Chickatees Boutique Giveaway Winner!

For once, 13 can be considered lucky. I used Random.org and it returned 13 as the lucky winner of the Chickatees Boutique giveaway.

I would show you the screen print (which I have) but I can't figure out how to turn it into a .jpeg file or and I really don't feel like trying to figure it out today.

The afternoon is much to nice to spend it geeking away in front of the computer!

So....

Keyomi is the lucky winner of an item of her choice from Chickatees Boutique.

Keyomi, please email me (address is in my profile) right away!

Thanks to everyone for entering the giveaway and have a great rest of your weekend.

Overheard in my house this morning....

My kids are playing a game Sarah likes to call "babies" right now and it makes my heart sing. They are really starting to enjoy each others company.

And the more the play together and keep themselves happily occupied, the less I have to hear, "What can I do now? I'm so bored."

However, playing babies means that they have taken every baby doll, every doll related item, and every piece of plastic food they could get their hands on from the playroom and hauled it upstairs.

After hauling it all up the steps, they strategically placed each item throughout the rooms upstairs.

On their fifth trip down for more things to bring up, I heard the following exchange:

Sarah: "Peter you stay upstairs and take care of the babies."

Peter: (hot on Sarah's heels and holding a magic wand) "Nah. I just used this magic wand to make a person to stay upstairs to watch them for me."

Now if only he would use that magic wand to make a person to clean up the mess and to do the laundry, we'd be good to go!

****Don't forget to check out my giveaway. Leave a comment by 2:00PM EST on Sunday to be qualified!****

It's Friday and I've got a giveaway!

I'm excited and you should be too! It's Friday and I've got a giveaway! What could be better than Friday AND a giveaway?

Well, I guess winning the giveaway but we've got to start somewhere.

Last week I highlighted Chickatees Boutique and told you to go check out Cayce Carter's cute t-shirts. And they really are cute!

The winner of today's giveaway gets their choice of any item from Chickatees Boutique. In addition to her adorable t-shirts for men and women, she also has hats and kids tees.

All you have to do to win is leave a comment here. Comments will close this Sunday, August 24th at 2:00 pm EDT. (You do not have to have a blog to enter, just make sure you leave an email address so I can get in touch with you.)**Contest open to residents of the US only.**

I will choose a comment at random and will announce the winner this Sunday evening. The winner will have until Tuesday, August 26th to get in touch with me or someone else will be chosen.

So happy Friday ya'll!

Leave me a comment now and then go visit Cayce at Chickatees Boutique.

Full moon? Fever? What could it have been?

I could hear their giggles coming from the play room as I stood in the kitchen roasting the tomatoes that were going in the soup I was serving for dinner.

My kids were playing - together! And had been for over thirty minutes!

"Is it a full moon?" I wondered to myself. "Perhaps one of them is feverish!" I thought anxiously.

But no. It was neither of these. They were actually playing together on their on without any extenuating circumstances.

Perhaps it was out of sheer boredom or maybe they have finally realized the value of having a sibling around. Whatever the case, it was the sweetest sound I've heard in a while.

I've heard this sound before but usually it ends in screams of "Mom! He called me a name!" or "Mom! She's not sharing!"

But not this time. This time, I was the one who put an end to their play because we had somewhere to go and we had to be there at 2:00.

But not before they convinced me to read them a book, to give them airplane rides on my feet and to have a tickle fight.

Hmmm...Mommy was playing nice yesterday too.

Perhaps there was a full moon after all?

Or perhaps Mommy is finally realizing that sometimes it's OK to be a little late when she is trying to win a tickle fight!

People Google the silliest things!

One of the great things about having a blog is checking all the Google searches on Stat Counter to see what interesting things people are Googling to get here.

Normally I find boring things like "how do I get rid of my chin hair" or "pirate ship birthday cake". These make sense to me because I have done posts on them in the past and because these sound like something I myself might actually type into Google and at some point probably have. (Those darn chin hairs still plague me by the way!)

So imagine my delight when I came across these beauties in my Stat Counter:

I broke a tooth, can I glue it? - Well, like I said, Daddy will try to glue anything. He's never actually tried to glue anything back into or onto someones body but bring it over. Dr. Dan will see what he can do!

How to get 20 year old to do chores. - Perhaps I should be Googling this myself because Peter keeps telling me he's going to live with me forever. And my current method for doing chores is probably not going to work if he's still here in 15 years.

I'm in love with Michael Jackson's answering machine. - Wow! I don't even know how to respond to that one. And I doubt this post that they found after their Google search was any help either. But hey, maybe they have some advice for me and my veiny hands!

I've always said that you can find the answer to any question on Google. And at the rate I'm going, I may find myself Googling "I have veiny hands, a 20 year old who won't leave and a husband who won't stop gluing things."

I hope I don't end up back here if I do!

Miracle Monday

Happy Miracle Monday!

I am looking forward to reading all your miracles today. So if you want to participate, it's easy.

Post a miracle on your blog and link it back here using Mr. Linky below. Please mention "A Mom's Life" and my URL in your post. And if you want, you can use the Miracle Monday button in your post as well.

PLEASE NOTE - when linking make sure to link to your Miracle Monday post. Do not link to the front page of your blog. If you have any questions, email me and I will be glad to help you. My email address is in my profile.

Have a great Miracle Monday!

This edition of Miracle Monday is now closed. If you want to post a miracle, please come back next week!

Saturday Link Love - Chickatees

Just wanted to let you guys know about a great little online boutique that sells the cutest tee-shirts. Head on over to Chickatees to see what I'm talking about.

Chickatees is owned by Cayce Carter . She created Chickatees "as a way to express her gratitude for all she has and as a way to help others discover the sense of peace that can be found in the projection of good thoughts and good will toward others."

Cayce is a mom and is working hard at getting her new business off the ground.

So help a mother out! Go right now and check out her cute tee shirts.

Random. Random. Random. Random. Random. Random.

I got tagged by Melysah, and Mary for the Six Random Things Meme.

Here are the details of this meme:

1) Link to the person who tagged you.
2) Post the rules on your blog (copy and paste 1-6).
3) Write 6 random things about yourself (see below).
4) Tag 6 people at the end of your post and link to them.
5) Let each person know they have been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6) Let the tagger (who tagged you) know when your post is up.

And if you didn't get enough random from me here, here, here and here, well then here are six more:

1. I love the Pioneer Woman and I love to see what she's cooking. And many times I will actually try the recipes myself. My favorite recipe so far is the Crash Hot Potatoes. I love them. Give them a try. You won't be disappointed.

Just make sure you leave them in the oven long enough for the outsides to get crispy. That's important. And don't worry, even when the outsides are crispy, the insides will still be soft and almost creamy. YUM.

2. I read the obituaries almost daily. I am only 38. I don't think this is something you should be doing until you are at least 58 but yet, I can't stop myself.

I think I do this in part because I am nosy and I fancy myself a bit of a sleuth. I like to try to determine cause of death. Those folks at CSI got nothing on me.

3. I drink coffee every day. This is a habit I started almost two years ago. But what I really love is a good chai tea. And recently, I discovered that I like iced chai tea. A new coffee shop has opened up near me and they make the best iced chai tea. Love it!

But I dislike Starbuck's chai. ICK!! They use waaaaaaaaay too much ginger in their version and it really burns. I'm not sure who is in charge of things at Starbucks but they must like their coffee bitter and their chai burny. Double ICK!

4. I do a load of laundry almost every day. I would rather do one small load every day than a bunch of big loads one day a week. I just wash everything in cold and I throw everything in together. And I still don't iron.

5. I have a small callous at the base of the pinkie finger on my right hand. It's been there for months. It won't go away and I don't even know why it's there in the first place. I don't do any manual labor. Just ask my husband. I leave all the real work to him.

6. We have been growing tomatoes this summer. This is our first attempt at gardening. It's gone pretty well so I think we will expand next year and add a couple of other things.

I love tomato sandwiches and thanks to our little garden, I have eaten them for lunch almost every day for the last 3 weeks. I've even had them for breakfast.

And I like them on white bread with Hellman's mayo and salt and pepper. And don't ever put a tomato in the fridge. They are way better at room temperature. And if you can time it right, they taste the best right off the vine.

7. I'm a meme rule breaker.

For instance, the rules to this meme state to list 6 random things about yourself and I am listing seven! ***gasp***

Also, it states to tag six people but I'm not going to tag anyone! ***gasp***

See. I told you I was a meme rule breaker. I don't think you need any more proof than that!

Hair she goes again!

If you don't want to hear me ramble on and on again about my hair then I'm giving you fair warning. You can click away now.

But if you do, then here goes.

I've written at length about my hair and getting it sort of cut and getting it sort of cut again. And some of you are probably wondering if I'm just getting my hair cut to have something to blog about.

But I can assure you, if I needed something to blog about, I would go to Wal-Mart and just let nature take it's course.

In my endless quest to have a cute and sassy hair style, I went back to my hair stylist again this morning. And I know deep in my heart of hearts, I want an inverted bob.

I don't want one quite as extreme as Posh Spice's. To pull off a bob as inverted as hers you have to be 80 pounds soaking wet. And apparently, you aren't allowed to smile either.

Because, really, what's she got to smile about anyway?

So, I want an inverted bob. But I'm also a big, big chicken.

So my sweet hair stylist is helping me get to where I want to be by holding my hand and taking me there very slowly.

And after today's visit, this is where we are now...

I like to call this bob, the "barely,sort-of, almost inverted bob". Or the "inverted bob for big chickens".

And this picture is making me wonder when my nose became so protrusive. Does this happen in old age or is this just a product of my new, barely-sort-of inverted-just-for-big-chickens bob?

Hmmm...and it looks like both sides aren't cut quiet the same. Oh, well. Any adjustments will have to wait until my next visit in six weeks.

So, there you have it. My new sort-of do.

And at the rate I'm going, in roughly two years, I will have the inverted bob I have always dreamed of, right about the time that inverted bobs have become so 2007.

And with that, I leave you with one last image because my son found my college mortarboard and thought I should be photographed wearing it and because my arms look so freakishly thin...

Eat your hearts out, Posh Spice and David Beckham!