Bug Teeth

So today Griffin my 5yr old was saying to his brother Sly... " If you dont stop sucking your fingers you are going to get BUG teeth". I said to him...Its not BUG teeth its BUCK teeth. He says... "if his teeth turn into BUG teeth how will he get his teeth back".

I wonder what he thought was going to happen... Like his mommy Sly will have BUG teeth with all his exessive finger sucking!

Make it count

I was on vacation last week and learned that a friend of mine at work had died. His name was Jon Konjevod and he was my age and had 2 daughters, his wife was 2 months pregnant. He had a severe asthma attack and died on Friday, and he was my friend.

I cannot imagine the terrible things his wife and family are going through right now. What a crazy sad world.

My mom sends me all these spammy emails about living a "life that matters" and "making every minute count" while they do sometimes make me teary they do put things into perspective.

So i do have a few preachy things to say. #1 buy life insurance #2... THINGS do not matter (not your car or your big TV or any of that other stuff you do not need ) #3 People do matter and relationships do matter... so my advice... hug your kids every day several times, then do it again...... forgive someone you dont want to, more importantly..forgive yourself... then call your parents and siblings and tell them you love them. its important.

There is this verse I really like by a band called ALO... the song is "FLY" and it says " I want to tell them what I cant explain, I got to tell them not be afraid. I want to tell them in the end that there is no pain, because when you see the light, you gonna rise like a lion up into the sky, while the world around you dies... " .

God i hope that is what its like..i would like that.

New appliance bliss

We have had a bit of bad Karma lately and our disposal has broken, along with our dishwasher. We ended up getting a new disposal, sink faucet and dishwasher.
All of these appliances have been in disrepair basically since we bought our house 6 years ago..but they decided to die all at the same time.

The dishwasher had been on its way out for a while as it made a very loud whirring noise... to the point where people would be at my house and say "what is that noise"..."oh, thats the dishwasher". Then last month it started in with the clunk clunk noise on top of the normal whirring.

My disposal has always been worthless. It has leaked off an on under my sink forever and never chopped anything up. I would always look in there and see whole spaghetti or whatever else accidentally made it way in there and regularly had to put my hand in there and clean it out..yuck.

As a side note when my dishwasher was dead I had to do my dishes by hand one day.. and it totally and I am going to say it again totally SUCKED! It took me like 2 hours to do all my dishes and it was terrible and awkward and there was water all over afterwards... i would give anything to have that 2 hours back and vowed never to do my dishes by hand again( we ate on paper plates until it was installed) ..

Well with our the death of our appliances my handy husband installed a new disposal, new faucet and a stinky Russian guy came to our house and installed our new shiny dishwasher. I would have to say im am in new appliance heaven!
I have a disposal that ACTUALLY chops up food, and it has a cool name the insinkerator! My dishwasher (in addition to being very attractive and shiny) makes NO noise AND my faucet does not leak on top when I turn it on. It also has a very cool pull our sprayerey thing.

I have to say I wish i would have done all this 6 years ago! I love my appliances that actually work like they are supposed to, I cant believe I waited so long to get new ones!!!
All hail modern appliances!

Dont put sand in your underwear

Im not sure why this is such and exciting thing but lately my boys have decided it is very fun to put as much sand as you can in your underwear.   Sometimes they stay in the sandbox and sometimes they walk all over the yard, or even jump on the trampoline while the sand is falling all out.... but inevitably I end up with cups of sand on my carpet.  I think this is one of those things you need to write down so you can laugh about it later, but i really get sick of asking them not to put sand in their underwear.   Then later of course you have the sand in the butt crack that is not very fun to remove.  At this point hindsight being 20/2o I think i would have opted not to have a sandbox with a ton of sand in it.  I am wondering how long it is going to take for every grain of that sand to eventually make its way into my house.