Surprise!

My daughter was awarded the Jaguar Award from her coach last week! This was so wonderful. The Jag Award goes to the team member who best represents their program on and off the field, voted by their peers. My daughter has been a varsity cheerleader her entire four years and has been co-captain the last two. This was a great honor for her and moved me to tears! Now if I could only get a picture of her WITH her plaque!

Monday Update

Whew!!! What a weekend. We had a basketball game, a basketball pizza party, a 2-day cheerleading competition, and we had THE SCHOOL TALK with our son. My husband reaaaaalllly wants him to go to the Catholic high school 30 minutes away, but he wants to go to the neighborhood public high school (walking distance). Lots of discussing back and forth, son is adament that he not be forced to go. I don't want to force him to go, but it's such a great school academically and he knows kids there already, but alas, not to be.

So the cheer competition was at George Mason University and daughter's squad (Dream Eternity Senior Level 4) came in first!!! They all got the cutest jackets!!! I'll try and sneak a picture of hers when she gets home.

Anyway, he's a shot from Saturday's competition (see above photo).

Working on a New Blog Post

I'm swamped today, sorry. I'll post something later today hopefully, with pictures. I've got shopping savings to brag about and maybe even a recipe to share. Still waiting on my iTouch prize, too.

Cookies and Driving

I made cookies last night. The kids were asking for them. I used to always make cookies from scratch, still do sometimes. But more often, I'll use those cute little Betty Croker mixes. I usually get them pretty cheap (on sale, coupons) and they make just enough. The ones we like the best are the Oatmeal Chocolate Chip. They just smell so good!!!

And the biggest news of all is that my sweet little DD got her license yesterday! Yes, watch out greater Montgomery County, she's on the road!!!! She was incredibly nervous, but I kept telling her that she would be fine, that she would make it and . . . she did! She immediately went to the grocery for me, went to the bank, went back to school, went to her friend's, drove to the basketball game last night. But when it came time to drive over to Red Robin after the game for dinner, she didn't want to drive at night. Smart girl after all!! So proud!

Today is basketball, baseball clinic at St. John's, DD has to work at 4, and I've got a ton of working to do myself, plus still have all the bedding to wash. UGH! And to top it off, my back is killing me. I don't know what I did, but it really hurts.

Oh, and a gratuitous kitty picture, too. She's still in the doghouse after her antics of this week. She chewed through some more electrical cords. Banishment to the basement when no one's around for her. Hard to believe that she's so cute and sweet and playful that there's a hidden devil inside!

Great deal at Target

If anyone's interested (if anyone's reading this!!!), Target has milk on sale this week. I know here in the DC area, milk is really pricey, usually $3.59 at my local Giant. But Target has milk for $2.99 for 1%. Other milks are on sale, too. Great Deal. I bought two! I also printed out some coupons to use for Tropicana OJ and Pepperidge Farm goldfish, $1 each. So that brought the cost of the OJ down to $2.19 ($2.50 or more at Giant), again I had two coupons. Great savings.

Birthday Boy

Here's the birthday boy with his gift!

I'm a Winner!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, apparently I entered a contest on the CouponCravings blog to win an iTouch and . . . guess what? . . . I actually WON!!!!!!!!!!! So excited. My son has one and I'm jealous of it. Now I can play, too!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We've had a busy week so far at our house. My husband's mother has been in the hospital for about a week (she's like 88) and will finally be going home today. Of course, he's been going over to see her every night after work.

Basketball on Saturday. Daughter worked Saturday night. She's a hostess with the mostess at Bonefish Grill. She made a TON of money!

It was my son's birthday on Sunday. He's 14!!!!!!!!! I can't believe it. My little baby! I'll try and post a picture in a minute.

The kids were home from school on Monday, being President's Day and all. We didn't do much. Played with the new Wii (birthday gift). I'm getting good at tennis.

Got a funeral to go to this week. One of my son's baseball teammates' dad finally succumbed to his cancer. Very sad. So we're going to the viewing today and the funeral tomorrow. I think this is my son's first funeral.

Anyway, just so stoked for the prize! I don't even care what it is, I just finally won something!!!!!!!!!!!!!