable only to myself didn’t have. So far I don’t think it’s working exactly. I was a bit more aware of what I put in my mouth this past week but I wouldn’t say that I was on track at all. With Sunday’s Easter festivities and the continued presence of candy and cupcakes in my house, it has been hard to avoid temptation. Also, the bottle of wine in my fridge has been calling me, even though I’ve wanted to avoid it. I haven’t been successful in that either.

I suspect that I lost weight this week, but only the scale will tell tonight. It would only be due to eating *slightly* better than the three weeks before I went to the meeting last week.