Happy April Fool's Day

This morning, my child asked for me to go get him some Fruit Loops for breakfast. Normally, I would have told him to go get his cereal himself but he batted those beautiful long eyelashes and begged.

So I went in the kitchen and straight to the pantry to get my beloved little man his breakfast all whilst in the dark. I grabbed the big box of Fruit Loops and away to the cabinet I went and grabbed a bowl and started pouring.

To my surprise, when I looked down in the bowl, I didn't see Fruit Loops instead there were Corn Pops. I went and immediately turned on the light and found my little guy standing in the doorway of the kitchen in hysterics. "April Fool's mama!", he exclaimed.

He had apparently gotten up early, early (like waaaaaaayyyyyy before his mama) this morning and went and changed out the cereals. He had apparently come in our bedroom and told his daddy about it at around 5AM or so. I sleep through most everything so I didn't hear anything about it.

I am super proud of him. He got me. He got me and I didn't see it coming. I am not easy to pull one over on.

He has been wanting to play practical jokes on April Fool's day for a couple of weeks now. He was wishing his sister would be in town today so he could play pranks on her. He has been plotting and planning and he got me.

Super proud of him. NOW it is MY turn (insert evil laugh)! It has been a few years since I pulled a good April Fool's joke. Hopefully, I can come up with something before school is out.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

I am a bit afraid

We have bought a lot of things over the Internet in the last couple of years. It took me a while to even buy the smallest of things on the Internet for the longest because I was skeeeeered. And you know there was this one time I bought something I saw on TV and we ended up with all kinds of weird reoccurring charges that took FOREVER to deal with the bank. And I HATE dealing with the bank. I would rather poke my eyes out.

Tonight I bought something that I didn't think I would ever do.....and no I didn't buy anything kinky over the Internet! I did buy a piece of furniture. I bought this lovely DVD holder. It will hold over 500 DVDs.



I am so excited. I will have a place for all of our overflowing DVDs and Cds.

When I was shopping for the one that I wanted I found it a couple of places online. I found it on Amazon for $99 but the shipping charge for it was $104........so you have to pay more shipping than the actual item. I found it at this place that is offering free shipping and no tax until February 2nd.

I am stoked.

I can be handy sometimes

Tonight, hubster and I bit the bullet and bought our first television together. Don't get me wrong. We have TVs. We just have never bought one since we have been together. We got our last TV when hubster traded it for a hard drive about 10 years ago. That TV has seen better days. When you turn it on, it takes about 20 minutes to warm up and stretch the screen out. most times people's heads look like the cone heads.

The TV we found wouldn't fit into our old entertainment center. So we had to find a new one. Once we found it, that meant we had to put it together.

Normally, I put stuff like this together. I have a knack for it Hubster has learned to step back and let me do it or I will get all huffy puffy and shit. He would rather put together the electronics (cause I have NO clue) and his RC toys.

I started putting the TV stand together and after just a couple of screws, hubster had to come rescue me. I was all kinds of messing it up.

See how they have the parts below.


When I pulled the back off of it all the small little parts went flying.

I couldn't even open the box correctly.



After a lot of help from the hubster....we finally got it all together and put up.

Next, we need to figure out what to do with all of the VHS tapes that are sitting on the coffee table, and all the DVDs that are overflowing on the shelf.

A dollar a day can go a long way

My red-headed son has been saving his money for quite a while now for a Sony PSP. Have I told you that he is 7 years old? We have been pricing them for quite a while. They are $169 plain jane or $199 for the console, a game, a movie, some weird download program and most importantly a memory stick. Again, have I told you he is 7?

When I was 7 I was worried about what my friend down the street was doing and when we were going to get to spend the night and watch movies. I wasn't thinking about saving money.

The young'n has been getting money weekly for being good at school by his grandpa. For a while he was getting into trouble daily at school for big things like talking when he wasn't supposed to. You know the really bad stuff. So his grandpa came up with the a dollar a day idea. It has worked like a charm. If he gets into trouble he owes his grandpa a dollar and he doesn't get the dollar a day. Other than the dollar a day he has also gotten money for chores and as well as gifts for Christmas and his Birthday.

He has been fixated on the Sony PSP.....we hear regularly how he wants one and when will he have enough money. I have been amazed at his will power. There have been many things that he has seen that he wants but decided against when it meant he would have to buy it with his own money....cause ya' know he really really wants that PSP!

We went Saturday and took a look at one. Yesterday, the kid and hubster counted all of his piggy bank change to add to his stash and this morning we got up and took his change up to the grocery store and had him change it into dollar bills and then went and got him his brand spanking new Sony PSP. He paid for 75% of it....we pitched in the rest. The smile on his face was priceless!

In the car, he looked over at me and said "I came prepared Mom!" and then pulled out his pocket knife to cut open the box.

The kid is in HEAVEN!

When he got home he pulled everything out and inspected it on the couch.

He even posed for a picture with it. He wanted to sleep with it. Silly boy!

(He also did his own hair this morning....gel and all.)

I did it!

I did it! I did it! I did it! Did you know that I did it? I finished the month and posted everyday. Now I know that not everyday was full of great stuff and some was filler but I finished the month out! I am proud of myself. It was hard!

I plan to continue posting daily just better content.


This is huge for me as I usually start something and then don't finish it for one reason or another. I mean, this is awesome, I even had family here for Thanksgiving and all that jazz during the end of the month.