Well, it’s every woman’s favorite time of year! Bathing suit season! ahem. While I certainly don’t love being in a swim suit, I love the water, and 75% of my children love the water (and the other one doesn’t have an opinion yet! ) so swim suit time is not optional for me. It used to […]
Summer Essentials: {Sunscreen Stick}
July 14, 2011 by
I was so very excited when Ben brought home a sunscreen stick from Dollar Tree. {Sidenote: he was there buying daily gifts for the kiddos for while he was gone to Africa. Sweet, huh?} These things can cost from $4-$7, depending which brand you get and where you buy them. However, I think I am […]
Summer Essentials: {Baby bathing suit}
July 11, 2011 by
When our first daughter was a baby, my sister bought her an adorable bathing suit from Dollar Tree. That daughter is now 4, and our new baby is now benefitting from the same one dollar bathing suit! {also, I bought Daughter 1 a bathing suit from Wal-Mart for about $7 at the same time, and […]
Water Blaster {Add to your list- only if you want to have fun!}
July 8, 2011 by
My family loves loves LOVES to be in the water in the summer. Or should I say, the kids and I do, and Ben lovingly tolerates it. We have one of the cheap plastic pools from Target in the back yard, and many summer days find us out there enjoying its refreshing properties bathwater temperature. […]
Summer Essentials {Make your own Iced Coffee}
July 6, 2011 by
Ummm… iced coffee. I love it! Maybe even better than hot. No, definitely better than hot. And now that McDonald’s has it, it is so much cheaper to get than Starbuck’s. And that’s about as inexpensive as it gets, right? Wrong! I love to make it at home… and it is really good! There are […]
Sunglasses: {add to your list- if you need them!}
July 5, 2011 by
In honor of summer, I wanted to do a series on hot {ha!} dollar-store deals on essentials for this season. First, I want to share one of my very favorite purchases from Dollar General: sunglasses. I go through an average of 3 pairs of year- what with crushing them, losing them, leaving them behind, and […]
