And this one is the same color as the other one, just different lighting. :)
Pretty amazing, huh!?
Friday, June 28, 2013
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Product Reviews and Cleaning
Tonight I'm going to review a couple items that make my life easier, and right now, easier is essential.
First up, my two cleaning items that are used daily. My handy dandy Shark vacuum and my swiffer sweeper jet.
The Shark vacuum is the best thing ever for keeping my floors cleaned - especially with a little one crawling everywhere. It is very easy, super light, and picks up anything - especially big things like cheerios, dirt, grass, and even things like nuts and bolts. It does a pretty decent job on sand too. Its not a deep cleaning vacuum, but it does all the top stuff. Its so nice to clean the floors in a couple minutes. You can even dump it without having to touch anything dirty. It retails for around $60, but Stephen got it at a resale for under $20. Great purchase!
Second is my swiffer sweeper. I'm not a huge fan of a non-heavy duty mop, but if you clean often, this does the job. It doesn't get super stuck heavy stuff off the floor, but smudges, light spills, and dirty spots it does great. It has replace-able pads, so no rinsing out dirty mops, getting a sink of water for your mop. It has an electric sprayer that sprays out your cleaner, mop and you're done!
Next is my clorox cleaning wipes. I'm not sure why it took me so long to discover these things. Maybe when my son started potty training and cleaning the whole bathroom every time he went wasn't fun?! These are so easy to take one or a couple and wipe down the bathroom in two minutes. That way the bathroom stays clean for company and you don't have to haul out the dirty rags and cleaner. Voila!
Today had a lot of cleaning going on. We cleaned and washed both cars, including cleaning and washing the car seats. Yesterday Micah's new car seat arrived and it made me want to have the other two nice and clean!
The house was filthy but tis now clean, laundry done, the kids and I played water balloons for a long time, and Micah loved sitting on my lap outside with water gently spraying in his mouth. Funny!
I also started couch to 5 k again, and the first workout wasn't fun, but I feel better - looser somehow. I was so hot I felt like I was about to explode, but after playing in the water with the kids it was much better.
Yesterday we went to Hannah and Micah's and the kids had a great time playing in their pool together.
Daniel learned to put his head in the water and blow bubbles! He thought it was great.
Cute little Brookie
Sweet Bethy
Silly Jonathan - he freaked out at first when he got it! Never been in a pool that deep where he could actually touch the bottom. He didn't know what to do! Having not been the most steady on his feet, he finally was ok to be in the floatie.
Crazy Daniel
Saturday, June 15, 2013
What a day!
What a day! It gets so hot here in the house you almost don't know what to do! We have all the fans going, keeping window shades closed, if possible, and it still feels like 150 degrees. It makes it worse if you cook ANYTHING in the kitchen.
Speaking of kitchen, I made a really good ziti casserole, well haven't exactly eaten it yet, from Christine Ha's (masterchef 3 winner) new cookbook. It was an all day affair due to the fact that I had to make my own spaghetti sauce for the recipe and that took 2 hours to cook. I learned how to peel tomatoes - its easy. Cut a x on the bottom of the tomato, dunk them in boiling water for 25 seconds, put them into ice water, and then peel from the x on the bottom. It worked great. And then I bought the wrong sausage, so I had to take the casings off and then grind it up in the blender to get it into small chunks. That worked though. It will be eaten for Father's day tomorrow!
I finally, finally, finally, got out the paint for the boys. I haven't been brave enough to let them paint together, but it actually went really well. They made a mess everywhere, but the paint was super easy to clean off the table and them. I'll have to do it again. They need some paint brushes - I gave them my basting brushes. I managed to get some good finger prints of each of the boys on a page for a father's day card for Stephen.
So I guess I *DID* accomplish something today!
Speaking of kitchen, I made a really good ziti casserole, well haven't exactly eaten it yet, from Christine Ha's (masterchef 3 winner) new cookbook. It was an all day affair due to the fact that I had to make my own spaghetti sauce for the recipe and that took 2 hours to cook. I learned how to peel tomatoes - its easy. Cut a x on the bottom of the tomato, dunk them in boiling water for 25 seconds, put them into ice water, and then peel from the x on the bottom. It worked great. And then I bought the wrong sausage, so I had to take the casings off and then grind it up in the blender to get it into small chunks. That worked though. It will be eaten for Father's day tomorrow!
I finally, finally, finally, got out the paint for the boys. I haven't been brave enough to let them paint together, but it actually went really well. They made a mess everywhere, but the paint was super easy to clean off the table and them. I'll have to do it again. They need some paint brushes - I gave them my basting brushes. I managed to get some good finger prints of each of the boys on a page for a father's day card for Stephen.
Friday, June 14, 2013
Sooo, I'm not even going to look at what my last post was, or how long ago I posted it.
Its been a long time, I know.
BUT, in other news, here's what we've been doing! Recently we went to the zoo and got really hot! I let the boys play in the splash park, but there were so many people Daniel didn't know what to do. Oddly enough, he's not a fan of being around tons of people. He followed Jonathan around! The zoo had a lego display of animals that was really cool! Check them out!
We've been swimming a few times which is always really nice. Been learning the art of grilling/smoking food! Yum yum!
Micah is learning to speed crawl around the house and follow me around! Aaagh! He's only sat a couple times, but its because he never stays in one place long enough to actually sit. Unless he's found a cord to chew on... I'm now having to make sure everything is off the floor. I'm not ready for him to be this mobile. He's just a baby! Crawling at 5 months!
Daniel's favorite way of talking at the moment is like this: "Sooo, Momma....blah blah blah...." "Soooo, we need to...blah blah blah" Everything starts with "sooooo." I wonder where he gets that from?
Its been a long time, I know.
BUT, in other news, here's what we've been doing! Recently we went to the zoo and got really hot! I let the boys play in the splash park, but there were so many people Daniel didn't know what to do. Oddly enough, he's not a fan of being around tons of people. He followed Jonathan around! The zoo had a lego display of animals that was really cool! Check them out!
We've been swimming a few times which is always really nice. Been learning the art of grilling/smoking food! Yum yum!
Micah is learning to speed crawl around the house and follow me around! Aaagh! He's only sat a couple times, but its because he never stays in one place long enough to actually sit. Unless he's found a cord to chew on... I'm now having to make sure everything is off the floor. I'm not ready for him to be this mobile. He's just a baby! Crawling at 5 months!
Daniel's favorite way of talking at the moment is like this: "Sooo, Momma....blah blah blah...." "Soooo, we need to...blah blah blah" Everything starts with "sooooo." I wonder where he gets that from?
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