Hide the TV

When we first got our big TV the boys would not leave it alone and were always getting it so dirty. We finally got a wall mount for it to keep it out of reach but they still occasionally get up on the table under it and can reach the TV and get their dirty handprints all over the bottom of it. What I think we need is one of those plasma lifts for flat-screen TVs. They are so cool. You can press a button to get it to hide in a mount or for it to come out, that way when you aren't using it you can just hide it away. Yeah, I think that would help a lot lol. Until the boys figure out how to get it to come out. :)

Birthday Planning

I'm on a bunch of messageboards for ladies who have kids my boys' ages. It's fun to keep up with them and see what all their kids are up to. But I also see how different things are between people. We don't have birthday's for the boys until June and September, but there are some people already planning their kid's next birthday! Now me, I usually have no idea what we are doing for their birthdays until the week before, but some of these ladies are already picking out their kids party invitations and party themes and guest lists and everything! Either I'm just way too simple or they are overdoing it a bit lol.

Cute Dog Tag

I just received this really cool dog tag I ordered from www.quicktrophy.com and it is really neat! I had it made for Jason, because I knew he'd love it. It was so easy to make too. On the site you simply choose the dog tags you want, then customize the color and what you want them to say, it is so easy! Because we are big New England Patriots fans here I had "Go Patriots!" put on it with a little football, and Jason's name (last name blocked out for privacy purposes). He was so excited when I showed it to him. He calls it "My nek-wuss" lol. Quicktrophy has great customer service as well, they contacted me with any info quickly and let me know when the dog tag shipped. I was going to save this for a stocking stuffer for Jason, but I couldn't resist giving it to him right away, I was so excited to get it :D You can find them at www.quicktrophy.com.

Pump It Up

Lately on the news there has been a lot of talk about steroids. There was something about baseball players that use steroids and the recent issue of Marion Jones' having her Olympic medals taken from her after she confessed to using steroids. So that makes me wonder, are ther legal steroids? Or are they the same thing? Are some steroids allowed and some not? Or do some competitions allow them but not sports? Like bodybuilding, obviously there are some of them who must use steroids to reach their unnatural strength. I'm obviously clueless about this.

Ch-ch-ch-chia!

You know what I don't get? Chia pets. When I was little I always secretly wanted one of those grassy animals. I can remember them on commercials ever since I was a little kid. And I think around Christmas they show even more commercials, because, you know, that's on everyone's list. And lately I've been seeing commercials for the herb garden chia pets. Now those do look pretty useful, I could grow a parsley covered lamb on my kitchen windowsill. Hm, well, maybe that wouldn't be a good idea, my cats love to eat plants and I'm sure a flavored one would be quickly devoured lol.

Search Results

So usually once a week or so I check on mybloglog to see what brings people to my blog. I especially love seeing what some people search for, and because I'm just that bored, I'm going to share some of my recent reader's searches with you :D In the last week I've had such things as 'font of sweeney todd' (among other variations of the same), 'North Carolina land for sale', 'nameyourloan', 'birthday letters for someone special', 'things that start with k', ' out for garbage toys - buy - shop - kaufen' (wth?), 'hey! it', 'smoochcom', and '+ tara+ yahoo.com+ hotmail.com+ aol.com in 2007/ 8' (wth? again lol). I'm sure there are more, but that's just the tip of the list. I really don't know what some people were trying to get to that brought them here lol.

Going green

Have you ever thought about the amount of waste we humans create? We have cars that chug down gas that can't be immediately replaces and spew toxic gasses into our atmosphere. Then we use disposable products (yes, I am guilty too lol) like diapers, plastic and styrofoam packaging, all these going into our landfills and just piling up. Many of them take hundreds or even thousands of years to decompose. Food gets wasted all the time. I feel horrible when I clean out my fridge and end up throwing tons of containers of moldy food out. The amount of food my family wastes could feed a whole other family who doesn't have food. For a while we used cloth diapers because they are better for our babies and our environment, but I admit I got lazy and went back to disposables. Nowadays though there are many ways to go green and be eco-friendly. Greenandmore is a company dedicated to making, and using, recycled and eco products. They make stuff like solar powered electronics, bedding made from organic fibers, and furniture made from recycled plastic lumber. They also use only recycled products on site. You can find a lot of information on going green on their website from the US Department of Energy and the EPA. They also have a blog where their staff and the community can share stories about how they are going green. And get 10% off your order from greenandmore by entering GREEN10 at checkout. Go green with Greenandmore.

No diamonds for me!

It's so funny- when I see other women's Christmas wish lists they are nothing like mine. They usually have jewelry like diamond necklaces, pearl earrings, gold bracelets, and stuff like that. But I very rarely wear jewelry and could really care less for that stuff. I'd probably slap my Hubby is he spent money on something like that for me lol. I'd rather have gift cards to places to eat, or WalMart, or for clothing stores. I'm probably the only woman alive who would be disappointed to get diamonds as a gift lol!

Running out of space

I wish we had a real entertainment center for our dvd's and dvd player and satellite receiver and stuff. A stereo cabinet would work perfectly for it. Right now we have a coffee table with drawers and shelves, and it's nice neough, but it is too big and doesn't match our other coffee table and end table. Plus we are getting short on space in here, with the tree in here now. We can't do much in the living room right now cuz we barely have room to walk.

Itty Bitty Living Space

Our kitchen is kind of small. The table is shoved in a corner by the sliding door that goes out to the porch. We'd love to remodel and put in more counter space, but that still leaves the problem of too little table room. What I think we might do is just build an island that has a lower spot to eat and have bar stools to sit at. We like to go to Lowe's and check out their little mock kitchens, we saw a setup we really liked a few weeks ago and want to do something like that in our kitchen eventually.

What does that do?

So my Hubby likes tools, like most men I know, so occasionally I check out tools at the store and online to see if there's some cool gadget he'd like. I thought I knew what the basic tools where, but I came across the term festool and had no idea what it was. I was searching through tools trying to figure out what the heck a "festool" was and what it did. LOL, turns out it's a German brand of power tools and they look pretty cool too.

Go Green

There has been a lot of talk these days about the need to conserve resources and use natural and recycled products. I completely agree. I especially think using recycled products is very helpful. Green and More is also dedicated to the use of recycled and environmental products. They offer eco friendly products like solar powered electronics, bedding made from organic fibers, and furniture made from recycled plastic lumber. They also live what they sell; for example they use only recycled products on site. I think it is very important that companies like this recognize the importance of conserving resources and using all-natural products. Things like that will assure that our natural resources will remain for a good long time. You can find a lot of information on going green on their website from the US Department of Energy and the EPA. They also have a blog where their staff and the community can share stories about how they are going green. Learn more about how you can go green by visiting www.greenandmore.com. And right now they have a special offer. You can get a 10% discount off your entire order by entering the code GREEN10 at checkout. Go green with Green and More.

Silk Flowers

When Hubby and I got married we decided to have silk flowers instead of real flowers because the cost of even wholesale flowers can get very expensive for a wedding. Our Bishop's wife works with silk flowers and so she did ours, all for just $100. And they were gorgeous too. Plus they will never die so I can see my bouquet forever. Yes, I know I can't see them if they are stored in a box in the attic, but if I wanted to see them I could :P

My favorite job

I never knew how hard it would be to manage a household. I have to keep track of what we need, take care of the kids, clean, cook, decorate, etc. Moms have a lots to do. I should have majored in family finance or corporate performance management or business systems or something lol. On the job training can be a real pain lol. But it's the best job ever and I love it and my family.

Home Sweet Home

I'm so glad our house isn't any bigger. Yeah, I know, most people say the opposite lol. But really, i have a hard enough time keeping our 1640sq ft home clean, I don't know how people with luxury homes keep those huge houses clean. Actually I do, they have housekeepers lol. But even if I could afford a huge house with a housekeeper I don't think I would get them. I don't see how I would ever need that much space. I like my comfy little house. It's perfect for our little family.

Working hard

I never liked working outside of the home. Of course my work experience consists of fast food, call centers, and a graveyard shift sorting mail, it's not like it was rocket science or plasma cutting or something, but I still didn't like it. Actually the mail sorting job wasn't too bad. It was good money, mentally easy work, and the people I worked with were great (one was my brother), but the fact that I was pregnant, going to school, had a toddler at home, and it was a graveyard shift standing on my feet for 8 hrs were just too much. I slept about 2 hrs a day for 2.5 months, it was so exhausting and it wasn't good for me to be doing such hard work (on my feet and lifting things for 8 hrs) while pregnant. Anyway, so I'm glad I get to work at home now. Sure having 2 extra babies every weekday is tiring, but I definitely prefer it over the fast food job I had before it.

Wedding Ring

After Hubby and I got engaged we went shopping for wedding rings together. It was a lot of fun and it made sure we liked what we got to wear for the rest of our lives. It is so much easier picking out guy rings though. There were so many pretty wedding rings that I had a hard time choosing mine, but once I saw it I knew it was the one. Hubby's is a simple band, and I had it engraved on the inside "Today, Tomorrow, Forever". I really need to have my ring resized though, it is always falling off. Even when I was pregnant my fingers never got swollen, it was actually looser, I almost lost it a few times. So one of these days I need to take it in to get it resized about 1/2 size.

Housing

I think it's so interesting to see how much houses cost in different parts of the country. Some parts of the country have cheaper real estate, some are about the same as here like Wilmington NC real estate, and some are way way way more expensive, like in New York and California. I don't know how anyone can afford those houses. We have a pretty good priced market here, it's not too expensive, a house with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a garage, and around 1600 square feet is around $140k.

Car Bedding

We really need some more bedding. We have two queen beds and only 2 sets of bedding, so I'd like to have more to be able to switch them out sometimes. Vision Bedding has a lot of really nice bedding sets. One I really like that would be great for my boys' bed is their Race Car Bedding. There is the Fast Car Art set that is really cool. Jason loves cars so I know he would like it. Vision Bedding has so many different styles of bedding to choose from, you can even get one of your pictures made into bedding, now that's cool.

Get away from Winter

I hate winter. I hate being cold. I only like snow on Christmas day, other than that I would be perfectly fine not seeing it at all. Winter is the perfect time to go on vacations to warm beaches and caribbean cruises to get away from all the cold. Last January we got to go to Cancun for a week and it was so nice to get away from the snow and freezing temperatures and hang out by the beach with the nice warm air and beautiful blue-green ocean. Ah, nice. Unfortunately we aren't planning anything like that this winter, but hopefully next winter. :)