"The Christmas Card" movie with Family Activity

Good Morning all,  Hope everyone is having a great holiday break.  Here's another one of my favourite Christmas movies.  It's called  "The Christmas Card" and the story is about a soldier in Afghanistan who gets a lovely card from a woman in Nevada City, California.  He's intrigued, so when he returns stateside he wants to meet the woman who wrote the beautiful card.  It's about his time with her and her family and how they fall in love all of because of a Christmas Card.  It's an excellent story and one for the whole family to enjoy.  The activity I have in mind is one where we show support for our military personnel.  They are in need of particular items that many of us  who coupon have in our stockpiles.  So why not send some of those items to them for Christmas.  Here are two organizations who help the troops and what they need.

                                                       SupportRSoldiers.org

I've just listed items that were in bold from the list given to me you can check online for others.  They need to be small to medium items for carrying in a military backpack.

Shaving Cream

Body Wash

Deodorant

Instant Coffee Only

Fruit (plastic or pull top cans)

Tuna/Chicken Foil Pack or pull top can

Nuts and Sunflower Seeds (small)

Gum

AA/AAA Batteries for Cameras

This is another organizations want list and their address at the end. 

 men's shaving cream

 mouth wash

 tooth paste

 floss

 tooth brushes

 men's soap / body wash

 men's razors

 shampoo

Or any snack food or single serve drink packs ( hot cocoa , Lipton tea etc. ) 

All items can be sent to

Coups for troops c/o Heather Meagher

12907 Gordons haven

San Antonio, TX 78253

Another lovely activity for you and your family to do is show support for the local first responders in your area.  This can be done for Thanksgiving or Christmas.  Bring a food item to those who have to work on the holidays i.e. Hospital ER Staff, Police Station Personnel and Fire Dept. Staff.   Just a little something to show our appreciation for what they do.  Make a little gift basket and put cookies and things in it.  Hope every ones Holiday is a good one.  I will not be posting on Wednesday or Friday this week because of the holidays.  

                                                               

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Saved 58% At Save Mart

Good Afternoon all, Here's that grocery shopping trip I promised I would post.  They had some very good deals at Save mart.  If you have a Save Mart near you check it out.  They have 2 day specials going on today and tomorrow.  So here you go.  Also not posting cookies today.  Kyle wants to do his recipe and it needs tweeking.  He comes up with unusual recipes and some not so edible like his puffer fish pizza.  So I'm working on his cookie recipe and will post if it turns out okay.

4-2 liter Pepsi products on sales for $.78 when you buy 4

C & H granulated sugar 4 lbs on sale for $.99 used coupon

2 Rice Krispies Treats 2/$4 used coupon

2 cans Libby's pumpkin puree

2 Martinelli's sparkling cider

1 Wheat Thins on sale $1.88

2 Tropicana Juice 

1 Cartons Dozen Eggs free when you buy the juice

10 lb bag potato's  on sale $.99

B1G1F Driscolls berries

B1G1F Fresh Express Salads

3 packages banquet sausages

Before sales/coupons/discounts    $74.57                          O.O.P.   $31.05

Saved $43.52    That's a savings of    58%

Small Trip to Walgreens

Good Morning all,  I know its been awhile since I've posted a shopping trip.  I'm trying to get back on track after people and pets having health issues.  Plus the key to a good shopping trip is getting and organizing your coupons. Still working on this one even bribing the kids to help.  Quick questions what is the best way to save on ink for printer give some clues please.  I've run out of ink for the printer again.  Would love some comments and feedback.  So here's what I got not to bad.

Maxwell house  on sale for  $2.99     with a savings of  $2.50

2 packages of Nabisco chips ahoy for $5 use 2 $1/1  plus sale savings $3.98

1 package of kings Hawaiian sweet rolls at $2.99 used store coupon $.50

2 cans butterball chicken broth 2/$1  used coupon saved $.98

2 can hunts tomato sauce 2/$1 used coupon saved $.98

nice mince onion bottle $.79  used coupon save $1.10

2 circus peanuts 2 @$.99 each

1 bottle Dr pepper ten $1.79

Total O.O.P.  $15.59                      Saved $12.04  savings of    44%

Will also be hitting Save mart some great deals for Thanksgiving Dinner.  So come back and check it out.  Have a new comment box, so please send some comments would love your feedback.

Frankie's Corner--Where's that Bird Ma?

                                                 Lights, Camera, Action!

                                                   
                                                      Oh Lord, She's at it again.

Okay, Where's that Bird Ma? 

Easy Kid Snack Creamy Beefy Bites

Good Morning all, I've been in a creative mood this week.  So I wanted to make a new recipe all my own.  I've been seeing meat filled biscuits and sandwich's all over the place.  I even have a recipe I'm on the hunt for pistolettes filled with craw fish etoufee.  Anybody seen this recipe it's made at a fast food place in Louisiana.   I used to love to get these when I lived there. The boys are off next week so I wanted something that they would eat and would be filling.  So I made these out of the following ingredients

2 cans of Pillsbury biscuit grands

1 lb. ground beef

1/2 cup sour cream

1 oz. cream cheese

onion powder to taste

Brown the ground beef and drain the grease.  Add sour cream and cream cheese.  Heat through until mixed and add onion powder to taste.

Take ungreased cookie sheet.  Take biscuit and open in half. Put on pan.  Place tablespoon of meat on biscuit and seal using a fork around the edges.  Heat at 350 for 15-17 minutes flipping once.  I used buttermilk biscuit you can use regular but it still taste good.

Frugal Thanksgiving Table Display

Good Morning all, Here's little extra post of what I could find for a thanksgiving display.  I encourage everyone don't just look at the department stores. It appears they have jumped over Thanksgiving and went straight to X-mas.  You can find nice things at the vintage shops (shabbylicious has this cute turkey in the window wearing oven mitts) and thrift shops.  Also I did find some stores that have Thanksgiving decorations you can look at this week.  They are World Market, Kohl's and Dollar Tree.  If you got your $10 freebie Kohl's card that comes in the mail check them out for your decorations.  The runner on my table is from Kohl's and only paid $1 after gift card.  Dollar store finds can be glammed up with glitter every things better with glitter.  So here's the pics for some ideas for your self.

Brandy wine the elf came from a craft shop in Kentucky.  The owls and gourds came from dollar tree and I wrote Give Thanks but it got a little messed up.  The cornucopia and turkey trivet came from thrift shop.

All total spent about $2 and used stuff I already had in the house.  You don't have to break the bank to decorate have fun with it.

Note: new recipe on the blog later this morning.

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Recipe for a Perfect X-mas plus crafts for kids

Good Early Morning all,  This is the second movie in the series about x-mas.  Yes, its another Lifetime Channel X-mas movie.  Can you tell I love these movies.  Well this one inspired a crafting experience and the hunt for a little tree, but I digress here.  So lets talk about the movie.  It's called Recipe for a Perfect Christmas.  It's about a woman named who is an assistant to a food critic. The critic goes on maternity leave and it falls to JJ to become the new critic.  This is complicated by the arrival of her crazy and wild mother played by Christine Baranski (she plays it to the hilt).  With the new job jj doesn't have time to deal with her moms shenanigans. So she makes a deal with a young chef who wants a review of his restaurant.  The chef will occupy her mother.  It makes for a lot of  heartwarming fun.  There are also alot of interesting quirks to the movie but I wont spoil it.  So check it out.  It's available at amazon and you can see it on lifetime Nov 21st. at 10 p.m. Here's another fun part.  JJ has this little tree in the movie and I've been wanting one for ages.  So we have been on a hunt and then I saw one at hospice thrift where we could make one. So here's how me made one. You will need the following items:

1 Styrofoam cone-$1 at dollar tree
1-25 pack of green pipe cleaner-$.88 at walmart
1-roll of gold twine-$.50 thrift store
1-odds and ends like miniature ornaments and bells and ribbons-$.50 each bag at thrift store
1-bottle of gold glitter glue-$1 for a pack of three
all total $5

Start from the top of the tree and stick tip of pipe cleaner into tree and wrap around tree. Secure it by sticking other end in tree once wrapped around. Keep adding pipe cleaner and just stick in ends has you go trying not to show any holes.  If you do can cover with ornaments.  When you get to the bottom you will have some white Styrofoam showing take your gold glitter and fill in the white area.  Drape your gold string around the tree like tinsel secure ends with gold glitter glue.  You can glue ornaments on or if they have little wires stick into tree to secure.  I luck out one of the bags had a little pine cone snowman which became my tree topper.  Put the tree on a silver tray I got from a freebie yard sale run and put the presents around the tree and your done.

                                                    Frankie had to get into the act.

So enjoy your little tree along with the movie.

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