Thursday, June 16, 2011

Free Food for Your Birthday and More!!

I have spent my morning looking for local restaurants who offer eClubs or Birthday Clubs. I have found these below, and wanted to share them with you! :)


Ruby Tuesdays
.... http://www.rubytuesday.com/
So Connected...you will receive a buy 1 get 1 free entree {up to $10} coupon just for signing up

Sonic.... http://www.sonicdrivein.com/home.jsp#/kids
Birthday Club for kids

Red Lobster.... http://www.redlobster.com/club/

Burger King... http://www.clubbk.com/Register/NewPlayer.aspx
Birthday club for kids

Bob Evans... https://kids.bobevans.com/birthday.asp
birthday club for kids

IHOP... http://ihopcorp.fbmta.com/members/UpdateProfile.aspx?Action=Subscribe&_Theme=30064771093&Inputsource=W
Free meal for signing up, on your birthday, and on the 1 year anniversary for signing up

Stone Cold Creamery... http://www.coldstonecreamery.com/mycsc/

Steak N Shake... http://www.steaknshake.com/eclub
Fill in your birthday and any other special occasion and they will send you a little something extra on those dates!

Haven't signed up yet, but am planning to!

Red Robin... http://www.redrobin.com/eclub/

Monday, June 13, 2011

Monday Musings...

I love my friends! Arlee is spending the night over at a family friend's house. They picked her up after her volunteering today at the karate school, and will be taking her and dropping her off early in the morning for day two of it. I appreciate it so very much! It has helped me out a lot, and will save on the gas it will take this week to get her to and from the karate school! :)

Arlee gave me a call when she got to our friends' house. She said she really enjoyed today! She has to arrive at 8:15am to help get things all set up, and leaves around 3pm, after all her charges are picked up. Arlee told me she has great kids in the group she is helping with...a couple few who have really warmed up to her as well. She is anxious to do it again tomorrow...and also added that she is looking forward to hopefully being able to volunteer next year as well! I'm just so very proud of her!

I had big plans of getting some cleaning, decluttering, and maybe even some organizing done around here today. But, instead, while I was on the treadmill this morning, I was watching Ghost Whisperer...and then Frosty and I was hooked! We ended up spending the whole day watching the last few episodes!

Zach and Liam spent the whole afternoon in the backyard playing. This has been the first year that we are "giving a little" and allowing them outside by themselves. I'll be totally honest and say that I feel panicky the whole time they are out there. So far they have been pretty good about staying where they should. It helps to know that our big ole scary dogs are all out there to keep a close eye on things as well. I check on them frequently....very frequently!!

I will admit that I absolutely LOVE seeing Zach outside playing with Liam instead of being on his video games. I know he loves them so much. He doesn't really "play" a lot of the time. He is very limited with his imagination...but being away from his video games helps that some...which is so wonderful to see. For the most part though...when they are playing around outside...it is just mimicking a video games...but he has to start somewhere, right?

Missed the boys nap today watching Ghost Whisperer with Frosty. I'm sure I'll be paying for that one soon. I never thought I would be one of those mothers who try to work things around my kids' naptime....especially with them being 5yo and 8yo!! But I've found that it makes for a MUCH better evening if they get their naps in.

Last night I made some pancakes so that this morning all we had to do was heat them up a bit and go. It was GREAT! I'm looking to make some Crockpot Breakfast Apple Cobbler for tomorrow morning. I've never made it before, so I'll let you know tomorrow how it turns out! :)

Tonight I'm making some Hashbrown Casserole for dinner. I'll pick a side or two to go along with it. Then some Banana Pudding for dessert. I'm REALLY looking forward to it! We haven't had Hashbrown Casserole in awhile...and it's been AGES since I last made Banana Pudding!

I've noticed that I have not been baking like I used to. I'm really sad about that. I do really miss it. I'm hoping to be finding some more time soon to get back into creating some yummy goodies! :)

Hopefully Danny will be home soon and we can have some coffee together, eat dinner, spend a little family time together, then hit the hay! I've had this horrible headache all day today. I'm looking forward to HOPEFULLY an early bedtime with the boys who have not gotten their naps today!