3 Years Have Passed---What's new?

So last time I posted was in 2015, a lot has happened. Jumping in:

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    In this past year alone: I have been raising not only my 8 year old daughter but my one year old daughter, moved into a home after renting and staying at in-laws for a small chunk of my marriage and currently am pregnant with my third child--a boy! This year alone has definitely been a whirlwind. I joke that I've feel like I have been pregnant for two years which when you think about comfort, this year hasn't been my best.

     I remember when I was in high school I had this pregnant cat named Tibby and her stomach was like a basketball and I would roll her side to side, which she would meow in discomfort but in my defense it looked funny... and she couldn't do much to me because of her lethargic state. Now, I suppose the universe has finally gotten around to give me payback since that's pretty much how I move around.
SIDE NOTE: Something unfortunate that happened last year: I am no longer the proud owner of a cat, since she was aggressively playful, and we didn't know what to expect from her with a newborn, we decided it would be best if we re-homed her. We gave her up to be readopted but since she was ONLY comfortable around familiar faces, we have no idea if they kept her like they said they would or not. Which it hurts to say, but we are hopeful that she was re-homed because she was family and was a really great companion. Hopefully in the future we get to adopt again when these babies aren't so little and they understand how to properly treat animals.

    I'm on my 7th month and this little guy LOVES laying on my spine and using my stomach, diaphragm and hip bones as his personal punching bag. Braxton Hicks contractions have started this month and this week alone my entire family minus my oldest have gotten sinus infections/colds. Lucky them they get to use antibiotics and western medicine to help relieve their symptoms while this preggo is stuck drinking decaffeinated teas with honey and gargle salt water! Crossing fingers I get well before Thanksgiving, I'm looking forward to seeing family and enjoying my cheat day. Which knowing me I will probably be eating small portions and on the look out for healthy options since that's my thing now. Ugh why does food have to be so freakin' good and unhealthy at the same time!
    Any who, I want to start blogging again, but make it more frequent because my days consists of changing diapers, feedings and snacks, playing with a one year old, learning sign language for babies, ABC songs, lullabies with the occasional drop off and pick ups. I feel blessed to have everything I have but I'm definitely stressing about two babies under two and not enough adult time since my husband took a second job--thanks to surprise baby number three. So my kid meter is through the roof and I could really use an outlet that can put me within view of adult eyes even virtual eyes. So hopefully I hear from some of you soon!!
 

How to Make Extra Cash Online-SWAGBUCKS

Hey everyone,

Hope you all a great Christmas break and Happy New Year!

So for awhile I was contemplating about what I should write next and I thought why not tell the world of this awesome new website that I've been using recently that is a legit site that pays you through gift cards in addition to providing other services for you. So the site is called Swagbucks and to my knowledge it has been up for a long time (since 2008) and is a California based company. So how I got into this amazing website is by just going online looking for Stay at Home jobs for moms that can bring in some extra cash. So when I stumbled upon Swagbucks I was completely skeptic, you hear about all these scams online and I wasn't going just throw myself into a site giving personal information and such when it could possibly be a potential scammer on the other side of the computer. So I looked online and it was praised by a vast amount of people who use it with their proof of free gift cards.

I signed up and tested the waters and it took awhile to understand how the site works that allows to give these mass amounts of gift cards at no charge to you. The way Swagbucks works is name brand companies or survey companies, pay Swagbucks to feature their items for promotional value or to get input from the consumer and in turn Swagbucks gives you virtual currency that when accumilated can be turned into giftcards.

Here are some of the ways you can earn "Swagbucks" :

• Search Engine-while online your probably on google, yahoo, or bing and are searching random topics of interest. Swagbucks has a search engine that if you use several times a day you earn "swagbucks". You won't get "swagbucks" for every search but you do get some for something your already doing.
• The most I've gotten from this is 15 bucks.
• Watch-in this one you can watch videos that will either add up to 3 or 2 "swagbucks". Videos may be from a commercial for a product, a trailer to an upcoming movie, how to, fashion, cooking tips, entertainment. 
• You can go to Watch, Encrave, Swagbucks TV (smartphone app).
• Play video games-Swagbucks has some of thier own games that are a good way to kill time online. The most you can make is I believe 10 a day from this area, don't quote me. You can get two "swagbucks" every other time you play.
• Polling and Answering Surveys- So in the site there is a Daily poll that is worth 1 "swagbuck" and all you have to do is answer that one question. Surveys are on various topics and products and can be on a new product and its packaging and how consumers feel about it or can be about questionnaire on movies you've seen, medicines you've used, insurance, household products...list goes on. In my opinion this is the best way I've made "swagbucks" considering the most I've seen for surveys IF YOU QUALIFY is around 300 "swagbucks". 
• The only downside is if the survey is looking to ask a particular group you won't qualify and all the questions that may have taken a long time to do is for nothing but a measly 1 "swagbuck".
• Shop and coupons-in this one I've not used it yet, but what you do is if you know you are going to shop at Footlocker online, and Swagbucks has a promotion for it, which is for every dollar spent you can earn a certain number of  "swagbucks". Sometimes they will have featured promotions that will give you up to 10 times worth of "swagbucks" for every dollar spent. Also if you print out coupons from the site and it is used during a purchase, when it is redeemed at the store, you can get "swagbucks".  
• For this one I think it's neat and would love to try this because it's stuff you already buy, so why not get a discount and/or virtual money back. 
• Scavenger Hunts- swagcodes can be found on Swagbucks' blog, Facebook page, Twitter, Instagram which basically is a word you find and input in he swagcode box for "swagbucks". Amounts vary.

So I've recently felt the need to redeem some of my earn "swagbucks". The ones that seem to be a better idea for you to get that is less money is the Amazon $5 gift card that is worth 450 "swagbucks" which is a bargain to me since other $5 cards are worth 500.  They do offer other gift cards and sweepstakes for chances to win more "swagbucks" or gift card giveaways.  Some of the other Rewards in gift cards are: Wal-mart, Target, Visa, PayPal, Starbucks, Ebay, Itunes, CVS Pharmacy, Facebook, Gamestop, Burger King, Sephora, Best Buy, Home Depot, and many more. Or if you want to do good there are a lot of places to donate to as well for a good cause. These are the e-mails and confirmations that are pictured below.

Proof of email 

Verifying my order

Amazon proof

Thanks for reading, I hope this helps get you some dinero, this is my referral link, which referrals also help you get "swagbucks" BTW. You can use mine or go into the website yourself, I don't mind.  www.swagbucks.com/refer/fsolis1