So, I had an OB appointment for my 29-week check-up yesterday (HOLLA girls who work at the OB office and read this blog!) It was the momentous occasion on which I got to down that lovely bottle of “glucola” – you know – fruit-flavored syrup. MMM good. Let me tell you, you have not lived until you’ve chugged glucola (Must! drink! all! in! five! minutes!) in the parking lot of your kid’s preschool. I swear, other moms dropping off your kids, it was JUST glucola (despite the large tumbler and straw)!
Anyhoo, so I drank the glucola, didn’t barf, and got my blood taken. But before they took my blood, they took my SOUL. By making me step on the SCALE!
Let’s just say, I’ve gained about a pound a week. Although I do FEEL ginormous, I don’t feel like I LOOK that ginormous. Am I just in denial? I’m gonna go with “probably.” Sigh.
The stripes aren't helping, are they?
I gained about 40 with my other two kids and I’m hoping to keep it at about that with Jonah. Because I? HATE EXERCISE. And that is the only way I can take off the baby weight. But I’m not exactly Marathon Jones like SOME PEOPLE. So, the less I have to take off the better.
But anyhoo, my next appointment is in two weeks. I’m on the two-week schedule! Which means the clock is winding down on this thing! It’s really happening, and despite my rotund appearance, I feel less than prepared!
Yesterday I ventured out to Meijer for some great deals, including the 10 for 10 and get the 11th free sale! I did two transactions and here’s what I got:
Here are some deals I thought were especially good:
Kraft cheese cubes: $1.67 – I bought 5 and used the $5/5 Kraft printable = 67 cents each (I bought these because it was my week to bring snack for Sophie’s preschool class!)
Land o’ Lakes tubs: $1 and I used the 50-cent off printable coupon on RedPlum.com to get ’em free! (Meijer will double up to two of the same coupon.)
Aunt Millie’s bread: $1 and I used the 55-cent off coupon from a recent insert to get it free!
Kraft singles + Ritz: This was a catalina deal I wanted to get. The singles were $2.50 each and I had a $1/2 coupon. The crackers were regular price – $2.98, but I had two $1/2 coupons from coupons.com, and these items qualified for a catalina deal of buy $15, get $5 back. So I paid about $17, $14 after coupons, and got back the $5 catalina. Not the BEST price, but I needed the crackers for snack at Sophie’s school as well, and it worked out to a pretty decent deal.
Other items on the buy $10, get the 11th free that I bought:
Barilla Pasta (had $1/2 coupon), Meijer pasta sauce, Grands biscuits (30 cents off two coupon on coupons.com that will double on these! There was supposed to be a catalina deal as well, but it did not print for me. 🙁 ), Goldfish crackers, and Buddig lunch meat.
Between my two transactions I spent about $36 for all this! I was pretty pleased to get so many freebies and the snacks for Sophie’s class as well as the rest of what we needed.
I got all my coupon match-ups from Andrea’s post at Savings Lifestyle. So check it out for where to find these coupons I used!
I happened to glance at a status update from the Dayton Daily News on Facebook, and saw this terrifying headline:
The deer population is expected to be up 25,000 this year, presenting a greater risk for deer-vehicle accidents.
*Shudder.*
Most people see these little creatures and say “Aww…”
I see them and it makes me want to vomit.
You see, many moons ago when I was a new driver, my sister and I were coming home from our grandma’s house in the evening and a deer ran out in front of our car. I slammed on the brakes, but I still hit it. Or, more accurately, the deer sort of flopped onto the hood, bounced off and ran back the way he had come. My car was just dented (it looked like someone had thrown a basketball at it), but I was shaken.
I have been paranoid of deer ever since. (Me? Paranoid? I know – shocker.)
My crippling fear quickly became a joke among my family and friends, and once, during high school, I came home to find one of these on my front porch:
My adventures with deer didn’t stop then, unfortunately. Earlier this fall there was an incident that involved me running through our neighborhood at the same time a deer was running through our neighborhood (I have never run so fast in my life). I can’t do it justice through the written word. But it was pretty much exactly like this:
It was horrible.
So anyway, hearing that the population of those nasty lovely creatures is UP by 25,000 – 25,000!!! – was not exactly what I wanted to hear. In fact, I thought it must be a misprint – surely they meant it was up to 25,000. But no, it turns out that the deer population has gone from 700,000 to 725,000.
725,000!!!! That is three quarters of a million! Deer! In OHIO.
Hold me.
Of course, more deer equals more crashes. According to the article, last “November saw the most crashes last year with 6,043 — an average of 200 per day.” So at least we have that to look forward to next month.
Our family is getting a head start on the deer hitting season, however. Last week, Andy called me early one morning to say he had hit a deer on the way to Sam’s babysitter’s house. Fortunately, they were fine, but the deer was not so lucky. (Unfortunately, our car was fine as well – but I will admit that my first thought after hearing they were ok was “ooooh maybe the car’s totaled!”). Sammy didn’t know what happened – he heard the thud and said “Hey, who did that?!?” but since he didn’t realize it was a deer, I’m hoping he’ll avoid the same post-traumatic stress disorder that’s plagued me for years.
In any case, I have a very bad attitude toward these furry friends, and frankly I wish they’d just GO AWAY. But no, no… instead they’re rapidly multiplying.
Kate is much more compassionate, and when I told her Andy had hit one with his car, she was actually worried about the beast. She told me, “Mommy, I know you don’t like them, but they are animals and we need to care about them too” or something along those lines. All I heard was “blah, blah, blah.”
When does hunting season start? I’ll be the one sounding the horn. But I will not be the one waiting in trees for days at a time with pee (purposefully) all over me. I’ll leave that to the experts.
