Stainless Steel Appliances and Fingerprints

How hard is it to keep stainless steel appliances clean from little fingers?  I am looking at whirlpool refrigerators and love the look of stainless steel. My kitchen cabinets are only a few years old and I'd like to update the applicances as well.  With all my kids though, it might be mean a lot of cleaning of little fingerprints.  Is stainless steel harder to keep clean?

Wet (but pretty) Weather

It's turned into a very wet Fall.  My son will never get his soccer season finished this way - - the fields keep getting waterlogged and they get rescheduled...and rescheduled...and rescheduled.  It makes for pretty pictures though when it does dry up - fall colors on the trees and green grass.  Very nice.

I need to check out power supplies while I'm thinking about it to protect my computer with these storms. That's all I need is to short my computer! I'd cry.

Floral Arrangements

My husband and I are going to renew our vows.  We'll be married 16 years this December!  I am trying to figure out details and right now, I'm working on floral arrangements. I want something a bit different.  I don't have a favorite flower so that's no help at all.  I don't want the normal, average arrangement yet I have a budget.  Any ideas?  I need a unique bouquet for myself, bouquets for my girls to carry, and table centerpieces.  I love nature and was thinking about doing a blooming plant for the centerpiece that can be taken home and replanted.  Then our love would bloom year after year (was that too sappy?).

While I am researching for my vow renewal, a friend in the hospital would probably appreciate a delivery of these flowers below.  Aren't they great? I think these will pick her spirits up.  Being in the hospital for kidney stones and having to eat hospital food would be enough to bring anybody's spirits down.  I think a pretty floral arrangement would make her happy and brighten up her hospital room.

Auto Collision Repair

Collision repair shops - if you are looking for software for estimates on collision repair, check out Web-Est.com auto collision estimating software. It's for small to mid-sized shops. Their cost is $99.00 per month and includes labor costs, OEM and after-market costs. Auto adjusters and insurance companies may be interested in this software as well. The company is based in Florida.

Two Days Until Healthy Lifestyle

Today was the last day for fast food for me before I start my healthy eating plan on October 1st.  I wish I'd picked a different meal as my "last meal" - - went through a drive-thru where the person had to put me "on hold" to figure out how to backtrack on the POS systems they use to put the order in their computer, they messed up my order (onions are NOT allowed on my roast beef!), and it didn't taste all that good.  That'll teach my to try something new as my last meal!  Should've went with french fries from the golden arches instead - at least enjoy all the fat I was ingesting as my last, unhealthy meal!

Two days until healthy eating time!

Ellos Clothes for the Whole Family

I love shopping for little kids clothes but I find that as my oldest kids become teenagers, it can be really fun to put together a fashionable outfit or two (or five) with them and just have fun with them!  Watching my kids develop their own sense of style, no matter what the other kids are wearing, is great.

Of course, who does not like little kids clothes as well?  They are the cutest!

So, where can you shop to find clothing for the entire family instead of running ragged here and here and there? Well, at ELLOS of course!  You can find everything you need from baby clothes to mens jeans at ELLOS (seriously, lingerie to shirts to jeans to skirts to shoes to accessories). It is all in one place!  It doesn't get any easier than that.  It also doesn't get any better than ELLOS with their great range of fashions at fantastic prices!

ELLOS Denim-Look Leggings for Girls

ELLOS Loose-Fit Jeans for Boys

I am crazy about boots and I fell in love with their boots!  ELLOS has the styles I like in the colors I like.  Check these boots out:

They also carry some very pretty tops that can go from casual to dressy easily that I would love to wear.  For bedtime, a little short nightie would be comfortable for me (and appreciated by the husband).

My husband needs a little wardrobe updating (really bad) so I am online window shopping for clothing for him for Christmas.  I want to buy him a nice jacket with a few pair of mens jeans and you can too with their buy now pay later with Ellos!

Check out the number one mail order brand in Sweden for the whole family and have fun online shopping.  Ellos offers great styles and really reasonable prices.  I know I had fun!

Who Coupons?

Who does coupons?  I've been learning how to do coupons for the past two months.  I didn't realize you can pay little to nothing for things like deodorant and toothpaste!  I can see how it can be a bit addicting - going after that great price on products your family uses.  It's a sense of accomplishment to save that money for your family.  In fact, I'm saving so much on products that I am going to start donating some of what I buy to a local women's crisis center for pregnant/abused women.  From what I hear, they get a lot of donations of baby gifts but very little for the moms themselves.  I think it'd be nice to provide them with the small things.

What are some great coupon sites (if you'd like to share)?

I'm an old new mom!

I'm in "new" territory where it concerns my freshman daughter.  She is well on her way to her first high school crush (and the boy is crushing back on her as well it seems like if homecoming was any indication where they didn't stop dancing with each other for an hour and he asked her to the movies - first time).  The problem is after homecoming - the boy isn't very communicative via text and it is stressing my daughter out.  I think she needs to relax a bit and just continue being his good friend, like before homecoming since being herself is how he fell for her, but she is worried that the connection and affection during homecoming was an oddity and they'll go back to being just friends.  She doesn't want that.  Their school is very strict so it's not like he can hug her at school, like he did at the dance, without getting into trouble and he may have been doing homework or eating dinner when she texted him yesterday.  Besides, boys are boys.  I don't get more than a few words at a time from my husband via texting and we've been married almost 16 years.  She needs to relax.  Telling a teenager to relax and listen to mom - yeah, right.  Pigs might as well start to fly.

She is so stressed she hugged me yesterday and just held on for awhile.  That is out of character for her.  I usually get a quick hug, not a "hang onto mommy forever" kind of hug.

I'm finding no matter how old my kids get, there are always new experiences to struggle with that makes me feel like a nouveau mommy all over again!