What’s on your honey to do list that never seems to get done?  I know I’ve got a ton of stuff.  Here’s a short list of mine:

1.  Clean and organize my attic.  This area seems to get worse and worse and even more cluttered.

2.  Clean and organize the junk room in my basement.  When we redid the basement 2 yrs ago, we threw everything in that room.  Well, it’s still there!!!!

3.  The house getting a good cleaning.  I always say I’m going to hire somebody to do this and I never do.  And I don’t do it either.  :)  My house gets weekly cleanings but I want somebody to clean the top of the fridge and all the stuff I hate doing!

4.  Landscaping in the yard.  I’ve started this but man it’s a lot of work.  I have a feeling that most of my plans aren’t going to get done, but hey, they look great in my mind!

5. Painting my fence. It looks pretty bad and nobody wants to do it!

That’s my list! What’s yours? Let me know here or on Twitter Moms!

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When I was invited to attend The International Housewares show, I was super excited.  I was invited by both the Housewares show itself and also CLR.  What’s CLR?  It’s an awesome cleaning solution.  When we lived in Aurora, IL, we had the hardest water EVER.  Okay, maybe not the worst in the world, but it would leave that pink gross grimy stuff in our tub and sinks.  Nothing, and I mean nothing, ever worked to get rid of it.  That is, until I was introduced to CLR.  We used CLR exclusively, so I was happy to and represent them.  I even got to be their roaming reporter.  Here are a couple of the videos I made with them:

I’d recommend checking CLR. It was awesome! Here a few of the pictures I took while I was there:

A great time was had by all!

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We changed the batteries and Madison’s Leapster tonight.  However, the pen/stylus quit working.  Here’s how to fix it:

1) Ensure that a cartridge is not inserted
2) Hold down the Hint button while turning the unit on
3) When the LEAPSTER menu screen appears, press the A button
4) Touch each of the crosshairs that appear with the stylus
5) Restart unit

I’m listing it here for others and for myself, if it happens again.

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Bill and I had a date night out on Friday night.  We were eating breakfast (kid free) on Saturday morning, and our conversation went something like this:

ME:  Where’s your wedding ring?

BILL:  I lost it.  Like 2 years ago.

ME:  WHAT!!??!!

Now, we were in a restaurant so I couldn’t have a huge hissy fit, but my god!  Everyone who I’ve talked too thinks it is funny that I didn’t notice for 2 years.  However, you have to understand that on many job sites, Bill isn’t allowed to wear his band.  He also takes it off golfing.  And seriously, how often do you check your husband’s hand?  (I know you all went and checked right now.  Admit it.)

I’m like why didn’t you just go buy a new one, and I would have never known.  His response was that I pay the bills, and therefore would see that charge.   When I asked him when he was going to tell me, you will never guess his response.  When I noticed.

And let me tell you, wedding bands are way more expensive now than they were 8 years ago  . . . . Feel free to laugh at my in the comments.

Disclosure:  I don’t normally blog about fights we have, but I have permission from the idiot husband to post about this.

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We went and picked up the rest of the school uniform Madison needs for school.  I lucked out and got about $150 worth of uniform stuff from the uniform exchange they had at the end of the school year.  They are having another in August, and I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to pick up what we were still missing.  Then I figured the uniform store would have them on back order.  I decided to head over and get what we needed for they were too picked over.

Before we went, I had already gotten her 2 jumpers, 2 shirts, a sweater, and a pair of pants.  Yesterday, I got her 1 gym T-shirt, 1 pair of gym shorts, 1 gym sweatshirt, 1 pair of gym sweatpants, 2 shirts, and 2 headbands.  I almost fell over when it rang up to $80!  However, my mom informed me that school clothes probably would have costed me more.

My question to you is:  How much are you spending on school clothes this year? Will it be at department store? These Macys coupons could save you big bucks!

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