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It’s time for another Thursday Thoughts! If you want to participate, but have no idea what a link-up is, you can check out my explanation of it here.
~My (big) boys are all coming home today and WB and I are so excited! We had thought about doing our garage sale beginning tomorrow, but it’s just not happening. Instead I think L and B are going to camp out in the backyard and I am hoping that the weather is nice so that we can sneak in a little trip to the beach. And that B and I can sneak in a trip to the casino ;).
~I haven’t been getting too many subscription boxes in the mail this week, but my mailbox greeted me with the 2015 IKEA catalog and a Bath & Body Works coupon book. As if my obsession with IKEA wasn’t already at an all time high, the catalog shows up. Yes, I am sure I seen all of these things at the store. But somehow the catalog makes them all the more appealing. The store is just overwhelming (and usually crowded). But the catalog lets you browse and go back and check Pinterest to see what you can do with everything.
~My spray painted BEKVÄM spice racks got hung in my office by my brother yesterday and I love them! I learned, however, that I should have sanded them before painting them. It honestly would have taken me an extra 10 minutes and saved me a ton of hassle. I will for sure be sanding these before I do the ones for the kids bedrooms!
~I should be getting a few subscription boxes to end the week including Julep, Jennifer Love Hewitt Fancy Box, maybe Wantable, the Homegrown Collective and umm, that might just be it. Such a slow week. I totally should have planned my Disney trip for this week instead of mid-month!
~A friend of mine posted a link to this “11 Morning Rituals That Can Change Your Life” article and I am finding it quite fascinating. I currently do none of these things, but they all seem fairly easy (except maybe the mini trampoline one because that would require buying a mini trampoline) and am thinking about incorporating them into my mornings! I suspect even just a few would make me feel better in the morning.
~PopSugar is having their first ever Flash Sale today and is offering 50% off the Michael Stars hat was that included in the July 2014 Must Have Box, making it only $24! If you have been eyeing this hat and didn’t get the box, now is the time. I am really hoping we see more deals like this from PopSugar down the road! What I would really LOVE to see is a flash sale of some of their older boxes. Like a warehouse sale of sorts. A girl can dream…..
~I am not 100% sure where L is going to school next year (I applied to switch him to a school closer to us), but I know I need to get school supply shopping done before everything sells out! Honestly people get prepared so early that Target (and everywhere else) gets cleaned out fast. But this year I’m on it!
That’s it for now! I will be back in a few with some fun subscription box deals and a review or two!
When will you find out where he goes to school? I have N in our base school so I know he’s there for the duration. We like it there so far so no needs to change.
I’m sitting in my kindof office now and still have envy. I need to maybe send C to my moms for a couple days once we get on the school routine so I can work in here and get it organized. I share with M but he really gets a cabinet and a little desk space and that is it 😉 but its right inside my front door so not much wall space with all the windows and stuff. I think what it really needs is a good purge. So many scrappy suppplies I just don’t use anymore.
Probably within a week? School doesn’t start until the first week in September so I have plenty of time!
I want to see it all once you get it organized! Craft stuff is so hard to figure out how to store.
I don’t know about schools, outside of Texas, but it seems like when I was a kiddo going through school you could expect to need certian things each year. Like #2 pencials, 24 count box of crayola’s, elmores school glue, a backpack, lunch box, a ream of notebook paper, scissors, ect. So you can start stocking up on that stuff. And if he doesn’t need it, then you have more art supply stuff at the house.
I know we will need certain kinds of gluesticks, hand sanitizer, kleenex, etc. so I can get all that! And he wants to use his old backpack and lunchbox! I would have wanted a new kind!
oh, and on the 11 ritual list – I do drink water w/ my breakfast. I’m eternally running late to work (I am NOT a morning person), so I don’t have time to linger over coffee before I get to the office. So a while back I started just drinking a glass of water w/ my breakfast. At first it was kind of a shock, but now I crave it. I know, it is kind of weird sounding. But like juices and stuff I’m allergic to, and milk I just like in coffee or cereal – not by itself.
I am not a morning person AT ALL! These might help though.
I got the hat from popsugar and am not a hat person, I would totally sell it 🙂
Wow. I am up for most of those 11 morning rituals. Not sure about the green stuff in my breakfast. May have to swallow the kale/spinach whole in the form of a supplement! I wonder if that would still work. I don’t have a mini trampoline, either. I’m sure all of that would be better than the Zone bar and Red Bull breakfast, though!
I have had a green monster before and honestly, if you do it right, you’ll never know there is kale or spinach in it!
Yeah.. so IKEA must really, really, really want me to come visit them. They sent me a $25 off $250 coupon in the mail yesterday. I know that might not seem like a great coupon, but it’s 10% and I don’t think I’ve ever left IKEA with a purchase less than $250 anyway.
OMG I am so jealous. I don’t really need anything else from IKEA, but if I had a coupon I would need something! I will be stalking my mailbox!
I have been going to the casino a lot lately. I tell my children I’m going on vacation and I’ll bring them something back and my oldest said “you’re going on vacation again”! So that’s a sign to lay off of the casino a while although I do spend a lot of time with my children.
OMG that is hysterical!
The things children say and I don’t know where they get half the stuff they say. lol I always wanted a girl but God sure knew what he was doing when he gave me two boys.
Oh man, now I can’t wait for my mail person to arrive! I LOOOOVE IKEA and was just thinking the new catalog should be out soon. I need a new computer desk like crazy so hopefully they have something perfect.
I hope it comes today!!!!
Yay I just got my IKEA catalog today too!! I really need to make a trip out there (it’s about an hour and a half away) because I need some organizational things.
Yay!!!
If you go school shopping at Target today, toy clearance hit 70% off this morning. We got there right as the sale was kicking in! Lots of great pics of everyone’s hauls on the All Things Target Facebook page!. 🙂
I will check out the pictures! I never seem to have too much luck with the toy clearance!
A Bath & Body Works Coupon Book?? This sounds like something I need for my Florida vacation at the end of September!
Tell me when you are going and I will get you some coupons for that time. I am always getting them in the mail and you have to have a coupon for them!
That would be amazing. We will be going September 27th – October 5th. You are the best! XO
Jenny, I wish you would have said that link about the 5 foods to avoid was over an hour long.., I want back my hour….lol
It was fruit juices, soy, corn on the cob, wheat , , I can’t even remember the other one…