Mags is MIA

Maggy wanted me to let everyone know she will be MIA for a few days. The Boy is still having health issues and has to do a hospital stay to fix it. Nothing life threatening but he does need the medical intervention. She will update herself when she can.

Happiness thy name is Nursery!

So we have all the blinds and fans up and were able to get to Squeaks room. She has been sleeping in her playpen in our room since we moved in and before that in her crib in our room. My MIL had our 3rd room so we needed her with us, plus she was still pretty new. Anyway now she has her own room. I have been nervous about moving her but boy was it wonderful. Last night I put her down in her room at 7:30 and she slept until 12:30, nursed and slept again until 4 when she was ready to come sleep with me. It was bliss. She had been waking every few hours and when Hubs leaves for work super early she was wide awake for that making me have very little sleep. She slept so great. I think she missed her bed. When we put her in it after we had put it together she giggled and wiggled and scooted all over. I am a very happy Mama today!

Feeling a bit down

So the family and I went to Utah to visit our family. Went to Emergency essentials and saw some things you would only find in Utah (blogging about that, probably be up tomorrow). We spent a few days and got horribly sunburned but what is really bothering me is that we left our kids with the grandparents. Seriously, even the dog is depressed. It was a quite drive back home and an even quieter evening. Neither of us had any idea we would feel this way. We were getting excited thinking of all the things we could get done while they were visiting the grandparents, now we are just going ot hurry up and get it all done so we can go back and pick them up!

Latenight Key Lime Pie

A friend and I had a movie marathon last night, and about 2130 I had a sudden craving for Key Lime Pie. Well, Brigid at Home on the Range posted a blog awhile back that had an old-fashioned Key Lime and the idea stuck in my head. Last night I saw the graham crackers in my cabinet, my mind clicked, and thus a Key Lime Pie was born.

I didn't actually have a glass pie pan, so I had to go to the store, and on a whim also grabbed a couple more cans of milk. (I also ended up being suckered into making apple fritters for an old friend sometime in the next week, but that's another story) My friend made the graham cracker crust, and I went to work on the filling. I followed the Nelly and Joe's recipe, because you don't go screwing around with a good thing.

I ended up having to double the filling. Not sure why, but I put the filling in the shell and went "That looks odd. And really, really.... low". Since I doubled it, I added a couple extra minutes to the cooking time, and it worked out beautifully. I had some heavy cream left over from the vanilla cupcakes, so I made my own shipped cream instead of using cool whip or doing a meringue (not to mention I forgot and dumped the egg whites down the drain).

The awesome Shark steam mop!

Our new house has oodles of tile. Pretty much the entire first floor is tile. So to clean the floor I bought a Shark. (With a nudge from Gracie.) I am so happy with it. With Squeak about to crawl having the floor be sanitized was important and add the shine benefit and it is a win win and well worth the $75 I paid at our local Lowe's store. It is so easy to use too and I was able to get all the bottom floor done in about an hour!! I totally recommend it!

Friday Funny

Want to help the economy? Don't work.

Now, I might be totally off on this thought, but it's something that has been swirling around my head for awhile. I have several friends who are out looking for jobs, but don't have much experience and are being beat out of minimum wage job by people who have been forced to seriously downgrade their skills. I have one friend who just lost a receptionist-type position to a women who had been a lawyer's clerk/personal secretary for more then a decade.

I'm starting to wonder how much the two-job lifestyle is hurting our country. And I don't mean in the 'traditional roles' versus 'modern roles' way. I'm not arguing about people spending time with their kids, or volunteering at charities or anything like that. I'm speaking strictly financially. People have access to lots of credit, and therefore purchase lots of stuff they can't afford. Then both parties are up to the hilt in debt, and the family cannot afford to NOT have both parents work. But now you add extra costs to the situation. You are now buying 2 lunches, filling 2 cars with gas, paying the daycare of the younger kids, and all sorts of other expenses. Both parents are busy and the amount of fast food and eating out skyrockets. Instead of helping your finances, you might actually be hurting them. In my job previous to this one, I figured out (as I was quitting) that between gas, food and daycare I was actually losing about $75 a month from working, and that doesn't even include all the pizza and take-out we ate because I was too tired to cook a real meal.

It makes me wonder how many families would actually benefit from one or the other parent quitting their job. Things like health insurance and such make it a bit more complicated, but the theory is the same. It's cheaper to cook from scratch, or even semi-homemade then to eat out. 1 tank of gas is obviously cheaper then two. No daycare/babysitter also saves a heap of cash. Not to mention, if a large chunk of the general public did this, there would be a HUGE letup of pressure on the job market.

I'd like to know what everyone else thinks on this. I know it's not realistic, but I'm wondering if anyone has had a similar experience to this, or thinks I'm just bat shit crazy.

Who is Mousavi?

This is a short video (part 3 of 3 of a mini-documentary) about Mousavi, the Iranian presidential canidate. Not a whole lot of comment of me, just something I thought was interesting.

My new favorite teething treat!

So Squeak is approaching the 6 month mark. She has been eating baby food for a while now. She loves peas and carrots the best! She has a snack food called Mum-mums that are like rice crackers that she is also pretty fond of. We are now fully into teething. She gets the fever, the crying that only being held fixes, the swollen gums. Poor thing is miserable. I have people tell me ice cubes work, or jerky, or a wet washcloth or a host of other things. I have discovered though that Squeak loves frozen Apple slices. Now it can be a little messy as they thaw but man do they quiet her down and help her poor mouth feel better!!

Quote of the Day

"I should have known when you walked into my life with that big bag of crazy that whatever you had in that bag I shouldn't be apart of!"

-Jason on True Blood