National Junior Honor Society

Yesterday Alyssa inducted into the National Junior Honor Socitey.

I am SO proud of her.

She didn't understand all the ceremony and the fuss, but was excited to get in.

We got a letter about two weeks ago and ask that we keep it a secret from Alyssa. So, I did, and forgot about it really untill yesterday at about 1:30. I was not dressed and doing things around the house, when I thought is that today or tomorrow at 2:00? I ran to find the letter saw it was Wednesday and that I better, get dressed NOW, if I was going to make it.

I got there just as it started.

Spring Break

Last week the girls were on spring break and kept asking "Where are we going?" The first part of the week, we stayed around the house. Cleaning and playing...then on Friday we picked Kory up from work at 8 in the morning and got on the road to New Orleans. Kory slept and I drove. I have been wanting to go to the outlet mall in Foley, AL, so we went there first. Shoped around there found a few good deals on little girl clothes. We left there headed on to New Orleans when we passed another outlet in Gulfport, MS. Kory was asleep and Alyssa and I were talking when we saw it and passed it. ALyssa said can we go? and I said, yes, we will turn around. Kory quickly got up and said WHat?

Alyssa and I went to the coach outlet. They were having a sale...I got a purse. Alyssa talked Kory into buying her one too.

Then Sara found a "dress up" dress she wanted, so she talked Kory into buying that.

We finally made it to Cindy's about 8 o'clock that night.

Saturday we got up and took the girls to the Audubon Zoo. I have always loved going to that zoo. I guess because I grew up going to that zoo. They enjoyed it too! It was hot and there was alot of people there, but it was still fun.

That night Alyssa ate her first oyster at the acme oyster bar. I of course didn't eat oysters. I ate shrimp.

We when to the mall after dinner and the little girls rode the easter train.

Sunday we went to the Irish/Italian parade in Metairie. The girls always love going to the parades. After the parade we had crawfish and even Sara decide she liked them. She won't peal them but she wanted to eat them after I would peal them.

Monday we headed home and back to reality!

Never a dull moment in our house...But a wake up call!

This time it was me.

Monday I had a really bad headache and just wasn't feeling well at all. I was tired and felt very slugest, and short of breath. I felt like my arms and legs weighted a ton just to left them up. Well, I went to bed but couldn't really sleep. I got up Tuesday morning and felt like I had someone standing on my chest on the left side, it felt tight across my chest and up into my left shoulder, and I could hardly breath. I took a shower and got dressed. Nothing helped, it could kept getting worse. I got Sara ready for school and on the bus, Alyssa was home sick and still asleep, Emma was playing in her room and watching her TV. I text Kory is see what time he would be home from work, he called and said it would be a little while. I didn't tell him why, he had a regional manager there to visit, so I didn't want to bother him.

The pain and tightness just keep on and on, not letting up. I saw our neighbors were up and so I walked over to our neighbors house and ask them to bring me to the ER. They called 911, and Kory.

The EMTs hooked me up to all kinds of monitors, gave me nitro spray, and some aspiran. When we got to the ER my BP was 198/98, according to all the monitors my heart looked fine. They gave me some meds for to help get my BP down. They got blood and left me hooked up to this machine that took my BP every 5 mins, it seemed like, and monitored my heart. After a few hours they told me everything looked fine, heart wise, the only thing was my BP. He told me that when your BP is high and stays high over a period of time it will mimic a heart attack.

Well, I have to admit this is all my own doing...see when we moved I never went and got a doctor here, I just kept putting it off. So, I ran out of my blood pressure med back in January. I learned my lesson the hard way! I saw the look on my husband face as they put me in the ambulance, I have never seen that look in the 9 years we have been together. I saw the look on Alyssa's face when I got home, it will be a day I will never forget! Thanks be to God it was just a "wake up" call for me!

Saving money....

I have never been one to cut coupons or bring other ads to Wal-Mart to comp items, but with all these shows talking about how people cut their grocery bill in half, I decided I would try and see what I could do. I've only just started collecting coupons and watching other store ads. We buy groceries every two weeks and that's it except for milk or bread or something I forgot in between. So the first time I did this was two weeks ago. I just comp ads from other stores and saved $7.00. This last Thursday I had gotten some coupons and again comp ads and I saved $14.00. This doesn't include items that where on sale at Wal-Mart. or the 2 for 1 items I got at Publix. (Wal-mart won't comp those) So, really it was more like $20.00 now that I add those too.
So far it has been pretty easy, I get the other store ads look at them and compare prices at Wal-Mart. I get the Sunday paper for the coupons and then I found alot online.
I'll keep ya posted on my new challenge

Snow on Sunday, March 1, 2009

I can't believe it, we got some snow!