Camera? What camera?

As I mentioned before, this past weekend was busy! The busiest I have been in a long time!

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SaturDay the kids and I attended a birthday party for one of my friend's, ALH, little girl. She turned 3, Friday! I forgot to take my camera, so I had to steal borrow a couple of pictures from her sister's FB page!

(Bubba chilling at the party)

(The Birthday Girl)

(The Birthday Girl's beautiful mommy)
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As we were unloading at home after the party, my BF, LMR, and her hubby,BR, pulled up to hang out with us. They are both in their last year of pharmacy school in LR so we don't get to see them very much. They are planning to move back here after they graduate school though..so I will get to see them more! We got to hang out for a couple of hours, then I had to load the kids back in the car, and take them to stay with my cousins and aunt while I attended Hubby's cousin's Bachelorette Party!!

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We had SOOOO much fun!! I have not laughed that hard in forever. Of course, I have problems sometimes with the whole "not thinking before I talk" syndrome...and that set off a whole chain of laughter, that made everyone cry! We played a couple of funny as heck games, and got one on video. I didn't take my camera to that party either, though...what the heck!

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Sunday, Father's Day, Hubby was off of work. So we got to spend ALL.DAY with him! That morning we got ready and went to church with his family. Then we headed down south to eat lunch with my grandpa and most of my family. (My parents and sisters are still gone to the beach!) I did take my camera down there, but forgot I had brought, so I didn't take any pictures AND I left it there! UGH..what is my deal?!?!?

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After we left Pop's house, we came home so that Bubba could take a short nap, and Hubby could wash his car. Then we walked up the hill to our neighbor's house, to visit their daughter, son-in-law, and grand kids...their son-in-law, JM, is Hubby's BFF. Still no camera!

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Then we had to be at Hubby's dad's house for dinner with the family. It was actually us, his dad, step-mom, both sisters, one brother, (Hubby's the oldest of 6 kids-2 sisters and 3 brothers), and then his step-mom's family. She had her parent's one of her brothers, 2 of her sisters, and 2 nephews there (she has another brother and sister that were not there). We had a lot fun there too! His dad is a nut, and always has us laughing and entertained...yes, it runs in the family!! LOL. And NO, I still didn't have my camera!!

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Today, Hubby has to work late, so the kids and I are going to go down to my parent's house and clean a little bit while they are gone. No, I am not that sweet! I had to borrow some money from them, but Mom just told me to go clean the house while they were gone, and she would pay me in advance for it. So I'm going down today to work on it a little bit, then we will go down tomorrow when Hubby is off work again, to clean some more, and swim. Hubby will probably go fishing. I MAY remember my camera tomorrow once I get it back...but we will see!

Kids say the darndest things

I just had to post this before I forgot:

Sissy made this little Bible stories book at church a couple of weeks ago. She calls it her Bible. Well this morning she laid it down, in Bubba's reach, so he grabbed it. She threw a fit, screaming and yelling at him, "My Bible, Bubba! Let Go! Give me my Bible!! Give it to ME!!!" All while he still has a huge grip on it, yelling back at her. She finally gets it from him and tells him, "Tank You" so very calmly. He's still screaming because she took it away. She's standing beside him, and he's crying...looks at the book, looks at her, looks at the book, looks back at her and hits her! LOL!

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Yes, it's cute now, because she's not even three yet, and he's almost 1!! In a few years, it's probably not going to be so cute! Shortly after that happened, Sissy was standing behind him by the couch, and he leans back on her, just smiling. She kisses him on the forehead, he turns around and kisses her right back! See, they do love each other!!

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Yesterday, we took the kids to my parents house so that they could swim and Hubby could go fishing. It turned out a lot different than what I anticipated. Sissy is usually the one that loves the water and going swimming. Bubba, on the other hand, is the one that doesn't like the water..if it is colder than his bath water. So I was very much surprised when the roles were switched. Sissy clung to me, screaming at the top of her lungs, the whole time she was in there. I put Bubba in a Baby Float and he floated around the pool just chilling. He even figured out that if he kicked his legs, he could make it around the pool quicker! I wish I would have had my camera...but I wouldn't have been able to handle both kids and my camera by myself! Sissy sat on the pool ladder and just watched us. She would kick her feet in the water a few times, but refused to get back in with us. Darn her!

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My parent's are leaving today, probably as I type this, to go to the beach. My sisters are going with them...my sister, W, and her family, my sister, J, and her family, and then my little sister, C. They are going to have so much fun! We would have loved to go with them, but there would have been no way. Hubby just took a vacation last month, and he's taking another one at the end of July when his mom comes in from Florida!! I'm hoping that next year the kids will be old enough to take them down there. Maybe...

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My weekend is going to be long and busy, I am hoping to remember to take pictures. We will see if I remember my camera!! LOL

What kind of mother....?

Have you ever met a "lazy" mom?

You know the ones that have a kid, who is almost 3 and still wears a diaper because the mom is too lazy to work with them when it comes to potty training?

Or maybe the one that has a baby that is about to be 1 and yet still has a bottle about 4 times a day because the mom is too lazy to sit down and feed the child?

Yeah, me either!

Sissy still wears diapers because it's a fashion staple. I mean really, her pants would fall down to her ankles if it wasn't for the bulge from the diaper.

And Bubba, well he still gets a bottle because I am just so BUSY to sit down and feed him. Between, keeping the house clean, and chasing the both of them around...it's a job in itself.

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"Really?" you ask...no not really. I AM that lazy mom!!

But I have some excuses:

Sissy isn't potty trained because she refuses. I try and work with her, but she just yells and screams at me about. She will go every so often, but it's more of a battle..that I am NOT willing to fight with her over. In my own opinion, I think it would be harder to train her, fighting with her, than if we waited until she was ready.

As for Bubba and the bottle..well, I actually just realized today that he will be a year old a month from yesterday AND he's still on the bottle. With Sissy, we broke her from hers cold turkey. Really! She went for her 9 month check-up at about 10 months and the doctor told me that he would like to see her broke from it by a year. So that night, we went home and she hasn't had one since! Poor child was a trooper. She had to have withdrawals from it, but never showed it!

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I can't believe that these are things that could be easily taken care of, if I just applied myself. I spend most of my time on the computer, watching TV, cleaning house, cooking breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks, and playing with the kids. I tend to neglect the fact that my daughter, who will be 3 in October, still wears a diaper and that my son, who will be 1 next month, still has a bottle.

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What kind of mother am I?

The kind that loves my children more than the thoughts and feelings of the rest of the world!

Livin' on a Prayer

I sooo had this awesome idea for a post, but can you believe that I actually forgot what it was about?? Well, believe it!
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I have had so much going on this past week, that it totally slipped my mind. So I will just do what comes naturally....ramble blog on-and-on about something you probably care less about.
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I have been praying, as well as most of my family and church family, about getting Hubby in church. When he has a Sunday off, which is hardly ever, we do usually go...but we go to his family's church. It wouldn't be so bad, but I NEVER get anything out of going there. I spend most of my time chasing kids around the small, mostly family or close to it, country church. They really don't have a preacher, at least not one that is there EVERY Sunday, so the deacons read straight from the Bible...I mean verbatim! Maybe I am just spoiled by my home church. Where the kids go to the nursery, and I can focus all my attention on the Preacher and God's Word. That and I love everyone, almost, there! They are my family!!
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Anyways, back to praying for Hubby...I don't know if it is quite working yet, he shows no change in wanting to join us, but I'm not giving up. And neither is Sissy! This past Sunday evening, we were leaving to go to the church so that I could help the Drama Ministry Team, Hubby thought he was going golfing, and the kids, of course, were going to be in the nursery. Sissy was asking begging for Hubby to come with us. Of course, I knew there was no point in it, church wasn't even going on. I'm hoping that the next time he has the day off, he will go with us to our church. *crossing fingers*
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Tuesday evening, my cousin K, came over to sit with the kiddos while Hubby and I went on a movie date. We went and watched Terminator: Salvation. It would have been better, I think, if we would have watched it in a theater better than our rinky dink one here in town. In fact, it was not a fun experience...figures since it was the first "date" Hubby and I have had in quite sometime. The couple behind us had about 5 kids with them, who I could hear whispering more than the movie. One of the kids made some noise right in my ear..literally..that I thought he was about to puke all over me. Hubby and I did know the mom though, so we just sat and dealt with it. There was another couple, an older couple, that sat to the right of us one row up, that kept talking during parts like they were at home. I mean the man was repeating things that he thought was funny, the lady was screaming during parts then had to explain why she screamed. And then to top it all off, when there was about 30-45 minutes left of the movie, it messed up and went off!! We had to wait for about 15 minutes for them to fix it and get it back up and running!
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Wednesday nights, as I had mentioned before, I help with the 4th and 5th graders. I am in charge of snacks and activities...I sure hope that gets better. I have got to figure something out, because it was waaay to stressful and unorganized. Of course, it doesn't help that it was my first time doing something like that and I was a little nervous. When we had 5th and 6th graders, I lead the singing..so the kids didn't have to really "listen" to me. Now they do!! I am hoping it gets better though, I just keep praying about it.
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Yesterday the kids and I went and got Hubby's paycheck, payed bills, and bought groceries. Not a big deal normally, but we were out of EVERYTHING at the house. From toilet paper and toothpaste to milk and bread. That adds up! A lot!
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Today the kids and I are taking it easy. Tomorrow I have Hubby's cousin's bridal shower to attend. I am looking forward to that!! I will meet her future sister-in-law, who I have be-friended through Facebook and on blogger, for the first time! I have realized that a few of the people that I have be-friended not only on here, but on Facebook as well, I haven't actually met. That wouldn't be so odd, except that we either live in the same town/county (whole county is smaller than the city of Little Rock!), you used to live here, or you were even good friends with Hubby's family...KIM!
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Kim lives here, teaches school at my Alma Mater (elementary), and used to be good friends with my sister-in-law. Yet, we haven't actually met face to face...what's up with that?!?! One day, Kim, one day!
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Anyways, I better get off here. The kids are hungry, I'm hungry, and Aunt Flo decided to make her visit yesterday, which means I'm in pain today! Whew...I haven't even done anything and I am already tired!!!

Am I that boring?!?!

I have come to realize that I lead a pretty boring life. I have not had a post since the 1st of June...and it's because nothing worth blogging about happened. Well not really anyways.

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We did take attempted to take the kids fishing this past Tuesday. We went three different places to no avail. The first place we went, the water was too low. The second place we went, the only place we could get close enough to the water for Hubby to even be able to cast was the boat drop-off. And all he caught was a bunch of moss and weeds! The third place we went, he actually was able to get far enough out, but the fish weren't biting.

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I was able remembered to take my camera and got some cute pictures of the kids...in the car. We let Sissy out so she could play in the water, but Bubba doesn't like water if it's colder than his bath water. We had his little Horsey Jumper Seat and let him play in it.

(The kids before leaving the house...I don't have a clue as to why both of them had their fingers in their mouths!)

(My pretty princess)

(Bubba's new pose!)

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Wednesday night was the first night with our new group at church. Instead of 5th and 6th graders we have 4th and 5th graders. They also went ahead and moved up, so it's actually the kids that are going INTO the 4th and 5th grades now. So we don't have even 1/2 of our group anymore. It's all new kids. It's going to take some getting used to for us, and the kids.

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Today Hubby was off work, and the local festival that is held the first weekend of June every year started today. So we took the kids and checked it out. It was okay, but a lot of the contest and stuff that we like start on Saturday. We really wanted to check out the Car, Truck, and Motorcycle Show, but it starts tomorrow!

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They also have a baby crawling contest, and we thought about entering Bubba..thing is, he refuses to crawl anymore! He will crawl to some place where he can pull himself up, then he wants to walk. My baby is growing up!!

(Bubba-Man walking from Dad to Mom!!)

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(This is a pose that Sissy picked up while at my niece's dance recital a few weeks ago! So cute!)

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And yes! I do know that in the last two pictures both my kids are just in their diapers, but it's bedtime, and that's how they sleep during the summer!! So back -off all you haters!! :)
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I'm hoping that my weekend is not as boring as the past ones have been. Of course, when your broke, there's not much you can do!

Series of Uneventful Events

Have you missed me? Probably not... I'll kinda catch you up, on my UN eventful weekend.
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This past Thursday, May 28th, we took the Zone 56ers and the youth to Magic Springs for the day. We, the Zone 56 crew, had about 25 kids...and 5 chaperones. My brother and SIL took a group of about 7 kids, our director took a group of 12...don't know why he put himself thru that, and myself and another wonderful lady took a group of 6 girls. I think we had the most fun...actually out of all the chaperones, I think we are the only ones that had fun! Our group of girls were awesome! They weren't dragging us everywhere, or whining, of fighting about were to go, in fact I think we, the chaperones, were dragging them from ride to ride! LOL!! I connected with our group of girls, and it saddens me that I didn't get a chance to do that before now...their last time with us! Our church decided to change it from Zone 56 (5th and 6th graders) to C45 (4th and 5th graders). So, we get a whole new group of kids!
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Friday and Saturday, were pretty uneventful. The kids and I sat around the house, and didn' t do a thing!!
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Sunday, yesterday, was church. Last night, we were supposed to have drama rehearsal, but we only had 4 kids there. I'm guessing since it was the Lord's Supper night, alot of them thought we weren't having practice, darn kids!! LOL I'm stressing a little over this drama thing right now, so please pray for me. Last night, I also agreed to teach the Preschool class in VBS. I am was soooo looking forward to that. Until I realized this morning that I the same time we are have VBS, is the same week that my MIL is coming in from Florida to spend their week of vacation here. :(
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I'm going to have to do a LOT of praying on this one. I would love to do VBS, but I would also love to see my in-laws. Sounds weird? It's not...I love my in-laws! My mother-in-law has 3 boys and 1 girl. The daughter and her are not that close. My MIL treats me like her own daughter, always has. In fact Hubby and his youngest brother, who's only a month younger than me, always jokes that she loves me more than them!! And she tells everyone that if, Lord forbid, anything ever happened between Hubby and I, they were trading him in! That they would keep me, and quit talking to him. HAHA
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Today I get to see my former pastor's wife. They moved to OK from here so that he could preach at another church about 7-8 years ago. It was hard on me for them to leave. Her and I were/are really close. I talked to her about a lot of different things. Since she left, I have only talked to her a little bit over Facebook and such. I'm excited to see her...she hasn't met the kids yet, either or them. So it will be nice. I will try and remember my camera to take lots of pictures!!

She's a big girl now (almost)

Yesterday was Memorial Day, and Hubby and I took the kids out to the mountains for a family get together. The last time that I had been out to my aunt and uncle's cabin, the roads were pretty rough. I couldn't get my low-sitting SUV down there! With all the rain, I just knew it was going to be a LOT worse. So we took my dad's flatbed diesel truck...bad idea!
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It rode rough, we bounced all over the place in that thing!! Both of the kids were asleep, in their carseats, in the back seat. How, I have no idea! Once we got to the river, I realized that we could have brought my car! Figures!! Also realized that I had forgotten my camera! Unbelievable!!!
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We has good eats and a wonderful visit with family. Right after we had eaten, some of our church family had pulled up on their four-wheelers...so that was fun! The kids got to play, the adults got to visit, and everyone, hopefully, had a wonderful time.
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Sissy is thisclose to being a big girl now!! Hubby decided that she needed her own bed, she's 2 1/2 and has been sleeping with me since the day she was born! We have his grandfather's old full-sized old wooden bed, just no mattresses for it. So on the last day of his vacation, we went to Wal-Mart and bought a coil mattress and some Dora sheets for it. The first night, she slept half the night in it, then woke up screaming for me. She did that for awhile, or slept with me all night.
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Sunday night I told her that she WAS sleeping in her OWN bed. I laid with her until she fell asleep, and then went to my own bed. She woke up around 430am crying for me, so I went and laid with her until she fell back asleep. Then out I went. Last night, I laid with her until she fell asleep, and then got up. When she woke up crying for me, I noticed it was brighter than normal..it was 730am! She slept all night long, by herself, in her own bed! Not only did she sleep all night long, so did Bubba! Wow...and yet, I'm still exhausted! LOL
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Now, I am just waiting for her to be ready to potty train. She is almost there, she tells me every so often that she wants to go potty in the toilet, but not all the time. Until then...

My Week in Review

Since Hubby has went back to work after a week long vacation, things have been pretty quiet around the house. With the lack of moola, the kids and I haven't done much of anything but sit at home.
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Friday, Hubby's last of vacation, we had a garage sale and made enough money to order lunch from a local BBQ/steak place. I told him that's what I wanted for my birthday, a nice meal that I didn't have to cook.

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Saturday, he went back to work. Sunday, was church and I felt led to help with the new drama ministry that my uncle, who is also the youth minister, had started back up. At the end of the team meeting, he asked me if I would want to lead the group. I, of course, said yes. I had wanted to start a drama team before I knew that he was starting one, and was/am pumped to help!!

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Wednesday was my 27th birthday, and it was nice to just spend time with Hubby and the kids. Even though it was a church night, all that was going on was Senior Recognition. We didn't have Zone 56, so I decided to stay home with my family.

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Thursday, Hubby was off work. While he mowed the back yard, the kids and I sat outside in the garage. Sissy rode her bike in the driveway, Bubba played in his horsey jumper, and I worked played on my laptop while syncing my iPod. Once Hubby was done mowing the back yard, we took the kids Sissy to swim in their little blow up pool. Bubba hates water if it's colder than what his bath water is, so he didn't get in for more than 30 seconds! After Sissy swam it was nap time.

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After nap time, my BFF and her DD, came over to deliver my birthday card and her DD's birthday party invite. It wouldn't have been that big of a deal, but her and I haven't seen each other for more than a few months. Yeah, it's been that long. She left, and we had to get ready for a very important event...my little sister's 6th grade graduation! She was valedictorian of her class, even though there was only 30 kids in her class, it's still a big accomplishment. She was the only one of her class that got straight A's all year long!! I recorded her giving her speech, which btw was awesome!, but can't seem to figure out how to turn it right side up...figures!

(My beautiful little sister)

(Getting her diploma)

(I am such a proud big sister!)

(My sister and all her nieces and nephews...yes even the boy at the end is her nephew!)

(Aunt C and Bubba)

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Friday was boring, we didn't do a single thing. We did watch the NBA Playoffs between the Cavs and the Magic...GO CAVS!!! I watched the whole game with Hubby, until the last second, literally, when the Cavs were down 2 points. I thought it was over, so I went to lay down with Sissy, in her bed, and missed it. Hubby yelled, then told me that we won! What?!?! How is that possible? He replied with one word...LeBron! Ahhh...that explains it!!

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Today is Saturday, and the kids and I have been watching the Jon and Kate Plus 8 marathon on TLC. Even with all the controversy, Sissy and I still love to watch it. Even though Kate can be mean to Jon sometimes most of the time, they are normal people. Jon does/says things that Hubby sometimes does/says and the way that Kate responds sometimes, is the way I would "like" to respond. But never would!!

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Tomorrow is Sunday, and our first rehearsal for the drama ministry's first skit. I am so excited to take on this new adventure, I just hope that the kids teens are just as excited. I also hope that they will listen to me and take productive criticism well from someone that they may not, probably don't, know.
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Monday is Memorial Day, and Hubby is off work!! YAH!! My aunt and uncle have a place out in the mountains that we go to for family functions like Memorial Day and Fourth of July, during the summer. There is a creek/river that runs through the land, and they moved an old house that was once my great-grandparent's, I think, out there, by hand, wood plank by wood plank. We are planning on taking the kids out there for lunch and to swim, and lots of family time. I'm sure Hubby's excited...

It's not just my birthday!

27 years ago, on this day~May 20, 1982, a tiny baby was born.

That tiny baby progressed into a young child.

Then she grew into a young lady.

Next, she became a mother to 2 wonderful kids!!

Today is my birthday. It is also the day that my mother became a mother. When my daughter, born in October 2006, had her first birthday, it was also a special day for myself. It marked the anniversary of the day that I became a mother. A very prestigious honor. Not everyone can call themselves a mother.

So that is why today I don't want to just say it's my birthday, I also want to say, it's my mom's anniversary of becoming a mom! She made me who I am today. I learned so much from her growing up, and try to instill them in my every day life. I just hope that when my daughter grows up, she can say the same thing about her mother.

Swoon Giveaway!

You got to check out this blog. It's called Swoon. They are doing a giveaway for a $25.oo gift certificate to ecostore USA.
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Now, I'm one of those people that would love to do more for Mother Earth, but just never do. I don't recycle, though I need to. I use disposable diapers instead of re-usable, it just grosses me out to have to wash nasty poopie diapers. I try, but now that I could do better. I am hoping that if I win this give-away, I can/will start doing better. If not, I will have to make a concious effort to do it on my own. I do have it on my list that the next time I have to buy dishwashing liquid that I buy the Greenworks brand. That's a start, right?!?!