Scholastic Books Warehouse Sales!

Scholastic Books Warehouse Sales!  Have you heard of these???  I hadn't until I read about it on the blog...  mylitter.com (ok, I LOVE the article she has on the babydoll bed she made - ADORABLE).  ANYWAY....  back to the Scholastic Warehouse Sale.  If you click on the link above you can enter your address to see if a warehouse sale is coming up in an area near you.  Here in Energyville (aka Houston), there's a bunch of sales coming up around the city and suburbs.  Can't wait to go to the big sale actually at one of their warehouses. 

Here's some additional info from their website...

Additional Warehouse Sale Info

• Take an extra 50% off permanently reduced red tag items!
• Maximize Title I funding and purchase order dollars.
• Hundreds of items $2.00 or less.
• Great way to refresh school, home, and classroom libraries!
• Save more with Build-a-BOX!* Fill a box with books from a specially selected collection. Pay only $24.95 plus tax for each box you build.
• Preferred payment methods: credit cards, checks, purchase orders, and Scholastic Dollars. Note: Items purchased with Scholastic Dollars do not qualify for further discount pricing and will sell at the full cover price.

*Participating locations only. While supplies last. Locations participating in Build-a-BOX are identified with a symbol.

Things Toddlers Say

As we were leaving the house one day, my little girl yelled out the car window, "Bye bye ants!"

Weeee! It's Freeee!

Are you headed to our neck of the woods this year? Whahere's that youin's ask? Houston folks! And lookin' to save some dough? Well then check out this link for FREE admission to different museums in the Houston area...

http://houstonmuseumdistrict.org/free-admission-times/

woot woot!

Mom-isms

You know, those things you never thought you'd be saying but years later here you are spouting these nuggets of wisdom...

No, no! Don't lick each other! Don't lick the stroller! Don't lick the wall!

Arrrgh! Do they make Purell for tongues???

Review: Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch

Last week, we went on a wonderful family vacation to San Antonio!  It was so much fun!!!  On our first day we stopped on the northside of S.A. to visit the Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch.  IT WAS GREAT!

We got there about 1 hour before the entrance gate closing time and paid as we drove up.  Note that sometimes discount coupons can be found on their website.  The ones we found were $2 off per person.  Admission also gets you one bag of feed per car. 

You can opt to purchase more feed bags(we got two more) and also the small booklet with information about the park and the different animals in the different parts of the drivethrough and other enclosures.  We got the booklet mainly for our 4 year old who loves animals and enjoys learning about them.  He used it almost the entire time and would point to the pictures when we saw the animals along the drivethrough routes.  Eventually, I was relagated to be the official "animal finder" and handed the catalogue so my kids could do more important things like throw feed out the window and oooh and ahhh over the unique creatures. 

The catalogue also had information on the several endangered animals in breeding programs at the ranch such as the white rino and the Bactrian camels.  WOW!  When I first found out the price of admission it seemed a little high to me, but when I found out all the conservation things they are doing at this wildlife ranch I was more than happy to pay to contribute to their efforts!

Let's see, other things to see and do at the ranch include visiting the cafe, the gift shop, the walkabout, and the "petting barn".  We LOVED the petting barn which was a giant metal barn with pygmy goats.  My kids(who are toddlers and one preK) thought these were great because the goats weren't too big to overwhelm them.  The walkabout included monkeys, macaws, chickens, and other animals but my favorite were the lemurs on their own little island.  The coolest thing though was seeing the BABIES (yes teensy tiny little lemurs)!!!  Oh, my, how adorable!

So would I recommend the Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch?  Oh, yes!!!  It is great!!!!!

Things Toddlers Say

Tonight during prayer time, my little girl said, "Thank you for my toys and wall and food and pillows and bed and God and Daddy and brothers and Mommy and ..."

Late Term Abortions

I don't really understand these.  Although I don't agree, I can see where someone could convince themselves that before so many weeks in pregnancy that a baby could be called something other than a baby.  But when a baby is especially past the 23rd week...  how can they think  that what they are chosing is anything other than murder?  How can the doctor's that have recited the hippocratic oath still preform this surgical procedure to end a life?  I just don't get it.