Today, I have been catching up on blogs and being lazy. The last few days I haven’t felt my best, but still trying to remain productive.

Yesterday, I ordered Christmas cards from Snapfish. What excited me is their cards are much less expensive than others I have seen and you can order them on premium stationery. To save money this year, I am culling my list.

Bought a couple of Christmas gifts and saved quite a bit by using Coupon cabin. This site is free! Love free!

My decorations will go up on Wednesday since we are not going to be at my house for Thanksgiving. I will be off all day. Can’t wait to put them up!

This year I am responsible for the turkey at Thanksgiving. Over the past few years Abbye, my sister in law, has made an amazing bird. I spoke with her about the specifics and will give it a whirl. For those of you who haven’t bought your Thanksgiving trimmings you may want to check out Food Lions circular. I saved a ton.

Wow! I can’t believe my youngest turned 8 yrs old today. He is the sweetest 8 yr old I know. He gets to celebrate all week because he had football tonight so we couldn’t do our traditional family dinner.

Here are his festivities:

• Waffles for dinner tonight with his brothers, Bryan and me.
• Longhorn steakhouse tomorrow night  with family
• Sunday afternoon skating party with family and friends

It gets confusing as when to give him his gifts. Today he opened a cool hoodie from Papa and Nana, Bryan’s parents.  He opened his gift from my parents while on the phone with my Mom. It was so cool to hear his excitement while she was listening. It was a Wii game he wanted.

When do you give your kids their birthday gifts?