Getting started with a coupon blog

So...

Why did no one tell me how hard it is to get started with a coupon blog? I save money all the time, and already spend so much time scouring the internet for deals that make sense and that I can use, as well as clipping coupons, and organizing my coupon binder....not to mention all the times I hear "mama" in any given day/night! Plus, I work a full-time job. Yeah...this is gonna be fun! I didn't want to spend time with my monsters anyway right? But, needs must when the devil drives.

So, my adventure today started with trying to get AdSense set up on my blog. Apparently I don't have enough "content" on my blog for them to allow me to have any ads on here. So, now to add to my very long list of things to do, I've got to find a way to talk more on my blog. Have I mentioned that I'm the queen of the run on sentence? If not, I probably should have. Bless you for reading this far! Now, I'm trying to get affiliates set up so that if by chance someone happens by my blog, they will maybe click on a link that might help me feed the three horses who are currently masquerading as my children.

Allow me to tell you a little more about those horses. My 13 year old is quickly becoming the bane of my existence. Don't get me wrong, I love the child more than life itself, but if the attitude doesn't stop, one of us may not make it to 2012! I'm the horrible mom who moved him away from the girlfriend he couldn't live without to sunny Jacksonville FL (Hello? Beach? Girls in bikinis? Nope, not good enough for my kid...he wants to be back in the mountains with everyone bundled up for winter) So after that experience went all to pieces with his attitude and the problems we kept having, we moved closer to home and closer to family. Did that make him happy? He's now only 90 minutes from the girl he spent all his time talking to in Florida. Nope...once again, I screwed it up. Now they've broken up, she's dating someone else, and he spends all his time on facebook trying to "win her back" in between yelling at everyone who comes within 50ft of him and anyone who is married to me and is his stepfather.

My 11 year old used to be Mr. Sunny, always happy, always friendly, and the social director of the town. Now, all I hear is "freaking" this and "motherfreaker" that...I swear I'm going to lose my mind. The attitude of the 13 year old is definitely rubbing off on that one! And the poor middle child...boy does he act like it! If he isn't getting beat on by the older brother, he's the one doing the beating on the younger one, which then makes the older one beat on him even more. He is getting more into clubs at school though, he's recently joined cooking club and homework club, and now wants to join Shag Dancing after school. He is also my little couponer. He watches Extreme Couponing OnDemand since he's not awake when it comes on, and helps find and clip coupons with me. He also loves going to the store and helping with the haul. He's the first to tell everyone what we got and how much we saved.

My 6 year old is definitely "Mommy's Boy". He'd still be attached at the hip if he could be. He spends all weekend telling me how much he missed me the prior week at work and all he talks about is "Mommy and him time". However, if he doesn't have one of his brothers to play with, he is not happy! He idolizes the oldest one, and frequently tells how mean the middle one is to him. Poor baby. He was supposed to be my girl, and still says that if I really want one, he'll put on a dress and be my little girl. So cute. He is in Kindergarten which makes me feel really old, although, nowhere near as old as having an 8th grader makes me feel!

This feels like kind of an abrupt ending, but I do have to get back to coding the website at work...a Website Administrators work is never done...then I get to go home and work on actually doing my own website, although The Pixelista's design is pretty cool!