He LOVES This Thing!

My son has always liked tractors (as you can tell with all my posts about his John Deer). He was given a tractor catalog quite some time ago.

Well, he found it at the bottom of a pile of old Highlight magazines yesterday, and fell in love with it all over again. He caries this thing around and looks at it for hours on end. He can tell you which tractor is which and all. He and his Daddy go through it and name all of the tractors and talk about what they do.

My hubby made the mistake of telling him that it was almost time to through the catalog out. ( It is getting worn out.) Will cried and cried. He was so pitiful looking. You would swear his best friend was gone forever. I even teared up when I saw those big crocodile tears. As you can guess we didn't through it out and he is carrying it around the house now!

Has anyone else gone through this with a favorite book or magazine?

Thankful Thursdays

Well I have decided to give up on "That Just Burns Me Up Thursdays". I am trying to be in a better place now and I don't want to dwell on the negative. I think "Thankful Thursdays" will be better for me at the moment.



Today I have a lot to be thankful for. Too much to list here really. I will just list a few in no particular order.



I am thankful for.....

1. My hubby who is still in love with me! (not sure why)


2. A great solid loving marriage!


3. An absolutely perfect little boy I can call my own!


4. Our health! It's not perfect, but it's not nearly as bad as it could be!!!!


5. My loving God who I grow closer to everyday!!!!


6. My family who drives me crazy, but will always be there for me and I for them!


7. Our financial state! We are by far rich or even middle class, but somehow our bills get paid! (sometimes late)


8. Our friends!


9. The gas in our vehicles! (this may seem crazy to you, but I didn't always have the funds for two vehicles of gas)


10. Our home! (so many don't have one)

I think 10 items are enough for today! I have plenty more to list next week.

My Bathroom Smells So Much Better Now!

I got this really cool thing in the mail FOR FREE! Yes, I have seen them in the store before, but never picked on up and brought it home. What a big mistake! It is called a Glade® Sense & Spray™ Automatic Freshener.

Let me just start here. We have two bathrooms in our house. One is off the living room and is about as big as two linen closets put together. It has no outlets and no tub. It is just large enough for a small shower. We call this Will' s bathroom. It is close to his room and came in very handy for potty training time. Other than that it sucks.

I have tried to figure out how to make this room smell better when it needs it. I can't plug up a smell good. I can't put a candle in there ( too close for comfort with Will's curious hands ). I have been using those cans of spray. They are ok, but only work so well.

When I got this I knew exactly were it would go. In that bathroom! I had a nail on the wall that I swear was just waiting all this time for it. It is at the right height for me to press the button when I need it, and for the motion detector to sense hubby pass it, and spray.

It works so great! It smells great! How did I live without this before. If you want one or if you would like to get a FREE full size items in the mail to try, this is how I got it. I joined BzzAgent. BzzAgent is a word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing network to try new products and spread word of mouth. If you think this is something you would like to do leave me a comment with your email and I will send you a personal invite.

This is the second time I have gotten to try something for FREE! Last time I got to try the Bic Soleil Bella razors. They don't just give you a free full size item, they also give you a bunch of coupons for you and all your friends. They are high dollar coupons too! I found a sale on them at Target and my cousin and I got more for only $1.00 after the coupons.

The Adventures in Pumpkin Carving!

I thought that this would be a great time to start a tradition of pumpkin carving. With Will being 3 now, he would be old enough to enjoy it.

I have never carved a pumpkin before. Yes, I was a sheltered child and my mom was not much of a parent! But my great hubby had done it before. So, he had the job. My job was to be supportive and take video and pictures. I did just that.

I had bought a set of pumpkin carving tools that came with a book of ideas. This is where I made my mistake. Will picked the hardest one to do. It had a list of levels depending on how hard it was to do. They went form 1 to 4. Of course he picked one with a level 4. This means you have to be almost a professional to do it. Hubby was brave and tried it for him.

He did a great job. In the end he had to just draw it free hand with a marker instead of using the template. He is a great artist though. The only draw back was that you can still see some of the marker. Oh well it's for Will! I got this cool strobe light made to put in pumpkins. It looks awesome.

I didn't realize Will wouldn't have all that much to do in the carving process though. He didn't want to help clean the pumpkin very much. He did want to carve though, so I sacrificed an apple to him. This apple was unrecognizable by the time he was don. He had a blast though.

I even tried to roast the pumpkin seeds. I had never don this before since I had never had the chance to carve a pumpkin, but I tried. Will loved them! I didn't think they where all that great. What do I know about pumpkin seeds thought? Nothing! Will and I had fun. Hubby? Not so much. He broke his little carving tools and had to use a kitchen knife to finish. It broke in a few places and he was aggravated. Next year we will just do the triangle eyes and big mouth!

My JC Penny's Star!

I have had so much happen in the last couple of days that I didn't post for a while. It all started with a big scare. I have always been an easy person to scare. A few years ago I had a big cancer scare, but everything was taken care of and is now ok. This time I through myself into prayer and just kept telling myself "Not Again!!" This could not be happening.



Don't worry I don't have cancer, but would appreciate a little prayer. I'm not going to kick the bucket yet, but I am not happy about my health at the moment. It mainly concerns myself, my hubby, and my health care providers so I will not go into details.



Then my hubby's grandmother died Wednesday. She had Alzheimers and was not doing well at all. Her passing was expected, but still hard. We had lots of family come in and had lots to do.



While that was going on I also found out that my debit card number was stolen and the bank found some fraudulent charges. This is the reason I LOVE my bank. I drive to a whole different town to bank there and they only have a few branches, but they are the best. I don't know what exactly made them look at the charges and say "That doesn't look right!", but they did, and the money was never taken out of my account. They have taken care of everything for me.



Saturday we rested from this crazy busy week and visited with the family that came in for the funeral. We even carved a pumpkin for Will. I will have a post about that later. It was an experience!



Sunday we got together with friends and cooked a ton of food. We watched the New Orleans Saints win their 6th game in a row!!! Go Saints!!!!



And in all this mad crazy time I had Will's pictures taken. I had the appointment already made and it just so happened that I was not needed for anything at that time. So, I kept the appointment and am now waiting for my pictures. They turned out so great too!! I had them done at JC Penny's . I never had them done there before and I am very happy with them. They did great. The photographer even asked me if they could enter one of his pictures into the contest for him to be one of the children pictured in the portrait catalog for all of the JC Penny's in the the US. WOW! Of course I said yes. They had one they took last year that made it in. You know how you can go and look at their book for ideas of how you would like your kids pictures to be? Well that's the book! I so hope he will be chosen.

A What??....A Lincoln Log!!!

Bath time seems to be the craziest time lately. What with all the bad smelling baths to the colorful baths and now with the lincoln log bath!!!

Will has almost always loves bath time. He begs to take them. I have always herd horror stories about kids going to the bathroom in the bath while they are really small or potty training. Well he is way past those times!!

Last night he was playing in his colored water and got really still. He sat strait up and just stared at the wash cloth he had hung over the bar. When I asked if he was ok he just said yes and didn't move. Well after a few minutes I got up and walked a little closer and low and behold guess what was floating around!

Yes you got it. At that moment my hubby walked in and said "That looks like a huge lincoln log! Will what did you do?". While my hubby got him cleaned off and dressed I had to clean the tub.

He has never don this before and I don't know why he did it this time. The only thing i can figure is he had gas and didn't realize it was more than that. ( Like all boys he likes to pass gas in the tub. I don't get it. It has to be a boy think.) He has told me many times before he had to go. I always get him out to go and then he gets back in. That's why this bothers me so much.

Poor baby he cried and told me he was so sorry and would never do it again, I don't know how many times. He loved on me till bedtime. I think he was embarrassed and upset because he knew I was in the bathroom for 30 min. sanitizing the tub.

I'm just so glad he didn't have any toys in the tub at that time. I hate to clean those more than the tub!!! If anyone else has gone through this with a child please let me know if it is normal. I didn't think I had to worry about this with a 3 year old who has been potty trained for almost 2 years.

And yes you can all thank me later for not putting pictures in this post. LOL!!!

Bath Time!!!

I did a post not to long ago about those really nasty bath beads I got for Will. You can see it here. Well, I promised to make it up to him. I remembered seeing this little container at Walmart that claimed to turn the bath water colors. (No scent this time!)

I bought this little container and love it. It really does what it claims. I don't know why I doubted it. It said it was made by Crayola. But, you would be a little cautious too if you had tried those other things that I had!

They are Crayola's Color Bath Dropz! You get 30 little dropz that fizz into three different colors. You get red, blue, and yellow. On the back of the package it tells you how to mix them to make different colors.

Will loves this stuff. He will not take a bath without them now. He has given up his bubble baths even! In the last month he has taken only one bath that was not colored. That was only because he ( and I ) was too tired to do more than get in, scrub, and get out.

The dropz fizz into pretty bright colors too. The yellow is the only one I didn't put a picture of. I am not sure if it is the color of our tub or the poor lighting in the bath room next to it, but the yellow doesn't really show up too well.

This is red....

...and this is blue.

I would definitely recommend this product to anyone who has a child that loves the bath. It has not died any of my wash clothes or towels. I was a little worried about washing his blond hair in it, but that turned out fine too. No crazy colored hair!

I will be getting more Color Bath Dropz for Will very soon. I even found out you can get a set of 3 containers for only $12.99 at the Crayola Store. That would be about 14 cents a drop before shipping. And if you order $75.00 or more shipping is free. Christmas is coming up fast!! Bonus: They accept Pay Pal now, and you can sign up for email promotions!!!!