MyKidsMom on love, life, and everything in between.

{ January 24, 2010 @ 9:59 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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Ok, no. Not really. I just wanted this post to sound interesting because -spoiler alert! –  it’s not going to be.

My new favorite song? “Only Prettier” by Miranda Lambert. After having recent girlfriend troubles, this song just hits home in so many ways for me. I love it. It’s not very often you hear songs about friendships, they’re so often about love, romance, bad luck, etc etc.

The Little Man is doing way too many cute things these days. The stuff he comes up with to say or do just astounds me some days. He’s so absolutely adorable I just want to squeeze him all day long. I think part of it is knowing that he’s my last baby, I just want to squeeze all the cute toddler stuff out of him and soak it in while I’ve still got a toddler. He turns two in a week. My baby is all gone! Thankfully when I ask him if he’s my baby he still says yes. Which is just so lovely. People (strangers mostly) thought it was weird we were having a third child after already having “the perfect family” (1 boy 1 girl). I can’t imagine my life without him.

Little Miss turned 4 over the Christmas holidays. We had her friends birthday party today, which was way too much fun. No, really. Too much fun. 8 four year olds in one room for 2 hours is loud, exciting, and way too much for me. But they sure enjoyed it. We didn’t do anything special, just played a few games, watched a movie and ate popcorn, cupcakes and opened presents. Simple party stuff.
Little Miss Birthday

In my town they were having an ice sculpture festival type thing. I heard about it on the radio on a fairly nice evening so I thought we’d go check it out. Oops, it cost 2$ each. Cash only. Thankfully MyKidsDad had a 10$ bill on him or we would have had some rather upset kids. The fact that he had any money on him at all is a total miracle. Pretty much.
Ice Castle
Ice Sculpture

I had a sinus infection last week. I went through my round of antibiotics and feel way better. Hopefully it sticks, sometimes sinus infections are impossible to get rid of. My face still hurts a little bit, so we’ll see.

I’ve been wanting to improve my piano playing skills to see if I could possibly sing and play piano simultaneously. I downloaded “You are Not Alone” by Meredith Andrews and “Let Your Light Shine” by Bethany Dillon and have taught myself to play them both on the piano. I really would like to improve though, I have the basic chords and the melody but I’d like to learn to play the chords and sing without playing the melody. It’s something I’ve not really done before. I am the type of person that when I sit down to do something I want to be immediately good at it and I don’t have a lot of patience for learning. Which is frustrating on so many levels.

The Boy is the The Boy. Same kid he’s always been. He’s struggling again at school (I thought he’d moved past his difficulties he had in kindergarten, but I recently found out I was wrong). He’s a very bright student, he reads leaps and bounds beyond his age/grade level. He loves science and math. I think the reason is because spelling/reading as well as science and math are very absolute topics. There is right and wrong in both of those, not a whole lot of grey areas. (I mean in principle, not as in the great science debate of how the world began… which anyways, to him, is very black and white anyways) He struggles to see grey areas in his life, and this spills over into his social relationships, and causes a lot of frustration and inflexibility. So, we’re going to start intervening and trying to help teach him the skills he needs. I’m currently reading “The Explosive Child” by Ross Greene, Ph.D. It’s pretty good, although it seems a bit extreme compared to what my kids is going through, I can see how if we don’t help him now, in the future he will be like many of the kids described in the book. I have hope and faith that he will learn to work through it and all is fine.

We had a lot of fun in the bathtub today. Well, the kids did anyways. We have a jetted tub in our master bathroom, so we like to put bubble bath in there, and then turn on the jets. It makes about 6 inches of bubbles on top of the water! Little Man kept dipping his face in and saying “Ho ho ho, Merrrr Chri-mas” with his bubble Santa beard. The cute! I tell you!!
Santa
bubble bath

SPIDERS!

{ January 19, 2010 @ 2:00 pm } · { Kids }
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Cue soft happy flute music.

I was fast asleep, about 1a.m. this morning. I was dreaming of summertime. Sitting outside, allowing the sunshine to soak in, relaxing every fiber of my being. The kids were playing in the distance, little feet among the blades of green grass. Birds were singing a sweet melody. I could smell burgers on the barbeque, suppertime approaching, yet the sun still high and hot as ever. Suddenly a gentle mist hit me from the sprinkler as the kids were playing and splashing around. It was the most refreshing thing, to be nice and hot and then a mist of cool water on my already glistening skin. Everything was just perfect.

Cue blood curdling scream.

I was jolted from my beautiful slumber. I had no idea there was even a little one in my bed capable of screaming in such a way. It took me about 0.004 seconds to get my bearings. I started yelling and screaming too (because I was half asleep and all) trying to figure out what might be wrong. I figured maybe I rolled onto my child while I was sleeping and I had hurt her in some way. I thought for sure she was hurt. I poked MyKidsDad who was on the other side of The Screamer. He jumped into Dad action and cuddled right up to her and talked calmly and telling her “it’s OK”. This also calmed me down a notch or two and I started asking “what’s wrong honey, what’s wrong??” with a little less shrill in my voice. The screaming only lasted for about 5 seconds, but it felt like 10 minutes. Finally she stopped and just started crying, saying she had a bad dream. So we both cuddled up to her and talked her down. She told us she had dreamt there were spiders all over the ceiling. I have never seen her eyes so wide before. She was literally terrified. So I had MyKidsDad turn on the light to show her there were no spiders. She’d point at the ceiling and say “there’s one there” and start to cry again. So we prayed. A lot. Finally she calmed down enough to snuggle in, but her eyes were still open so wide I was sure they might pop out. I stroked her hair and tried to make her feel tired enough to close them, but it didn’t work. They were glued to the ceiling. At some point a while later she said she wanted to go to her own bed. So off went MyKidsDad and her to her bed, where he cuddled and prayed with her some more. Finally he came back up.

Just as we had both drifted back off to beautiful slumber, we heard the crying start again, and she ran as fast as she could to our bed. I’m not sure she’s ever moved so fast. And there she spend the rest of the night. Thankfully her brothers didn’t hear a peep, and slept through the madness.

Today, her sweet little brother was chasing her around with a spider magnet. Needless to say she wasn’t having any of it. What are little brothers for? I have a feeling this summer isn’t going to be as blissful as I was imagining. I really hate spiders too, but I think I’m going to have to get over that in an attempt to keep her from having a complete mental breakdown. I think a serious fear started last night, considering she’s now afraid of the magnet spider we have and wanted me to put it away.

Sigh.

spider-hell

2009 Meme

{ December 31, 2009 @ 4:04 pm } · { Surveys }
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It’s kind of cool that I’ve been “blogging” (if that’s what you want to call it… I’m barely here!) for over a year and I can look back at what I was up to this time last year. I’m going to do the same meme I did last year to close off the year! Thanks to Kait for reminding me of it!

1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?

Been a working mom AND a stay at home mom.

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

My “resolutions” last year were to be a better housekeeper, lose more weight, use my time more efficiently (stop wasting it), sing more at church, and go on a girl’s only trip.

So, no. :S

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

A few people actually! I gained a new nephew, and a few friends had babies. Next year I’ll have lots to write here, it seems like every woman I know is pregnant! Ack!

4.  Did anyone close to you die?

No, thankfully. It was a great year for that.

5.  What countries did you visit?

I went to the USA in April for my step-sister’s wedding. I went just me, myself, and I. It was glorious and all kind of amazing.

6.  What do you want from 2009 that you lacked in 2008?

Honestly? More money. Not that money is the center of my world, but when you can barely make your bills (if at all) and people are always calling and you feel like you might drown in your debt, it kind of becomes the focus. I’m not concerned about it, I know that God has and will see us through our difficult times, I just would like to see the hardship decrease a little bit. Sometimes it’s nice to have a little wiggle room.

7.  What dates from 2008 will remain etched in your memory?

March 24 (nephew’s bday), April 5th (step sister’s wedding), June whatever when Michael Jackson died… that’s about all I can think of.

8.  What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Landing a job! I was pretty sure no one would hire me because I hadn’t had a job in 7 years.

9.  What was your biggest failure?

Probably not keeping my resolutions. At some point I need to look at the stuff I want to do/be, and stop waiting until tomorrow to make a change or work harder towards my goals. I often tell myself I can never “do that” or whatever it is, and so I just don’t even try because I don’t want to fail. So I end up failing anyways. It’s kind of a vicious cycle that I wonder if it will ever go away.

10.  Did you suffer illness or injury?

I had an IUD that went haywire and started to perforate my uterus. (tmi????) I ended up having to be put under to get it removed. It was quite painful for a while… and then it was gone and I felt oh so much better. I also realized that I have PMDD. It sucks.

11.  What was the best thing you bought?

Hm. This is hard because I really didn’t buy a whole lot this year. I did buy my girlfriend’s Lacoste purse that I LOVE and use all the time now, so that’s probably my favorite purchase.

12.  Whose behaviour merited celebration?

Well last year I wrote about The Boy having trouble at school for the next question, so this year I think I will write his name down here. He has had such a better year and I’m so proud of what a great boy he’s growing up to be.

13.  Who’s bahaviour made you appalled and depressed?

Well, Tiger Woods really surprised me —- IMMA LET YOU FINISH, BUT I GOTTA SAY THAT KANYE WEST IS A TOTAL DOUCHE —- aaaaand, one of my cousins and I had a bit of a falling out.

14.  Where did most of your money go?

Mortgage, vehicles, food, diapers… same old!

15.  What did you get really, really, really excited about?

My me, myself and I trip to Denver. BEST TRIP EVER. Also got excited about some of the people I know who are having babies next year! YAY!

16.  What song will always remind you of 2008?

PokerFace and Bad Romance by Lady Gaga AKA CRAZY WOMAN, Welcome to the Future by Brad Paisley, Cowboy Casanova by Carrie Underwood, Put your Records On – Corinne Bailey Ray, anything from the latest Kelly Clarkson album, any Chris Tomlin song… and so many more! I love music!

17.  Compared to this time last year, are you:

a) Happier or Sadder: Sadder

b) thinner or fatter: I would have said thinner, but then Christmas came… and now I have some work to do!

c) richer or poorer: poorer… but richer.

18.  What do you wish you’d done more of?

Playing with the kids, going on date nights

19.  What do you wish you’d done less of?

Wasting time on screen games… iPod, computer, facebook, twitter, all that jazz.

20.  How did you spend Christmas?

Christmas Eve with MyKidsDad’s family, Christmas morning at home and then off to my moms with all my siblings, and then boxing day is Lil’ Miss’s birthday… it was kind of exhausting! But I just have to remind myself that we only do it once a year…

21.  Did you fall in love in 2008?

Only all over again with my family. :)

22.  What was your favorite TV program?

Glee by a landslide!!!

23.  Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

No, I don’t generally hate anyone.

24.  What was the best book you read?

The Testament by John Grisham. And In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms by Dr. Laura Schlessinger.

25.  What was your greatest musical discovery?

The new Carrie Underwood album is AMAZING! I also love Corinne Bailey Ray and Chris Tomlin.

26.  What did you want and get?

A job?

27.  What did you want and not get?

Would you like me to make a list? :D

28.  What was your favorite film of this year?

You know… I can’t think of anything that I saw this year that I was like “OH! AWESOME MOVIE!!!”

29.  What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

I went to bible study, just like every other week. My birthday was really no big deal this year. I turned 26.

30.  What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?

You know, I’m sure having more $ would have made this year more “satisfying” but truthfully, I know I have a lot that others don’t have, and everyone stayed healthy, and we had such a great year, despite some struggles. I think that I have more than enough to be thankful for, and satisfied with.

31.  How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?

I tried harder this year, wearing make up more often and doing my hair most days and such. I think having a job had a lot to do with that, it was a bit of a confidence booster, plus I have to dress up and look nice for work, so it’s more motivation to take care of myself. As for a “concept” I think it was something like “try to keep your muffin top under control, and do your hair and make up nice so no one notices your less than perfect body”.

32.  What kept you sane?

I think my alone trip to Denver was something that I really needed as a re-energizer and a booster… but I actually wasn’t very sane this year thanks to pmdd.

33.  Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

I really got into reading the TMZ website this year for some reason. What a total time waster. Maybe that will be one of my resolutions – to stop reading it. That would be hard I think.

34.  What political issue stirred you the most?

I actually didn’t pay too much attention to politics this year. I can’t think of anything that I was all “THAT’S OUTRAGEOUS!!” over. *shrugs* I guess I’m one of those complacent people. :S

35.  Who did you miss?

I had a lot of moments this year of missing my Nana and wishing she were here to see lots of stuff. It seems like so much has changed over the last year and so much exciting stuff going on. I pray that my own mom will have super longevity so that she can see lots of her great grandchildren.

36.  Who was the best new person you met?

My new friends at work!

37.  Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.

With a little restraint and self control and doing lots of odd jobs and selling stuff in my house, we can get by on very little! (not that I WANTED to learn that lesson… ugh)

38.  Quote a Song Lyric that sums up your year.

“Indescribable, uncontainable, You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name. You are amazing God All powerful, untameable, Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim You are amazing God.”

Keeping up

{ September 9, 2009 @ 8:32 am } · { Uncategorized }
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I’ve been so busy since I started my new job. In fact, unless you follow me on twitter you didn’t even know I got a job. I am working at a bridal store selling wedding dresses 2 nights a week and all day Saturday. So far I really love it. All the girls are great, normal (not catty or b*tchy), and fun to talk to. It’s making for a crazy busy fall though. Lil’ Miss has dance class on Mondays, I have bible study on Tuesdays, work Wednesday and Thursday and Saturday. Not to mention all the running to school EVERYDAY with The Boy to school (grade 1 is such an adjustment!) and Lil’ Miss has preschool (at the same school, thankfully) on Monday and Wednesday mornings. I’m exhausted just typing all this!

I sold my infant car seat and matching stroller this weekend. I listed it on Kijiji on Friday night and it was sold and gone by Sunday afternoon. Apparently I should have asked more $ for it! I had like 5 inquiries too! I used the money to buy the shelf I’ve been wanting for the playroom to organize all the toys. Before, everything was just shoved against the walls on the outer perimeter of the wall in various types of boxes and storage containers. It was a total disaster, and hard to organize and keep organized. So, I sold the stroller on Sunday afternoon and about 1/2 hr later we left for Ikea! After the kids went to bed we took everything apart to build it and one of the boards was damaged. Ugh! It’s about a 35 minute drive to Ikea from my house, so it was slightly annoying. The store was a complete ZOO on Sunday so I wasn’t really looking forward to going back on holiday Monday. But 2 times in a row when we went the Smaland (kids playcenter) was full/closed so we planned to go first thing in the morning so the kids could play. At 10:15 (15 minutes after the store opened) when we arrived, the playcenter was ALREADY FULL. Holy crap people! AAAaaaanyways. I’m kind of dragging on here. We went to the as-is section to check to see what there was as we always do, and when we were there on Sunday they had NO shelves. Well on Monday, they had FOUR! So we decided instead to save our 50$ and buy a slightly beat up one. You can’t tell at all though. So my mom came with my step dad’s truck and we took the shelf home and then went back to Ikea AGAIN to return the other box of the brand  new shelf we had bought the day before. It was a lot of back and forth, but worth it to save some money. With the money we saved we were able to buy some more boxes to go in it! Yay! I only need 4 more before it’s full. About half way through cleaning and organizing it I realized I never took a picture of the “before” disaster. But, here’s the “after” picture anyways!!

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Look at that! I figured out how to get photos into my blog without it being a thumbnail! Thanks Kait!

Today I’m making homemade chicken soup. I have a rotisserie chicken that we didn’t eat very much of so I’m boiling it and making soup. This is my first time doing it, so I hope it turns out yummy! Thanks to Jen and all her talk about homemade bread, I’m going to make some homemade buns to go with. I’ve been desperately wanting to make some cinnamon buns since I bought some yeast last time I was at the grocery store, but I’m trying to lose some weight and I’m afraid I’ll eat them all in one sitting one too many so I haven’t yet. I will get my yeasty baking fix by making buns!

I went for a run last night. I love that I live in a safe enough neighborhood now that I don’t fear for my life if I go for a run while it’s dark. It was terrific. Afterward I got home and did some exercise on our home gym that we never use. I have an old shoulder injury from Lil’ Miss’s 1st birthday party (read: 2.5 years ago!) and I totally hurt it trying to lift weight last night. And tonight I have to go lift heavy wedding dresses. Not fun! P.S. Why are wedding dresses so heavy?!

My neighbor just called and is on her way over, so I guess I better go put on a bra. :D

Crafty Lady!

{ August 9, 2009 @ 6:20 pm } · { Crafts, Homemaking }
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Suddenly I’m turning this thing into a craft blog! But I just can’t help but show off my treasures!

I went to a bridal shower yesterday, and I decided it would be fun and unique to make something for the bride! When I got married, someone gave me a beautiful jar with the dry ingredients for cookies, along with instructions to bake them! So I headed out to the Dollarama and got a nice little jar to make it in. I used some spare quilting fabric I had lying around to put under the lid. I used my super sticky tape (Stampin’ Up) to put on some ribbon around the lid. I grabbed some spare pink cardstock to write the recipe/instructions and sticky taped it to the lid.

After that, I decided I’d make her a love CD mix. I added all the songs I wanted to my iTunes playlist and when I was finished, I realized I had 3.8hrs of music! HAHA! So, I just went ahead and put it on 3 CD’s. I wanted to use my cricut to make some sleeves to put the CD’s in, but the cricut itself wouldn’t cut them the right size. I remembered that almost a year ago I got the Cricut Design Studio software, so MyKidsDad set up the PC (it doesn’t run on a mac, thus why I haven’t used it yet). It was AWESOME! It is totally easy to use and I was able to make my sleeves just exactly the way I wanted them! I also used it to manipulate the word “love” on the front tag of the CD package. I used some cardstock I had that came in a pack from Costco a while back. I added some different fibers and ribbons to the top. I cut a 2 inch strip to go around and secured it with a large brad. The strip helps the CD’s stay neatly together. The wide white ribbon goes through all 3 sleeves and holds them together when flipping through to grab the CD wanted. I am in love with it! In fact, I’m going to duplicate it for the wedding I’m going to next week as a wedding present!

Lastly, I made a little box with some recipe cards in it. I used regular old index cards but I stamped some images in different colors on to spice them up a bit. I think I used about 10 recipe cards. On each card I put some of my family’s favorite recipes on. I used the design studio to manipulate the “crayon box” on the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cartridge, so it would fit the recipe cards exactly. I used some Basic Grey paper that had come in a kit with some adhesive letters to write the word “recipes” on the front. I also included a sampling in a small cellophane bag of one of the recipes I gave her. Yum! Once the package was all done I used a pre-made tag from the kit and the letters again to label the gift. I had so much fun making this gift and am so proud of it!





I think she liked the gift. She texted me today commenting and laughing about some of the songs I put on the CD’s. (*ahem* Spice Girls *ahem*)

I am leaving in 36 hrs for the wedding I’m going to (it’s on Wednesday. Weird, right? The 12th date meant something to them, so whatev!) and I’m SO NOT READY to leave. I still have piles of laundry to do from last weekend, my house has barely been touched (I cleaned the washrooms, go me!). And what am I doing to help myself? Blogging? Hmmm, bad idea probably. I should go!

My 10 Cents

{ August 7, 2009 @ 10:56 am } · { Uncategorized }
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Seems a lot of people are talking about Michael Vick these days…

I read this, and just had to add my 10 cents. (I know the expression is 2 cents, but I wrote a bit of a long thing!)

This is what I commented:

I’m all about second chances. I believe everyone deserves one. However, I do believe that there should be severe and lasting punishments for crime. Just as drunk driver gets his license taken away, permanently after a certain number of offenses, so should there be lasting and permanent consequences for Michael Vick. And not just personally (such as ppl always remember his as the dog beater guy) he shouldn’t be allowed to play in the NFL again. The NFL and other elite professional sports organizations should be reserved for people of excellent moral character, people that can hold up to and deserve the title of role model. Michael Vick is none of those.
I’m glad that he is sorry for what he did, and he has now had an “awakening”. But this idea of not receiving consequences because of one’s life circumstances, childhood, or awareness is bullsh*t. We all know the law, regardless of social class, or how we were raised. People need to rise above their raising and choose to make the right choices and obey the law. There should not be an excuse or lack of blame because someone was “numb” or “unconcious” to their behaviors. That is just insanity.
I don’t think Michael Vick should be locked up forever or anything, I’m glad he served his time and that it did him well – as in, he is now remorseful. But I think he should be spending his time doing things for humane organizations and talking publicly about what he’s done and how he’s changed, rather than playing in the NFL.

What do you think?

I <3 Home.

{ August 6, 2009 @ 4:58 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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For the (Canadian) long weekend we went to Prince George, BC for a family reunion. I love driving through the Alberta rockies. So pretty. I even love to stay in the mountains or mountain-y areas… for a while. I always end up missing the big prairie sky. I think the mountains are pretty and all, and if I had to chose a way to make my sky small, it would definitely be mountains (instead of trees, buildings, etc). But I’m really a prairie girl at heart. I love to be able to look out the window and see sky as far as I can see. I always find myself commenting on my way home from somewhere that I can’t wait for the Alberta sky.

The reunion was a great time had by all. Lots of laughs, lots of sun, lots of family. We need to have a close look at our air mattresses before we go camping again though, they kept deflating. My back STILL hurts. I feel oooooold. We’re leaving again next week to go to my friend’s wedding at a campsite near Fernie, B.C. It’s going to be beautiful. I’ve been working furiously on some favors, and they’re so cute! They’re getting married on a little beach, and it’s a very very very small wedding, and very casual. Here’s a pic of the favors:


For those of you who are crafty and curious, here’s what I used:

Indian Corn Blue CTMH cardstock for the boxes. I cut out the shape with my Tags, Bags, Boxes and more cricut cartridge. I used the Accent Essentials cartridge to cut out the heart in the front. I used a Stampin’ Up stamp for the “thanks SO much” on the front, and heat embossed it with some white and silver sparkly embossing powder. I used the heart tag from the Tags, Bags, Boxes and more cartridge and stamped A + A on it and put an eyelet on it to thread the white little ribbon! It was fun creating it. Inside is some homemade cookies, some saltwater taffy (yuummm) and 2 bottled water drink mixes. We’re giving 1 to each couple. I’m really excited for the wedding, but supposedly it’s going to rain. Fingers crossed that it won’t! I hate tenting in the rain!!

Bummed – Updated.

{ July 15, 2009 @ 2:45 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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Update: I just realized today that I’m pretty sure I’m PMS-ing. Not a good time to be interviewing for jobs when I’m highly irritated and irrational!! :D

I’m having a blah day.

I went for an interview yesterday for that job I had mentioned in my last post. It wasn’t an epic fail or anything, but I didn’t feel confident about how the interview went. Partly it was nerves, being my first job interview in like, 7 years, and partly it was that I felt I didn’t fit in at the company. It just wasn’t my style. Anyways, he was supposed to email a yes or no answer by last night, and I guess maybe he just got too busy to let everyone know. I’m sure that means I didn’t get the job. I had a back up plan, another job for 10 days at the events going on around here, but the guy called today and he’s stuck in another city b/c his concession trailer broke, he’s having it repaired but he has no idea when he’ll get here. So I’m not counting on that either. I was really having my hopes up about being able to make some quick cash over the next week or so. I’m just having a negative day where everything is not working, I’m irritated about everything and all I want to do is go to bed and not get up for like, a month. Then hopefully when I wake up all my problems will be past. The fence guys are back (finally) today working on putting up the fence. One more thing to be irritated about. It would be nice to actually look forward to having a fence, but I am dreading it. SO ugly. Anyone want some kids for a while? They keep arguing and I’m about this close to bashing their heads together. My  mom used to tell my sister and I that all the time when we were arguing. I’ve yet to do it to them (I can remember my mom actually doing it to us) but seriously. This close. (Thanks, Mom.)

Sandpaper Hair Removal

{ July 13, 2009 @ 12:18 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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Maybe you’ve seen the ads on TV for these new miraculous hair removal system. It advertises that it is pain free, no mess, no chemicals, and a simple way to rid yourself of unwanted body hair. You simply rub this thing on your leg (or other desired body part) and the hair amazingly disappears. Maybe you haven’t seen them, but now you’ve heard.

Well, it’s all lies. It is not pain free, and the hair doesn’t disappear. I equate it to rubbing your leg with sandpaper to remove the hair. Sure, it sorta kinda works, but sandpaper on skin HURTS! The type I got was “Velvet Touch Natural Hair remover mitten…. gently removes hair, instantly and easily. No mess, no chemicals.”

So I pull one of these little “mittens” out to discover that it’s really just VERY fine sandpaper, colored, and “infused with the soft scent of cucumber and melon, and it is also coated with Aloe Vera”. I didn’t smell any “soft scents” while using it, and the coating of Aloe Vera only made it very very dusty while removing the hair. I was almost afraid to breathe in there was so much powder flying through the air. The one plus side of rubbing my leg with sandpaper, was that it probably removed some of the dead skin, so while all the hair is patchy and not gone, it is smoother. (yaaaaay.) The first time I used it last night, I just did one little patch, as I just wanted to see if it actually worked. It really did on that one little patch, I was quite impressed. Then today I decided to finish off the rest of my leg, and boy howdy did that hurt!!! I had to rub my leg, spot by spot all over for  about 15 minutes before I decided that it was good enough… meaning it was getting to painful to finish and there wasn’t as much hair as there was before. My legs were super hairy, so I figured a little left over is at least an improvement. Then I grabbed a wet cloth to wipe all the dust off my leg (as sandpaper inevitably creates dust!) and YEOWCH!!!!! It stung soooooo bad. It is still stinging, and this was about 20 minutes ago. I have little red bumps and total skin irritation. What was I thinking?? Did I not realize that RUBBING MY LEG WITH SANDPAPER would cause skin irritation and PAIN?! I feel like a total idiot. Plus now I’m scared to shave that leg, because I’m afraid that rubbing a blade against irritated red bumpy skin will hurt even worse. So now I have to wait. I took some pictures so you could see my “results”…



In other news, I applied for a part time events job (we’re having some major city events coming up) doing market research. I landed an interview! And the best part is that it pays TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS AN HOUR!!! I have been looking for part time jobs to work maybe 2 evenings a week and weekends, but a temporary job like this would be PERFECT. I really REALLY hope I get it, it would be SO awesome! Please be praying that I get it!!

Happy Birfday!

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It’s MyKidsDad’s 31st birthday today. Happy Birthday babe!!

Man! I am so frustrated with wordpress’s new picture formatting!! Not only can I just get a picture in here on it’s own, now I can’t seem to get the stupid gallery thing to insert!! AAAHHH I wish I knew more about all that coding stuff. Grrr.

I took MyKidsDad to see the new Transformer’s movie last night, he really REALLY wanted to see it. It turned out to be a total flop (I knew I wouldn’t like it) but he actually hated it too! It was so cheesy and lame, and I’m just really sick of all these computer done movies. Where nothing is real and it’s all made with computers. So boring. I’m sure it takes a lot of know how to make those movies, but I just find them to be so uncreative. The dialogue was awful too. So cheesy and predictable.

The Boy is getting another cavity filled today! They color them now, did you know that? Like for kids – his last one was BLUE. So now he has a chunk of blue in his tooth! Pretty nifty.

A final thought: This creeps me out. However my mom thinks it’s cute. And my kids thinks it’s hilarious and want to watch it over and over and over.

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