Stephanie Roctor

Get 1/2 price drinks and slushes and $0.99 corn dogs during this happy time! Every night from 8pm-close, come in for Sonic Nights and get 1/2 price shakes (made with 100% real ice cream) and $1.49 ice cream cookie sandwiches. When you order ahead on the app, you’ll have access to 1/2 price drinks and slushes all day, every day. You’ll also receive a coupon for a free Medium Slush or Drink to use the first time you order after downloading the app.

And this sampling from the boys’ page: The side ruffles on the girls’ leggings are so chic, and those little lobsters and sharks are too cute! You can use the slider at the top of each page to change the price range you’re looking for. If you go up to the $8-10 range on these pages, you can snag jeans and joggers for half off regular price! Shipping is free on orders of $50 or more, or $7 flat rate for all other orders.

Birthday season is in full swing and I love planning birthday parties for my kids! I personally like doing early morning parties, around 10am because I can have some snacks out for the kids but not a full lunch or dinner. I like coming up with a general theme for the party with my child (think superhero vs. Captain America or winter princesses vs. Frozen etc). If your child is pretty young or doesn’t have an opinion, I like to do a color themed party so that I can use any leftovers for future parties!

So far this year, I have taken advantage of strawberry picking at a local PYO farm for making strawberry jam, the $1.99/pint blueberry deal at Whole Foods for blueberry jam, and recently our local farmer’s market has had fresh peaches for $.77/lb More importantly, you can now scale your recipe based on the amount of fruit that you have using as little as 1 1/3 cups of prepared fruits, all the way up to 14 2/3 cups of prepared fruit if you are using an entire jar of pectin! The package recommends not exceeding 10 jars per batch (about 7 1/3 cups of fruit) however, once you become more comfortable with jam making, you can successfully scale all the way up to the larger batch sizes because you will become familiar with the consistency that jam becomes when it is ready to go into the jars. While you can reduce the amount of sugar in the recipes and there are recipes that use sugar substitutes, such as Splenda, the best and most consistent results come from using Classic Pectin and sugar.