My first Giveaway!!!!

You read that right.

I have a real giveaway.

A couple of weeks ago an college friend of mine, Susan mentioned on her blog about an ebook from Motivated Moms that has really helped her to clean and organize her home.

Now you should know that Susan has a two year old and 9 month old twins...living in New York City.

In a two bedroom apartment.

Think about that for a minute.



I think we need a moment of silence for her right now.



I figured that this ebook could help Susan out, it could help me out too.

In TN I use to have a daily schedule to help me clean the house.

Mondays were laundry days.

Tuesdays were bathrooms.

And so on and so on.

Since moving here I am just overwhelmed with everything that needs to be done that really only the kitchen and den would get cleaned due to the fact we are in those rooms the most.

So I bought the ebook from Motivated moms and it has really helped me.

On Sunday nights I print out the list for the upcoming week and stick it on the fridge.

Each day is detailed out with what to do and a box to check off when you are done.

For example today I had to change hand towels in bathrooms, clean top shelf of refrigerator, vacuum main/public rooms or 1st floor, clean toilets, and replenish stock of toilet paper in bathrooms.

Just to name a few of the things.

Still to this day I get such a deep satisfaction with checking off a "to-do" on my list.

There have been a couple of days that I haven't been able to get to everything on my list so the next day I know exactly what I need to do.

Now I am not here to say that my house is now perfect but I definitely feel that I have much more of a handle on it.

So I thought that all my great friend and family that read this blog could also benefit from this. I emailed Deann from Motivated Mom to see if she would be interested in doing a giveaway, and she said yes!

So someone will be able to win one of Motivated Moms products!

So click here and pick look over the products Deann has to offer and she what would work best for you.

You will get a calendar for the rest of the year. Deann is working on the 2010 calendar right now and plans to have it done in October.

To win you just need to leave a comment with your email address so I can get back in contact with you.

I will draw the name of the winner on Friday night around 7pm.

Good Luck!!

Just what I needed

So Friday, I had a melt down.

I was exhausted.

Homeschooling is mentally exhausting.

My boys are physically exhausting.

The mess the resides in my house is overwhelming.

The Lord knew I needed a pick me up.

On Saturday, I was coming into the house from playing with the boys in the backyard and the screen door closed on the heel of my foot.

OUCH!!!

Obscenities were being shouted in my head.

It actually ripped the skin off the back of my heel.

Can we have one week where blood is not included.

Wild Man saw me wince in pain and then turned into Dr. Wild Man.

He ran over to the bathroom and announced that he has Scooby doo and his friends to make me feel better.

He then ran to the couch put a pillow down and told me to lay down and cover my nose.

Translation- lay on your tummy.

He then took the band aid out of the paper and then put it exactly on the "boo boo" all by himself.

Gotta love getting taken care of for once.

Then later on that day.

My little sweet Romeo who has taken his sweet little time to start talking.

Had yet to put two words together and the one words sentences he says is from a very limited vocabulary.

Yesterday I was getting his shoes on and he leaned in close to me and said "Love you mommy."

I then became a large puddle of mush on the ground.

Thank you Lord for that.

My life this week

Oh where to begin.

I started back couponing again and oh how I miss Kroger and Publix.

Then I started homeschooling Wild Man this week.



Romeo joins in on the action when he wants to.

I have never considered myself a teacher type of person. Nor am I a crafty person. But thanks to the wonderful world of google. I have found some great website that are pretty much like homeschooling for dummies. ABC Jesus loves me and Preschool Express


Romeo got his stitches out.



Our great neighbor is an ICU nurse so she offered to take them out for us.

It also rained everyday this week. Yuck.

So we went to Jump Zone.

Wild Man loves it.





Romeo would rather play on things that were more stable and not full of air.

Like a slide.



a fish rocker.



or the good old standby... the ground.



I have always loved pottery barn kids but this week I found a new love... The Land of Nod.

and Romeo found a shopping cart that he walked all around the store with.



He is clearly my child.

Today our playgroup went to Costco.

This may sound like a weird place to take your playgroup.

But the kids really liked it.

Wild Man was not happy about getting his picture taken and Romeo's outfit makes him look like he is going to jail.



Wild Man also wasn't happy about the funny hat he had to wear to go into the bakery.



Romeo thought they were funny.



Then at the end of this long week we all had some frustrations to get out, so we hammered out some chicken.



and I am one tired momma.

Making our grand appearance

When we were getting ready to go to the library Wild Man insisted on wearing his super cape and rain boots.



I was going to get a better picture of my super Wild Man, but the lights in the library went out.

Sometimes it is a good thing not to know anyone in the area yet.

By george I think he likes it

Since the day Romeo was born he has been solely a momma's boy.



His first 6 months of life I was the only one that he would allow to hold him.

Then after 6 months, when he was in a very happy mood, he would then let Mr. Genius hold him and my mom.

Other people were allowed to look at him but not too long though.

Not even kidding people.

So as you can imagine the poor workers at church had a fun time with my little Romeo.

I am not even exaggerating when I say that he would cry the entire 3 and a half hours.

The whole church knew of the little blond haired boy whose hair stood on end and was always screaming while being walked done the hallway in the stroller.

At 15 months Romeo learned that he loved fish crackers more then screaming.

So as long as I put him straight at the table with a pile of fish crackers he would just whine a little.

Then we moved up here and went to a different church every week and my sweet little Romeo turned back into a screaming machine.

We finally decided on a church and have been going there for about a month now.

Today when we dropped Romeo off at the nursery, the sweet little boy who would scream at the thought of me leaving actually reached for the nursery worker and smiled. Then he turned to the worker and pointed to me and said "mama" as if to say that is my mama.

Then I walked away to the sound of him laughing.

That my friends is a miracle.




I am partly happy that he isn't a burden to the nursery workers and I am also sad that my little man is growing up.

We got in!

A few weeks after we moved here, I searched on the internet for a play group. I found 3 in my area. 2 were full and one said that they felt sorry for me for just moving here and not knowing anyone, so they thought they wouldn't mind meeting me.

For security reasons they wanted to meet me somewhere in public rather then someones house, to see if me and my boys would be a good match to their group.

Now I totally understand that they want to make sure that I am not some crazy person who beats their kids or cusses them out for spilling a drop of milk. But either way when we were getting ready to meet then at the Fair I can't say that I wasn't a nervous wreck. I felt like I was rushing for a sorority again. Except there is only one sorority and there were also kids that had to be on good behavior too.

We had a great time at the fair and they waited two whole days to email me back to tell me that they would love for me to join the group.

So today we got to meet the group at someone's house.

We made it in!

The lady's house we went to today had the cutest game for the kids to play. I am not sure exactly what it is called. But the kids would wear these belts and on the back were tails of different animals that can be pulled of easily.

So they just chase each other around and grab each others tails.



I have got to find this game. Have you heard of it? It was a fisher price item.

Wild Man slept for 3 and a half hours when we got home!

This game is my new best friend.



While Wild Man was chasing everyone's tail, Romeo found the cutest girls and sat with them in the sandbox.



So we now have a playgroup and everyone seems really nice!

So I can count on a couple of hours each week where I won't have to be the main form of entertainment.

Two birds with one stone

Due to the boys not able to keep their hands to themselves when in a confined area we have decided to do separate baths.

Tonight Wild Man wanted to read Romeo a book while he was in the bath.