On my daughters first day of preschool, the teachers sent home a printout with the words to the Pledge of Allegiance. I was so happy to hear that they were teaching this to our children and that every morning they would be honoring our flag and our country by reciting the Pledge!
My husband has a ‘Man Cold’. If you all are not familiar with what that is here you go:
The Man cold: A man comes down with your average cold virus and acts as if he is on his death bed!
Yep, that’s right he has a stuffy nose, a sore throat, and is probably a little more tired than usual. Except if this happened to any one of us Women, we would go about our day as usual. Cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the kids.
He has gone and bought the entire cold medicine isle from the drug store and is guzzling orange juice (I want to tell him, uh Vitamin C is not going to do much after the fact). I would love to take cold medicine when I’m sick but, unfortunately I have to be coherent enough to take care of a 1 and 3 yr. old!
And the excessive sleeping! He came home from work and is currently sleeping on the couch next to me (it is only 6pm, the kids are in the other room watching a show and they still need bathes and to be put to bed). I want to rip the pillow out from under his head and beat him with it! UGH!
Now my baby is also sick. He has had a fever since Monday, now has a cough, stuffy nose, and isn’t eating…he gets my sympathy. The hubs calls on his way home from work and I tell him how horrible Preston is feeling. Do you know what he says to me? “ya, I feel horrible too. I haven’t felt this bad in a long time. I just can’t break this fever”. Okay, the man DOES NOT have a fever, is not dying, he has a freakin’ cold! GET OVER IT!
A super sweet Valentine’s Day tutu for your little sweetheart…and Too Tutu Cute is giving it away!
Red, Hot Pink, and Rosette Tulle with a special ‘Hugs and Kisses’ bow!
Your little princess will be a bucket of love at her Valentine’s Day party. And don’t worry, if she doesn’t have a party to go to, a picture day or dinner with daddy is a great place to wear this tutu also!
Want to win one for your little Valentine?
Visit host’s Leslie and Theresa this Thursday Night, January 28th for some Girl Chat and our Giveaway:
10:30 ET/7:30 PT
They will be giving away this tutu to one very special viewer during their show so don’t miss it!
So if you all read my last post ‘I wish there was a potty fairy‘ you may have figured out that we are attempting to potty train my almost 2 year old son. Not by choice, but more because I’m tired of having to take him into the bathroom to ‘pretend’ to go potty. After he P**p’d on the bathroom floor that was it…I was going to start.
Today was day 1 and it got off to a rocky start but Sissy serenated him with a ‘big boy underpants’ song that she made up and convinced him to wear his underwear. He spent the first half of the morning Peeing on everything but the potty…the carpet, the couch, the dining room chair, the baby gate, the wall of the bathroom, and even his Sister!
Needless to say, I could not wait for NAP TIME! He slept 2 and a half hours and woke up dry! I couldn’t believe it, but then again after peeing on everything in the house I can’t imagine he had anything left. He was grouchy but I made him sit on the potty anyway and HE DID IT!
After that I couldn’t keep him out of the bathroom…he still had a few accidents but managed to get it in there again once more before the day was over.
Oh, I hope tomorrow goes better than today. Wish us luck!
There’s the tooth fairy, the Easter Bunny, Leprechauns, Cupid…We have made up creatures for everything else so why can’t there be a magical ‘Potty Fairy’ that would come and potty train my children over night?!
P2 has been increasingly aware of the potty and loves to do the whole ‘potty ritual’-that is, go in (after he’s p’d in his diaper), sit on the potty, wipe, flush, and wash his hands. And, this morning it escalated to him having me take off his PJ’s and diaper and he then went into the bathroom and P**p’d on the floor! Ya, gross, I know! But he knew what he had done and he had the right idea. After he’d gone through his ritual of wiping, flushing, and washing I brought him a clean diaper to put on…he said “No Elmo!” (what he’s been calling his diapers for the past month or so when he realized Elmo was on the front of them). He was refusing to put a diaper on, another clear sign that he wants to use the potty.
I took him to the store and let him pick out big boy underpants…This created a whole other debacle since, thanks to his sister, he wanted ‘Dora’ and ‘tinkerbell’ panties! I realized we had a problem when he didn’t even know who ‘Bob the Builder’ and ‘Transformers’ were! But, after about 20 minutes of tough decision making, I finally talked him in too some ‘Diego’ underpants, which he was very happy about. We then moved on the the diaper isle where they had some ‘Diego’ pull-ups as well…perfect, we have a theme!
Well, we get home and try it all out and…Oh, whatdoyaknow…he now wants nothing to do with the potty, his pull-ups, or his underpants! I mention sitting on the potty and he get upset and says, “No, Potty! No, Ego!”
Now we have a problem…he doesn’t want his diapers and he doesn’t want to use the potty! Why do my children do this to me?! HELP!!!!!
You know we’re all thinking it…
I absolutely love anything like this…I think partly because I wish I had the discipline to make myself up like a 50’s housewife everyday and partly because they are all so true! 
Oh, well…for now I guess I’ll just keep collecting them!
Photo from: boomerangguesthouse.com
There is something I have to fill you all in on, and you’ll most likely think I’m nuts after reading this but…
I have a problem, and it is making it really hard to get the laundry done. You see, I am completely OCD when it comes to detergent, stain removal, color sorting, and temperature settings. I have even been known to only wash 1 thing in a load!
I know you all are thinking, ‘huh?’…and ‘what a waste of water, time, energy, etc.’ But I seriously can’t help it! In my house there isn’t just darks, lights, and whites. I literally have like 20 different types of loads…seriously…this is a glimpse into my laundry room:
First of all, I am completely addicted to Tide with Bleach! It has to be ‘with bleach’ or I swear it doesn’t make your whites as bright…and I prefer the Mountain Spring scent but either they don’t make it anymore or hardly any stores carry it ‘with bleach’. But my brand loyalty isn’t even the half of it.
For stain removal I use Spray n’ Wash on EVERYTHING and I am completely addicted to the bleach pen! I actually prefer my kids to wear white because I can bleach the crap out of their garments to get rid of those ‘kid’ stains…I HATE Stains. Finding a stain on an article of clothing can seriously ruin my day!
I wash EVERYTHING in cold water except for towels and socks (those are just gross and you need the hot water to kill all the germs) because I have a serious fear of clothes shrinking (most likely due to the fact that I’m 5′ 10′ and have a hard time finding things long enough in my size in the first place). And I almost ALWAYS use the delicate cycle, with lots of items going into a garment bag-I hate it when you unintentionally ruin something by sticking it into the washer when it should have been washed by hand.
Now, let’s move onto the drying cycle. Which takes forever to complete because I use the lowest heat setting and time setting possible to dry things just until they are dry, not over dry…again, with the fear of shrinking clothing! And my jeans, well, those I ‘damp dry’…which is stick them in the dryer with no heat until they are slightly damp and then I hang them to finish.
And the sorting, OH the Sorting! Here are my groups:
White bath towels/socks
colored towels or blankets (these are also put into individual color groups)
dish rags/cleaning rags
jeans/denim/greys
all-white clothing
white clothing with light colored designs
white clothing with bright/dark colored designs
light pinks
hot pinks
Reds
Oranges/Yellows
lime greens
dark greens
olive greens/browns
khaki’s/tans/beige
navy blue/dark purple
powder blue/lavender
turquoise
black
Okay so maybe there’s only like 19 different groups, but still…and on top of all of that, all the socks have to be turned right side out and anything with a screen print design has to be turned inside out!
Now, this is totally an inherited disease…my mother is the same way…but aside from that, does any one else have this problem?
This isn’t a new recipe that I’ve tried, it is actually one of my own and it is a Family Favorite! Chilli is perfect served with some cornbread on a cold day, and even more important it’s super easy and only takes up one pot!
1 lb. ground beef
1/2 onion, finely chopped
3 cans pinto beans
1 can dark red kidney beans
1 can light red kidney beans
1 can black beans
2 cans tomato sauce
1 can tomato paste, with 1/2 can of water
1/2 tsp. red pepper
1/8 tsp. white pepper
1 1/4 tsp. garlic salt
3/4 tsp. onion powder
1 1/2 tsp. chilli powder
3/4 tsp. cumin
1/8 tsp. cinnamon
salt/pepper
Start by browning the meat in a large pot. Add onions about halfway through and continue to cook until hamburger is completely browned and the onion is soft. Drain the meat. Add Beans (lightly drained), tomato sauce, tomato paste, water, and spices. Cook on low to med-low for about an hour, stirring occasionally.
This Chilli isn’t super spicy because I make it so that my kids can eat it too. And I know some of you are probably thinking ‘cinnamon, really?’ but in the words of Yo Gabba Gabba “Try it, You’ll like it!”
Sweethearts for Soldiers is a federally recognized, not for profit agency that supports our men and women in uniform. The organization was co-founded by a friend of mine a few years ago and has grown an incredible amount since then.
Each year the Sweethearts put out a calendar, do fundraisers, perform and sign autographs for our Military at home and abroad. They do events locally and have also traveled overseas to give their support. Oh, and did I mention that the Sweethearts are made up of former NFL CHEERLEADERS?!
The Sweethearts are currently looking for donations of Spa/Beauty items for a Valentine’s Day giveaway they will be holding for Women in Uniform!
Please check out their web page and donate if possible. It is an outstanding organization!
www.sweetheartsforsoldiers.org
They also have a facebook fan page. Click here to become a fan today!
Monday I went to Michael’s, a craft store, and bought 2 spools of ribbon that I needed for a Valentine’s Tutu. Well, by the time I got home and was looking for the ribbon, I could not find it anywhere! I looked in the car, the trunk, my purse, every room in the house; NO Ribbon’s! The only thing that I can think of is that I left them in the shopping cart, in the parking lot of the store.
I know, I know, total blonde move! But when loading my 35 lb. 21 month old into the car and remembering to put my purse in, get my keys out, and find somewhere to put the shopping cart, I tend to lose my mind. Obviously!
Anyway, I went back to the same store today with the intention of purchasing replacement ribbons for the ones that I had lost. Just in case, I thought I’d ask if anyone had found a bag with them in it and taken them back into the store.
The clerk asked “You don’t happen to have the receipt do you?” Normally I wouldn’t, I always have them just put it in the bag, but since I was purchasing for my business I had stuck the receipt in my wallet. I told her that I did, indeed have my receipt and she said “Great! Go ahead and go get the ribbons that you need.”
Just like that. I could not believe it…no questions asked!
I must give a big thank you to Michael’s, one store that is still hiring kind, friendly, quality employees!
