Alice is everyone's friend

Are you a busy mom? Agoraphobic? Forgetful? Do you hate to shop? Do you love to shop online? Then read on... (you like the info-mercial feel) :)

A friend of mine pointed me in the direction of Alice.com a wonderful website that helps you keep your house stocked with the essentials without stepping foot out of your home! Alice is a website where you can create a profile of household items that you use, you set the quantity and frequency that you use them, place the order and it arrives in 5 business day via UPS. I place my first order last week (napkins, soap and tampons) just to try it out... I love it. Their prices are about what you would pay at Wal-Mart. From what I can tell, they do not have sales but do offer an online coupon on many items.

It's great for me because I forget that one item every time I go to the store and it's just not worth going back for once I'm home. Now if you coupon as a sport then you would want to use the site for the items you have no coupons for. Another great use... you can send shipments to other addresses. You can send a shipment to someone in need, or as a house warming gift!

Best part (drum roll please......) Shipping is ALWAYS FREE!!!

If you would like to give it a try.... here is my referral info(use it when you sign up):

http://www.alice.com/referral/7EC1F14E

Ouch!!

If you read Facebook then you have already seen these, however, incase you are still checking my blog for updates. Here is our latest.... Owen bonked his head on the couch. It was terrible, but he is fine now. He cried the unmistakeable "I'm hurt" cry. I watched his skin bubble up within a minute. The only treatment I could think of was ice. It wasn't over he temple, it was close but missed his eye. So we iced it with frozen blueberries, I watched him to make sure he had no other symptoms. The swelling was nearly all gone in a few hours. He ate the blueberries and played the rest of the night.

I have a rough and tough boy so I guess I better get used to treating these types of injuries. Now that I think of it, I should probably take some sore of first aid course to be prepared.

18 months already

Ms Charly is now 18 months! She has come of age in the nursery world anyway. I can hardly believe how quickly time has gone by. She is growing so fast. She is already in 2T clothing and has size 7 shoes! Charly went for her check up today. She now weighs 28 lbs and is 34.75 inches tall (that is the 99.39%). She is healthy and happy.

I'm taking her to have portraits done next week, otherwise it is hard to find pictures of her without hair in her eyes or in some kind of mess. This is permanent marker lipstick.

I can't number the many times she has jumped in the tub with all her clothes on. Even if I just dried her off and put her pj's on. Not difference to her, she just really likes to take baths.

Those who know Charly know she is tough stuff. She is a great climber, problem solver, trouble maker, has a good throwing arm and has quite a grip. Despite her boyish talents she has maintained balance in life. Frilly purses stuffed with cars, pig tails with mud on her feet, barbies with transformers and baby dolls covered in choo choo trains. She recently has shown lots of interest in fake makeup, I'm on the look out for one of those cool real genuine plastic sets that I had as a kid.

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So I'm officially OLD. I don't look it. I don't feel it. And I think 30 is far from old. However, now that I'm in college and one of, if not the oldest person in my class, I'm viewed as old. In class tonight the teacher was talking about marriage, birth order etc.... She asked if anyone was married. Just me. Then she asked how many years I said 7 (rounding up a few months 6 and 3/4 years sounds silly to say). When I said that I heard an audible sigh or gasp something like that and 1 whistle. What?!!? Come on people!! How does that make me as old as your mom all the sudden? Although, I did the numbers in my head, about 90% of the class room were in middle school when I was married. Yikes! That does sound very old. I really need to cover up my grey hair before I go back on Tuesday. Maybe throw on a Hanna Montana shirt. :)

This has grown too far....

It's been a few months now, I've lost count exactly how much time has past, since my hair went up in a pony tail. It is so nice to have it out of my face and off my neck. Summer time without pony tails or short short hair is, for me, unbearable. I don't really like the look of my hair all pulled back, I can honestly say that it isn't flattering. But I do it anyway. It's comfortable and soooo easy! I don't even have to torture myself with the hair dryer each day, up it goes and it's forgotten. One other problem with this is that pony tails are like gate way drugs, once the pony tail goes up, the makeup goes down. It's a sad progression but it has happened to me yet again. This time of year is the same as every year. I start looking in the mirror thinking "Geez! What have I done?". So out come the exercise videos, the makeup and a search for a new hair style. After I get it cut I spend the next few months thinking I should have tried some styles with my long locks. I check out the awesome hair styles of the lovely ladies at church and wish I could figure out how they got their hair to do that whatever you call it.

This go round I think I want to go with the Rachel Ray hair cut. I'd like to try it before I go to the tried and true stacked bob that I love so much. However, this time I've committed to trying 10 different styles with my hair before I chop it all off. This past weekend I became the proud new owner of my very own Helen of Troy gold series curling iron. That's right I didn't own a curling iron, I know not very girl-like. I've used it once - without burning myself. My first trial didn't go like planned, it was close, but no. You Tube is very helpful but the instructor is usually doing a models hair. It's not the same.

The styles I'm choosing are inspired by ones I've seen around on people I know and from magazines. Do not ask, because I will not tell you if you inspired a style. I would hate to lose a friend over one of my mishap hair does.

Owen's First Day of School

Owen started the 3-year-old Special Ed program today! He rode the bus with out any problems and was excited to sit by his friend Joe. I had a lot of first day jitters. I kept waking up last night wondering if he would be ok. (Owen slept fine.) Did he understand that he would actually be going to school? And that Mommy was staying home? We went over it many times with drawings and everything. Now that he is off at school I have to stop watching the clock. I even set an alarm on my phone to remind me to go to the bus stop, you know just in case I forgot as I pace the house. I know I need to chill out. I'll be fine as soon as I know that he was fine and that he wants to go back, he will have to even if he doesn't want to. This is a big step for the both of us. As a mom you are constantly caring, protecting, soothing and loving them and then you have to let them do big stuff like this on their own. It's the right thing to do, it's for him, but it's still tough to let go just a little and trust other people to take over for a few hours. I love you Owey! See you at 2:30.

Boom Boom Pow

Our new best friends the Black Eyed Peas have been a fun part of life lately. Owen and Charly go nuts over the Boom Boom Pow song! It's so much fun watching them dance and copy Fergie.

Here is the YouTube link that we use several times a day...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F444CELomo

And Owen dancing.... I'm not sure of the quality of the recording. ??