Monthly Archives: December 2011

Paid to Use Harris Teeter Express Lane

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One of the reasons that I like Harris Teeter as a whole is that they are really focused on customer service. I have had only one bad experience with them, and the good one make up the difference. I have said in the past and will say again, “if ” they would ever get “Express Lane Order” straight it would be a great thing.  I knew we would be in Winston on Thursday so I took about an hour on Wednesday night to assemble and place our order to be picked up on Thursday.  A big advantage this week was that they waiving the $4.95 fee.  After hitting all our stops in record time, we headed to Harris Teeter. I knew that we were mostly likely going to have a wait when there was a car in front of us, using the Express Lane. We ended up waiting around 20 minutes to get our order after the car in front of us finished. I am still not sure what happened to our order to start with but that seem to take longer than usual as well. Next, after bring the groceries to the car, I realized he had not subtracted my coupons from the previous trip.  When planning this trip, my estimate was that we would end up paying around $10 and I have 15 in coupons to use for the next order. But something even better happened, they ended up charging $23.83 on our debit card, handing us back $25.02 and I have $15 in coupons for the next order. I do know that we received $5 for waiting the 20 minute but as for the rest of the math, I still have not figured it out.  We ended up being paid to take groceries home!

Lily’s Birthday Celebrated

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Birthday’s are a big deal around here even if we get to celebrate one at least every other month! This year instead of a big or small party we decided to take Lily, the whole family and her best friend to see Disney on Ice. Our biggest tradition is that the celebrator gets to pick the dinner restaurant. So Lily chose Olive Garden. We were meet at the restaurant by our friends the Pierces. Then of course the plans changed and Nancy, the mom, went to Disney on Ice  with us while Haley went home with Andrea and of course to youth group. The pictures above are from the restaurant and I will post more from Disney on Ice     Just for the record, I was able to get awesome seats at a discounted rate simply by ordering in a group of 8!

OH the Things You Hear

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I decided this year to scale back on my Christmas decorations. But one of the few items that we brought down from the attic was the Fisher Price Little People Nativity Scene. This was a gift from several years ago that I absolute love and the kids have been playing with for several days now. However this gift comes with one problem….things that are said that you should really never hear at Christmas.

“Take Baby Jesus out of your mouth.”
“No Baby Jesus can not slide down the stable roof”
“Why are you putting Baby Jesus in time out?”
“A camel does not say woof, but that is okay just this year”
“Please share the donkeys with your sisters, you don’t need both the Baby and the donkeys.”
“Leave Baby Jesus alone and go watch TV while I get dressed.”
“Why is the cow sitting on top of the stable?”
“Yes, I realize that the cow plays music out of it’s butt when you sit it there.”
“No, I won’t make Zach give you the baby Jesus because you are a girl” or the alternative is “Zach give baby Jesus back to your sister, she was playing with it first.”

I really wish I could put a disclaimer here saying at least one of the above has not been said this year but instead I will add that after repeating the above statements at least 6 times, I am beginning to wonder if this was such a good idea!

This morning as I went in our bathroom, I had to add these

“Please don’t give Baby Jesus a bath in toliet.”
“Why oh WHY are all these people in the bathroom with me?”