Heading to Disney.... Only 3 days left!!!!

My kids can hardly believe it, it's almost here....
They've been counting down for months....

Yep, we're heading to Disney World in Florida!
It will be a week of firsts...

They're SOOOOO Excited, we're all so excited!
We leave Thursday afternoon and return the next Friday night late!

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So where are we visiting? How are we getting there.
Where are we staying.
I'll try and write another post tomorrow to fill ya in...
gotta go for now...

We've been sick since Thursday... fever, chest congestion, cough, ect.
Well we're better now, BUT now my 4 and 8 yr. olds
have WAY toooooo much energy!

My new nephew!!!

Our new nephew was born this week!
Welcome Alexander James!

He has beautiful hair.
Such a cute baby!

Congrats Aaron and Shannon!
Thanks for the photos Debbie, of course I forgot my camera...
Yeah, how can you go see a new baby and forget your camera?!?!?!? Only me!

Tassimo Coffee Brewer Winner!!!!!

And the Lucky Winner is......

#198
Missa (sweetmissa@)
CONGRATULATIONS on winning
the Tassimo T20 Coffee Brewer!!!

Here are your random numbers:

198 

Timestamp: 2011-01-09 20:36:33 UTC

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email me at dailyessentialsanddeals @ gmail. com

Thanks to all who entered!
Have a great week everyone!

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Free Reading Program! And Starfall!!

WOW!!!

Funnix is offering their $249. Reading program for free!
This is from the same author that wrote
"Teach your Child to read in 100 Easy Lessons"!
Since I love that book and this is free, I figured why not give it a try!

You can go here to download it onto your
computer and to read more info!

This will be perfect for my 4 yr. old!
Thanks Money Saving Mom and
My Litter

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BTW -- I just rediscoverd Starfall last night and
introduced it to my 4 yr. old! He wanted to play all morning!
Best of all he can do EVERYTHING by himself including
going to a new alphabet letters and different games!
Check it out here!

Anyone else use a great website that preschoolers
can play and learn things without a lot of help??

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Happy New Year!!!

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Have a Great Weekend and
Happy New Year!!!

Merry Christmas!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Luke 2:11-12
Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you;
he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you:
You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."

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Have a Great Weekend and a
Very Merry Christmas!

Winter Wonderland

This was the kids a couple weeks
ago during our first "real" snow!

Very little new snow this week, but we'll still
have a very white Christmas!!

Easy Chocolate Pretzels!

Cute EASY way to make
chocolate pretzels without dipping them!

Best of all the kids can do most of it!
If they don't eat them all!

Spread regular pretzels on a cookie sheet.
Open Hershey's kisses and put one on each pretzel.

Pop in the oven at 275* for 2-3 minutes (until starting to melt)
Take them out and pop a M&M on top!

Put them in the freezer until hard and then
transfer to container or Ziploc bag!

One more treat
to put on the cookie tray!

Tassimo Coffee Brewer Review and GIVEAWAY!!

Giveaway is now Closed...
I was blessed with the awesome opportunity by the great
people at Bosch to test out one of their
Tassimo T20 Single-Server Brewer.

This brewer is unique because you don't have to know
anything about coffees and how to make them!
The machine does ALL THE WORK!!

You use what they call T Disks, insert them
into the machine and the machine reads
the bar code on the disk and makes exactly what you want!

It can make over 40 varieties of hot and cold drinks including
coffees, lattes, cappuccinos, hot chocolates,
espressos, teas, and crema coffees.

All you ever have to do is fill the water holder, insert the disk,
and push 1 button! It was so EASY!
Oh and I should mention - ZERO CLEANUP!!

The only down side I see is that the T Disks are not
exactly cheap, but that also depends on what you
compare it to. You can see in the picture that
The Tassimo Machine makes Starbucks!

You can even get inserts to change up the color of your
machine!! They sent me a cool red insert!

So how would you like to win one of these
fabulous Tassimo T20 machines?!?!?!?

This Giveaway is open to
US entries only.

To enter you can do one or
all of the following.
(Leave separate comments for each one)

1. Visit Tassimodirect here and tell us
what kind of drink you most want to try!

2. Blog about this giveaway
3. Tweet about the giveaway (can do once per day)
4. Tell your facebook friends to come sign up!
5. Follow my blog (or tell me you do)
6. Subscribe to my blog (or tell me you do)
7. Just for fun - tell us something special
that's going on for Christmas!

Remember to leave one comment for each item you do --
up to 7 comments (or more if you Twitter daily).
Also please don't forget to leave me your email!

This giveaway will end January 7th at 8pm
One winner will be chosen using Random.org!
Good Luck!!!

Disclaimer -- Bosch/Tassimo provided me a new
T20 Machine to try out free of charge!
All opinions are my own.
Thanks Tassimo!

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Get to Meijer for CHEAP Olive Oil!!!

We try to only use olive oil, butter, or coconut oil at
our house. None of which is cheap...
So when I saw that Meijer (yea I still keep an eye on them esp.
when I'm going to be in town anyway!)
had their Pompeian Olive Oil on sale 50% off ($2.99)
stacked with a Mealbox $2. coupon (unlimited prints)
Makes them .99 cents for a 16 oz bottle of
Extra Virgin Olive Oil!
AWESOME!!

And if that's not cheap enough you
can print this coupon and get 1-2 for FREE!!
with the $1./1 MQ
For that price I'll even overlook the plastic bottle (grrr)

I had 1 - $1. MQ and 6 Mealbox coupons
so I paid $5.00 for 6 Olive Oils!!

Also in picture is Campbells Mushroom soup
on sale for .59 use $1./4 MQ printable here.
Total for 8 was $2.72 (.34 each).
I don't use these very much but they're handy in
a few meals I occasionally make!

Oh and the Red Wine Vinegar was on sale for $1.89
use a .50/1 Printable here, doubled made it .89 cents.
I love to use this in one of my chicken marinades!

Not pictured was 2 - 3 packs of yeast
On sale for .99 cents - .40 MQ doubled = .19 cents each!

Total at Meijer was around $9.00
It felt pretty good to use some coupons today!!

If you want to see all of their deals this week
Visit Bargains to Bounty!