Robyn's Nest Scrabble Earrings Giveaway!

Drea @ DE REVIEWS is having a contest to win a pair of scrabble earrings from Robyn's Nest. My dtr thinks these are so cool. I'm entering for her! Take a look for yourself HERE!

Love this song!

How totally crazy I feel, but I know I'm not the only one...I love this song! It is sooo catchy! And...how ironic is it that that voice is coming from this girl??? She kinda reminds me of Lisa Loeb on the soundtrack from REALITY BITES. One of my fave 90's movies! *psst...if you want to watch the video, scroll down and pause my playlist, or you'll be hearing the song with "echo"!

A mess of toys...New Vaccuum...SATEE'S!

This is what I found when I got out of the shower this morning...2 crazy tots rummaging the toy box...'findin' treasures'...long lost toys that gravitated to the bottom! LOL!


I did get my new vaccuum finally, today. Against the advise of the repair man, I used my old broken one a couple more times, and finally threw it out today. I was told it could light on fire, there was a chance anyway...luckily it didn't. The vaccuum I decided on buying is the Dirt Devil Reaction. I think I'm really gonna like it!

Perks: 4 year warrantee, *lifetime washable hepa filter (lovin' this since my old vaccume had one I had to replace every year at a whopping $30 a pop!), also has an option to add a scented filter into the hepa filter that distributes your choice of scents, it came with 2 apple cinnamon scented ones, I think an unscented one is in it right now. Also, the dirt chamber pulls off, and opens from the bottom to empty! How cool is that? No more messy dust in my face! Also, does not have the cog belt that caused the damage to my other vaccuums brush bar, so the same problem will not happen again with this one!

Today, I also received my SATee's T's! I love them! I got Leah's in pink, DILATORY means 'to cause delay', and she does just that!
Beau's GREGARIOUS mean 'sociable', and, well...ask anyone, he is very much so!
Can't wait to get reactions to these!
I will say, the 4T, which I got for Leah, runs a bit on the small side, and the small boys is kinda long. But, still very cute!

Throwback Thursday

This is me at age of, hmmm, 13 or 14 I think. I used to babysit many neighbors children. This little girl had spina bifida. She could not walk at the age of 2, she did learn to use braces and crutches at 3/4 years old. She was a darling! At this age, I had always planned to have 10 kids! Crazy, I know, but I did end up with 4 of my own, and boy, is that busy, I could never imagine 10!

Recall...Lead Paint Threat

Christmas is quickly approaching, and I have been browsing around, thinking of what each of the kids might like, or want. Leah is so into Dora the Explorer right now, and they just came out with these take-a-long Dora the Explorer playsets, like the Thomas the Tank Engine ones? They are so cute! I would really like to get THIS one for Leah but, the whole lead paint recall keeps resurfacing in my mind. Tons of Dora the Explorer products were recalled recently (none of which we own), then even more...and now there are 5 more Thomas the Tank Engine themed vehicles recalled, and...we have one of them. The Brendham Fishing Dock, cargo car. Luckily, only this one, I sent in 4 last time, and still have not received replacements. This is making shopping for christmas toys/gifts, very hard, the haunting thought that I might be buying and giving to my children something that is covered in lead paint! Maybe it's just time to go back to good old fashioned wooden toys?!
You can go HERE to determine if you might have any of the newly recalled items.

Lovin' it!

In case any of you reading may be wondering, I had Drea from Fina Drea create this amazing blog template for me, I AM SO LOVING IT! She does a great job! If you are enjoying it too, please, leave a comment! ( As MotherBumper stated...NO MORE LURKING WITHOUT COMMENT!) I am hoping that soon, Drea will have a button for any of you that might want to link to me!

If your wondering what 'delurking' means, click on the button below!

Pushing Daisies Premier Tonight!

I am looking forward to the premier of the new show PUSHING DAISIES, not often a TV show catches my attention...
Check it out here!
Basis: If you could bring anyone back to life for 60 seconds, who would it be? AND...what would you ask?
I pose this question to any blog readers...My answer would be, My Grandma Georgia, and my question...Am I doing a good job raising my children? I always wonder this.

Wordless Wednesday~Touchin' a King Crab

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This is a post letting you know this blog is currently under construction! thanks :-)

Drea

Funny things...

Before they leave my mind forever...

Today we were driving, and Beau started talking, "Mommy, I don't have a heart do I? 'Cause I'm a boy." Me to Beau... "Ofcourse you have a heart, if you didn't have a heart you would not be alive." Beau.."Mommy, does Weah have a heart?" Me..."Yes." Leah..."NO! I DON'T HAVE A HEART, I HAVE FLOWERS!"

We were at McDonalds, in line, and a lady was standing behind us, she had these tall, high heel boots on, a dress. Leah stopped dead in her tracks and hollered out, "OH! MOMMY 'OOK! SHE HAB'S DANCIN' SHOES ON!" The lady just started laughing. I think it kind of embarrassed her!

Random

STRANGE AND UNUSUAL: I usually make coffee in the morning, and drink atleast one cup. Leah, for some odd reason, will come up to me frequently and say..."I want to smell you coppee Mom!" And, she does just that, smells my coffee! What the???

STRESSFUL: I worked all weekend, I took on one extra shift, actually my schedule got all mixed up with my husband having taken vacation early september, thus requesting that I not work so he could go fishing for a couple days, and his Dad had some to visit as well. I love working weekends, it's quieter, for the most part. But, my favorite little man, his blood sugars were skyrocketing off the charts at one moment, and then plummeting the next! I just simply could not pinpoint why! I tried to make sure he did not get a lot of carbs in his meal, but it just didn't seem to make a difference. 1st check 57 WHAT??? Give some OJ, next check 93, OK, 170 at bedtime...snack to get him through the night, and hopefully keep him from bottoming at midnight. Prior night, 516, 558, 589...call MD, get more insulin orders, then what happens? Midnight down 200's, then early am? 56!!! Crazy. One thing that baffles me, is that a nursing home, with so many diabetics to care for, literally, TONS, seems not to serve a diabetic diet. (* To give an idea...normal blood sugars should range an average of 70-110, give or take a little depending upon the person). The thing is, this patient does not necessarily show any symptoms at either end of the spectrum, extremely high or extremely low. This has happened with a few patients. I think we even had some not showing any signs or symptoms as low as 32!! This makes it very scary for the nurses, since we are looking for signs and symptoms, especially with a diabetic patient. If there are none, then unless we have orders for routine blood sugar checks, we won't see a need to check prn (as needed). Hopefully the doctor will work with us to get his insulin orders to where they need to be to keep this from continually happening.

Well, laundry calls, as it always does...

Friday Faves~TV shows

I really don't watch much TV, in fact, I never turn it on, DH does! But, if I remember the night and time...my favorite TV show is SCRUBS!!! I love Dr. Cox, he is awsome! The humor in this show always gets me laughing. I try to get each season on DVD since I usually miss them on TV. I have 1, 2 and 4, searching for season 3!!!



On a side note: We recently watched a newly released movie called KNOCKED UP! I haven't laughed sooo hard in, like...FOREVER! I never watch a movie twice, but we plan to watch this one again, it was that funny!

Our Family

I saw this in a few other blogs, had to do it too!

What's in a name?...INSPIRED

When I was pregnant with my son, I knew deep down, he was a HE! I had no problem finding his name either. It had to be Beau. I chose this name for it's rarity and meaning. Also, our last name being of french origin, I wanted his name to be of the same.

Beau~

from the beautiful mountain, handsome, beautiful

My husband, mind you, would say to me, "No boy cares what his name means!" I beg to differ.
I sing to my son, I love this boy. I tell him what his name means, over and over, he wants to know this, he loves hearing it. He will say, "Mom, sing the handsome song!" This boy could be none other than his namesake. BEAU MICHAEL JOSEPH.


MICHAEL~ who is like God
JOSEPH~God will add, increase,multiply

'I prayed for this child and the Lord has granted me what I asked of HIM' 1 Samuel 1:27


Now, tell me DH, again, that a boy doesn't care what his name means???

SATee's Contest!

Great contest over at DE REVIEWS by Drea & Elizabeth...darling little tee up to win!
Wish I had this idea! I would pick this tee *left* DILATORY meaning TENDING TO CAUSE DELAY...which absolutely depicts my sweet Leah! For her, I must always say I will be somewhere with an extra 1/2 hour added in for the 'just in case' scenario, which always tends to occur!

You can view the entire collection of tee's HERE!

Here we go again...

Gonna be a busy one tonight again! Drew soccer practice 5:30, had to ask another Mom if she could take her since I have to have Grace to her volleyball game 30 minute drive max by 5:45, game is at 6pm, hope it's over by 7:30pm, (they play 3 games actually). My Dad is picking Drew up at 6:30 and bringing her to the volleyball game with him. Thank the Lord for able grandparents!

I spent the day cleaning out and organizing the girls' room! Man, are they pigs! I had no idea it was as messy as it was. I took out 3 garbage bags full of random broken toys, and pure garbage that they neglected to toss out properly! Candy wrappers, crumpled paper, old food...Gross! How it got this bad, I have no idea! But...they will be keeping up my hard work on their own, or I will blow up next time!
Now you can actually SEE the floor!!!

When it rains...it pours!

Just a quick run down...
Had to buy a new camera about 2 months ago, mine broke and repairs ended up totalling $113.00!!!
Bought a whole new set of tires for my van just less than 2 weeks ago, mine were all at the wear bars.
NOW: My vaccum has been making terrible terrible sounds, and I finally took it in to see what the heck was going on. Well, turns out to be some $100+ repair...translation: NEW VACCUME MUST BE PURCHASED. My husband says to me, "Just look on craigslist." WHAT? Sorry, but for me, buying a used vaccume, is like buying used underwear? I just would never do it! I would have no recourse should anything happen to it, and then I'd be right back in the same boat I'm in now. I JUST SIMPLY CANNOT LIVE MY LIFE WITHOUT A VACCUME CLEANER! Actually, being OC, I could never live without a vaccume regardless of having kids or not! Any other mom's to many know what I mean??? Life with toddlers, well, it just requires that you have a vaccume handy in working condition! The cracker crumbs are making my skin crawl as we speak...

As if I didn't already have enough laundry and cleaning to do:

Beau has been having to have multiple bed changes due to completely overflowing and saturating during the night...after so many weeks of being dry all night long!

Leah somehow took the juice pitcher out of the refridgerator and dumped the whole thing upside down onto the living room carpet!!! STICKY STINKY APPLE JUICE IN A PUDDLE ON MY CARPET! AUGGGHH!!! You don't even want to know how angry that made me, finding it as I was rounding them all up to take the girls to practices.

Drew, for some absolutely unkown reason, had an 'accident' last night. ANOTHER LOAD OF LAUNDRY! I do not understand this one, and I hope it doesn't happen again.

Lord, please humble me during this trying time!

My Sweet Leah

Leah has been presenting with somewhat of a cold this past few days. She's not eating much at all, she doesn't even drink much. I have also caught her sucking on her thumb, and fingers many times. I suppose she may be teething. Funny, with my oldest 2 daughters I documented every new tooth until they had a mouth full. But, being so busy just caring for the basic needs of the last 2 babies, I could not tell you when any tooth came in after the 1st or 2nd ones did. And, I could not even tell you how many teeth are in Leah's mouth right now. Sad, I know. She is probably cutting molars I assume. Poor baby. She is very quiet, not too busy, more cuddly, a bit of a fever yesterday, and runny nose.
She will frequently ask for gummy bears and juice, but I have been trying to get her to drink more water. She fights it. But, I figured, ice is just as good, so as she pleaded with me for some juice the other day I told her, "No, but I will give you some ice." Leah: *whining*"I don't want some ice." Mommy: "Sure you do, ice is yummy, dinosaurs eat ice, they go *chomp chomp* and eat it all gone!" Something clicked with her then, and she said, *with excitement*"I want some ice!" I once saw a parent do this with some kids in the child care co-op I worked in during college. They got a whole table of kids to eat broccoli by pretending they were dinosaurs eating trees. Kids are so funny that way. Sometimes, things like this work with Leah too. She ate 3 cups of crushed ice after that. Got some water in her afterall!

Ouchie! & Outrage

Leah took quite the fall tonight when she was helping me water the flowers with her little water can, she tripped and scraped up not one, but both of her little knees! Ouch! She did cry, but not a lot, I quickly got bandaids, and gave her the beloved 'boo boo buddy', which in and of itself would have completely calmed her. Then, Beau kept saying to her over and over, "Honey, are you okay? Are you okay, Honey?" He is such a wonderful brother, they are so close. Unlike Beau, who walks ever so carefully or limps, or hops on one foot for days whenever he injures his leg or foot, Leah acted completely normal the remainder of the evening. She just would not take a bath for fear of her bandaids getting off, or water touching her 'owie'. I wonder how long she will insist on keeping those band aids on?

On another note: Grace completely and utterly infuriated me this evening! I allowed her to stay over at a friends house last night, go to a dance, and then had told her to be home today, not too late. She knows I expect her to call if there are any plans being made. Well...7:20 pm this evening, she finally calls me. Giggly, saying her friends Mom just wanted her to call me to let me know she was okay. Well...that's great, but she wasn't HOME. She proceeded to tell me she would be home tomorrow, 2nd strike, I said ONE NIGHT, NOT TWO NIGHTS! She never called me all day, home or cell, yet proceeded to emphasize upon the fact that she called at 11am, well...I was not home, no messages, no call to my cell. So, in my book, SHE DID NOT CALL. I told her, "If you do not talk to someone, that someone being me or Dad, then you did not call." Then, she kept making all kinds of excuses..."Well, we were riding bikes, we weren't near a phone." Then, you get to a phone, you call BEFORE you bike ride, and YOU CALL ME ON MY CELL PHONE IF THERE IS NO ANSWER AT HOME! NO EXCUSES! I repeatedly have this little problem. I don't think it is a problem with the clarity of my rules, then haven't changed, I expect a phone number to call when I need to get ahold of her, a phone call from her should she be planning something the next day BEFORE NOON, and I expect that if I say ONE NIGHT, then I mean one night. DO NOT ASK TO STAY ANOTHER! Also, be home no later than dinner the next day UNLESS YOU CALL ME AND ASK TO STAY FOR DINNER. She did none of those things this time. It's NOT just about obedience, but safety! So...rules are now:
1. PHONE NUMBER AND ADDRESS FOR FRIEND BEFORE SHE IS ALLOWED TO GO.
2. NEXT DAY IF OVERNIGHT, PHONE CALL OR HOME BY NOON. WHICHEVER COMES FIRST, IF NO PHONE CALL BY NOON, I EXPECT HER HOME BY NOON. IF SHE ISN'T HOME, I'M COMING TO GET HER.
I find her behaviour to be completely and utterly, not only disrespectful, but irresponsible. She is 12, she wants a little more freedom. I understand this, and I am trying my hardest to give it, but when she does things like this, I become so livid, so disgusted, and I just put her right back in her place. She WILL follow the rules, or she will do nothing. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. She's gonna have to learn.
(*I am fully aware there are Mom's that may find this rant ridiculous, you have the right to your own opinion, as well as your own child rearing technique, just as I to mine*)

Random...

Saving my day: I am loving the beat to this song and choreography in the video, 1234 by Feist, check it out!

Random day...pay back for long day yesterday...due to lack of sleep, Leah was rotten, Beau was fiesty, Drew's devil horns were poking out! Leah woke up 4x in the night!!!
Typical day...groceries, laundry, dishes, cooking...cleaning! Hmmm, how did they splatter toothpaste dots ALL OVER the bathroom mirror? MY GUESS: NOT AN ACCIDENT!
Oh, and poop talk...starring Beau Michael Jophes as he proclaims to everyone he meets...

I caught him standing in the bathroom staring at his poop today...I can't even fully remember what he said it looked like, but I was informed that the clouds in the sky today...

get this...

looked like his poop!
WHAT?