The Best Laid Plans...

I had big plans of working out and running and getting things done and this week none of those things have happened.  Starting out the week I was sick with a cold (actually, I still am).  I figured I'd take a couple days off and get better quickly.  I know better than this.  I have three kids.  I know by now that I need to do things no matter how bad I feel because it can always be worse.  I should have worked out those days, but I didn't, and then very late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning I awoke to the sound of a child throwing up in the hallway.

And ten hours later:

Awesome.

Now it's Saturday and she's still sick.  I'm so thankful no one else has caught what she had, but with the husband out of town, it still meant I was homebound for days.  No working out, no grocery shopping, no getting out of my germ infested house.  After two days of this, I had to at the very least drag all the kids to the grocery store for some essentials.  Maybe tomorrow I can get to the gym...

I started back to my own school on Monday.  Luckily, I only have two classes for this session, and so far they're not excessively time-consuming.  All the extra time at home this week has provided time for school work for me as well as lots of extra internet-surfing and kids' movie watching.  A friend introduced me to an app called ibotta. 

 Have you heard of it?  I used to cut coupons for grocery shopping, but I just don't anymore.  Whether I don't have time or I'm lazy or I just don't feel like it even if I do manage to tear a coupon out, the chances of me remembering to use it before it expires are slim to none.  So I do my grocery shopping at Walmart Neighborhood Market and at the very least I use their SavingsCatcher to get the lowest prices.  Ibotta, though, is like cutting coupons without having to actually cut anything or take anything with you to the store.  You just scroll through, choose which things you are going to buy (everything from produce to dairy products to name-brand groceries), and then once you have bought them you go back into the app and mark them and scan your receipt.  Once you have $20-$25 in your ibotta account you can order a gift card or have it deposited to your paypal account.  I'm currently at $17 and can't wait to get some free money!

I'm working on a post about some of my current most favorite things.  And a few new happenings that I'm super excited about.  And hopefully this coming week I will be back to working out and running and having a germ-free house.  I (don't) love the smell of Lysol.