PSA

Recently I had a family member express their discontent about getting
junk mail, specifically pre-screened cc offers. I thought I would post a PSA to let you all know there is a way to opt out of these dang things! From this website you can opt out for 5 years, or opt out forever for pre-screen cc offers! (A wonderful way to help protect your identity too!)

In addition there are other sites out there that help with those other annoyances in our lives, including commercial "JUNK" mail, as well as telemarketing calls. You can thank the Federal Trade Commission for these services.

Oh and yes, it would sure be nice if we didn't have to do any of this to avoid all this nonsense, but, at least its possible to fix right?

BTW, I found all these sites at the FTC's website, at their facts for consumers page

Sophias favorite song

Is this appropriate for a 3-1/2 year old?

Of course soon after listening to Lola, she asked for:

We had a bad day...

I will spare you most of the details, but it was a super bad day. Jude had a rough night so of course mommy did, and Sophia didn't seem have enough sleep either. We tried to have a pleasant lunch with my friend Cora today and well that went awry. Got home and it just seemed to get worse.

The worst part was when Sophia called me an idiot. We had had timeout after timeout after timeout in the past hour or so, and this time I was just trying to get her to hurry up and put away her blocks because she needed to eat her dinner. The top of the block container has the shapes of the blocks cut out of it, and though I love the shape recognition part, it was not time for that and she was just kind of messing around anyhow, so I took the top off and walked off....this prompted "give me that top back you idiot" kind of like that kid on Christmas Story when he says the F word. This lost her the rest of her fun bedtime stuff and of course another time out.

At this point, I realized this is my fault, I said to her the other day "you're not an idiot Sophia, stop acting like one"....*sigh* yep, no mother of the year for me for sure. And doing our 123 magic has been so hard, too much emotion and talking on our part....REALLY need to work on this, because the method works, as long as your consistent.

So tonight after prayers, we talked about tomorrow being a better day, and I asked her how we could do that and she said "yeah, don't say stupid, or idiot, or shit"..."but daddy and mommy can say them".

Ok, so obviously we need to work on some stuff here, obviously I am not making good decisions when it comes to how I speak to and around my child. Counting to 10 is great, when you remember to do that, walking away is great, also, when you remember to do that before the situation comes to a head....Gonna have to do some serious thinking on this.

Please don't judge, I know that I am not perfect, but I'm trying, and this is hard ok?

Oh and I really really really really miss Starbucks right now :(

Parsley, Tomaaaatoes, Basil and Chives....

We planted an Early Girl tomato plant as well as a kitchen herb garden today. Sorry no pics of soil covered Sophia, I neglected to bring the phone out with me when we were playing in the dirt.

I am hoping I didn't over or under size the pot, I'm new at this :/

You can see she is quite proud of our handiwork.

Never tell your kid to look at you while they are watering a plant, its virtually impossible to keep them from pouring the water everywhere but in the pot.

I don't think she quite gets whats going to happen here, I didn't do a great job of explaining, but should be fun once germination occurs.

Basil, Chives and Parsley. I figured we could start with ones I will use quite a bit, I would be happy if only the the basil works, that's my favorite!

So this all started with a Topsy Turvy style planter I purchased last year with all the best intentions to do it last spring, obviously this didn't happen. This year I bought a plant and opened the Topsy Turvy planter and then went to figure out where to hang it (yes, my typical, jump first then see where to land right?). This proved to be a challenge because the best light is basically right where we would walk, and well, none of us would like to have tomatoes smacking us in the face as we walk to and from the front door. Soooo, after apologizing profusely to the husband for acting before I planned, Sophia and I set out for Walmart to purchase a planter and cage. *Sigh* one day I will plan these things.....

If all goes well, we will have tomatoes around Easter or maybe a couple weeks after. If anyone has any advice as to how to make either the tomato or herb garden work out best, we would loooove it. As of now we have a calender that will be devoted to keeping track of when pots are turned, plants are fed and watered etc... Wish us luck!

Incidentally, the title should be sung to the tune of Simon and Garfunkel's hit Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.....

Wow, we are in trouble.