Fess Up Friday

Well, if you saw this post, you know I got really excited about an article about the Word Of Mouth programs I participate it. Well, if you were like me and ran out to get your Chicago Tribune and flipped right to the Money and Real Estate section to look for the aforementioned article, you would have NOT found it there! I guess God was humbling me a bit, by the article not being in the paper (at least not last week!) It did, however, get on frugalista's blog and you can find the link in my last post.

I got in a fender bender on the way to work on Wednesday. Fortunately no damage was done to either car. I do 'fess up though that at first I wasn't going to tell Greg, or at least save it for my blog post to tell him, which would have been an evil trick considering I know he doesn't read my blog and it would have been a test to see if he in fact does read my blog, which he doesn't. :)

So, what are you 'fessing up to this week?

My 15 Minutes

When I read on Money Saving Mom last week, that another of her readers, Carrie, was looking for a person to interview regarding sample programs and word-of-mouth marketing programs for this little newspaper, I just KNEW I needed to contact her. So, on Sunday evening I spent some time eagerly telling Carrie about the many programs I participate in and the free items I receive. Instead of telling you all that we discussed, I'll let you check it out for yourself.

http://www.chicagoshopping.com/deals/frugalista/sc-food-1119-frugalista-samples-20101111,0,3192801.story

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't super excited about my fame and fortune.* In fact, I won't let it get to my head that I am going to be in the Sunday edition of the city's largest paper, in the Money and Real Estate section. But, please, let me just have my 15 minutes!

*I received no fortune from being interviewed by Carrie, and will probably not receive any fame from being interviewed by her either.

Fess Up Friday

Well, I confess that I no longer know how to make rice on the stove top since I have become so accustomed to making it in my handy dandy Pampered Chef Microwavable Rice Cooker. Because I no longer know how to make rice on the stove, I had to look up a "recipe" online. While I was looking up said "recipe" I left a plastic bowl on the stove top, which wouldn't have been a big deal had I not had the broiler on cooking our pork chops for dinner. So, yes, you guessed it, I melted a plastic bowl. And the really funny part? I had left the rice directions from the original packaging on the side of the Tupperware Modular Mate I keep the rice in. And I swear I checked there prior to going online!

Fess Up Friday

Lest anyone think I had a perfect week last week and had nothing to fess up to, I confess that I wrote down my faults and shortcomings last week so I could include them today, cause as it were, I was on my way to camp to scrapbook. First confession-I didn't really miss Greg and Charlotte and Elijah all that much. I was certainly glad to see them upon my return, but hardly thought about what they were up to, or what I would be missing out on at home. I know I definitely did NOT miss cleaning and cooking!

I do confess that I allowed the kids, me and Greg to wear our swimsuits at the end of October. I also confess that for a couple of hours I didn't care about how much energy we used in the house, as I kicked up the heat to 80 degrees. I also confess that I allowed the kids (and us adults) to hula hoop in the house. All this because I made Hawaiian Chicken for dinner and wanted to really create a Hawaiian theme. It was truly a blast!!!

I confess that I stood in the library for a good 10 minutes trying to figure out if I should return my library books or keep them and pay the fine. I had one I was still in the middle of, it was already late, and other people were requesting it. If I turned it in, I would of had to wait. So, yes, I was selfish, and not completely frugal, and decided to keep the book and pay the resulting larger fines. (I owed the library $2.80 today upon returning the book.) The other 2 books are new releases, and I seriously thought about keeping them, asking the librarian how many requests were out on each of the books, and even asking how many of each of these books are in the system so I could figure out when I might possibly get them in my hands again. I'm thinking 6 weeks at the most.

I also confess that I opened the garage door one night and could not for the life of me figure out why I did. It took a good 20 minutes to remember that I opened the garage so I could retrieve the hula hoops for our Hawaiian Night.

Geez, that was just last week!

This week our car broke down and was getting fixed up in Huntley by my grandparents house (that's where it was discovered it was broken). I didn't really need a car for any other reason but to take and pick up Charlotte from school, which isn't completely necessary because it is less than a 2 mile walk. I had every intention to walk on Monday, but I confess that I was too tired from my weekend of scrapbooking that I did take up my neighbor's offer of borrowing his car. I also confess that I decided not to pull out Charlotte's 2nd booster seat from the garage and was just going to buckle her straight into the seat. Well, as it happened, my neighbor's car did not have the car seat in it for Elijah to sit in (their son is just a year younger than Eli) and because time was tight I decided to drive to the school with my 2 oldest kids not properly restrained in car seats/booster seats, but just buckled into the car.

On Tuesday, as we were walking to school I realized that Charlotte did not brush her teeth at all that day. My solution? Winterfresh Mentos gum. Of course, I also need to confess that I forgot to have her spit it out before she got to school!

So, any confessions this week?

Fess Up Friday

On Sunday as Greg was driving our family home from church, I was reading the newspaper and Charlotte in the way back seat of the minivan was talking and talking and talking some more. I gave the occasional, ""Uh-huh" and "Oh, really." However, my very perceptive 4 year old, then asked, "Are you listening to me, mama?" And to be honest, I wasn't, at least not fully. However, I responded that I was and then spewed out everything she said. Sound familiar, Kimberly?

I guess that Caleb has still been getting up once a night in the middle of the night. I wouldn't really know, except for when I ask Greg in the morning, who tells me that he did, because I can not hear him in the middle of the night! I am now sleeping through my baby's cries! Now before thinking that maybe Greg is getting Caleb super quick and rushes to him at the sound of his very first whimpers, I know very well that's not the case, because Greg is not that light of a sleeper! Regardless, super rock star award to Greg for getting up with Caleb and never waking me up to ask me to give him his bottle!
*Take note, Mom and Kimberly for next weekend!

An Addendum to Fess Up Friday, Umm, I mean Saturday

Wow, Sara always gets me to add something to Fess Up Friday! Sara's comment to Fess Up Friday, Umm, I Mean Saturday, was "How did Greg feel about you using his toothbrush?"

Well...yeah...I haven't told him yet.

Fess Up Friday, or shall I say Saturday?

So, I have no qualms about dressing Elijah in pink for Halloween, but when Caleb's costume came with tights, I did question if it was OK for baby boys to wear tights-just briefly however. I did ask Greg if it was OK for Caleb to wear tights for Halloween, and his response was just perfect (and this is why I love him, since he could have said so many of the wrong things!) He said, "Superheros wear tights." Big smile! And no, Caleb is not going to be a superhero.

One night this week, Caleb was having a tough night. He got up soon after Greg and I had fallen asleep, which is my opinion is the worst! He then got up another time (maybe an hour or 2 after the first time), talking in his crib, that got progressively louder and woke me up. So, I went to get Caleb, brought him into our room, and yelled at God "Why isn't he sleeping, Lord? Help him to sleep! I am so tired!" I then tried to rock him to sleep (and by try, I mean 5 minutes) and then handed him off to Greg who had been sleeping, and then crawled into bed myself. (Greg definitely gets the rock star award for this because he did stay awake with Caleb, not once complaining, AND he had to go to work the next day!)

On Thursday we had a sitter so I could do a market research focus group. Prior to her arrival I stripped Elijah down to his diaper and he was content without having clothes on. Greg got home to relieve the sitter, and when I got home later, Greg said, "Yeah, and when I came home Elijah wasn't wearing any clothes and was just in his diaper." Oh yes, I did consider leaving the blame to the sitter, but after a moment did say, "Well..."

My grandparents gave us one of their Netflix DVDs to watch on Monday, and I said we would watch it that evening and put it in the mailbox on Tuesday. It still sits unwatched on our living room floor. (I did inform my grandma of this, and fortunately she is cool with the fact that we haven't watched it yet!)


This morning neither of my toothbrushes were in the downstairs bathroom, and because I was too lazy to run upstairs to get one of my toothbrushes, I used Greg's instead.

So, what are you fessing up to this week?