General Tips

We have been in the car quite a bit the last few days and here are some tips all parent should know and we were reminded of this weekend ....

always have in your car:

10 times the amount of plastic bags you would ever think you could possibly use (you know the ones from when you forgot to use your reusable shopping bags)
1 towel per kid traveling in the car
1 roll of paper towel
package of wet wipes (it doesn't matter how old the kids are)
change of clothes

This weekend we had wet wipes and change of clothes (only because we had stayed in Taylor and still had all our bags in the back of the car)

Addison has been sick and needless to say it would have been soooo helpful to have had a few of the things off this list. Have you seen projectile vomit in movies and thought ohhh that is sooo fake..... well it is not .... I have seen it first hand this weekend and it is sooo real. Poor Eric has been barfed on more times this weekend then anyone would care to in a life time (sorry babe but thank goodness it was not me!!!)

Anyway we will now be prepared with these thing and hopefully we will never need to use them!

*kinda funny a week or so ago this was the conversation in the car on the way to school

Guhn: Hey mom, I know 3 different ways to say throw up
me: Really what are they
Guhn: throw up, regurgitate, and barf
me: oh and don't forget puke
Guhn: oh yeah puke too
me: Guhner where did you learn regurgitate
Guhn: Mom! I am almost out of kindergarten!

Really???

Go ahead and count them ..... SEVEN pairs of shoes on the stairs .... and this was on a good day! As you can see the funny thing about it is that I was a major contributor to this stairway art! The funniest thing to me is that within the last 3 months we have added a shoe rack under the coat hooks and a shoe basket by the front door .... and yet this is where the shoes like to hang out! I hope I am not the only one with stair art like this.

Way to go Guhner!

Guhner finished his jr. suns season on Saturday May 10th. He was very proud of his "real gold" trophy and said that it was him dunking like Michael Jordan! Good job Guhn we are very proud of you!

Hurray!!!

Finally I found our camera cord!!! It magically appeared right in front of my face .... imagine that!

Happy belated Earth Day!

Why Reusable Bags?
(beside the fact that you look super cool when you do!)

A million plastic bags are used every minute worldwide.

In America alone, 12 million barrels of oil and 14 million trees go into producing paper and plastic bags every year.

Plastic bags are NOT biodegradable.

They clog waterways, spoil the landscape, and end up in landfills where they may take 1,000 years or more to break down into ever smaller particles that continue to pollute the soil and water.

Plastic bags also pose a serious danger to birds and marine mammals that often mistake them for food. Thousands die each year after swallowing or chocking on discarded plastic bags. ( I Know we live farther than any human should from the beach .... but I love to visit)

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, more than 380 billion plastic bags are used in the United States every year.

Of those, approximately 100 billion are plastic shopping bags, which cost retailers about $4 billion annually.

Why waste plastic bags?

Choose reusable bags!

Seriously if you pay more than .99 or $1 for them you are dumb .... one time cost ....
everlasting effect on the environment ....

CVS even has them now for .99 (you can even buy them with your EXTRA CARE BUCKS!)

Thats my Girl!

Fortunately and unfortunately I do not have a picture to go along with this story ... anyway a week or so ago I had taken the kids to Chevron (our special treat place) to get either an Icee or an ice cream cone. They had both chosen an ice cream cone .... we were also getting Eric a fountain soda to take home to him. As I am getting the said soda Addison keeps telling me (20 times in 2 sec.) Mommy I dropped some of my ice cream, I turned and saw it was a quarter size drop from her huge waffle cone .... okay Addison just a minute I am trying to get daddy's soda ... she then continues to tell me another 20 times just as I turn around to see her bent over sucking the ice cream off of the floor!!!! SERIOUSLY! I don't know what the hurry was .... she had about 30 times that amount of ice cream in her cone ... or maybe she didn't want to leave a mess (which as soon as I was done getting Eric's soda I would have wiped up with a napkin) Then Guhner says "What mom it made the 5 MINUTE rule"

Honest to BLOG!

Seriously I know!
You have to shoot for the moon to reach the stars ... right???


P.S.
still haven't found camera cord :)

Challenge

So I readily admit I have been really lame at blogging .... I do enjoy it and it is like our family journal ... so I am challenging myself to blog every day in May .... It will be a whole lot easier and more interesting once I find the cord to transfer the pictures from our camera! Any one else who would like to take on this challenge .... go for it! Happy blogging.