Posted by: vw bug in Mom, pd
Seems that my son’s mattress cover has a yellow spot on it… permanently. While I like the idea of having allergy bedding in his room for his asthma… It works for asthma kids as well (and I have a ton of allergies)… the cover I have on his mattress got some pee on it who knows when. And after putting real light bulbs in his ceiling fan… I discovered the last time I changed his sheets after bulb change, that the cover has a yellow stain on it. I tried cleaning it with different products and nothing took the stain out. Now I have to decide what to do. I want to remove it, but what product would be best to replace it? Something that won’t absorb pee is nice. Or stain yellow with it. Sigh.
Not like I don’t have enough to do, now I need to research mattress covers and find a coupon for Bed, Bath and Beyond or Target or Walmart… whoever will carry said cover. Yes, we are penny pinching big time right now. Such is life. But we want to take a vacation for spring break and that means no extra money can be spent while we save for the vacation. I’m getting older and wiser. Scary huh?
Child Development Tags: bedding, Mom
It amazes me how quickly they grow up. Look at this silly boy! Click to enlarge.
I asked him to do some ‘GQ’ modeling for me after that… he certainly won’t need any bodybuilding supplements as he gets older… take a look at these muscles!
Or better yet… can’t you picture this on the cover of GQ (Gentleman’s Quarterly Magazine)?
I have to say… I think my youngest must have a good sense of humor to pose for mom. Hard to believe he is only six. Sigh… where did those years go?
Tags: bodybuilding, boys, Mom
Posted by: vw bug in Mom, pd
Life is never boring… but it certainly is becoming overwhelming. I think I just stepped over the ability to handle my work load. Let’s see how it goes this weekend. I hope I can make it through it all… Sigh… and I was having so much fun playing with geometry yesterday…
Why is running a household, being involved in the kids school and trying to earn a little extra money add up to insanity? I just remembered I haven’t regen’d our water system. It’s like a water softener that most people get under the sink but ours is well water and goes through the whole house. I need salt and bleach… ugh… clean the ceiling fans, mop the floor and figure out after scrubbing the boys bathroom why it STILL has a urine smell in it somewhere. And I wanted to do some ‘extra’ stuff. I am out of my mind.
Tags: Mom, water
Posted by: vw bug in Mom, pd
Some days I just wonder about my children and what goes through their heads. The other day while waiting for the bus, the oldest asks me why the earth doesn’t burn up from the center outwards. I have one of those *blink” moments trying to figure out where this came from. I hear the youngest say something about lava and the heat of the center of the earth. Ohhhhhhhhh… Brain is still not kicking in but at least I don’t have to worry about term life insurance prices at Wholesale Insurance because the earth is going to blow up. Then again, I could not for the life of me remember why we aren’t one big ball of lava. Why are we cooler out here? My brain went to water and said something on those lines. Maybe it was the water that kept us cool… Then the oldest came up with … the rain cycle. The rain goes into the earth, helps keep it cool and then goes into the clouds to come down again. Makes sense to me.
Now I have to explain how when you get further away from the heat source it gets cooler and how even though the heat is contained under the mantel and crust… oh this just isn’t going to go well is it? Guess I’ll hit the science books tonight.
Tags: boys, earth, insurance, Mom
Posted by: vw bug in Humor
Ok, I laughed so hard when I read this one… enjoy!
A Blonde goes over to her friend’s house wearing a TGIF Tee-shirt.
Why are you wearing a Thank God It’s Friday tee-shirt on Monday?
“Oh crap!”, the blonde says…….. “I didn’t realize it was a religious T-shirt. I thought it meant T.ts Go In Front.”
Posted by: vw bug in Mom, pd
Today I wrote a couple of emails… one was to my hubby talking about my day… it went like this:
Yesterday I got one and half pages of the yearbook done. Today…
Got shots – check
Vacuumed and steam cleaned living room carpet – check
Vacuumed and steam cleaned couches – check
Sprayed boys rooms and bathrooms with lysol – check
Did dishes – check
Put away laundry and start 2 more loads – check
Got something out for dinner – check
Packed away most of Christmas decorations – check
Did one more page of yearbook – only 46 more to go – sigh
eat lunch – oops… forgot that one
Ok, off to eat lunch and take a break.
While vacuuming I looked up at our ceiling fans in the living room and playroom (so named because of the toys all over it). I remembered why you were suppose to clean top down. I was NOT going to clean the fan blades and then vacuum AGAIN. It will have to wait until next time. Then I realized all the stuff still left to do… I’m going to have to make a list and start checking them off.
Until then, I’m going to have fun playing with my name in Japanese… found this site when I was looking for some scrapbook stuff. My name looks really cool in this program.
Tags: fans, Mom
The boys thought it was really cool to see the spider webs with dew all over them. Hadn’t seen this in a while. Just by chance I had my camera. Take a look (click to enlarge)…
Love the water drops!
Same ‘web’ just made it to another plant nearby.
On the other hand, this one was on our gate. Love this photo!
What a nice way to start a Monday!
I love being around people. My old job was customer service in the telecommunications field. Trust me, I loved it. What I don’t love is supervising small children that aren’t mine. It truly puts me over the edge. Bad enough I’m doing the yearbook which is outside my box, add to it two days of small kids and I’m a goner. I went and made pancakes Wednesday with the youngest class… and yesterday… I went to the zoo and supervised 4 kids. Mine, one other boy and two girls. GIRLS! Egads. No time for the weary either… Then I saw Bou’s post this morning… if I find a decompression chamber, I’ll have to make sure it’s portable so she can use it as well. I think I finally understand an inkling of how she feels. Ugh. I just want total darkness and silence and 12 hours sleep.
Tags: Mom
I might need to look at more home insurance quotes if i keep letting my kids work in the yard. But isn’t he a cutie?
I love the hat and glasses! If that wasn’t enough, look at my oldest! Click to enlarge any of these.
The man with the truck is a friend of mine. He has a yard business and came over to cut some limbs and help get the yard cleaned up. The kids wanted to earn some extra money… win win situation. Of course being boys, they did want to pick up the little limbs… ohhhh noooo…
It was a great time by all this weekend. Just taking me a while to get all the photos and stuff together. I have such good kids. It makes me wonder how they can drive me over the edge so fast! 
Tags: boys, insurance, yards
Posted by: vw bug in Humor
After being married for 44 years, I took a careful look at my wife one day and said: “Darling, 44 years ago we had a cheap apartment, a cheap car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10-inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 25-year-old girl. Now I have a $500,000 home, a $45,000 car, nice big bed and plasma screen TV but I’m sleeping with a 65-year-old woman. It seems to me that you’re not holding up your side of things.”
My wife is a very reasonable woman. She told me to go out and find a hot 25-year-old girl, and she would make sure that I would once again be living in a cheap apartment, driving a cheap car, sleeping on a sofa bed and watching a 10-inch black and white TV.
Aren’t older women great? They really know how to solve your mid-life crisis!
