Wordless Wednesday: Fun in the fountain

Wordless Wednesday~ Fun in the fountain

 Linking to: Angry Julie Monday

Life is too short

Last night I let the kids stay up late and as I was putting them to bed husband and I received a phone call that no one ever wants to get.  The daughter of some friends of ours died last night.  She was twenty years old and we both literally watched her grow up.  I cannot even begin to describe how horrified I am.  Husband works for her family, her mom is the one that gave all my daughters their first haircut, and we watched her as a little girl dance at our wedding.  I am absolutely devastated and I know that what I am feeling right now is not a drop in the bucket to what her family must be going through.  I was up all night crying just thinking about how unfair it is.  Sophie crawled into my bed and I just sat there and stared at her in all her sweetness and as she snuggled up to her daddy I went into Kylie and Audrey's room and lay down next to them.  Kylie immediately scooted over next to me and put her hands in my hair, something that she used to do as a baby to get herself to sleep.  I think I have hugged and kissed them a million times already and I'm sure I'll do it a million times more. 

Fantastic Find Friday! Scotch-Brite Stainless Steel Cleaner Starter Kit

I love to try new things whether it be a cool new website, food, brand of clothing, book, you name it so I thought that I would start posting about my fantastic finds on Fridays.  If you would like to do the same I invite you to post a link here so we can all get in on the fun! Btw, I am not being paid to advertise so please don't think I am spamming, I'm just a mom that loves to find new and interesting things and like to pass them along. 
Today's find is a little something I stumbled across the other day while I was in Marshalls browsing.  It's the Scotch Brite Stainless Steel Cleaner Starter Kit.  

Like just about everyone else in the U.S we have stainless appliances in our kitchen (minus our piece of crap lovely stove).  When our fridge kicked the bucket on us a few years ago husband and I thought that we would replace it with stainless and hey, while we're at it why not replace the dishwasher as well? Yeah, not so smart if you have three kids under the age of six.  Those things gather finger prints and smudges like nobodies business.  So when I saw the Scotch Brite cleanser I snagged it.  As I said, I found it in Marshalls so it was only $4.99, I'm not sure what the regular retail is, but it has definitely been worth more than $4.99.  You just pop the cleaning pad on and rub it across the surface you want clean and you are done.  Very easy to use, even husband can do it.  So do you have a fantastic find to share this week?  Leave a link!

The birthday girl

Yesterday my Audrey Grace turned six. 

 *Sniff* I always get so sentimental around my babies birthdays.  I love to watch my children grow and learn and do new things, but it's so hard knowing they won't be little much longer. Normally we wait until the weekend to do birthday parties, but since it just so happened that daddy was off yesterday we decided to do it after school on the day of.  We don't really do the big birthdays around here.  We tried it a few times before and it never worked out well.  One year we rented a playplace only to have one child from school show up.  Total waste of money. Then another year we decided to have the party at our house and invite a bunch of children and then once they arrived I remembered, 'oh yeah, there's a reason we've never done this before.  Our house is too small!' So now we generally stick to just having cake and ice cream with the grandparents and if aunts, uncles, cousins want to stop in that's fine, but more often than not they don't.  Anyway,  my parents, my brother and niece showed up and a good time was had by all.  Audrey finally got a few Princess Tiana things, a new webkinz jr. , and her first American Girl doll.  I think out of everything she got though she was most excited to get the money that daddy slipped in her card. 

 

Smart girl, isn't she?

Pardon my progress?

Sorry I know my blog looks like a big ol mess right now.  I was trying to change backgrounds and now everything is all messed up.  Hopefully I'll be able to work on it and get it somewhat presentable soon.  Hopefully.  If not I may be sending out a cry for help post.

Taking personal day

Cold, wet morning and my computer is acting sixteen kinds of funky.  I think Super Sophie and I are going to stay in today and play hooky.  Sounds good, no?

Monday musings

1. I love to hear my children laugh.  This morning Sophie was laughing in her sleep.  I love it, it makes me wonder what she was dreaming about. 
2. Husband and I took the the girls skating for the first time yesterday (well technically not for Audrey, she had been to a birthday party once, but this was the first time for all of them).  Afterwards we took them to the Marble Slab for some overpriced ice cream.  Kylie told me it was the best day ever.  
3. I hate wii.  I've never been a fan of video games of any sort, but after hearing so many raves on this thing I told husband (stupid me!) that I thought we should buy one for Christmas this past year.  Naturally being male he jumped on the idea.  I despise that machine so much.  Not only does it look stupid sitting next to my television, but the kids want to play it all the time.  This weekend I took their disks and hid them and told them they needed to either read a book or go play with their toys.  Kylie read a book for a little while and then later I found her and her sisters playing with their groovy girl dolls and American girl dolls that had been gathering dust forever.  Mommy was happy.
4. One of my babies has a birthday this week.  It's always so bittersweet for me when their birthdays roll around.  I love to watch them change and grow, but at the same time want to keep them little forever. 
5. Duke won last night.
6. I might have to go to walmart to buy spray paint today.  I despise that store.  Target, why can't you carry spray paint? 
7. I ordered a new coffee table, two side tables and a console table for my living room.  Super excited, can't wait for them to arrive.
8. Had a phone call from someone at the police department first thing this morning.  Scared the hell out of me.  Something to do with a theft where husband works. 
9.  Just started reading a new book.  It's titled Deeper Than the Dead and is by Tami Hoag.  I don't think I've ever read any of her work before.  I'm enjoying it so far.  It takes place in 1985 and I'm getting a kick out of that.  Ah, the memories.
10. I think I'm going to crawl back in bed and snuggle with Sophie for a few minutes before she decides to wake up.

Have a great week everyone!