Adventures in mommyhood

So today was rainy. We were gone most of the weekend. There wasn't much 'calm bonding time' as we floated from event to event. Today I opted to stay home with the monkeys and relish in this stage.

We made playdough.

Round 1 was a sticky messy kind. 

More of a sensory play.

The second we made was a traditional one. They helped with the mixing and adding but I did the 'cooking'

This is beckham pretty pumped about blue playdough!

Parenting preschoolers

'Mommy Audrey hit me'(B)

Audrey did you hit beckham?

'Well he hit me a little'(A)

Beckham did you hit Audrey?

'No no no didn't' (B)

Tell me the truth 

'I didn't' (B)

Audrey did beckham hit you?

'I don't think so' (A)

Beckham did Audrey hit you?

'I don't know?' Said as if he has no idea what I am talking about (B)

Do you guys wanna keep playing?

'Yaaaaaa!!!!' They both yell.

I have no idea what happened. I'm no detective apparently. I'll just take it as a win...and I'm happy to be confused if they are ready to go back to playing peacefully again haha.

How I got this for free part 2

So I'm grocery shopping with beckham and I notice some cereal is on sale $4.99 for a family size box isn't to shabby. I pick it up and notice the coupon on it! I love coupons on cereal boxes.

For every box of cereal you get $20 coupon towards hasbro (games and toys). I was leary about the $ amount. Last year they did the same thing but $5 and I used them to stock up on littlest pet shop and play dough. I gifted many friends these toys for birthday parties and I got them for free!

I bought two boxes because I wanted to inspect the fine print. 

I got home and there is a fine print. There is a limited amount. I read somewhere 20,000 coupons. Anyways I cut the box apart and put in my code to make sure there was still coupons available. There was! Golden!

I went box and bought 9 boxes. I know hoarder right?

He thing is that we will eat the cereal. The cereal is a good price! AND free games for our family and toys for birthday parties make this budget friendly mamas heart so happy!

This was a few of them, kinda annoying that I had to open and cut them all but they are all vacuum sealed so shouldn't go bad. I'm tempted to go back for more and gift all the free toys and games to the Christmas drive. 

Anyways I love free 

Free is a great price!

I'm looking forward to many game days with our family over the years!

How I got this for free...

So I went post Halloween shopping! 

Stocking up for Christmas but in reality I would have given it to them anyways! 75% off costumes are always a good idea! Hours of play and imagination. 

I found beckham a $35 batman costume and it was on sale for $9. Good deal right?!

Well when I brought it to the till it scanned up as $18. Boo! Still good deal? Wrong! Soooo...I told him it had a ticket for $9. He went and checked. I was right. He adjusted it back to $9. (Great deal right?)

So how did I get it for free?

Well I asked him about their SCOPE policy. If an item scans up wrong under a certain price range in almost any big box store it's under SCOPE. 

That means FREE!

So $35 batman costume.

Free!

I'm talking the deluxe big muscle one. Cape, belt, mask, the whole shebang!

It pays to know stores policy. I'll have one super happy superhero!

I also went to the dollar store and got

20 capes (black) and 20 masks (2.50 for all!). This lil man is having a batman birthday in...10 months haha!

Halloween

Started with Prince Charming kissing the hand of his sister the Princess 

Beckham tried to slay the princess 

Trick or treating with fellow princesses 

CHEESE

Where is the dragon that needs slaying?

How does Halloween end?

This is what parents look like at 9pm Halloween night 

Craft Cupboard

My kiddos love crafts. Let's face it...I love crafts!!! I have HUGE pantry cabinets and they get two shelves. Sometimes it's CHAOS in their....today me and the kids as a team cleaned it all up!!! 

More organized and easier to access all the fun!!!

Yay for organization...now let's hope we can keep it this way!!!

Words by beckham

'Mommy'

'Yes beckham'

'Jesus is in my tummy'

'Jesus is in your heart not your tummy'

'No way, he's in my tummy'

{laughter}