Rugrats and Dirty Rugs

Having five boys is a big job, but when you have a pet, your work as a homemaker doubles or triples depending on how many pets you have. We have a German shepherd, a cat, and two birds that are part of this crazy household. I'll say right now that those of you who have no pets should count yourselves as blessed. I'm such an animal lover. Not that I don't cry at the thought of giving Leigh away and the cat stays no matter what. She has a purpose after all. Speaking of the cat, when "we" decided to get her, one of the things I worried about was the cat hair. It gets everywhere. Yesterday, I had to pick her up despite her protests and when I finally looked down at my shirt a couple hours later, there was cat hair all over me. Eeuuu. She also has her own chair. Here is where I finally come to the point and give you the tip of the day. A BOUNCE lint roller. Yep. I'm such a genius. Just roll that bad boy all over the chair and up comes that sticky cat hair that ...

The time has come to scour, organize, fix, paint, and straighten up our house to be sold. Yikes. Just give me a Xanax right now. "What's the big deal?" you might say, or "There shouldn't be a problem, right?" you could say. Well, there is a very big problem and it is a huge deal. Why? Because I have FIVE BOYS. Granted, one of them just poops, eats, and sleeps (the last one on occasion), but the others tend to destroy things on a regular basis. We've lived in this house three years this August and it was in the first year that most of the damages were done. My mind goes back to the day that I waited in the van while Bashful had to go back into the house to get something. He came back out and proceeded to shut the door, but for some reason it wouldn't close for him. So, thinking that slamming harder would make it shut, he slammed it over and over only to have the door stubbornly refuse to shut. I was sitting in the driver's seat with my mouth open ...

Being a homeschool mom has its challenges. Don't get me wrong. I love to homeschool my boys and they are thriving. It's just that things can get a little hairy if I don't stay organized. More often than not, Bashful and Grumpy are looking for something that they need for a particular subject and I have to say....it drives me crazy! There was really no place to put all of the pencils, erasers, scissors, crayons, paper, math cubes.....arrgh! I could go on and on. I realized early on that there had to be an intervention. I needed a place for all of the school supplies, but I couldn't come up with anything. When my mother came to visit, she took me to Target and got this really cool toy organizer. Of course, she meant it for toys, but recently I came to the breaking point. I needed something to organize all of our school stuff or the tick in my eye was going to get worse. So, I took the whole thing and set it on top of our arts and crafts table and proceeded to put scissors...

This week's themed WFMW is your favorite on-line store. Well, that would have to be Target.com for me. When I was pregnant with baby #5, a friend of mine told me she was having a baby shower for me and asked me what I needed for this baby. I couldn't think of a thing right off the bat, but when I took stock of things I realized I did need a few things after all the baby poop and food on the little baby clothes. There were so many people asking me what I needed that I decided to register with Target. I went to the store and had a lot of fun going through all of the baby stuff and picking out what I needed. When I returned the gun thingie to the lady behind the counter, she told me that I could also register on Target.com. So, I went to Target.com and there were tons of baby things to look at. I ordered even more things that I thought were really neat and either didn't have anymore or never had. It ended up being more like a wish list for me. I told my sister about this and s...

I'm usually the one going over to Rocks In My Dryer to get as many tips as I can cram into my brain, but today I actually have one that many of you probably already know about. Since I didn't know about this particular tip, I thought I'd share for the fun of it. A couple weeks ago, I realized that there HAS to be a way to get our grocery bill down to a reasonable amount. We have five little ones at home, but they don't even eat that much and are even downright picky at times. I had been trying to save money at the grocery store as well as I knew how, but I knew there had to be something that I could do even more. So, I looked up on the internet for some frugal recipes that didn't taste like cardboard and hit the jackpot. I called my oh-so-wise mother telling her about my find. My mother raised four children on a budget, so she is full of great ideas on how to save money. So, she told me about this particular tip that I'm going to share with the world. She told m...