Why is College so expensive?

As most of you know, my husband just graduated from school! He finished his Masters and we are soooo happy that he did. What I wish that we would have know about back then is that he could have gotten cheaper text books from campusbookrentals.com!
Why didn't we know about this before?!
You think they will still be around in about 16 years when we're sending Chloe off to college? One can only hope, right?
Anyways.....

Campus Book Rental is this great organization in which they offer cheaper text books
- How about saving 40-90% off bookstore prices?! Are you kidding me?! Yes, please!!
- They offer free shipping to you, and also when you send them back! Heck yea, man! Shipping can be expensive!
- You can highlight in the text books!!! And they won't charge you, or refuse to take them back!
- They have very flexible renting periods!
- And one of the best things I found, is they donate to Operation Smile with every text book rental!

Operation Smile is an international children's medical charity that heals children's smiles. They are a mobilized force of medical professionals and caring hearts who provide safe, effective reconstructive surgery and related medical care for children born with facial deformities such as cleft lip and cleft palate.

Every three minutes a child is born with a cleft. One in 10 of those children will die before their first birthday. The children who survive are often unable to eat, speak, socialize or smile. And in too many cases, their parents can't afford to give them the surgeries they need to live a productive life.

Every child deserves a future filled with hope. That's where we come in as the largest volunteer-based medical charity providing free cleft surgeries. Since 1982, Operation Smile, through the help of dedicated medical volunteers has provided more than 3.5 million comprehensive patient evaluations and over 200,000 free surgeries for children and young adults born with facial deformities.

Amazing charity, right? 

So, next time you have to rent text books, please remember to use campusbookrentals.com!

And, after you've finished with the textbooks that you have paid all that money for because you didn't get them through campusbookrentals.com (come on....why didn't you listen?) You need to rent them out and get PAID! rentback.com. 

Here's the skinny - 

1. Go to rentback.com and find your books.

2. Ship your books to rentback.com.

3. rentback.com makes your book(s) available for other people to rent them.

4. Your books get rented, and you get paid!

5. Your books get sent back to rentback.com and become available for the next renter.

6. You get paid again and again and again, as long as your books are in demand and being rented!

SO WHAT! Wednesday!

This week I'm saying SO WHAT! If:

• I have an obsession with meal planning....I literally get a high from having dinner written down in my planner like 2-3 weeks out.
• I'm sitting in the dark, TV paused writing this right now while hubs puts Chloe down to bed....and I'm really enjoying just listening to the keyboard keys clicking.
• I can't wait to place my Scentsy order at the end of the month so I can try the new Spring/Summer scents! Who wants some?!
• I'm never actually hungry after I eat dinner, but nights when I know I can't eat....like tonight, because I have a physical tomorrow and I have to fast, yea...I'm starving right now. WHY?!?!
• We have an orange bathroom, and I love it.
• Chloe's room will be pink and white with black trim! I cannot wait! Next on the list to buy for her room will be a zebra lamp, and a name decal for her wall.
• I always say that I'm going to use coupons when I go grocery shopping...but I still haven't.
• Hubs kept Chloe home from school on Monday because she had a really bad diaper rash and cried to him that she didn't want to go to school because her butt hurt...lol! What a good daddy!
• We're going to try potty training cold turkey at school next week.....jumping right in, head first! Teachers said that they have had good luck with it doing it this way, so we're going to try it! Most of the kids in Chloe's class are wearing undies to school now, so it's time!
• Chloe stays dry when she's in a diaper and knows that she needs to potty, but when we put undies on her, she pees AND poops....I think she does it on purpose. Just to mess with me.
• I'm starting to think about what I can get Chloe to wear on her birthday! Must be something good with tulle from Etsy, I think! Yep!

Alright, that's all for me! Head over to Shannon's page and tell us what you're saying SO WHAT! to this week....

And wish me luck that I make it without coffee till my Physical is done today. Appt is at 8:30 :-( I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to get a Venti from Starbucks on my way back into work :-/

Seed Florida Vacation 2013

I know it's like almost a month later....but things have been happening around here. We've been living life. We've been painting and renovating, cleaning and getting this house in the shape we want it to be in after almost living here for a year.
So....here they are. These are the phone pictures that I took....I still haven't put the real camera pics on the computer yet, so that post will be another day.

Traffic driving through Tennessee.

Some Selfies for the toddler's sanity.

Out of the carseat! FINALLY!!!!

WHAT?! You're going to let me eat dinner in BED?!?!

Made it to the Sunshine State!

We promised her a beach, and a beach we delivered...only took us 2 days :-)

She loved Florida!

First day in the sun felt SOOOO good!

Hey hey!! Got me some tan lines!

 Pictures I was sending to the girls at work!

Florida sun was treating her real good!

I was looking and feeling really good about myself that day!

Drinking coffee on the beach, wish I could do that EVERY day of my life!

Best drink EVER!

And again....

No tub in the rental house means we bathed in the sink!

Home, back in cold MI....grrrrrr!!!!!!

Fresh paint makes all the difference!

Dining Room:

Before

During

After

Downstairs Bathroom:

Before

After

After

Next on the list to do is the Family Room and Chloe's room.....as soon as those get started, I'll post them!

SO WHAT! Wednesday!

This week I'm saying SO WHAT! If:

• It took me a whole week to get back to eating right and healthy enough to lose a little bit of my vacation weight. Yes, I only gained 3 lbs, but I know it's going to take me at least a month to lose it...
• I'm loving the fact that I can now ask (demand) the hubs to take Chloe up to bed now that he doesn't have homework to do all the time....oh I love that he's done with school!!!
• I'm desperate for some orders, so here it goes. Guys, As you know, I sell Scentsy, and I have to make a goal of $150 a month now, and if I don't within 3 months, I'm cancelled on the 1st of the 4th month....so, please! If you need/want ANYTHING Scentsy, I'm your girl!!! www.cseed.scentsy.us
• Chloe's 2.5 years old, and she's JUST now starting to like to eat what Mommy and Daddy eat for dinner. Thank you sweet Jesus!!
• Our downstairs bathroom is now orange, and I'm in love with it!
• I'm feverishly scouring Pinterest now because I'm in major home reno mood!!!! I want to change and fix EVERYTHING!
• I can't wait to get Chloe's room painted....and get stuff decorated! I'm going to make it her Big Girl room and it's going to look so good!
• Chloe shit on the floor last Friday. Yep, I said it.
• Chloe's been off and on with potty training.....it's annoying, but we have our successful days, so it's ok.

Head on over to Shannon's page and tell us what you are saying SO WHAT! to this week!