$60 Winner!!!!

Thanks to all of you who entered to win the $60 Gift Card from CSN!

According to the Random Number Generator.....





The Winner is.....



Congrats TracyR! I'll pass your information along to the right people and you'll get your giftcard. Let me know what you buy!!!

Who Wants $60?

I've been doing a lot of online shopping lately (read: window shopping) since we're getting ready to expand our family and need some new stuff. My list went something like this: New Rocker/Glider, Toddler Bed, Crib, Office Chair, New Bed for Us, Dresser/Shelving System for the Baby Stuff a new vanity for the girls' room. Never ending, right?

If I were filthy rich and had a spoiled little princess I might be inclined to snag something like this. Ha! Instead my rough and tumble little boy just got a plain old white Toddler Bed.

And I LOVE these Glider Rockers that don't look like gliders. Nice, huh? Oh - I like this one better, though.

I'm thinking, since the baby is going to be in our room, of just getting a bookshelf and putting little canvas totes on the shelves to hold his clothes. Something simple, like this.

We really need a new bedding set. Rob and I can Never agree, but I think my opinion matters more. HA!

I currently love this one:



Of course,it's white so maybe this one would be a better purchase?

Ooooh.... I'm reallllly liking this one, too:


I love those CSN stores - they're like a big huge online outlet store. I don't think there's anything they DON'T have. So, what if you had $60 to spend there? What would you buy? Because CSN is giving one of you lucky people a $60 gift card to spend at ANY of their stores! It doesn't count toward shipping BUT, if you look, shipping is free on almost ALL of their stuff.

So...go check out their websites and tell me what you'd buy if you had $60. You can use it towards a bigger purchase or just spend it outright. There's Cookware, Furniture, Mailboxes, Kids Furniture and, of course...TOYS!!!

Spend it wisely, grasshopper.

Entry #1 - Leave me a comment telling me what you'd buy.

Entry #2 - Blog about this giveaway with a link to me and CSN stores. Make sure you leave a separate comment telling me you've done this!

The giveaway ends at Midnight MST on Tuesday, June 29th and I will announce the winner via the Random Integer Generator on Wednesday, June 30th.

Good Luck!

COMMENTS/GIVEWAY CLOSED!

Seriously Stupid

I get a lot of comments about my pregnancy and family size. Most of them are innocuous and don't mean any harm - they say things like,

"Wow! You have your hands full!" Yep. I do.

"You must be BUSY!" Indeed.

"I don't know HOW you do it!" Me neither, sister, me neither.

Sometimes I get comments on our choice to keep having kids.

"You DO know what causes this, right?" Sure I do - but we put up tin foil on the windows and the alien thought rays keep getting through. Can we talk about YOUR sex life now?

"You're done NOW, right?" Not until we catch up with the Duggars.

"How many more do you think you're going to have?" Well, as long as the government keeps paying for them, we'll keep having them! (<---joke. We pay for them ourselves. We own them outright.)

But every once in awhile even *I'm* at a loss for words.

I often get asked if I'm having twins or am just measuring really big. Moo.

While 9.5 months pregnant with Sienna I had a clerk at a store ask me if I was dilated yet.

Then, just the other day we were shopping at a very exclusive, high end store (Kmart) when I started getting the usual questions. I figured I knew where it was headed but boy was I wrong.

She started off with asking how old the boys were (2 and almost 4) then she asked if I was pg again. (No, I swallowed a watermelon seed, this is what happens.) From there she asked if it was a boy or a girl (Props for not asking what kind of baby I was having - I'm having a human one, for those that are wondering.) - I answered boy, knowing what was coming next. She didn't disappoint and asked if I was hoping for a girl (yes, I'm bitterly disappointed and plan to sell this one and try again) to which I replied that I already have 2 girls at home.

Her 18 year old mouth dropped open (in admiration, I'm sure). I had hoped that she was done, or at least would make some inane comment about large families. You know, when people hear you have a large family they have to tell you about someone else they know that has more kids than you as if it's a contest or something? Right. Well, that was not the case.

The young, 18 year old Kmart clerk said to me, in front of the older (60-70) man behind me and everyone else waiting to check out in the only available lane -

"Did you deliver them all...you know...vaginally?!"

I COULD have said:

"No, I threw them all up when they were ready to come out."

"Yes, my crotch is gaping black hole of stretched out tissue with no muscles at all, wanna see?"

But no, I was entirely too shocked to say anything and just said, "Uh, yeah." And took my bags to go.

Some people are just Seriously Stupid.

What're you laughing at?

I know that most people say the best sound in the world is their kids' laughter - and I don't disagree, it's a great sound. But you know what sound I adore? The sound of my husband laughing.

Is it too terribly cliche' to say that his smile lights up a room? I suppose it is - so you can call me cliche. His smile is the best, though. When something I do or say elicits a smile from him, it feels like I've won a little prize. If something I do or say causes him to laugh? I feel like I've just won the gold medal, 1st place prize. (Queue up Firehouse, "When I see you smile")

I mean, really? Look at this smile...





*swoon*

So, as I so eloquently put it in my Facebook status update:

14 years ago today, Rob stopped getting the milk for free. :-) Happy Anniversary, my love, thanks for being my best friend with benefits for all of these years!

Absent minded

I've been absent. I lost my voice.

Well, not literally but figuratively.

Am I done with blogging? I dunno. I'm definitely on a break - I hope you won't be like Ross and cheat on me while I think about our relationship. Just because we're on a break doesn't mean you can go fool around.

What's new? Let's see...

The kids:
Sienna graduated from Elementary school and is now in Jr. High/Middle School.
Cara turned 9 on the 8th.
Brennan turned 2 (today!).
I registered Corban for pre-school and we're waiting to see if he gets in.

Me:
I'm 6 months pregnant.
I've read a whole slew of books: Caught, 9th Judgment, The Secret Life of Cece Wilkes, Nine Dragons - just to name a few.
I watched all the season finales of my shows and started watching a few new summer shows - Person's Unknown, Hell's Kitchen, Last Comic Standing, and True Beauty. I'm still catching up on Big Love and started watching Weeds, as well.
I've managed to catch some stupid virus that is completely kicking my butt.

And stuff:
Summer is ridiculously busy, this year. Camp Meeting and Summer camp and day camps and camping. Dr's appointments and check ups and fillings. We've got company coming to stay with us throughout the summer and I'm still babysitting various kids at various times.

I've been a slacker about checking in anywhere, and I apologize. I'd promise to be better but, yk, I don't like to set myself up for failure. :-) We'll see - maybe this will get me back in the swing of things.

Now, if you'll excuse me, my bed is calling my name.