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1.  LOVE shopping with my family.  And LOVE that this guy is dating my sister!  What a trooper

2.  This is what happens when KA lets her hair air dry.  (Yes I am speaking about myself in the 3rd person)

3.  How can you not love this little guy?  

4.  The art of a 5 year old boy.  How can we forget about the art of a 5 year old boy?

5.  So grateful that God produces a means for our earth to replenish, but also grateful that we got out of this storm safely.  

High Five Everyone!!!!

Mischievous Monday........

Ok....So I seriously can not believe I am sharing this with everyone except to get some support. If you are easily offended, or only a mother of girls and have no brothers, this may not be the post for you..... Here goes.

Boys have penises. Just in case you didn't know. When boys are little and discovering what their penises can do, it can make for some interesting conversations with your little guy. Like "We don't pee off of the deck" or "Our penises are not sprinklers". Any way, now that I have said the word penis more times in one conversation than I ever have before.......Here comes the mischievous part of my post.

So you all know our youngest is 5. Well Little Lord Fauntleroy has decided to explore his "potty" options. This may mean that he pees in his bathtub......Our shower.......again off of the deck..... Evidently this also means that he pees in the drainage hole in the garage and makes a little art while doing so. I don't want to impede the little guys creative side, but seriously. GROSS!!!!!

Yesterday, my husband was in the house and heard the garage door open. Now the garage is right next to the downstairs bathroom so having Elliot head that direction is not unusual. By the time DH got to garage door, Elliot had already created his "art". When my husband asked him if in fact he had peed on the garage floor my little angels response was, "No, dad. Addy did it."

Ok. Let's recap. Elliot=BOY, with boy parts. Addy=GIRL, with girl parts. Clearly my 5 year old does not understand physics and that it would be IMPOSSIBLE for sweet Addy to urinate in the below pattern, but it didn't stop him from throwing her under the bus. At any rate, DH is smarter than that and re-asked the question. He did get a more honest response that time. Please tell me that my child is not the only one with "pee creativity"......Good heavens.

Mischievous Monday Blog Hop!!

So, Little Lord Fauntleroy (aka Elliot) is our picky eater. I don't know what we did to him. We offer him veggies, different types of food. We don't make him special meals. We don't let him snack in between. Everything you are "supposed" to do. None the less, my child's diet consists of popcorn, cereal, hot dogs bologna and tortillas.

Now to the mischievous part...... I went in my room, which is just outside the kitchen and living room, to fold and put away a load of laundry. The door was open the kids were watching a show on the big tv in the living room. I come out to LLF running around growing with his tortilla mask on his face. No big deal, right? Until I discovered two days later while making tacos for dinner that he had done the mask thing with ALL of the tortillas in the package. Good times. 

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1.  Absolutely living the watch that my dad got for me for work. The perfect combination of feminine and functional! 

2. So excited about my new job and recent promotion. 😊

3.  Birchbox came this week. Yippee! 

4.  LOVE, LOVE this stuff. It's even better because my sweet sister gave me this one!

5.  I've mentioned this little miracle before. It definitely came in handy again this week. If you don't have it. Get it. 

High Five For Friday everyone!!!! Have a great weekend. 

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Update Weeks 8, 9, Oh who am I kidding....I don't remember

So you all may have been wondering where on earth I ran off to.  I haven't done a weekly update in quite a while.  Sorry!  I have been working my patutuie off!!!

I was finishing up one class, starting another and getting a promotion at my main job.  Need less to say, I have been HOPIN'!!!

The good news is, we are still making progress.  We have paid off another $1000 worth of debt and put some money away in savings.  That may not seem like a ton given it has been a few weeks since an update, but keep in mind, it is back to school season.  And holy moly can school supplies get expensive. We use coupons and try to buy in bulk when we can, so that most definitely helps.  But there are still things that we feel strongly about buying quality and that does not always mean the cheapest. 

Shoes are one of these examples.  Again, we buy on sale and use coupons when we can, but buying the absolute cheapest shoes is not always smart or money wise.  We have had seasons where we have had to buy each of the kiddos 2 or 3 pairs of shoes from Target or Walmart where one pair from Famous Footwear or Land's End would have been cheaper in the long run.

This can be frustrating when you are spending good money on shoes, only to have to buy them again in a month.  We spend anywhere from $20-30 for a pair of shoes now.  That is much better than $10 or $15 a piece only to have to replace them in a month.  You end up spending more that way.

Any way.....We are still moving forward.  We have also decided to save for a vacation for my husband and I.  This was a long conversation over several months.  We realize that we are paying off debt.  Our thought process is that we need time away also.  In order for us to be motivated, {for most people to be motivated} is to have something to look forward to.  In our case it's a cruise.  We are excited!!!!  We can plan ahead and stay on budget.  Most importantly, we don't have to add more debt to have a good time.  

This will set back a little of the debt payoff, but in the end, like the shoes, it will help us and be more cost efficient in the long run.  It's a way for us to recharge half way through the first year of our journey.  

I promise to keep up.  I am on a pretty good schedule now, so it should be easier!!!

Thanks for reading.  Have a great week.