We now have a new family member-a Shih Tzu named Sophie. She is 9 weeks old today and is absolutely adorable. My mom bought her for me for my birthday which is next week. My little Caden is loving the new puppy-he plays with her all of the time. The other dogs love her too-she is so small compared to them though(a boxer and an English bulldog). But they have fun playing too.

Update on the camper burning: I am still waiting to hear from the insurance adjuster to find out if we are even covered or not. My mother-in-law had just bought it for us and the Memorial Day weekend was our first camping trip in it. I did call m y insurance company because several people had told me that since it was plugged in to the camper it might be covered. Come to find out that they do not cover it just because it was hooked up. BUT-it might be covered due to the fact that we had just bought it-so if we are lucky we will be able to get the money and get another one to replace it.

I do have some more good news-I sold our antique car that we have outside. I have had it for about 4 years now and we paid only $500 for it and I sold it for $5000. I am very happy! I never imagined I would make a $4500 profit from it! So, hopefully that will help us out with the bills for the next several months.

I am still clipping coupons like crazy. If you remember, I had lost all of my coupons in the camper fire. I had several ladies send me some coupons to get me started on replacing the ones I lost. Now I am working on finding a coupon organizer to get started on getting them organized again. I did do really good at the grocery store this week though. I saved 56% off of my Kroger purchases and then at Walmart I had a total of $201 and I only paid $140. All-in-all a great trip this week.

Well, I went to CVS today and got 3 packages of Pampers for $8.99 and used the $1 coupons out of today's paper and then I got a $5 ECB for each package. So, I spent $26.98 minus $3 in coupons-out of pocket I spent 23.98 and got $15 back in ECB's for next time!! WOOHOO!! I am on my way to building up my ECB's again after losing them all in my camper fire. OH-I did have to show them the page from the CVS Today website to get the ECB's since they did not print automatically. I just print screened the page -then printed it and took it with me.

Did I mention all of the great people over at A Full Cup? I had several of the members over there that sent me some coupons to help me rebuild my binder! How awesome is that? There are still good people in this world!

Here is a great deal if you use Pampers-CVS is giving $5 Extra Care Bucks when you buy 1 package of Pampers which are priced at $8.99. Use a coupon and you will save even more. I don't have any coupons right now but there should be a coupon in tomorrows paper for $1 off a package of Pampers. For those of you not familiar with the Extra Care Bucks program, you have to pay the full price up front but will then get the ECB which will be worth $5. You can use ECB's to make a purchase just like using money(read the fine print for exclusions)-you could even use it on another package of diapers. So-you could get the first package with a $1 coupon and pay $7.99-get $5 ECB and then purchase another package of diapers using the $1 coupon and the $5 ECB and pay $2.99 for that package and then turn around and do it all over again. Supposedly there is a limit of 3 per Extra Care card. Here is a link to the CVS website which shows this promotion--Pampers ECB deal.

I did not realize it had been 20 days since I posted! WOW! I have had a really hectic past few weeks. My dad ended up having his leg amputated below the knee. I have spent quite a bit of time with my family lately. He is doing as well as can be expected. He is having the “phantom” pains. He still does not realize he has no leg and keeps trying to stand up and has fallen nearly every day-sometimes twice a day. It has been really trying on my mom and my brothers and sisters. We are all hanging in there though.

We did get to go camping for the Memorial Day weekend. We went to the lake on Friday and came home on Monday. We had a great time camping. My brother and his wife were right next to us-then my nephew was next to them. My sister and her husband were a few sites over from us. Caden had an absolutely great time. My little great-niece was there too and they played all day. He was so tired one night that he grabbed my hand and pulled me to our camper and he proceeded to climb into his sleeping bag and felt asleep. The bad part of the weekend came when we got home. My husband pulled the camper down the road to dump the water. While he was draining the water, he noticed smoke coming from out of the vents on top of the camper. He went around to the door and opened the door to find the inside of the camper fully engulfed in flames. He actually got up oin the camper and was going to try to put it out and then realized that his attempts were futile so he got out of there. He went to the truck and hurriedly unhooked the camper from the truck and came home for me to call 911. By the time they got there of course, the camper was gone and the field was on fire. Luckily my husband got out of the camper when he did. He thought about it all after the fact and realized that if he was to have fallen or gotten stuck in the camper, our Caden would have burned up in the truck. Needless to say, I did not sleep too well that night. I am so glad we weren’t asleep when it happened. We do not know what caused it but are thinking it was something electrical. I did lose my laptop, camera, coupon binder and organizers, coupons, Extra Care Bucks($25 worth), Register Rewards($60 worth), all of my summer tops and shorts that I could actually fit in, Caden’s clothes, Jimmy’s clothes, over $1000 worth of camping supplies, lots of miscellaneous tools, food, personal items, prescriptions, etc. It seems like every day I remember something else that was in there. My mom bought me a new laptop-so at least I have that. My sisters went through their clothes and gave me some clothes-but most are capris and shorts-I still need some summer tops. My mom took us shopping to replace Caden’s and Jimmy’s shorts and clothes. Caden even lost his Cars movie. UUGGHH!! We did not have insurance on it-so it was a complete loss. But life goes on and hopefully it will get better.

I posted earlier today about the new coupons available at Coupons.com-well, it has come to my attention that you can print more of the Kraft coupons over at the Kraft Foods web site. They have $50 of coupons available for Kraft products. A lot of the coupons are worth $1. You do need to register for free at the Kraft site but it is well worth it. You can print the coupons 2 times at the Kraft site and 2 times at Coupons.com.

Be sure to go to Coupons.com to get the newest coupons. There are a lot of new printable coupons right now. A lot of them are for $1 off. They won’t last long-so get them while you can. Remember, you can print them twice from your computer. Load up your printer and get to printing! If you have never printed coupons before and need some help –please let me know and I will help you if I can! Have a great day.

PS-I am trying to be positive today even though it is raining AGAIN!! UUGGHHH!! I may need a boat to go get my groceries today!