I want a cow.

As odd as that sounds, I want a cow. Or rather, a steer.
We've been talking about planting a garden to help reduce our grocery bill and put some away for the winter. I got the bright idea that we need a steer for meat. Now, if only I could figure out the price. Heck, lets have a little farm. I don't eat eggs, but between Brandon and his family I could justify having some chickens. Not sure if I could handle raising them for meat though.

A Small Step. . .

Today, Freedom took a few steps across the playpen. She has been standing by herself for a while. She will let go of things and stand there. She was in the "jail" as Brye calls it since he was playing with his cars and I am scared to death that Freedom will stick one of them in her mouth and choke.
Brye went to the opposite side of where she was so she tried to walk to him to catch him.
I got Brye to repeat it a few time. So yay for first steps.

No Snow?

Brye really wishes that it would snow.
Me too. I mean, if it's going to be this cold, why not snow?
The exposure is a bit high, but he's still cute.

Amber Teething necklace

Okay I *heart* this shop:

Inspired by Finn Online Shop

On several groups that I am on, they were having a 20% off co-op for these teething necklaces.
After several days of Freedom's constant teething pain, hers got here. I was toying around with buying one, that's what took the longest.  The shipping was really quick.  Since she's been wearing it, she's a much happier baby in the afternoon and evenings, which had been her worse time. Of course Brandon is skeptical of it all, but I am grateful for finding out about this.

Baltic Amber Teething Necklace - 2 Different Chips - Light

Worth a look!

The Perpetual Preschool

I've not spent a lot of time on this site yet, but it looks interesting.

CD safe homemade detergent?

22oz washing soda


7 1/2 oz baking soda


8oz oxi clean

(by weight)

And about 10 drops of  EO

1/4 cup in regular top load washer. 1/8 for HE.
or
a couple of tbsp per load with 1/3 c vinegar in the last rinse cycle.
or
1 scoop from the oxycleaner scoop.

Never Fails!

Why is always that when you have plans, something comes up?
Brandon, knowing that I had plans to go to Page's for a Play date today, decides yesterday that we HAVE to go to the bank today while he was on lunch.  Okay, shouldn't be that long, just need to get him added to the account... yeah, right. We get out at almost 2 o'clock. By that time, I barely have time to get him back to work and pick up Brye. I've already got in trouble with the school for not picking up Brye "on time". Apparently 3 minutes late is bad.
I think this will be Brye's last week at school anyways.
But if Brandon would have gotten off his tush back in December and went with me to open the account, this could have all been avoided.

WOW!

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OMG!
If only I could justify paying almost $5 in shipping, this would be awesome.
HH for only $8!

I'm odd like that.

I am making a "test" birthday cake to see if I can do it, and to get practice.
I remember Brye's first birthday. It was supposed to be a 3D duck. 12 boxes of cake later... no 3D duck. I ended up taking 2 of the halves, and just having a duck shaped cake. Brye had his own cake, but I can't find a pic of it. It had tie-dyed icing. No one noticed, but I felt like a failure. I tried to do the icing all pretty, but after 7+ hours of trying to make a decent cake, I gave up.