Coupons!

So I have a new hobby/obsession. Is obsession too strong? you decide. I have been getting tired of the large sum of money we've been shelling out for groceries. My sister-in-law has some friends that got her into clipping coupons. After a while of hearing her brag about the money she was saving, i sat down with her and asked her how she was doing it. My thinking was, I'm seeing these coupons that are save 25, 50 cents, 1.00, then there are BOGO sales and ect., how much money are you saving? 2 bucks? because that's not much of a difference from 100.00 of groceries. So talking to my sister-in-law and helping her clip out coupons one Sunday afternoon, she laid out her secrets. Maybe I didn't pay enough attention because on my grocery excursion i only saved 4.95. Funny enough that was almost how much i had to pay in taxes. I was hoping to save a little bit more money than that. Well i kind of did, i was shopping at WINCO. I did how ever find a really great bargain at Home Depot! I'm signed up for their garden club and they send me e-mails with coupons in them. In their last email there was a BOGO for a rose bush! so i got 2 rose bushes for 7.95!!! Which worked out so beautifully. We decided that one would go to my mom and one to Cory's mom.
Oh and look what i got for mother's day!! it's my favorite flower! my son and husband are so sweet!

MAY DAY

Today is May 1st!! May Day, the 1st day of May! The day that you give flowers and celebrate spring/summer. Well....this is not a good may day. Where's the Sun? it's really gloomy, cloudy and windy. The only good news is my son is feeling better. Yesterday Deven was throwing up left and right. Literally! it was awful! My happy-go-lucky son was pale, sleepy, and not talking. But hopefully that is over! he's happy now and playing! My flowers i wanted to give out are not even up let alone blooming. the sun hasn't been out much. Deven and I are going to color flowers instead. so are you curious what people do on may day? it's celebrated all around the world! different cultures do different things. (some more extreme than others) There was the decoration of a may pole that you danced around with ribbon. making may baskets filling it with flowers and leaving it anonymously on peoples doorstep. Crowning a may queen and much more! It's a bank holiday in many countries. for me it's an excuse to pick flowers and give them to people.