Introduction

Usually I'm up on all the new online trendiness........I have an ebay account, a myspace and I google until my heart's content, but for some reason I just didn't have the desire to join the blogging "cult". I guess I just haven't embraced the whole "share your thoughts and feelings with the whole world"thing. However, due to the subtle persistance of my mom, I thought I'd give it a try. I really am full of good ideas and like to share my opinion with whomever will listen to me, even if it is just my 2 year old!

Let's see, a little about me. I am almost 29 and my husband and I have 6 kids who keep us REALLY busy! The range in age between 2 and 14, the three oldest are my stepchildren, but they live with us so I'm pretty much their primary care giver. I run a small Ebay business, I go to school online, I'm taking over as the MOPS coordinator for my MOPS group, team mom for 2 soccer teams, on the PTA at the elementary school and I spend my spare time cooking and cleaning and running my kids all over town! My husband is in the army so we move a lot. We just moved to Alaska about 2 months ago and we are hoping to be here for at least 6 years so our kids can have some stability.

I do a ton of couponing, rebating and I'm just really good at finding a good deal! I love to pass along my finds and tips to my friends and family, as well as the lady standing in line in front of me at the grocery store if she'll listen! People are always telling me that I need to write a book. I honestly don't think I have enough information to write a book, but I think it would be great to start blogging about my finds and deals as well as tips and ideas for raising a large family. There seems to be some blogs and information for large families, but most of the time they are homeschooling families who's children are not involved in a lot of school, extracuricular or sport activities that require practice several nights a week, so their schedules and expectations are not realistic for my family or other families who have very busy schedules.

So I plan to get on here every couple of days, maybe everyday and share "my thoughts and feelings" with the whole world!