Lettuce

I hate buying lettuce. It never gets eaten in time and it always ends up in a mushy pile in the bag that is was purchased in. But I have recently discovered a new trick to keeping it fresh so it isn't a cause to make me go to Smith's and spend $45, when all I needed was lettuce. I usually buy romaine, but it works with others as well. First: cut the end off, and the tips off. (they are usually already a little soft for my taste) Take off all the big huge pieces that you don't like. Second: wash the lettuce and shake it off, don't dry too much. Third: wrap the lettuce in enough paper towel to go around 2 times (the idea is that the paper towel is a little wet) and put it in a gallon size Ziploc bag in the fridge. This has gotten lettuce to usually lasts me a 2-3 weeks and it is crunchy and fresh every time.

While I was enjoying my time at the computer giving all of my friends and loved ones a piece of my wisdom, my darling little boy Milo, drew me a picture. Lots of pictures. One on the door of the fridge, one on the ironing board, one on the wall in the kitchen, and one on the wall in the stairway. Isn't that sweet of him. And the best part of it all is that he used a hot pink marker. Lucky me!!! At least those are parts of the house that haven't been painted yet. Luckily I am in a daze caused by the upcoming birth of my second "soon to be" toddler, and I kindly wiped the pictures off of the walls. Followed by a reminder that if he wants to "drew" me some pictures then he needs to use paper. Good thing I bought some miracle cleaner from a southern door to door salesman this summer....On second thought, maybe the lettuce trick doesn't save me money after all, since I had to spend $40 on a bottle of cleaner to clean up a mess, that was caused by my excitement over lettuce.

::: Bomco Mendenhall :::

The time is pretty short until Jr. gets here and we are short on names, the last name recommendation was Bomco Mendenhall, we think that we might have a keeper, but we are always up for some more suggestions ( Please)

Can anyone guess the baby's: date of birth, time of birth and weight, this blog thing will make it a lot easier to keep track.

don't forget the names, because Kristen has been shooting all my names down, even Kleete.

Lesson Learned

One of the many reasons that I haven't spent much time perfecting the blog world, is because I usually have a 2 year old climbing on my head when I am on the computer. So I have to be sneaky and hurry and check messages when he is busy, because as soon as he finds me here, the day takes a downward spiral. On Saturday, I told him I needed 5 minutes to return phone calls and check my messages. Well he obviously didn't understand that, and sure enough he was climbing up the chair and onto my head. I was talking on the phone to somebody I didn't know and was trying to get rid of the monkey on my back. He started to get mean, so I whacked him on the head. It was a pretty hard whack, and to my surprise he didn't say anything. He just calmly climbed down, and walked to a dried flower arrangement on the table, where he proceeded to pull off all the flowers and sprinkle them all over the floor and table. I tried to get him to stop by waving him away and giving dirty looks. After I got off the phone I was so upset, I asked " Why are you making a mess, I asked you not to?" His face got all annoyed and he replied in an angry voice (I suppose he was mimicking the way I talk to him when he's in trouble) and said

" Because.....we.....don't......hit!!!"

Anybody have ideas to getting 2 year olds to respond to any sort of discipline?

McDonald's

For 2 reasons, Milo and I have been trying to become the most frequent customers of the Saratoga Springs McDonald's. The first reason is I want to win at least $50 off the McDonald's Monopoly Game. The second reason is we really like cheeseburgers and it is a good pit stop to get us out of the house. Milo asked me for a drink the other day, and I told him he has already had too many, so probably not...and he replied "The lady at McDonald's will get me one"

Hallucinations

Last night I was laying in a hot bath (one of the 2-3 I take per day) and I started thinking that I might try to deliver this baby with no epidural. The thought process went somewhat like this " I could do it, what's the big deal with some pain. I hope I wouldn't scream, but that's not like me...I won't scream...I'll actually might even fake laugh, because I always do that when I don't know what to do...this way I won't have to deal with the nausea that comes with that stupid epidural...and maybe I could even see my baby get his first bath....I'll have to talk to my doctor about this tomorrow when I see him..." Well as soon as I got out of that bath, the thought process took a drastic turn and I realized epidurals are heaven sent, and I probably should not have the water so hot next time.

Peppermint Place Mendenhall's

I thought the Blog needs to be up and running before the new addition to our family, so you can all have access to photo's of our new little bundle of joy. But for now...here is a "before" picture of our family.