Read my lips.

I was stuck in traffic yesterday-yes we do occasionally get traffic in the sticks when they decide to close one lane of our two lane highway. So I am sitting in traffic trying to keep my mind off of the doctor appoint that we are headed to and I look into my mirror to read the lips of the bikers behind us.
This is when I realize there are many words that can be confused with others. Don't believe me? Look at yourself in the mirror and say 'olive juice' and 'I love you' the two look very similar as would many other words and phrases.
So I am catching words here and there and making up the words in between when I realize there is no way to mask the F-bomb. After sitting and waiting for our turn to travel through the construction site these bikers had apparently gotten very upset as the use of the F-bomb increased. Gave me a bit of humor instead of freaking out about how I was late for the doctor appointment.
So if you are trying to hide what you are saying, don't drop the F-bomb because we'll all know!

Friday Follow - #8

Welcome to the 10th Friday Follow hosted by our awesome hostesses, Kerri from Kerri’s Klutter, C-Mom from C-Mom – a day in the life, and Marice from Life Can’t Wait. Thank you everyone for being willing to host! Please stop by and see these awesome host/hostesses.

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Back to germs......er, I mean back to school.

I am not one of those germaphobes who obsesses about germs and must sanitize everything, but I am very conscious of their effects on my family. We went through a terrible flu season last year and ended 2009 and started 2010 with a very sick toddler that was hospitalized for reoccurring pneumonia. That being said you can understand why we will be doing a bit more this year to try and keep those germs away, not only for Kira, who was a preemie and had pneumonia 4 times, but for Jonas who was a preemie as well.

As I went through the kids school supply list I added on hand sanitizer. I gave them each a bottle last year at the beginning of the year and then another after winter break. The challenge was getting them to use them and making them want to use them. This year I picked up a few of these Bath & Body Works hand sanitizers with the holders. They are on sale right now for 5 for $5 and the holders are 2 for $1 so for just about $8 I got the five kids who are in school sanitizers for the backpacks in fun scents that they cannot wait to use! I will be going back for more as I know they will run out quickly (they are small bottles) and I need to put one on the diaper bag and the one attached to my purse is running low.

A few precautions you can use to reduce the amount of school germs entering your home are:

• have children changing clothes immediately upon coming home from school,
  
• then washing hands,
  
• keep all backpacks hung and away from younger siblings

Here is to a safe and relatively low germ school year for all!

Friday Follow - #7

Welcome to the 9th Friday Follow hosted by our awesome hostesses, Shell from Things I Can’t Say, Terri from That’s What She Said, Tami from Hearts Make Families, Harriet from Harriet and Friends, and Ian from The Daily Dose of Reality. Thank you everyone for being willing to host! Please stop by and see these awesome host/hostesses.

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Wordless Wednesday - July 4th fun

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Wordless Wednesday HQ │ 7 Clown Circus │ 5 Minutes For Mom │ MomDot

Holy hairballs.

After 8 pregnancies and 7 children you would think that I would be used to this by now. What is it that I am talking about? Postpartum hair loss. It has gotten ridiculous for me the past few weeks. We are talking enough hair in one day to give any Barbie a nice wig. My hair is EVERYWHERE! I have had to untangle it from the vacuum brush, my poor baby has it all over him. The poor guy is always with me and my hair so he sees the most of it. I was trying to grow my hair out but gave up on that after cleaning my hair off of every surface of my house.

I finally went and got a cute shoulder length cut with layers. I am still loosing hair but at least the amount of hair seems to be less because it is shorter. I will buy my time with my shorter 'do and try to grow it out again after this shedding has stopped. I pray that its soon or I am sure to go bald :).

Friday Follow - #6

Welcome to the 8th Friday Follow hosted by our awesome hostesses, Heather & Jessica from Saving Money and Living Life, Tami from Hearts Make Families, Harriet from Harriet and Friends, and Ian from The Daily Dose of Reality. Thank you everyone for being willing to host! Please stop by and see these awesome host/hostesses.

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Have you got your Groupon?

I signed up for Groupon in May and was immediately disappointed that there was no offers in my area. I had nearly forgotten about it when I started to receive daily emails a couple weeks ago. Out of the dozen or so offers only one was one that I would consider using- half off at the Lincoln Children's Zoo. Of course that was the one day that we just could not squeeze in any other activity into.

I guess they are just trying to get it off the ground in my area but come on, today's offer is for a $45 canvas 16 x 20 wrapped print-ordered ONLINE. This is supposed to generate local business, not online business.

I am always interested in a great bargain, so I am not giving up hope just yet. Lets just get the program rolling Groupon, I want to get my Groupon!

Friday Follow - #5

Welcome to the 7th Friday Follow hosted by our awesome hostesses, Crayon Wrangler from Coloring Outside the Lines, Christy from Aunt Crazy’s Here Y’ALL, and Danielle from A Peek Inside. Thank you ladies for being willing to host! Please stop by and see these awesome ladies.

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