Earth's Best Organic Formula w/Iron for $23.62

Earth's Best Organic Infant Formula with Iron, 25.75-Ounce Canister is on sale for $27.79 but save an extra 15% if you select Subscribe & Save which then drops the price to $23.62. And they ship it free! Just select "Deliver every 6 months" under Subscribe & Save and when you get the notice that it shipped, cancel your subscription because it states that you can cancel anytime.

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Lasagna in the slow cooker?

I was at a friend's house and I sampled some of her lasagna that she said she made in a crockpot! It was quite good. She told me where she got the recipe and I made it this week. It was very easy to make and came out quite good. This is definitely going in my list of dishes to cook for my family.

Want to try it? The recipe can be found here at Pillsbury's website.

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Blog Giveaways 11/18

Here are some great blog giveaways that I have entered:

• Win 2 children's books from MomStart and Zonderkidz
  
• Win a Swinxs from An Island Life
• Win a Strider Balance Bike from J Leigh Designz
• Win a Lunch Punch from IEMommy
• Win Activeion from Just for Me...and You
• Win a Blush Topless Undershirt from In the Know Mom

Do you have a giveaway going on at your blog? Post it here:

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Sweepstakes to Enter

Here are some sweepstakes I've entered:

• Learning Adventure Sweepstakes - win Leapster 2 or Tag Reader (enter 1x)
  
• HSN Great Giveaway - HSN gift cards (enter daily)
• Ronzoni Healthy Harvest Pasta Pairs Instant Win - trip or gift card (enter daily)
  
• Jet & Drive Giveaway - (can enter on the widget on the right sidebar) many prizes (enter daily)
• Wendy's Home Makeover Combo Sweepstakes - many prizes (enter 5x a day-request game codes by clicking the "Need a Code" link on the bottom right hand side)
• Honey Nut Cheerios Sweet Rewards Giveaway - win $5 (enter 10x daily - use K30FR-H4F3H-7720 to enter) I've won from this one many times
  

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Mama's Holiday Wish List

Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme
TodaysMama and Provo Craft are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.

1. What 5 items are on your holiday wish list this year?
an all-in-one printer that has faxing capability
a cruise trip
a sectional with recliners
a roomba/scooba
a nice platform bed frame

2. What is your favorite handmade gift you have received?
blankets for my daughter when she was a baby

3. What handmade gift have you always wanted to tackle?
food mixes

4. What was the best Christmas gift you received as a child?
my family didn't really celebrate Christmas when I was a kid

5. What items are on your kid’s wish list this year?
Pillow Pet, Barbie

6. What is your favorite holiday food?
Sweet Potato pie :)

7. What will you be hand-crafting for the holidays?
I am planning an making baking mixes or baked goods for gifts.

8. What is your favorite holiday movie?
Not sure if I have one

9. Favorite holiday song?
O Come All Ye Faithful

10. Favorite holiday pastime?
Driving around town and looking at Christmas lights


Feel free to post this meme on your blog and if you do, please leave a link to it in your comments. I'd love to read it! :)

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Recent Favorite Recipes

Now that I am a stay at home mom (until I get into medical transcription) I have more time to cook and bake and am actually enjoying baking things from scratch.

I just wanted to share some things I've been making. This first recipe I got from watching Rachael Ray one afternoon and it seemed quite simple and easy to make. It's called Fall Fruit Individual Crostatas. The recipe called for apples and pears but I only had apples so I skipped the pears. Aldi's had 3 lb bags of apples for only $1.19!!! Apples are in season so I'm not surprised they're so cheap!

I made the Crostatas and brought them over to our friends' game night get together and everyone loved them. It was very easy to make and even I loved how these tasted when I normally can't stand fruit pies. The apples were still a little crisp and not soft like in an apple pie. Hubby said that's the only thing he'd like better. I guess you can pre-cook the apples for a little bit to soften them up.


The next recipe I want to share is the Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins. I first saw this mentioned on Money Saving Mom during her most recent baking day (I'm not ready to try my hand at spending a whole day on cooking and baking) and had to try them. I used whole wheat flour instead of regular flour and they tasted great!! Both my husband and daughter loved it! I also had my friend and her 3 boys try it when I met up with them the next day and it was all gobbled up! Next time I think I'll try replacing some of the oil with applesauce since the recipe calls for so much oil (1 1/2 cups). Also, my new must have kitchen tool is a silicone muffin pan! The muffins come out sooo easily!!

I've been making pancakes from scratch so I can add whole wheat into them. I'm trying to get whole wheat into as many things as I make now. For this recipe, I use the one found here. I just replace half of the flour for whole wheat flour. This makes enough to last us for a few days. I need to make a double batch of this and the muffins next time to put some away in the freezer.

Have any great recipes that you like to make with whole wheat flour that tastes good?

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Homeschool and Working from Home

Having been laid off this year has been a blessing in disguise. Actually, I think it was God answering my prayer and desire to stay home.
Two months before I got laid off, I was feeling quite "antsy", for lack of a better word. I was getting extremely frustrated at coming home from work, worn out, and too tired to cook or clean. I didn't have the energy to give my daughter the attention she needed. I wished so much I could just be a stay at home mom actually have time and energy to cook and clean the house. Little did I know the news I would get a month later.

So, here I am, home with my daughter and loving it. I am taking a medical transcription class so I can work from home and bring in income. I found out about this extremely affordable online class through a forum. Check out FTCC for their course. I'm not getting paid to mention them. I just wanted to share about them in case someone else is interested in getting into this field.

I also have been doing some research about homeschooling now that I'm home with my daughter. I chose to go with Heart of Dakota's curriculum from recommendations of my friends. There is so much information out there that it's quite overwhelming. I do want to share some resources that I've found and bookmarked that may help others looking into homeschooling or already are homeschooling.

Here is what I have bookmarked:

• Starfall (awesome free resource for kids learning to read)
• Activties in a Bag
• Homeschool Creations blog
  

Do you know of other great resources, especially free ones?

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Hasbro Games Deal at Toys R Us

I was going through the circulars in today's paper and saw that Toys R Us has an awesome deal on Hasbro games this week. They have a bunch of games on sale for $3.99 each that you can get a $2 mail-in rebate from Hasbro and get a $10 Toys R Us gift card if you spend $25 on Hasbro games.

I went this afternoon and bought:

• Candy Land
• Chutes and Ladders
• Memory Game
  
• Hi Ho Cherry-O
• Don't Break the Ice
• Ants In the Pants
• Cooties

My subtotal came to $27.93. I had a $3 off coupon from Geoffrey's Birthday Club to use since my daughter just turned 5. And I got the $10 TRU gift card for buying over $25 in Hasbro games.
I'll be getting a rebate of $14 for all those games.

So, after the rebate, my $3 coupon, and the $10 gift card, it's only $.93 for the 7 games! Is that a deal or what?? I'm keeping one of the games for my daughter for Christmas and I'm putting the rest into the toy drive my church is doing.

Note: the rebate from states only ONE rebate per GAME and only ONE rebate check issued per family, household, or address. So you can't buy more than one of any of the games. Also, make sure you bought all the games you want before you mail in the rebate form since you can only get one rebate check. And the games you buy have to be what's pictured on the form. The Memory Game is the only one where all versions are valid for the rebate. None of the charactered versions are valid for the other games.

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Week of the Family

I know this is kind of late but there's the weekend to enjoy Week of the Family here in Tampa Bay. Check out the Event calendar on the home page and check out this page for week long discounts at Lowry Park Zoo, Florida Aquarium and more!

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Coupon Giveaway Winner!

And the winner of my latest coupon giveaway is:

Comment #5, Steph

Congrats!

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