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Who does my baby look like?

August 16, 2010 By tiffany Leave a Comment By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

Poor 7th child…

She has barley any photos taken of her!

The ones that have been taken are by friends and family. But today, I was able to take a few.

Somehow the only ones that I got are of her making faces like this:

Which made me think she looks a little like Liza Minnelli…

Maybe an older Liza Minnelli?

Actually, who she really looks like, if you got the full view of her hair, would be Terk the little monkey from Tarzan!

I think they were separated at birth!

The. Best. Purchase. Ever!

August 13, 2010 By tiffany Leave a Comment By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

If you have 1 or more children, this includes your husband, boyfriend or pet, YOU NEED TO GET ONE OF THESE!

It has changed my life. Period.

Many years ago I looked into getting a water cooler but never did. We obviously do not have a fridge that has a water dispenser so my children are fascinated by them at friends houses.

I spend a good part of my day getting my children drinks of water, asking the older kids to help the little ones get a drink of water, and telling them that “No, they may not have a juice box, Capri Sun or a Gatorade!”

It might be a bit of an eyesore in a small kitchen like mine, but it has relieved me of permanent water Mom duty.

We purchased our cooler in a completely unlike me fashion, I saw it at a appliance type place and bought it without even having an idea of what they should cost. We paid $100 for it and I am thinking we might have paid a little too much. When I got home I priced them from the water delivery places, they charge a rental fee of anywhere from $3 a month to $6. Plus the water delivery is $5.99 to $7.99 a big bottle. We refill our bottle at the grocery store fro $1.75 and we are doing that 3 times a week.

Water from the delivery place: $83.88 a month (3bottles a week)

Water from grocery store: $21 a month (3 bottles a week)

I figure it will take about 3 months to pay for the cooler and start making it a better deal to have purchased it.

Plus, I am thrilled at how much water my kids are drinking and all the time I am saving by not refilling cups all day. The little kids love how BIG they feel that they can help themselves and not have to ask anyone!

What a simple little thing that makes such a big difference!

Do you have any of these little things that makes your life soooo much easier?!

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The Ultimate in Bad Advertising!

August 4, 2010 By tiffany Leave a Comment By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

Last week I went in for my 2 week check up. My husband came with me and the new baby so that we could also get Andie’s PKU done. After 7 children I still can’t stand to be in the room when they stick my baby, so my brave husband is the one who holds the baby while the baby and I cry.

My O.B. was running late and my husbands ADD was kicking in, so I teased him and suggested he walk across the hall to the Urologist and pick up some literature. He was glad to get out of the office and took off.

He comes back with a hand full of brochures on non-scalpel techniques for a vasectomy and all the pros and cons of having it done. Well, mostly the pros because apparently there seems to be no cons that are associated, the only one according to my husband is that he is not sure he feels comfortable laying there with his legs in stirrups in front of someone… excuse me?

Did this man really just say that to a woman who has had 7 children? I am going to let that slide or I might have to kill him…

I notice a smirk on his face and he tosses me a rolled up t-shirt.

“Look what they gave me” he laughs.

I unroll it and actually gasp!

“Are you kidding me!” I am laughing so hard I almost pee my pants! “Are they trying to ruin their business?”

We could single handily destroy this poor Urologist’s business! Can you imagine if my husband wore this shirt to the mall with all 7 kids tagging behind him!

Wait for it….

Wait for it…

Oh yes! That is really what they are giving out! How funny is that, it is so dumb I am tempted to have him wear it in public with the kids. They should really ask how many kids you have before they want you to be wearing their advertising in public! I think it would scare the cr**p out of people!

And NO, I would never let him actually wear that in public. Actually I don’t have to worry about it, he wouldn’t be caught dead in it anywhere but in the living room!

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One Heluva Party!

August 1, 2010 By tiffany 12 Comments By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

Now, I am not going to admit one way or another, that I HAVE or HAVE NOT seen “The Hangover”! But if I HAD seen it, it would have made the following story VERY funny!

My son for his 13th birthday wanted to have some of his friends over to spend the night and go to the Astro’s game. Sure, sounds like fun.

My husband took the boys to the game, while the girls and I went to “meet the teacher night” and made the boy’s cookies for when they got home. While in Wal-Mart getting butter we thought it would be nice to grab the boys a bunch of junk food. First Mistake. I am not a rookie when it comes to cleaning up kids messes :), so what I was thinking when I bought a bunch of candy that was all INDIVIDUALLY wrapped we will never know!

The girls had one of Tucker’s friends little sister also spend the night so we had 13 kids here ready to party at 11:00pm!

Now if you are a Mother to any of the kids who spent the night… stop reading now! I really want you to allow your children over again! Just warning you!

11:00pm ~ Boy’s get home from game and want to swim. First, they put the dog on the trampoline and try to bounce him off. Saved the dog, send the boys to the pool.

11:30pm ~ Remind my son that we have 2 older widows that live in either side of us, and they need to keep it down. I put a soaking wet dog in the garage to save his life.

12:00am ~ Send the “little” kids to bed. They cry and beg to stay up.

12:20am ~ Get the baby to bed. Break out the junk food for the boys. They are soaking wet and jumping on the trampoline. I beg them to be careful and not break anything as football starts next week.

12:30am ~ I ban them from the trampoline. They decide to come inside. They are having a blast. I go to bed.

2:30am ~ Baby wakes up, I feed her in the living room and listen to the boys hysterically laughing at Bryan Regan (comedian) they are making me laugh listening to them! I get the baby to bed an tell them to go to sleep. The playroom is amazingly trashed! They have drank an ENTIRE bottle (5 gallons) of water from the cooler. They are having a great time!

3:30am ~ I think I hear them in the pool again. Or I was dreaming…

5:30am ~ Baby wakes up again, yes she is trying to kill me. Boys are still AWAKE! I am sorry MOM’s! They are now playing video games, the playroom looks like a bomb has gone off. There are 1000’s of candy wrappers, chips and something that looks like popcorn all over, including on top of the ceiling fan? They are laughing so hard my son threatens to pee his pants. There is an empty bottle of Pepto Bismol on the kitchen counter. I get the baby to bed. Turn off the T.V. and demand they go to sleep. I almost kill myself trying to get out of the playroom alive.

7:00am ~ Little kids wake up and go to the play room. Big boy’s get mad that they got woke up and go to little kids room to sleep. Wish I had pictures of 5 teenage boys in the 2 sets of bunk beds in the girls room. Little kids attempt to push piles of trash, clothes, towels and toys out of the way to make room to watch T.V. My house now looks like something off the T.V. show “Hoarders”!!

11:30am ish… ~ Most kid have gone home, my girls go to Grandma’s to learn to sew and Tucker begs to take a nap.

Paul and I decide to be nice parents and not just set the playroom on fire and re-build later, but grab a garbage bag and start cleaning up. Don’t worry, we were leaving some for them to do, but at that point I think it was a health hazard.

I was in the kitchen when my husband came running out holding this…

“Who lost a tooth!?” He yells!< “I have no idea” thinking that was very strange we didn’t know, as my kids are so thrilled to have lost a tooth because it means M.O.N.E.Y we usually know immediately that someone has lucked out.

>Then I start to get VERY worried and pray that it is not one of the kids that stayed over.

“Tucker!” Paul screams. He runs down the hall and wakes him up. “Who’s tooth is this?” he demands.

“It’s mine.” Tucker says. I breath a sigh of relief!

“They dared me to pull it out, so I did.” he laughs.

Paul and I stare at each other in disbelief shaking our heads.

“That was one hell of a party!” Paul says to me under his breath!

I agree, and am still expecting to find a tiger in the bathroom!

Does second hand pot smoke affect children? A trip to see the Bee Gee's!

July 30, 2010 By tiffany Leave a Comment By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

** This is a repost from last summer on this very day! It seemed last last month! It made me giggle to remember it so I thought I would post it for you!

Houston has an outdoor venue like no other in the country, Miller Outdoor Theatre. It is completely free and hosts all kinds of really nice cultural events. So when we saw that the “Bee Gee’s” were coming we had to go! Well, that and it is a central location for my Sister in Law and I to switch kids…

Apparently the Davis/Ivanovsky/Tew families weren’t the only ones who decided to take advantage of this free concert, the entire cities population of hippies and homeless people also wanted to hear Saturday Night Fever for free.

We secured our spots on the lawn right behind Mr. Homeless Man, who realllly liked to talk, and a few rows behind Ms. Freespirit, very flexable and I’ve had 7 glasses of wine. I knew the evening was going to be interesting, not only because of our company, but I wondered if I had brought enough food with me for our big group as we were all suffering the effects of second hand pot smoke.

It started off good, happy kids and all. But as the night went on…

They were dropping like flies…
I tried to interest them in Ms. Freespirit, after-all when do you get to see a 65 year old, heavily pierced, woman who is that flexible?
No go. Not interested.
Too bad for them, that was enough entertainment for me for a while, I’ll wake them when something more exciting comes to town, like The Moody Blues.

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To clean or not to clean?

July 24, 2010 By tiffany Leave a Comment By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

My son left for 2 weeks to the Boy Scout National Jamboree yesterday morning. It will be the longest I have ever been away form one of my kids 🙁 I suppose at almost 13 he is thrilled and couldn’t care less that I am missing him.

Well I was. Until I walked into his room late last night. 🙂

I repeatedly asked him, nicely, to make sure his room was clean before he left as were spending this week rearranging rooms and moving kids around. When you have 7 kids and only 4 bedrooms to put them in, it becomes a little like a Jenga game of bunk beds! I expect my oldest to keep his room clean because he IS THE ONLY PERSON IN THE HOUSE that has their own bedroom. I like to point out that even Dad and I share a room!

You always hear the stories of parents that send their kids to college only to have the child return at Christmas to see that their room has been turned into a craft or exercise room. I am thinking that this little boy might return to a newly painted pink princess room with bunk beds and a new room mate… his 4 year old sister!

Anyone, clean their kids room while they were gone? Have you ever done away with a child’s room while they were at college? Am I the only mean Mom out there???

If you would like to see the adventures of Tucker and his Grandfather at the National Jamboree you can go HERE to my Dad’s blog. My little Sister set him up a blog as he left so he could post us pictures from his phone. Isn’t technology great?!

** On a side note, I am thrilled that my Dad has has own little blog spot in the world. He travels all around the world for his job and many times the grandkids have no idea where he is or what he is doing. With something as simple as a cell phone that takes pictures, he can keep connected with us. The kids can go everyday and see where Grandpa is and learn something at the same time. If you are thinking about blogging it is easy (and free) and a great way for your kids to see what your extended family is doing!

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Am I Babysitting?

July 17, 2010 By tiffany Leave a Comment By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

Does anyone else ever look at their new babies and wonder, “When are their parents coming to get them?”

Sometimes it just doesn’t seem real that they are really yours….

Maybe I just need a little more sleep! 🙂

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Seriously Flaky!

July 14, 2010 By tiffany 2 Comments By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

Raisin Bran is the one cereal that both my husband and I love. I love “healthy” cereal and he loves sugary. But we both could eat an entire box of raisin bran if left unattended 🙂

I don’t normally crave anything while I am pregnant is it usually for the first couple weeks after I have a baby that for some reason I crave things… This time I was really desperate for some raisin bran! I grabbed some this weekend while shopping and poured a bowl as soon as I got home!

“What have they done to the raisin bran?” I cried! They changed it! This is horrible, I hate it when they go and changed something that is perfect 🙂

My husband looks at the box, “You got the wrong kind sweetheart.”

“What? What do you mean, it’s raisin bran!”

Rolling his eyes he informs me, “There are 2 kinds, Kellogg’s and Post, you got Post and we like Kellogg’s. Kellogg’s has the sweeter raisins and more bran flakes.”

I had no idea! We then had a seriously intellectual conversation for the next 30 min. on the properties of both kinds of raisin bran and how for the past 14 years have I ALWAYS managed to grab the right box and never knew there was a difference!

This is where it gets funny: I am at work yesterday and I am on the phone, my husband calls my cell phone, I have to ignore it and figure I will call him right back. He calls the front office and asks them to transfer him to me, I still am TRYING to get off the phone and get to him, assuming it is an emergency. I miss him again and finally call him back.

“What happened, what’s wrong??!!” I ask.

“I went and got you the right box of raisin bran last night, you didn’t see it this morning, so I thought I would have a bowl for you :)” he says. “Your not going to believe it, but there are NO raisins in the bag!”

“Did you get the right kind?” I mock.

“Very funny, so I call customer service and she asked me if the bag had been tampered with. I asked her, if she is asking, if someone stole all the raisins from the bag. The nice lady explained that SOMETIMES it HAPPENS!”

So that answers that: There really ARE people in the world weirder than my husband and I!

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How to cut bangs on children!

July 13, 2010 By tiffany Leave a Comment By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

One of the biggest costs that you can avoid are trips to the hairdresser. Although I would hate to put myself out of business ( if I was still doing hair) it is possible to stretch a haircut. Learning how to cut “bangs” or the front of their hair can “buy” you a few extra weeks before you have to get the rest cut.

But first, does this look like the face of a kid excitedly hoping for a haircut? Yea, he wasn’t too thrilled. Sorry buddy, I hate that long in the face thing the guys have going on right now.

She was also thrilled to be getting her hair cut. I think she was just mad I was doing it and she didn’t do it herself.

Don’t be afraid to cut your kids bangs. Just do a little at a time and QUIT while you are ahead! We all have horror stories of our Mother’s cutting our bangs too short, so don’t keep cutting, just walk away! But the most important thing is to layer the bangs to soften them up and blend them into the rest of the haircut.

Once you have the length cut. Pull the “bangs” up from the side and cut off the point to make them lay really well. Take a look at the video where I show you how.

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This works well on husbands to extend the life of their haircuts also! Good luck, don’t be afraid.

You can always start out practicing on the dog…

We had a busy week!

July 12, 2010 By tiffany Leave a Comment By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

We are so happy to announce the arrival of our newest addition!

Andie Renee’

7lbs 11oz. 19 inches

She and I are doing great! The kids love her and she fits right in! I have to keep looking at the picture above and thinking, “Are they really all my kids? How did this happen?!”
This little guy is asking the same thing… “Wait a minute here, I am the baby!” All is well, he is doing great, he is more interested in a can of soda, so things are good!

This little girl however is the ultimate little mother, at some point they are going to have to give me the baby to nurse!

Thank you so much for all the sweet comments over on my facebook page, I really appreciate everyone of you and for your friendship, I feel like I know so many of your personally even though we have never met.

I have to keep pinching myself that this little girl is really here. My husband and I are so blessed I can’t even imagine how we have deserved such sweet kids. We are so grateful for all the good health that we have been blessed with and for the wonderful family and friends that we have! Thank you all so much!

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