Krazy Koupon Lady

I bought her book and have to say I have read the whole thing twice already. She has motivated me more then she could possibly know. Not just with Couponing either. I cannot wait to put all this knowledge to use.

Lately my life has spun pretty out of control. The stress has continued to take over while at the same time I am adding more to the never ending lisyt of things I do on a daily basis. I have been extremely irratable,Tired and been getting small bruises or purple spots up and down my kegs and sometimes on my arms. When they go away a new batch appears. With everything going on with my son and his drs the kids extra activities moms group taekwando and kick boxing. I have no time or energy to take care of myself. My support system is my grandparents and they go to texas during the winter. I always think I can handle it or when I get a phone call can you do this or that I always say yes. Even though in my heart I know I can't.

There have been many times that I have felt like a bad parent because I get frustrated over the smallest things. I yell and I never used to be like that. My poor husband we have not had a stress free conversation in months. I just hope I can get back to feeling like myself again sometime very soon.

On a more positive note I am going scrapbooking all day saturday kid free. I am hoping to come home refreshed and a little less stressed. Which I know I won't be because the whole time I will be away from home I will be thinking of the laundry I should be doing or packing up the kidsrooms so we can switch rooms and set up Erics loft. Also how selfish I am for getting a sitter and leaving them all day.

update on goals for 2011

I will put a star by all the things I have been doing from my goals list. This is to hopefully inspire me to do more off of the list.

50 Goals for 2011
Instead of making a couple of New Year's resolutions, I decided to make a list of goals I would like to try and accomplish in 2011.
1. Be more patient with the kids.
2. Floss everyday.
3. Follow fly lady so my house can stay clean.
4. do more once a month mom cooking.
5. Follow cvs deal scenarios every week. ***********
6. Find a way to exercise regularly.**********
7. Cut my grocery bill in half with coupons.
8. Re do the kids rooms
9. Finish rearranging kitchen cabinets**********
10. Build my stockpile.***************************
11. Be a better advocate for Eric and Corina.
12. Autism walk 2011
13. Get the kids involved in charity.
14. Continue date nights every other week.
15. NKOTB concert!!!
16. Continue posting regularly on my blog, and learn how to give my blog a makeover. (Anyone know how?)
17. Spend more individual time with the kids.
18. Stick to a budget.
19. Use Corinas respite care.
20. Spend less money on eating out.*************
21. Learn how to cook more meals.
22. Plan a family vacation this summer.
23. Save money for vegas.
24. Convince travis to go to vegas.
25. Renew our wedding vows. 10 years :)
26. Find a new PCP I love.
27. Decorate our walls throughout our house.
28. Plan one special day per kid during the summer. Big plans :)
29. Spend a lot of time at the beach this summer.
30. Eat more healthy foods.
31. Take vitamens.
32. Use more coupons.*************************
33. Work with the insurance company to pay for more therapy for Eric
34. Adriana gets braces.
35. Go to church every Sunday.
36. More quality time with the family.
37. Sew more.
38. Use my cricut cake for every birthday.
39. Volunteer more. *************************
40. Say "I Love You" more and give more hugs to all of my loved ones.
41. Start Corina back in gymnastics.
42. Older two in sports through the church
43. Take more pictures.
44. scrapbook all the pictures.
45. spend more times on crafts.
46. Organize the house.
47. Go to moms group more.******************
48. volunteer at church more.
49. Get better at recycling everything that can be recycled.
50. Pay the kindness forward that has been shown to me.

Not too bad still a lot of work to go though. The gymnastics for Coina has to take a back seat for awhile we are doing family taekwando instead.