Garden Patch

This past weekend I had some help starting my garden. We put the garden against a gate along our fence that we no longer use. We planted zucchini, beans, peas, a few strawberries, tomatoes, and a rhubarb. I was able to get a few plants at the Master Gardener Sale or should I say I fought for a few tomatoes. Seriously, that is a where all the crazy plant people are. I did manage to get my hands on one sun gold tomato. I can't wait to have some fresh vegetables.

Happy Mother's Day 2009

Happy Birthday GIANT Man Child

Happy 37th Birthday!

Calling all Prayer Warriors

Photo by P.L. Chihuly Phoenix 2009

My Aunt P passed on this prayer request so I thought I would put it out there as well. I don't know Dina but I wanted to send my prayers. Her story is below.

Friends and Family,
My friend, Dina , was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. She had just wrapped her head around dealing with that when she got the results from her PETscan yesterday - in a nutshell, the cancer has spread to her spine, her liver, and her femur. Her scheduled masectomy has been cancelled and all efforts are now on preventing the further spread of the cancer to her bones and liver.

This morning a group of us prayed over her at church for her complete healing. Two of the women who prayed over her both received word from God that Dina needs thousands of prayers covering her in this battle for her body and her life. I am emploring you to stop what you are doing right now and pray for her. Pray for her healing, her peace of mind, and for her family. We serve a mighty and powerful God, and we are confident He has a plan for her (although we all wish it didn't involve this!). Please, my fellow Christ-followers, pray for this young (38!) woman and her family.

Dina is wife to PJ and mom to Ginger (just turned 1) and Madeleine (4 years). I met Dina at MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers), and she is a fantastic woman. Dina's faith is strong, and she is planning on serving on our leadering team next year. Although her diagnosis is frightening, she is a fighter. We've unofficially decided our battle cry will be ,"Game on!" as we are rallying around her to beat this.

Please join with me and pray for her on her behalf! God has said it will take thousands of prayers to conquer this. This is your chance to be part of a miracle.

In His Service,
Amy

May Showers bring May Flowers

The Diva

Chuckles

Mine

The idea is found on Deep Space Sparkle via the Crafty Crow. We took two days to do our project. We made just the vase and background the first day and on the second day worked on the flowers.

My Coupon Philosophy

I use coupons. There I said it. I am one of those crazy coupon ladies. Sometimes I save really big and other times it is just a small amount. But the key thing is I consistently save. Yes, it takes time to coupon. However, I don't cut out millions of coupons. I do get two papers just on Sunday. I try to shop with a list and have a meal plan. I don't do complicated deals. Couponing is my little hobby.

Recently I lost my long time coupon clutch and I did cry. (seriously) However some really nice person turned it into customer service. Don't you like the redneck duct tape patch. If that doesn't say classy, I don't know what does.

When I first started really getting into couponing, I used the grocery game. It is fee service that tracks the sales for you and tells you when to use your coupons and the rock bottom price of an item. However, I am pretty familiar with prices so I use Hot Coupon World Forums to figure out my deals for grocery shopping. I also use the site Money Saving Mom for other deals. $5 dollar dinners also has a feature which features the Bargain Meal of the Week for each grocery store as provided by other bloggers. This is really helpful in the whole meal planning aspect. However, only one of my stores is listed - Albertson's (Albies).

A long Week

(Photo by Giant Man Child)

I consider this blog my on line family journal so I am not going to gloss over this week. I had a bunch of stuff typed about all the crappy things that happened this week but I deleted it. Just when I am wallowing in what a mess things are and I read this. It makes all that I wrote seem so petty. Send prayers for Comfort.