Two board games (Taboo and Scene It?), an etch-a-sketch, a mickey mouse doll, a ladybug costume for the girls' dress up bin, 1 dress for The Guppy, 4 shirts for The Guppy, and 1 pair of overalls and 1 vest for the Mermaid. We also got a weed wacker(!) and a Dan Brown book (not pictured).
Not bad for $10!
Did you go "yard saleing" this weekend? Let me know what awesome deals you found!
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New mothers and staff have criticised Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust for putting up the image on the children's ward at Rochdale Infirmary.
The poster shows a child of two or three breastfeeding a doll under the headline
'It's normal' and accompanied by the caption 'Children copy their mothers,
teenagers do it! Celebrities do it'.
Health chiefs insist that the poster is designed to promote breastfeeding but critics say that the picture is 'distasteful, inappropriate and crude'.
The media reflects a lot of image confusion, resulting in pregnant women diminishing their desire to look pregnant. The social image of adopting a lean, masculine-looking body has influenced some pregnant women to try not to have any excess adipose tissue on them after birth. Our lean culture has pregnant women joining the obsession of calorie restriction and adopting eating disorders. This phenomenon has become so common that it must be screened for routinely during the prenatal health history. Superstars and models brag to the media about how much they exercise and the expertise of their personal trainers, who helped them reach their size two by their tenth postpartum day.
No wonder the tweens/teens gobble up the tabloids. They tell such a crisp and clean and linear and beginning-middle-end kind of a story, huh? Meet a hot dude, have an obnoxious wedding (or not, usually not) have a be-bop pregnancy with a tiny rounded shiny (what is that one about, btw?) tanning boothed belly--twins are hot right now, maybe try for twins--, and have a very mysterious birth with no details, prattle on about how you breastfeed and then appear on such and such red carpet such and such weeks afterwards with no baby in sight and unveil your new bod!The end!
My biggest deal was the Wheat Thins. Big Y had double coupons in their flyer this week, and the Wheat Thins were on sale 2/$6. I just happened to have 5 $1 off Wheat Thin coupons, which were all doubled, so I got each box for $0.99.
Despite the entreaties to breastfeed, few employers go out of their way to help women continue to do so. One in four companies offered an on-site mother's room last year, and 6% had lactation support services, according to the Society for
Human Resource Management. Fifteen percent had paid maternity leave beyond what short-term disability covers, and only 6% of companies had on-site child care.
Cole added: “The way breastfed babies grow will now become the norm. With the previous charts a breastfed baby could be growing perfectly normally but would appear to the health visitor not to be growing as fast as the charts recommended, so there might have been pressure to wean early [on to solid foods or formula milk].
“Thin babies will [now] not appear to be so thin and fat babies will appear to be more fat. The fat babies are likely to be formula fed, growing very fast and developing problems with obesity.”
According to a joint study by the National Women’s Health Resource Center and Medela breast pump company, 32% of mothers in the U.S. stop breastfeeding 7 weeks after returning to work. If 4.1 million babies are born in the U.S.
annually, and 25% of mothers return to work post-birth, (both stats from the
U.S. Census Bureau), some 328,000 babies per year are being switched to formula
at 5 months even though their mothers are capable of breastfeeding.
My goal this year is to be able to take care of the existing garden. If all goes well, then next year I will plant a vegetable/herb garden.
If anyone wants to share their favorite gardening resource as well, that would be fabulous!
I would love to read your favorite jewelry stories. Do you have a piece of jewelry that has special meaning to you?
I remember when she was a baby, I was always sniffing the top of her head because I love that "new baby smell". It gradually began to go away, but it was replaced by a much nicer smell: the smell of sunshine. The Guppy loves it when I sing "You Are My Sunshine" to her, and whenever I smell the top of her head I am reminded of how much that is true; she is my sunshine, my beacon of light, my laughing fairy, my wishing star.
Not too many deals this week. Price Chopper had their garlic on sale, and I also picked up two box of Near East couscous that was on sale to try out. It didn't seem to have any harmful additives and I've been wanting to try couscous for a while. Total spent at PC: $4.50
Big Y had more on sale this week, and they were tripling coupons with a face value up to $0.99. Sadly, most of my coupons are a dollar off or more, but I did have two Heinz Vinegar coupons for $0.50 off, and since I use Vinegar for cleaning and washing laundry, I wanted to stock up. They also had President Feta Cheese on sale for $3.99 (I pay $4.18 at WalMart), 1lb carrots for 2/$1, and Big Y Lite Syrup, BIGIF. Total cost before coupons and discounts: $18.63. Total OOP: $9.66, so I saved about 50%.
This week I wanted to buy a drying rack to cut down on energy costs, and the Knight wanted to make tacos, and so I had to pick up vegetarian hamburger for that (which is expensive!) so I spent $89 total this week, more than the past two weeks but still $11 under budget.
Did you find any great deals this week? Link to your post and share how you've been saving big bucks! You must link to the direct post, and not just your homepage.
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