I have to share this picture, because I think that Gregory is just the cutest baby ever born. He makes me want to wake him up, just so I can hold and snuggle him!
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Wow!!!
Do you love going out to eat? Would you eat out two-three times/week if you could afford it?
Well, now you can, thanks to a deal I just found!!
Restaurant.com offers gift certificates for local restaurants at discounted prices. Sorry, Chili’s lovers, no chain restaurants, only locally owned small ones.
Their normal deal is something like a $10 certificate for $5, a 50% savings.
Want an additional 80% savings on top of that?
Yup, you heard me!
Just enter “GOBBLE” in the promo code box at checkout, and there you have it!
Using the money I made off of Ebay this week, I just scored $60 to two Thai Restaurants and $30 to an Indian Restaurant for 9 BUCKS. That’s it. Jesse and I can eat out 3 TIMES for less than what it would have cost us to drive through McDonalds. Plus, we love finding local-hole-in-the-wall places to eat.
Check it out! Make sure to read the terms and conditions of each particular restaurant, because I found that some of the pricier ones (I wanted to buy some Churrascaria certificates, alas) only allow you to use one certificate per visit. Still a good deal, but I was looking for DIRT CHEAP, seeing as that’s how we roll nowadays. Babies are expensive!
Go ahead, buy some certificates, go out to eat! You can thank me later 🙂
Diaper Steal!
It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of my “Steals” on here, so I thought I’d indulge.
In my cloth diapers post, I mentioned that I’d acquired two Fuzzibunz Perfect Size (not the one-size) diapers for nighttime use. They are quicker to put on, which means that at 4am I’m in a much better mood.
Granted, they usually cost 3x what we use during the day (the Bummis prefolds), but for just a few, I figured it was worth the shot. I like the Perfect Size vs. the One-size because they fit so perfectly and I’ve been able to use them from day one (I’ve been told you have to wait to use the One-Size since they don’t fit newborns well).
The Steal? I saw a lady on Craigslist, selling 12 Perfect Size Smalls, 3 Perfect Size Mediums. The Smalls were used for one baby (meaning 4-5 months), and the Mediums were only used a handful of times.
These diapers retail for $13-15/diaper.
I got all 15 for $20. The package deal also came with about 30 inserts.
Yup. She said she couldn’t stand people who tried to sell their used diapers for close to what they paid for them.
I did pay an extra $10 for her to ship them because I have a newborn and she lives in McKinney, which is 1 hr. from the Oklahoma border. Also, a few of them will need new elastic, but I found a how-to tutorial for that online and already have the thin elastic which I purchased at Walmart for 80 cents.
Since there were 4 diapers in girly colors, I listed them on Ebay. Today, all 4 diapers sold for a total of $24.
So, including what I paid to have them shipped, I got 11 Fuzzibunz diapers for $6. Yes, that comes out to 75 cents/diaper. I don’t even know what I’m going to do with all 30 inserts!
Quite a steal, no?
Churching
Folks, it was a miracle.
We brought Gregory to church on Saturday night, and it was a flat-out miracle. I know my baby– heck, I’ve spent all day/night, every day/night with him for the past 5 weeks, and I’ve never seen him behave like this.
We made it to Vespers at 5pm on Saturday night, and he was hungry, so I stayed out in the car and nursed him for about 20 minutes. That’s all, nothing special. Jesse and I wrapped him onto me in the Moby Wrap, fully expecting that I would need to nurse him again before the end of Vigil.
Not only did G make it through 2.5 hours of church with only two tiny whimpers (both occurred when the choir stopped singing), but he also let Jesse and I go to confession, still as quiet as a mouse. Of course, we were also hungry afterwards, so we went out to Chipotle with the Folsoms. I warned them that it had now been 3 hours since Gregory had last eaten, an ETERNITY for him, and that our first “nursing in public” episode would probably have to commence once at the restaurant.
We got him out of his carseat at Chipotle. He was very much awake, wide eyed and staring, but not crying. Jenny held him as we ordered our food and sat down. Still not crying. We put him in his infant carseat there in the booth with us. He just stared and stared, without a peep. Then, as we were eating, he fell asleep again. We continued to talk, long after we were finished eating. Still, nothing.
Long and short of it: Gregory went 5.5 hours without eating, crying, or having his diaper changed. He cried for about 2 minutes when we transferred him back into his carseat to go home, but that was it. When we got home, we realized that his to-go diaper had completely soaked through, and that he was sitting in quite a mess.
Again, one of these factors would have been enough to make him scream as though limbs were being ripped off. This kid does NOT do hunger pains gracefully. But he was better behaved than I’ve ever seen him.
And then, he proceeded to have a great night, with a few 3-4 hours chunks of sleep.
And then, at church Sunday morning, he went another 3 hours without a peep. No feeding, no diaper changes, he was just…angelic! Everyone commented on how he was the perfect baby, and sooo beautiful. A few even said he was one of the best looking babies they’d ever seen 🙂 Compliments to one’s baby are definitely waaay better than compliments directed at one’s own self.
At first, I was pretty convinced that Jesse should investigate the incense. It sure smelled like weed to me.
But I think there’s a better explanation, one that was offered by our friend, Brad. He pointed out that the babies of regular church attendees tend to do well when they come back to church, simply because it’s the music they heard consistently the entire time they were in-utero. Once they hear it again, they feel at peace and relate it with being back in the womb, safe and sound. I can say for sure that Gregory got a lot of church music whilst I was “growing him”, especially since I was in the choir. I also think he will react well to classical music, seeing as he was with me as I taught piano lessons every day for nine months.
All I know is that we are going to try and make it to church as often as possible with this kid. It’s like a free handout of Peace. We could always use more of that around here 🙂
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