Sunday Saying

"If you never did, you should.
These things are fun and fun is good."
- Dr. Seuss

Now, who does not love Dr. Seuss? I was reading "One fish two fish red fish blue fish" to my boys tonight while getting them ready for bed and was reminded of how much I love Dr. Seuss books, they are so great! I really should read more to my kids, because as the great Dr. says, "These things are fun and fun is good!"

Animal Alphabet

Did you know you could buy anything on Ebay? We've used it to buy books, baby gates, kitchen faucets, toys, and more. Some times I like to just browse through it all. There's an old VHS I used to watch as a kid that is no longer for sale, "Animal Alphabet" with Geoffrey Girrafe from Toys R Us. I seriously grew up with this show and learned my ABC's from it. We have that old copy I used to watch as a kid, but it is so used it barely plays anymore, I wish I'd copied it to DVD before it got so bad. My Toddler really loves it. Every few months I check Ebay for it, but usually they don't have it. So I just checked again today and somebody does have it... for $100?! Seriously, WTH?!? Sure it's a great movie I want to buy for Toddler, but not worth $100! I made the seller an offer of $20, but I doubt they will accept it. Guess I'll just have to keep looking. If anyone who reads this has this movie or knows where I could get it, let me know!

Never ending

Isn't it amazing how quickly a clean house can get dirty? Our living room rarely stays clean more than a few hours at a time, Toddler is always in there coloring and papers get strewn across the whole room. And the kitchen, boy, some days I feel like just eating out all the time so that the dishes will stop piling up lol. The boys room has miraculously stayed pretty clean after I cleaned it good the other day. The only room I didn't even get to this weekend was the master bedroom, but at least Hubby put the luggage sets away that had been sitting there empty at least a month, so at least now we can walk without tripping over them. If I actually folded and put away laundry that room would not be too bad really.

Some days I just really wish I could afford a housekeeper. And a cook. And a gardener. And a personal errand runner. And a masseuse. Then I could just relax and play with my boys and blog all day. Wouldn't that be nice?

Time to share

Alright, here's some more great blogs and posts that you should go check out!

First off, my Hubby. He started a blog recently, Life Happens, and it would be great to send him some comments to help him feel more welcome to the blogosphere :D

10 is good enough for Michelle, and me too!

Kimberly is a great writer, read about an embarrassing moment she had, because I know everyone loves reading about other people's embarrassing moments.

You can hear some pretty funny things when working at a call center, like this story at She Says It's Pretty Dumb.

Barb has come up with a new weekly MEME called Heads or Tails, which is on Tuesdays. Make sure you join in!

Make sure to join the Foster Care Quilt Raffle at The Lazy Organizer. All raffle proceeds go to help foster kids, and the winner gets a beautiful handmade queen-size quilt.

Check out the 30 days of great money saving tips at Mom Advice.

Check out all the great giveaways that 5 Minutes for Mom does.

Juggling Mum helps us by sharing an article on how important it is to teach our kids about clean teeth.

Visit Amazing Trips to see how life with toddler triplets and a newborn is. I can't imagine.

I'm telling you again to go read everything Antique Mommy writes, she is amazing, especially this heartbreaking story, parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and conclusion. You will want to read the whole thing, and I promise you will cry.

Dawn shares more about her son and pepper. And if you still haven't read the original pepper story, here it is again cuz I just can't get enough of it :D

Congrats to Heather on her new baby girl!

Hope you enjoy!

Sick of hearing about it

Today I was watching the news and heard yet another story about Lindsay Lohan. I swear every day she is in the news for addiction treatment rehab or getting arrested or something. She's kind of like Paris Hilton, everyone's getting so sick of hearing about those two and the trouble they get into it. It's just pathetic that they can't do anything better with all their fame and wealth. There are other actresses and singers donating to charities or helping people in Africa or something good, but some of them like Paris and Lindsay just waste it and ruin their lives.

Going the distance

Well, tonight Michelle and I decided to try running the actual 5k course we will be racing on in 2 weeks. It wasn't as hard as I thought it might be, though we weren't sure where the end was and stopped a little short, but we could have made it all the way if we'd known. We'll continue to practice their until the race. Just 2 more weeks! I just ned to make sure I don't eat so much before running, we ate at Denny's a few hours before running, but I ate too much and felt sick most of the run. Good thing the race organizers will have medical stations at the end with stuff like pulse oximeters and stuff in case I over-do it. But I think we'll do pretty good :)

It's raining, it's pouring...

Boy, we've gotten plenty of rain today too! Too bad the boys slept through it all or I would've let them go play in it like yesterday. Perfect timing too, Hubby got a chance to mow the lawn before it rained, and he didn't need to water the lawn after. Hm, speaking of Hubby, I have no idea where he is lol. Well, Toddler just woke up and wants to go splash in the water, and who am I to turn down that sweet little face? :D

Well, it was clean for a few minutes at least

OK, so it actually took me about 20 minutes to get the boys' room and most of the office cleaned up. Normally it only takes 10 minutes cuz I just clean their room and don't bother vacuuming, but today I did, plus I had to take a few breaks to change Baby's diaper, stop Baby from playing in the toilet, and stop Baby from getting out the toys I had just put away. Anyway, it looks much better, and to prove it I'll show you some pics. And I promise I did vacuum, but our carpet stains really easy so it always looks dirty :P And the furniture is kind of "thrift store meets WalMart" but until we can get some new home furniture it'll have to do. I really want to get a really cute bedroom set from IKEA for the boys' room, but don't have the money for it yet. And yes, that is a mattress on the floor, we don't have a second toddler bed so Baby's mattress just goes under Toddler's bed and we pull it out at night. OK, enough talk, here's the pics.

Dirty Office

Clean Office


Dirty Bedroom

Clean Bedroom


And they've already dumped out the box of balls, the cars, and I had to take off all the bedding to wash, so in just half an hour it's already messy again lol.

Off to conquer the cars

My boys really don't have a lot of toys we have out, but somehow they still manage to make a huge mess. Most of their toys fit on one little bookshelf, in baskets, except for the bigger toys like dump trucks and activity tables. I guess the problem is that they have so many little toys. They have blocks, play tools, cars, and a basket of miscellaneous toys like trains, golf balls, and stuffed animals. Thus, when they get dumped out it seems like a ton of toys because they get spread everywhere. Luckily it is almost as easy to clean up as it is to make the mess, since we have certain baskets for each toy and Toddler knows which toys go in which baskets, it just looks overwhelming. It usually only takes 5-10 minutes to get them all put away, if I ever get started. So, I'm going to go time myself for 10 minutes to see how much I get done in their room before I allow myself to come back. I might even take before and after pics to show you, because all bloggers now how important pics are :D

SMART Habit Saturday

Look at the cool new banner Lara has come up with for SHS! Very nice :D

Anyway, I did ok this week. I did all of my goals at least once this week, except for crunches, which I did not do at all. So that will be my focus this week, to do my crunches every day. Last week I focused on flossing, but unfortunately I only did it 1 day (which is still better than 0 lol), so I'll be focusing on that again as well. I still don't feel ready to add another goal because I have so many that need a lot of work, but hopefully next month I will.

Goal recap:
#1- Clean 1/2hr a day- 4/7
#2- Keep up with dishes- 5/7
#3- Brush teeth once a day- 6/7
#4- Read scriptures daily- 7/7
#5- Toddler bedtime routine- 6/7
#6- Bedtime 11:30pm- 4/7
#7- 50 crunches a day- 0/7
#8- Take vitamins every day- 7/7
#9- No computer for 1hr a day when Hubby gets home- 4/7
#10- 1 load of laundry each day- 2/7
#11- Daily prayers, morning and night- 9/14
#12- Dinner 3x during the week- 4/3
#13- Lotion every day- 4/7
#14- Floss every day- 1/7
#15- Bringing dishes to kitchen- 7/7
#16- Clean office each day- 1/7
#17- Make bed every morning- 5/7

To join in SHS go to The Lazy Organizer.

Free Stuff

I'm going to let you in on a little secret. OK, it's probably not much of a secret, lol. If you haven't checked out the Mom Advice blog, you really should, she always gives great advice on saving money, and this month each day she's posting tips on saving money in certain aspects of our lives. But my favorite part is that every Friday she does Freebie Fridays, where she finds a bunch of free offers online and posts about them. You can get samples of laundry soap, shampoo, cereals, Premium dog food, and more. It's awesome. I really like the shampoo and conditioner samples so I can try new kinds.

Clean up

I really need to do some cleaning today. We cleaned up the downstairs yesterday and today I get to do the upstairs. The boys room has toys all over and the office has toys, books, papers, and stuff all over. My room has laundry everywhere, though we did finally put away the empty luggage that's been just sitting in the way on the floor for a month. Bathrooms need cleaned, floors need vacuumed, and bedding needs washed. Fun fun fun. I really should get started, but I just want to go back to bed lol. I did get to sleep in until 9:15 this morning, which rarely happens, so that was great.

Splish Splash!

So that nice summer sprinkle turned into a big stormy downpour! We played outside for a little bit, but then the wind picked up and started getting cold. The boys didn't want to come in but I didn't want them to get sick. About 5 minutes after we came in the rain started coming down hard. The boys sat at the window watching the rain and listening to the thunder. Luckily that didn't last too long, then we were able to go out and splash in puddles, the boys love that. I love watching them play and have fun, even if they are getting messy, it's just to cute not to enjoy. I hope I can always appreciate the dirt, noise, and puddle splashing.

Rain on a summer afternoon

I love the smell of rain. It's so refreshing. We have hardly gotten any rain this summer, probably less than 5 small showers. It has been so hot and dry. But today we are getting a small shower and I'm sitting here by the open window enjoying the smell and the cool, light breeze. It's wonderful! My boys are playing happily together on the floor behind me, I have no where I need to go today, and am not feeling too guilty about not getting anything productive done. Just relaxed and peaceful. I think I might take the boys out to play in the rain.

OK, getting off my backside

OK, enough being lazy, I need to go do something productive while Little Baby sleeps. I really need to wash my bedding and the kids bedding, but I just realized I can't do that yet because Little Baby is napping on my bed. Guess I'll have to choose one of the other 7 dirty rooms in the house to work on :P I better vacuum before the kids get lost in the carpet with everything else.