Looks like winter has finally come to Minnesota. I could live without it though. We are suppose to have 4 inches of snow by tomorrow.
Yesterday was one of our big shopping days. We have two big shopping days a year. One when the winter stuff goes on clearance in January and one in August or so when the summer stuff goes on clearance. Kohl’s had it’s 75% off sale this weekend. We stock up on the next size of clothes for the boys. I bought 7 pairs of size 18 pants for Josh, but I think they will be fitting him yet this year. I think next year for school he will be in men’s pants. Now I will have to start looking at clearance in the men’s section too. ARGH!!
I actully bought myself a few shirts for work, which is rare as I always only buy for my kids. So here is a break down of our day, and Tommy really handled this all very well, surprisingly.
We started off going to the post office, then to great clips for hair stuff, then to the Mall. At the mall, we hit clearance at Mervyn’s (bought nothing), then we went to Sears ( bought 4 pairs of kahaki pants for Josh) *note, Josh ONLY will wear Kahaki pants, hates jeans* , then to Children’s Place (bought 3 shirts, one coverall and 2 pants for tommy $20.00) lastly to Kohl’s!! Kohl’s was having their 75% sale! We bought alot of Kohl’s, for Tommy, three Nike sweatshirts, one Reebok windsuit, a 3-piece xmas outfit, a winter sweater. For Joshua, we bought 4 pairs of Kahaki, three vikings shirts. I also picked up three vikings shirts and a pair of wind pants for various xmas and b-day presents for this coming year. Our grand total for all that was like $111.00. I think that was a great deal since I got most of Josh’s school clothes for the next year.
Then we stopped at Old Navy to check out their Winter blow out sale. They had a cart of men’s boxer marked down from $7.50 to 99 cents. I bought 24 pairs for Joshua as that is all he wears is boxers. That was a huge savings, I bought 7 size small for now and the rest size medium for later. That should keep him good for quite a while. I also found him a pair of pants for $4.00. I bought 3 shirts and a pair of pants for Tommy. I sure hope Tommy is wearing about a size 18 months next winter, since that is what I figured in my purchasing.
WHEW!!! Tommy made it through all that shopping jsut fine. We have one of those travel systems stroller, where you can pop the car seat in the stroller. He really likes it. It was the first time we have used it.
Then we decided to run home and look in our boxes of saved clothes for Tommy is we had a jacket for next winter for him. We had seen a great one at Sears marked down from 65.99 to 26.00. We had a $20.00 gift cert to use in sears. We decided to get him the size 3T jacket for a few winters from now. It was a really warm Nike parka with the Vikings on it! My hubby makes sure Tommy has plenty of Vikings gear!
After all that shopping, hubby decided to take me for my b-day supper at Joe’s Crab Shop. We had been meaning to try it out for a while. The crab was ok, but I still prefer Red Lobster.
After eating we decided to stop at Target as I need to get hairspray. Well we ran through the toys and they were marked down to 50% off so we bought a couple of toys for Christmas for Tommy. My hubby also gota toy as he found it to be the funniest thing in the world. It is called Free Me Freddy. It is a monster in handcuffs, while he has the handcuffs on he says really nice things, Like please let me out…etc….then you oepn his handcuffs and he says obnoxious things and farts, burps, etc. He says like 75 things. He really is funny.
Then we came home and curled up in bed and watched the movie Glass House. That was a good movie I really like it!
Sunday we headed to church and spent most of the day around the house. We watched the movie Jeepers Creepers, which was not a very good movie.
Tonight Tommy had a bath and I had his infant tub in the big tub. After I finished washing him up. I let him kick around in the big tub for the first time. He was squealing and giggling. It was really funny. He would kick and splash so much. There isn’t enought room in his infant tub to do that very well.
Well I better head to bed. Hope you all had a great weekend!!
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland
Before I forget..Thanks for visiting my blog..and my website.. glad you found something interesting on my site… I made all of Katelin’s babyfood and she ate it like it was the best thing ever… as compared to jarred food.. she didnt really care for that too much.. anyways…. nice blog. Great deals you found on your shopping adventure… I love clearance shoppin for the next year for my kids too… its a great way to save money, thats for sure…. Kimber
Before I forget..Thanks for visiting my blog..and my website.. glad you found something interesting on my site… I made all of Katelin’s babyfood and she ate it like it was the best thing ever… as compared to jarred food.. she didnt really care for that too much.. anyways…. nice blog. Great deals you found on your shopping adventure… I love clearance shoppin for the next year for my kids too… its a great way to save money, thats for sure…. Kimber
oweee your one busy person!