Getting rid of the old with a discount

Cash for baby product clunkers

Mom buy baby products store The “Great Trade-In,” a program launched by Toys R Us this week, aims to get potentially dangerous used baby products out of circulation, and to raise awareness of the importance of being vigilant about potentially unsafe children’s products that may still be in the marketplace.

The program allows people to bring their used car seats, cribs, and other faulty products of any brand to Toys R Us and Babies R Us stores between Friday, Aug. 28th and Sun., Sept. 20th, 2009, in exchange for a 20% off coupon good toward a new baby product purchase. (You do not need to buy the same item you returned.)

Products that may be traded in include used cribs, car seats, bassinets, strollers and travel systems, play yards, and high chairs. The coupon is good towards purchases in these categories from more than a dozen participating manufacturers.

Made my own dish washing soap

This was supper easy. And since I already had everything I thought why not. So what you need is:
1 cup borax
1 cup baking soda
2 Tbsp. lemie shine (great for hard water)

We mix all the powder and wham there you go. I already had the baking soda and the borax from making my own laundry soap. So this cost me about $3.00. It cleans far better than the powder that you get. And there is no residue on the top of the glasses. Oh and I fill the "jet dry" thing with vinegar. It is great. Can't pinch your pennies to much while in grads school, right?
Oh the lemie shine is just with the laundry detergent stuff. If you can't find it you can use "One Koolaid pink lemonade packet". Sounds wierd. But it works.

We are in!

So we are in our new house and getting settled. It is sooooo much nicer than the last place. I really need to post pictures. We are literally right across the street from the school. So we don't need to use mitchells car. Wonder why we dragged it all the way here. Anyways....we are loving everything about it here. And have made some great friends and are keeping ourselves busy. I know that that I seriously miss Kansas. And when the two years hit...we are coming back. Will post pictures soon.

Moving again

Yes that is right. We just got a call from student housing (which told us that there was no way that we would get a house this year) saying they have a house. Which is more up to date, extra bathroom, A/C, bigger kitchen,right across the street from the school, saves on gas, back yard is nice and flat, there is a raised bed to plant a garden..etc. Their is so much more in this house. And in the end we will have saved over 6800 dollars. So breaking the lease and moving again in less than in a month is a pain. But worth it. I'm sorry there are no pictures. We have been a little overwhelmed out here. I can't wait to get back to a schedule.

We made it.....and an update

Well we are here in Erie Pa. It was a long but decent trip out here. Though it was like 20 hours. Gross. We did some interesting things on the way. We stopped in Columbus, Indiana to do some geneology about my Uncle David who passed away as a baby. I hope that trip gave some closure. Then outside of Cleveland we realized that we were 1 mile away from Kirtland Temple. omigosh. So we stopped and saw it..which is owned by the RLDS church or "Church of God" or something. But the visitor center was great. What a spirit there is.
Well when we got to Erie...I couldn't reach my landlord. Called the office and they said that he was out of town. WHAT!!! So they sent someone out to have my sign the contract. See 5 people own this proporty together. the one they sent out happens to be a contractor. So we pointed out tons of this that needed to be done ASAP. And I haven't ever seen something come together so fast. He even put us up in a hotel for the night. We still have people coming in and fixing odds and ends.
Mitch is at Orentation today and tomorrow. He is really nerous. Couldn't really sleep. I know that he is going to do great. He just needs to get in the swing of things. We all do.
Makena is doing a free class at the Lake Erie Ballet Acadamy. She is so excited. We got her some secondhand ballet things and she wants to wear them all day everyday. Ballet just suits her. I really can't see her doing something that isn't dance related.
Brinlee is brinlee. My climbing boxes, climbing chairs...did I mention that she climbs and that she is SOOO MISCHEVIOUS!! But we love the little hug bug.
Other than that everything is great. I hope that I'll be able to post some pictures soon. Still unpacking and getting everything and everyone in there places.