My surgery went well!! The first few days were hard, but each day I got a little stronger and I'm just about back to myself with the exception of pain from my main incision when I sneeze or laugh too hard (which was plenty with time spent with mom and sister this week). My mom helped with the kids which was awesome and allowed me the energy to work on some of my summer to-do's.
Here's how I saved and got myself organized the past two weeks:
-Made a double batch of laundry soap (theprudenthomemaker.com) and was able to use my Kitchen Aid grater attachment for the first time. The shaft got stuck in the housing and caused severe damage so I am now waiting on replacement parts from the warranty.
-Made a batch of dishwasher detergent. This time I'm keeping the Epsom Salt separate and just gonna sprinkle a little with the soap in the dispenser because it was causing the powder to harden
-Did my eyebrow/face waxing
-Ryan worked on the master bath tile the past two weekends, it's turned out to be a big job cutting everything to fit around our custom fixtures, fingers crossed it will be done in 2 more weeks
-I cleaned out the mess on my desk and organized my craft items and finally organized what I want to keep in the tote that I got last Christmas. I put together my order of what I was running low on and what I absolutely wanted to get from Stampin Up. My friend is a demonstrator and gives me her discounts/free items and she's moving next month, so I was able to get 20% off my order and $40 in free product.
-I worked on some cards and paper crafts this week both at home and at my friend's house. I also went to a new card club with another Stampin Up demonstrator that I connected with to get my craft on after my friend moves.
-Made granola bars and expirimented with a new banana bread recipe, see my recipe post with some great no butter, low sugar recipes
-Was too tired to make baby food (imagin that), so walked my hubby through the steps so we had enough on hand
-Did a stockup trip at Costco and bought food storage buckets at Winco (lowest prices on food grade buckets/gamma lids I've found so far). I went through my whole pantry, put items in order of expiration, pulled out items that needed to be used soon. Winco sells the smaller 2 gallon buckets which are perfect size for my small family. I got a 5 gallon for my flour.
-We have not eaten out for dinner the past two weeks. Our church family blessed us with dinners the first three days after my surgery. We cooked while my mom was here, one night got a take and bake pizza at Costco on sale for $5.99 which fed us dinner and lunch the next day. My mom also treated us to ice cream and lunch at Burger King.
-Ryan and I went out on a date while mom watched the kids and got to use my free Fill-A-Seat membership to see Seth Grabel, a magician seen on America's Got Talent. It's playing at the theatre inside the Clarion by the Convention Center (just behind the Riviera). I recognized the place and after some research, learned it used to be the Greek Isles and before that it was the Debbie Reynolds!! When I was in HS and we came to Vegas for vacation, we walked all the way from MGM Grand to the Debbie Reynolds so my mom could go to her museum!! I don't know what it was prior to Debbie owning it, so if any other Vegas history buffs know, I would be very interested!
-We also took advantage of free babysitting another night to see Man of Steel with Costco movie tickets. There are too many good movies that are worth seeing in the theatre to miss out on!
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