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Overheard this morning at breakfast, as Bug sat at the kitchen table all by his lonesome..."These honey nut cheerios are sweet AND crunchy!"


*Originally posted March 29, 2008

Follow Friday

Thanks for dropping by! Put your feet up, make yourself at home - new visitors and long time friends alike.

This is the beginning of another busy weekend for our house - just the way we like it. Church tonight and Sunday morning. I have a new song to learn by tonight (just got the words yesterday but it isn't too bad). Tomorrow we will be back working at the duplex units at Manville so Saturday will be full of construction and cleaning and painting and making ready homes for people. Lots of fun! Really, it is. Hard work but fun!

Here's how YOU can join the celebration:


* Link up your blog name and URL using the MckLinky below. Only need to add on one blog to be seen on all the blog hops.

* Follow the Friday Follow hostesses listed in the first 3 slots.

* Follow as many blogs as you like

* Comment on the blogs telling them you're from Friday Follow

* Follow back when you get a new follower through Friday Follow

The Blog Hop is the same at each of our three hosts blogs so you do not have to add your blog at each site. Just one - but you can follow each blog. Follow a few or follow them all.



The list is new each week. The links do not carry over. Please link up each week for new participants to find your blogs. The list is only open to add your blog links on Fridays. It will be visible all week to visit the blogs listed.

5 Question Friday

1. Do you sing karaoke? If so, what is your go to song? 

I don't sing karaoke - anymore.  When I hung out at the bars I did ALL the time.  Didn't have a go to song that I can remember though.  Now that I don't go to the bars, there is no one around with a karaoke machine.  Maybe I need to invest!  (Let's take up a collection!  {grin})

2. What is your favorite coffee drink?

  I wasn't looking forward to answering this question because I thought I was all alone in my non-coffee drinking world BUT I have found at least two other bloggers who don't.  My friends all think I am strange.  I get my caffiene fix from pepsi, sometimes I go and get all radical and have pepsi lime (I know!).  But I don't even drink that every day. 


3. If you could choose your own name, what would it be?

Oh, I have no idea.  When I was a kid I always wanted to have a girl name that could have a boyish nickname, like Samantha or Jolene.  I know, I wanted to be Sam or Joe or something like that.  I hated being called Angie (still not really fond of it but at least I don't hit people...anymore...{grin})

4. Were you ever bullied?

Not that I can remember.  The only time I can even really think of was when our house burned down and the kids teased us that my brother had done it - even though it was an electrical fire {sheesh} but that was even more geared to my brother.  Um, so not likely.

5. How often do you eat fast food?

Are we classifying Subway as fast food? I would say that I eat fast food once a week to two weeks. I really try not to eat McDonalds; it makes me feel sick {gee, I wonder why?}


Why not join yourself and pop on by MamaM's.  C'mon!  You know you wanna....

You're back

Thank goodness!  I was a little nervous.  Whew!  Now I can carry on my day.  At ease, people.  It all worked out.  {grin}

and you guys were nervous....

I'm not a follower!

According to Blogger, I am not following ANY blogs!  Um, exqueeze me?  I had lots of blogs I was following!  What if I can't find you all....?

Perhaps YOU will know

Just how wet is "wet wet"? Jellybean & Bug were playing in puddles on a walk at their grandparents and according to Jellybean, M & Bug got "wet wet" but she only got a little wet.

*Originally posted April 9, 2008

Declutter bug strikes again!

I've been on a decluttering kick - have been for some time now.  It seems to be a never ending task in this house anyway.  (Anyone else?  Just me?  Oh...)

The other day I attacked Bug's room.  No before or after pictures.  Kind of glad about that though.  The "before" scared me enough to wonder if I would find someone's small child in there alone and scared or Jimmy Hoffa or something.  Still, I put on my brave face (perhaps some rubber gloves {grin}) and grabbed a bag for garbage.  His room is now clean and this is what I took out of it.  I would also like to mention that this was ALL trash! (broken toys, filled coloring books, things boys collect that their moms don't want to know were in the house - sort of kidding).

(Ok, so the milk jug and the laundry detergent bottle were not a part of his room but, the three bags of garbage and the really ratty pillow were.)

I also gathered a whole lot of stuff from our house to go to the thrift store (And again, still lots more stuff for me to gather and/or get emotionally ready to leave my house.  WHY are we so attached to things!?)

The painting is not something I have parted with but it has been moved to my husband's office.  LOOK at all that stuff - just look at it! The more I get rid of the more "extra" clutter drives me crazy and I am getting a bit more ruthless.

However, I did end up bringing more stuff into my house.  You do have to replace the clothes you get rid of - especially when your children seem to out-grow everything at once.  I did get some really good deals though!

Found, at WalMart, 2 pair of rubber boots for my children.  Originally cost $12/pair.  Purchased for $3/pair.  Both kids equipped for half the cost of one pair! And, as I have a girl and a boy left at home, I did what any loving "this aint no fashion show" mom frugal mom would do.  I bought my daughter a pair of plain dark blue boots from the boys department for $3 instead of spending $16.00 to get her pink ones with flowers that will be covered in mud {as soon as the snow begins to melt}; this way, in two years, her brother will fit them fabulously.

I also found some great shirts for the kids.  $75.00 worth of clothes for them for the much smaller cost of $13.00!  My kids need to wear dress clothes to school and, at times, it can be very hard to find suitable stuff for them. 

Here's what I found...

(Sorry, don't know why it is rotated and can't get it fixed, gtaking this from a memory stick and, although rotated properly on the stick, it is spinning it sideways)
Flower print shirt for Jellybean $3.00
White polo shirt for Bug   $3.00
Fooler hooded shirt w/ brown cord jacket for Bug  $7.00

My kids can wear all of these things to school and church and, other than the polo shirt, are clothes they would choose to wear everyday.  The hooded shirt Bug can only wear on "casual" Fridays but I am very happy with my "deals".  Now to find them some more pants.  {sigh}