Remember a while back when I blogged about a friend raffling off a gift certificate to Canvas on Demand? Well we won that raffle and ordered our Canvas, two to be exact, and we love them. The boys love saying bye-bye to the babies on the wall. If you are interested Groupon is having a [...]
Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category
Free closet organizer!
Okay it isn’t really an organizer, but it was a free and easy fix for the boys’ closet. When I lamented on Facebook about not having a dresser big enough to fit the boys’ t-shirts so they could pick their own, a friend suggested a free, easy fix. A pole with rope! Wouldn’t you know [...]
Laminator Deal
I heard about this deal over at Tot School and thought I would share with you. I was also in the midst of setting up affiliate links with amazon for another project I am working on (more on that later) and thought I would give them a test spin here. I promise I will not [...]
Totrags Contest!
Win a $75 Gift Certificate! Totrags is having another contest. They are giving away three $75 gift certificates. The products are great, and $1 from every single item goes to cancer research.
Green Bee
As many of us know buying fresh produce for our families can be pricey. Thanks to my neighbor, I recently discovered Green Bee Produce. Basically you get a box of produce for $18.50 and $2.00 of that goes to the school where you pick it up. It is very nice produce, but it is not [...]
boys
I know I say this often, but i am really proud to be a dad of two little boys. I daily look forward to seeing them play, as the little toddlers they are, but also look forward to the shenanigans of 8 year olds. What Is a Boy? By Alan Beck Between the innocence of [...]
matt broke it
so i moved the blog to another server. and the DB pooed. not like stephs no pooing post. i hope it all works, we may need to find a new way to have email subscriptions, as that was one of the major explosions on the database.
NaBloPoMo
I had been kicking around the idea of participating NaBloPoMo again, but hadn’t decided what I was going to do. It was late last night, the first day, and I decided I wanted to, but realized that meant I would have to post, and I was too tired. Boy was I relieved when I realized [...]
Our Government at Work
The other day we received a replacement property tax notice in the mail. It explained that because the Governor and the Legislature have been unable to agree upon legislation to address funding for schools, and that the Governor vetoed the most recent funding option on September 4, 2009. This veto resulted in a change in [...]
Cooler weather shocks new mom!
Fall has finally arrived in Arizona and the mornings and evenings are a bit cool, not too bad, but enough I should put some pants on my kids. Long sleeve shirts, check! Sweat shirts, check! Jackets, check! Ummm, pants not so much. We do own two pairs (each) in 12 months, and after much digging [...]
Diaper Debate
The diaper pictured above is currently causing a debate in our house. One of us thinks it is girlie and the other thinks it is unisex. I won’t say who thinks what. I am asking you the reader to end this debate. Please let us know what you think, girlie or unisex?
Buy Nothing Challenge *Edited
Matt and I have decided to participate in Crunchy Chickens Buy Nothing Challenge for the month of August. Recently we realized our spending had gotten a little out of hand (I am blaming it on the exhaustion, I give in more easily when tired) and had a discussion of reeling it in , and this challenged [...]
Making Laundry Soap
Recently I ventured into laundry soap making. Stacie posted this recipe on a yahoo board a while back and I finally gave it a try. The cost is significantly less than what I was using before and it was super easy to make. Matt helped me and I think it took the two of us [...]
driving in ethiopia
driving in ethiopia is pretty rough. Its a contact sport thats for sure. I would say if you combined rugby, with tetris, and then while driving a car. This was a light traffic day. other days were more intense. Too bad there isn’t “smell-o-vision“. You really need to be taking in diesel fumes to really get [...]