E-Mealz

E-Meal-Easy Meals for Busy and Frugal Families

Over the past 5 1/2 years of married life, my husband and I have made many attempts at meal planning. Each attempt became too tedious and time consuming to maintain with our busy dual career life styles. This  inevitably resulted in frequent trips to our favorite restaurants multiple times a week.  The other recurring problem was in seeking to add variety to our meals, we tried new recipes, many of which ended in disaster (one especially memorable was- Ratatouille-as inspired by the Pixar movie-but exponentially less visually appealing as the animated version and tasted as though it must have been stolen from the rats trash cans which had not been taken to the curb in a few weeks).

Two months ago, thanks to Dave Ramsey's radio show, we found E-Mealz!  Our minds and stomachs have been very happy.  We no longer have to spend hours trying to sort through recipes and grocery ads to find sales that will match the recipes!  Each and every meal that we have have with E-mealz so far has tasted wonderful!  Much better than most of the recipes we used to use!

(I was not paid by Dave Ramsey or E-Mealz for this review) These are my own opinions.

Swag Bucks Rewards

I am very excited to have redeemed swag bucks points for my first rewards.  I used 900 points to get two $5.00 gift cards to amazon.com.  I used the cards to get 7 cloth wipes for my LO. The grand total with free shipping was 15 cents!!!

New Beginnings

As I embark upon the motherhood journey, I hope to share about my experiences from planning for birth and parenting, cloth diapers, balancing family with work, church, MOPS, and hobbies (such as reading and crafts).

I am about to finish my first cross stitch project ever. The cross stitching is actually finished, I am just waiting for my husband to get home, as he stopped at the craft store to pick out the frame that he wants for the project. He plans to display it on his desk in his classroom.

I found that cross stitching is overall very relaxing. The most frustrating part is when the threads like to wind and twist in odd ways after having separated the large strands into smaller strands. I do wonder why if companies plan that you only need to use 2 or 3 strands at a time, why don't they produce the thread in this manner instead of having the consumer fight with easily tangled thread strands. I am looking forward to the next cross stitch project though!

vitamin option...

http://www.nutritionaltree.com

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does this thing still work???

Check out this site...

http://www.dealtaker.com

I'm a NICU nurse!!!

I start working on Feb 26th!!!!

Job update!

I will be working in Mother/ Baby and orienting in the Special Care Nursery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really want to work in the SCN, and the manager wants to hire me, but she doesn't have any positions right now...so that's why I get to orient!!! And M/B will be a good experience with healthy babies. I'm so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Update

once again, I have not written in forever. I just thought I would give a brief update. I am now a Registered Nurse, and my husband and I will be staying put for atleast another year, we will hopefully start working on our master's degree's in the fall, yes, I know, a run on sentence :P I've been working on getting my CE credits done for next year, I currently have 6.2(of 24)! Whohoo! I have also been practicing. I really hope to get some gigs for the rest of the summer, and maybe play in an orchestra, I hope, I hope! So if you need a violinist for anything, let me know, I also have instrumental friends...so I can arrange for a string quartet, or other combination of instruments....

Counting Down

5 weeks left of school before graduation. 5 days left of clinicals.
So much to do!
I have a job interview on April 10th with the Clinical Nurse Manager of a NICU in North Carolina! The hospital modeled their NICU after the Dayton children's NICU, so the woman was really excited on the phone when I spoke with her.
Michael has two job fairs to go to that same weekend while we are in NC also!
I will be so excited if I can get a job in a NICU as a new grad! The NICU is really all I want to do, it is my passion! I believe the NICU in NC has a sort of fellowship program, which for the first year there is the nursing orientation along with additional classroom time, and they also arrange for mentors and extra support during the first year.
I'm so excited!