I'm Baaaaack!

Wow, has it really been an entire month since I last posted? Many of you have emailed/talked to me to make sure all is well as abandoning the coupon world is very unlike me! Let me reassure all of you that I am healthy and happy and fine. BUSY AS NOTHING ELSE, but wonderfully happy!!

If you are the kind of person that doesn't buy the above statement, you may choose from this list of pathetic excuses for my absence:

1. I started to read books again. Crazy, I know, but I'm trying to check off a few things on my master completely out of control "To Do List" and that was one of them.

2. I put together a digital photo book for my grandmothers 80th birthday of the ENTIRE FAMILY. This was a VERY in-depth project that required my excellent and fine tuned nagging skills to get the entire family to send me all of their photos and letters for my grandmother. This also required me to spend countless hours uploading, organizing and imputing photos from the past 80 years of my grand mothers life including her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren into a 90 page hardcover book. Not only was it a photo book but I also had to edit and upload and write a few heart felt letters that were meant for grandma's eyes only into the book as well. Then on top of all of that, my father and I had to sit down (long distance) and picture by picture go over who was who and where they were so I could also put this information into the book. In the end it was worth every second I put into it! It was wonderful to see my grandmother as a young girl, then dating, then married and in love, then to see all the hilarious pictures of my father and his brothers and sisters and then to top it off, to see current pictures of ALL of my cousins and their children. Now, unlike many of you, I do not live ANYWHERE near my family and many of my cousins I've not seen in a good 10+ years. C-R-A-Z-Y!! So it was so wonderful to see them, their spouses and their children!!

3. Speaking of family, after doing all that work on this book, how could I NOT be there to see my Grandmothers reaction to when she opened it up?! So...off I went to Salt Lake for the bit 80th birthday bash and to see all of my long lost family! I love, love, loved seeing all of the family and spending time with them. It was like no time had passed between any of us (except for a few new random spouses and kids...who I love and adore now!!) and so I figured that instead of spending a day or two, I'd might as well stay a week! So I was in the Utah/Idaho area for a week and away from Ben. (which of course I did some great deal shopping, including K-mart's double coupon days! (btw - I got a TON of great stuff for only $0.16 including tax!!) But I didn't take a picture or post so ....oh well.

4. Then for my last excuse, There really weren't any WOW deals that I saw at first glance this past week. It was a bit on the puny side and nothing I really wanted to blog about! - This is the lamest of all lame excuses - I know!

So there you have it my friends....my absence from the blog world in a nutshell. Now...hopefully I can start blogging away and regain your trust and friendship in this world of know-it-alls. :)

I'll post my first "steal & deal" tonight so stay tuned!

Mrs. Heath