What a busy day!

I'm thoroughly exhausted, or at least close to it!

I planned two weeks worth of meals Sunday evening. We are trying a bunch of new recipes that sound good, but they don't use any ingredients we don't normally use, so we aren't spending much more on groceries but we get to have some new tastes in the house!

Sunday evening I checked out all of the sales flyers for the local stores I shop at. They have their circulars online so I made a list of what I need, where it's on sale. I'm slowly creating a price book for our commonly bought items so I know who has the best prices and I can really stretch our dollar. I'd like to get the newspaper on Sundays for the coupons but honestly I'm not sure we'd use enough coupons to pay for the subscription and then some so its not worth it! We don't really buy the type of food or items you can easily find coupons for.

Anyway, we started our day of shopping at 10:30am. We shopped at 5 stores for various items, then got home around 3. Diapers had to be changed, Kaitlyn was hungry and I had to put the food away. Thankfully I have dinner cooking in the crockpot.

Then I rearranged the kids rooms. I don't know why, but I have to rearrange things every few months. I like the change.

Last night I made/froze two apple pies and canned apple butter so my kitchen is a mess from that. I'll be canning more apple butter and applesauce tonight or tomorrow, and freezing more pies.

Kaitlyn has started cooing a little bit, and she tries to immitate what you do with your face. Tonight as I was singing to her, she was watching my mouth intently, then started moving her lips as if to talk, then started cooing a little bit.