been awhile

yep, been busy again. i don't know how those momma's w/3 kids that coupon and blog and cloth diaper everyday do it!! i have one lil one and a big one and i forget to write. i know i have it but its easier just to say, 'eh, ill do it later!!'
so i am trying something new. trying to stick to it and be accountable for it. I've started a 'cleanse'. it'll last from today till monday. and i am doing it to see just how i feel. i am wayyy over weight. my foot is killing me from being so heavy. and i have absolutely NO energy!! seriously, i can sleep 16 hrs if left alone. guess that's part depression also. so turning over a new leaf and things will get better!! i want more energy, lose some weight, and just feel good. so we'll see.
I've been getting tomatoes out of my mini garden. a handful every other day or so. there sooo good. maybe next yr it'll produce more. but I'm happy w/the constant yummie lil presents i get from my lil plant. :)
so i decided to try round 2 in the garden. i planted some spinach, lettuce, and carrots. i have no idea what's up w/the pepper plants but i planted them all when i started everything else and now they finally come up!! i have two plants. i don't know what color they ll be but i don't care. I'm just happy we have two healthy plants!! cant wait to eat the lil guys!! lol
so i was reading about fruits and veggies,(of course) and learned that baby veggies have more nutrients than the full grown ones. and that broccoli, beets, and red bell peppers are the highest in antioxidants. the best of the best.
high in phenols. boosting artery function,to inhibiting the kind of cell damage that might lead to cancer or Alzheimer's. beets are full of blood pressure friendly potassium. and bell peppers and broccoli are a top source of antioxidant vitamin C. or so says Dr. oz on his real age news letter.. :)
so i wont have to wait too long for baby veggies..i wish i could find some beets to plant.. oh well good enuff. oh and i forgot to tell ya, i have two watermelons the size of footballs!!! and like 5 the size of baseballs and a few more babys commin along!!! i was sooo happy when i saw them. its like overnight!! ill have to take pix and post em next time. oh here comes the detox headache!! lol ..k ill just drink some water and it'll pass.. i can do this!!
so till next time, love and hugs. God bless!!

oh yeah! i have a blog!! lol

well....geesh!!!! so maybe i forgot i had a blog...maybe life got in the way...maybe i kept 'meaning to' but never got there..lol dunno. but here i am again.
so darlin bb has now changed her look from baby to little girl.. they grow soooo fast!!
she's still just a lil bitty thing.. at 2yrs and 3mo she is 24.4 lbs!!! and 38 in tall. so she is definitely taking after her daddy's side of the fam. my lil angel bug.
so we went to great grandma's in il. and got to see my momma!!! man i miss her. yeah we talk almost every day. but i really don't like not being just a hour or so away. sure lets spend the weekend at grannies... oh no it takes all weekend to get to her..ugh. don't we have rocket scientists?? cant they invent a teleporter?? you know like the one in 'the fly'?? :)
mom looked real good. and grand ma looked the same. a bit thinner,but the same. the weather was nice off and on. i think i brought the Texas heat with me! man some days it felt just like home. and i was hoping of nice cool northern air!! lol it took awhile but finally the mulberries got ripe. and man were they wonderful!! big fat sweet berries. we ate till we turned purple!!! lol
wish i would have had the camera strapped to my forehead. missed a lot of great 'kodak' moments. if u know what i mean. oh well, i have them in my head and i know i'll never forget the look of my darlin bb pulling down a tree limb and learning to pick only the black ones. cuz there the best. she got a couple of pink ones and spit em out quick!!! they were soooo bitter..lol..but yummie on the plump dark purple/black ones!! so i'm sold. i gotta look up the burpee catalog and see if i can buy a mulberry tree. or 10!! lol
so being gone my garden went crazy and is 5 feet tall or so. lol and weeds/grass everywhere. the tomato plant is trying to uproot itself. and the lil maters are soooo yummie. sweet. but gotta put a umbrella out so they stop boilin in the sun..lol and the radishes. geesh!! they are the size of tennis balls and hot as a jalapeno!! so i guess those r trash or if someone loves hot spicy things. they need to go like tomorrow. we'll see. the watermelons are coming along nicely. since we planted so late we'll have late summer melons.
k so i guess that's all for now. I'm tired. and trying to catch up on my shows. love my dvr!!
so God bless and sweet dreams!!

longtime no write. well a lot has happened since i wrote last. i keep meaning to write, but you know how it is. kid starts cryin, dinner needs to be cooked, massive headache wipes you out. blah blah blah... lol..
so my garden is growing. i don't know where i put the camera so once i find it i'll post some pics. but i actually have radishes!! have been eating a few here and there since they need to be thinned out anyway. :) bb loves eating the mint. she loves going out there and just yanking off a leaf and eating it. mmmm she says. nummie. lol and when she eats the radishes its, ' lil picey mommie' but she loves spicy stuff. she can handle spicier things than i can. which is good, i want her to be able to eat anything and everything. there are things i wish i could eat. like have no fear of food. or trying new things. she is just gun ho!
ok so back to the garden, we have watermelon sprouts about 2 inches high. the radishes are the size of pennies. my lettuce is coming up and the tomato plants are covered with blooms. for a first year garden i think its doing pretty well. :) yeaaaaa.. lol
k so twilight just came on...well like an hour ago and I've never seen it..so instead of really writing I'm watchin it.. so ill write again tomorrow.. :)
hugs....

tuesday

fleas. ugh. i hate fleas. what's the point of having them? they jump and bite. i know whatever does eat them in the food chain wouldn't miss them much. there are better things to eat than fleas. what eats fleas anyway?? were they put on earth just to annoy the dogs, cats, and people? oh my poor baby. she is covered head to toe w/bites. i think i get them all then I'll find 5 more on her. i can't keep spraying poison all over her all the time. so now she takes a bath daily in oatmeal and calamine lotion. I'm going to go get her some 'natural' repellent. i read that citronella, geranium, mint, and catnip will repell bugs. i have some mint lotion but that isn't helping none. i know that menthol chest rub works for me but she breaks out in a rash. :( so the fight is on. spraying every crack in the house make sure it dries before she comes back inside. there still here. sprayed the dogs and the yard and the house again... there still getting her. i found 4 bites on her head. maybe its mosquitoes also??
she had her bath tonight and i put her on the bed to dry her off and put her calamine on. what did i see?? yup a flea!!! WHERE ARE THEY COMING FROM?!?!?! argh!!!

so i hope you had a better Tuesday than me. mine wasn't terrible just frustrating. you don't want your kids to be hurt, or constantly itchy.. ya know? it was a beautiful day. sunny and 80. id rather 72 or so, but that's just me. :) i love the cool.
started goin thru the closet today. tryin to 'spring' clean. get rid of clothes that bb has outgrown and me too...;) so i make a "must keep for when i loose weight"(one day, just not today.lol) and her's i just put in the bin to sell. we need to have a huge yard sale!!! lol grannie bought her the cutest outfits and i know they'll go like hot cakes!! it's funny tho, she's now 25 months old and can still fit in some of her 12 month clothes. mostly shorts and pants (she's got a little waist and hiney) lol so i don't have to get her a all new wardrobe. what a blessing!! she's wearing things she wore last year!! my little mini. lol

went to brookshire's today to get a 2 ltr coke. they had ozarka water 24 pks buy one get one free. sure at first that looks like a great deal. but how much is that one pack of water?? well it was six bucks!! so 2 24 pks for 6 bucks. hmm not really a great deal. i can go to walmart any day and get a 24 pk for 2.98. so if i maybe had a ozarka coupon then yeah i probably would have gotten them. but i didn't. so that's my tidbit for today. know your prices. if you need to write them down. non sale every day prices at your favorite store. then the "other" store you like to shop at. the basics , peanut butter, bread, milk ect... i know to get my milk at walmart for a dollar cheaper than brookshiers. and brookshiers has the best .99 cent large loaf bread. i talked to the delivery guy. you know why it's the best cheap bread?? cuz it's made by mrs. baird's. :) they just put it in the brookshire's wrapper..just saved ya like 1.25 a loaf!!!
till next time.. God bless!!
froggymomma

monday

good monday. well me and bb went to star farmer's market and got some veg. spinach, kale, strawberries, snap peas, and turnips. yum. myra loves to pick her own. and as we were getting the spinach and kale she was chompin on all the snap peas. was soo funny!! she had a mouth full and looked in her basket (which was empty) and said thru the chewed peas, 'i want more'. ha ha ha.. so cute. my little bunny!! cant wait for our little garden to grow. now all i need are snap peas and spinach. i said i'd show pics so here we go....

<--- that's our lil garden. it has, tomatoes (3 kinds) lettuce, squash, raddish, banana peppers, antique bell peppers, bell peppers, onion, green onion. mint is in a pot and the watermellon is in a hill on the other side. we should have done this years ago. at 3 bucks a pepper...i wasnt gonna do it!! so in went the garden. we should have went to mcvoy's first he has 6 pks for 3 and less. we paid 3 for one plant at walmart.. ugh.!! so if ur local now u know!! lol

this was dinner. it turned out so good i had to take a pic and share!! lol it's just what was in the pantry. so it's my pantry dinner. homemade garlic bread, sauted onions and mushrooms and a jar of garden chunky prego. and noodles. how simple is that?!?!?!

i was exhausted so went to bed early. and didnt get to post till tuesday morning. maybe it'll say monday, like it did for sunday??? hmmm well we'll see.

thriftyness- make sure u bring in other stores ads to where ever u r shopping. 99% will match the advertised price. that means our little walmart matches heb's and brookshires ads!!!! and use ur coupons on top of that!! save ya some hard earned money!!

hugs, peace, till later.

well i was going to write this earlier. but i guess I'll have two posts for Monday. but this one is about Sunday. lol
so hope ya had a wonderful Sunday. it was overcast and about 65ish here and i love it when its like that. it did pour down the rain last night tho. i was hoping that all the seeds we planted sat didn't wash away. we'll see in a few weeks if we have 'things' growin elsewhere..lol
i took pics of our lil garden, just haven't uploaded them yet. so i'll do that tomorrow.
took a walk w/bb and we found some wild onions. yeahhhh, that'll save a buck or two a week. i love onions. checked on the berries .i think there dew berries, no more blooms, tiny berries instead. cant wait for those to get ripe. i love foraging. free healthy natural food. wish i knew more about plants. i know u can eat dandelions, but haven't tried those. and there was a persimmon tree at the Jr high, but they took it down. :( man those were good!! need to find another somewhere. and i am counting down the days till i get to go to mom's, and grannies. Grannie lives in Illinois and in June the mulberries are ripe. man i love those things. if u haven't had any, then ur missin out!!! so yummie and free!! there everywhere up there. we go walkin on all different trails and stop to have a snack. then of course she has trees in her back yard. the mom has wild rasberries in Minnesota. fun fun.

i am now a member of the must dye hair club. i am 35 and have enuff grey to look 10 yrs older. ugh.. what is that all about?? so i had two boxes of dark brown and a box of a beautiful bright red auburn. mixed them together and did my hair. it turned out great!! i love the color.. dark brown and highlights. for the first time i had enuff to do my whole head!! i just recently cut off 19 inches of hair and had to use like 5 or more boxes of color. the only reason i had to do all my hair is because i never got the same colors in a row.lol now i know how to mix em, it'll be easier.
so this is my second post and I'm learning. i put access to u-tube down at the bottom, just cuz there great!! bb loves elmo and i like audio adrenaline. check em out. they sing a song called dc-7. makes me laugh, hope it makes u think. :)
maybe i should have named this blog 'froggy momma's ramblings' i might change it b 4 i get followers. yea I'm optimistic. tee hee.

so what tightwad tidbit do i have for today?? hmmm....... oh, check around where u live. u never know what's growin that's edible and free. if it's hangin over the fence on the sidewalk, it's up for grabs. just b nice about it. ask neighbors if they have something growin in there garden that u don't and swap.
have fun.
till next time.....hugs... froggymomma

beginning

so this will b somethin new for me. well, not really. i DO talk alot..just ask my mom. lol So i figured i'd start a blog so i could share all my thoughts and tight waddery. :) yes i am a tightwad and proud of it!! not just thrifty..more extreme. and i do know how to have fun and just spend money. but how much fun can u really have blowin dough when everytime u buy somethin you automatically think, "i know i have a coupon for that, or i could get that at ----- for half the price!' ? thats what i was doin at 6-flags. we had a coupon book. but only the season pass holder could use them. which really stank since they were on the rides!! lol oh well we had fun and a limit!!
ya'll will have to excuse spellin and punctuation errors..i am not a novelest!! tee hee. this is me and if ya dont like it, dont read it!! :) i wont promise a daily post. i am a mom of 2 (well 3 if u count the husband) and we all know they are the biggest kids! my oldest is 16 fixin to b 17 in july and my youngest just turned 2!! yes a big gap.. God planned it that way. :) it's kinda neat. like having 2 only kids. lol
so for my first real saving advice is what i did this morning. everyone is hungary. i dont want to cook. so i go to McDonald's and get 3 sausage biscuits and 3 sausage mcmuffins. they are a dollar each. now if u get the sausage egg mcmuffin its almost 3 dollars each!!! thats a 1.75 for a egg!!! so i came home w/my bag and cooked 6 eggs in less than 5 min. and saved 10.50!!! and i didnt have to 'cook' !!! so instead of spending 20 bucks on breakfast i spent less than 7!!
well duty calls...baby needs a diaper.. so till next time!!
hugs and a blessed day!!