I LOVE COUPONSENSE

Today was a great couponsense day at Safeway. Here is the list of what I got and what I saved.

5 Red Baron Pizzas
5 Turkey Gravy Mixes
1 Box Cheese Nips
1 Box Chicken Crackers
1 Box Better Cheddars
3 Boxes of Three Cheese Potatoes
3 Betty Crocker cookie mixes
3 50 pkg of Hefty Plates
3 30 pkg of Hefty Cups
1 Loaf of Bread
1 Lb. Honey Ham
1 Lb. White American Cheese
3 2 liters of soda
2 gallons of milk
6 packages of sausage Links
3 Pillsbury Crescent Rolls
2 12 packs of Pop-Tarts
2 Boxes Quaker Chewy Granola Bars
2 Bagels

I spent $56 and got $5 off my next order. Saved $88.47 (62% savings)

IT IS TOTALLY ADDICTING!

Long time no blog...

Seems like life has been pretty busy lately. Blogging is one of those things that seems ideal to do and yet is not tops on the priority list at this point. I need to figure out a way to be a little more consistent though. Alot has happened over the last few months. Things in the Darago household are good! My kids are all growing like weeds, my husband still continues to be my best friend and amazes me often! Our women's retreat came and went and was incredible! I will have to post on just that sometime soon.

Caleb is playing baseball, drums and electric guitar and really seems to enjoy the whole music thing! He really is pretty good on his guitar for what a short amount of time he has been playing! Sydney is taking ballet and is enjoying every single second of it. She is a natural and was obviously created to dance ballet! Payton is in a class called "Young Rembrandts" and is shining in there too. She is gifted artistically, which is something I am not, and it is fun to watch her create great artwork.

More to come soon...

Pics of My Beautiful Girls!

Marriage Quote#3

"Happy marriages begin when we marry the one we love and they blossom when we love the one we married."

Love is a choice…it doesn’t always feel like it did when we first got married, but it doesn’t mean it’s not love. We live in a culture that says if you don't feel a certain way, then you have probably fallen out of love with your husband. I've been married for almost 15 years now and have come to realize that all of those wonderful feelings you have when you are first dating and married are not a sign of true love and commitment. It's easy to say you're "in love" when the feelings are all warm and fuzzy. But, that really isn't love. Choosing to invest in your marriage and it's success everyday is really what it's all about. There are going to be those times where the feelings are there, but there are going to be alot of times where they are not. I think it's more about what you do with those times and how much you are willing to work at making your marriage successful that equates to real love.

1 Corinthians 13 says "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." If we could all remember these truths from scripture, we would certainly see much more success in the marriage world. It makes me so sad to watch friends just give up on their marriages and not realize that it is worth the effort to fight for.

Lord, help me to be a woman who is investing in my marriage....for your sake and for the sake of others.

My how the kids do grow...

I was looking at pics from four years ago this month when we had only been in AZ for 4 months. I can't believe how quickly my kids have been growing. Caleb just grew 1/2" in a month and is about 5' 7.5". Payton is finally passing up Sydney in height and weight. I wish I could freeze time for just a bit and go back to when they were toddlers. Nevertheless, life is good and I was reflecting last night on God's goodness to allow me to be a mom! The only job I ever really wanted in life.

Daily Marriage Quote #2

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

We are always going to have struggles of incompatibility because our husbands are not our clones…thank goodness. But, we need to learn to work through those differences and embrace them. We are all uniquely and wonderfully made as Psalm 139 tells us. Do you see your husband that way, as God sees him, or do you want him to be just like you? As women, we have the privilege of either building up, or tearing down our husbands by the way we interact with them. How about today we choose to view them as God does and encourage them to be all that God has created them to be.