As many of you know, my family and I were in the process of selling our house and trying to find another one suitable to our needs! Between all of the showings and researching of new houses it became so hectic to keep up with the blog at the same time… I am so sorry I have been MIA. BUT I am happy to say we are finally settled in our new home and there is just a few more things to unpack! We went from a 1301 sq ft house to a 2440 sq ft house, so it was a huge change and such a blessing from God! We are so happy to have our lives feeling normal again! It is me, my husband, our 3 kids, our lab, and our recent kitten we rescued at a burger king! I am so excited to be back into the blogging world! I have definitely missed it! I am excited to start sharing deals again and blogging about fun and exciting things!! 
Below is a picture of our new home! It definitely has the space we have been looking for!! Hopefully everyone has been doing great!
Oops! BIG NO NO! I did drink my coffee though! ;0) Our favorite fast food is Chik-fil-a, so I was not sure how I was going to be able to get something healthy at my favorite place! I asked for a nutritional guide and started browsing. The Chik-fil-A grilled sandwich was only 290 calories! That worked for me because it is still really tasty! I wanted to see how many calories were in my favorite sauce (the polynesian kind) so I turned the guide over and found the section that was labeled sauces. Are you ready for this???? It was 110 calories FOR ONE PACKET! Do you know how disgusted I was with myself after I read that? Before yesterday, I would literally pour that sauce on everything I ordered! 
If they know I am watching them they will just be silly! It is when I really see what they are capable of, when they don’t know I am glaring up at them out of the corner of my eyes! Don’t let these little things go unnoticed! I often do and realize it later on 
Okay, I went to 3 different stores last night! Everything went smoothly until I got to Albertson’s! I had my basket filled in 25 minutes;) I just knew it was too good to be true. I wheel my buggy to the front. I am looking for a checkout lane open and I do not see ONE worker…I finally see an employee wiping down her station. She points to the direction of Lane 1 and says, “She will help you down there!”… I am looking, wondering if I saw her point in the right direction because SURELY, she was not talking about the self check out lane where there was ONE employee helping the 15 customers that were in line for these SELF checkout stations! Sure enough, that is EXACTLY what she was talking about! I walk to the lines in disbelief! My little sister, who was so humiliated that I had this huge binder in my buggy, was hiding the huge wad of coupons behind her back! lol. Well, here goes! I start scanning my items. Picture the fact that I have a buggy FULL and this little bitty workspace… Obviously I had to start removing bags from the little bagging spot and put them in my buggy to make room… Every time I would remove a bag, the machine would say REALLY loud, “Items removed from bagging area.” OMG, it makes me look like I am stealing! The ONE lady that was helping all four lanes, has to come turn a key every time that would happen, which was about 9 times!! Next there were items that were not ringing up. She had to come and punch something in manually for those 2 items. I continue! FINALLY, I was done ringing the items! Heeeeere come the coupons! First one I scan was a store coupon… it asks for authorization.. The employee walks over and tell me that it was probably picking up another coupon, so she starts ripping the coupons out of the ad.. I had THREE store coupons. She rips the bar-code on ALL three!! lol. So she has to go back to her desk, manually subtract the difference from each item, after she looks up the prices, then key in the difference! At this point I am getting a little frustrated. I think if I would have had my kids with my I would have pulled my hair out. I would have even been happy with her canceling EVERYTHING and moving to a real check-out lane and starting over! … NEXT, I scan my $5.00/$25.00 purchase coupon from the email club! For some reason, it CHARGES me a dollar and under the description it says Phone Card??? They have to call the manager for this one! She has to take it back to her desk, void the $1 charge, then subtract the $5! NEXT… I have my set of MFG coupons… Scan #1, went through… PRAISE GOD! Scan #2… BEEEEEEEP, AUTHORIZATION NEEDED!! Go figure!! Manager comes back and has to press a button after all of my coupons are scanned! Okay, whew coupons scanned! I can handle the rest… All I have to is pay… WRONG… There is the Corona that my husband requested on the bottom of the buggy! I have to wait there for the manager again, so she can check my id! I bet if I had my three kids with me, she wouldn’t have asked! lol. Okay, done! Let’s pay! OH NO!! I have 3 gift cards !! “Please God, let these gift cards scan!!!” You guessed it, Of course they didn’t scan!!! The manager comes back and does not know why they are not scanning. After scanning one about 15 times, it goes through… Minus $10 dollars. Next one would not scan at all.. She goes and manually takes off an amount and comes back… Next one takes about 20 times and then it scanned! WHEW!!! Finally all I have to do is scan my debit card and I am out of here! HAHA!!! Normally I look my receipt up and down before I leave the store, but I needed to leave before I was bald! The manager stops me and says, “Hey the card that I took $10 off only had $3 something left on it”… I told her I knew that. Apparently she did not manually push it through for the amount that was left on it, she automatically took off the $10 that was written on the card off the purchase!?? lol So it basically made it look like I was trying to rip the store off, which I promise I wasn’t! lol. I, then, had to wait on her to figure out how to charge me the difference! …….. I have NEVER wanted to leave a store so bad in my entire life!! I have had better experiences bringing all three of my kids to a store!!! I know what ya’ll are thinking, why the heck did this chick just write all of this!? Because I needed to vent and this is a place to share good and BAD, HORRIBLE, TRAUMATIC stories about couponing 
