My Little Life

Raise your hand if you remember floppy disks. *raises hand* And, now, I'm talking the REAL floppy disks...the thin, black, floppy, papery square things that we used to use in computer s before the smaller, black, sturdy square things that were the predecessor to the itty bitty SD cards we have now. How about that green turtle that served as the cursor arrow on those archaic old computers? Remember those? Or, or...OR!! How about when the school...the WHOLE DANG SCHOOL owned like 5 computers. TOTAL. Remember that? Our current household now houses more computers than the first computer lab I ever sat in. How old am I!?! Sheesh...here's another little tidbit that'll date me. Once upon a time, I believe somewhere in the Kriss Kross "Jump Jump" era, jean bib overalls were HOT. The bigger and baggier the better, and when you wore one of your straps off your shoulder? Well HOT DAMN! You were something else. So, someone I know *ahem* had a $100 school...

Update : Winner Announced! Giveaway closed... Winner is commenter #3...Brooke ! Congrats Brooke, I'll contact you for your info to forward to the good people at Domeo! And remember...free shipping and 20% off with code FCH at checkout, that way, EVERYONE wins! :) A couple of weeks ago I received an email from a nice man (Chris) at Domeo Products telling me that one of his employees was a reader of my blog (dearest "reader", please show yourself!) and they suggested me for a product review! I die. Thank you, Dearest Reader, I am a happy woman! Turns out Domeo has launched some new iPad cases (stay tuned, giveaway and percentage off to be announced at the end!) and they were looking for some feedback on them. When I received mine in the mail on Friday, it was like it was Christmas morning! (No, really, it was. I got a boatload of packages that day...all for other people on my Christmas list except for one discreetly marked package with a return address of "Dome...

Update AGAIN! Winner Announced! Well, I took it to random.org like usual and for the first time in the history of everything that exists, out of 29 entries, look what number came up: The last  entry?! Whenever does THAT happen?! Anway...congratulations to Meg and sweet baby girl on winning the loot!! Contact me, Meg, with your email address and I'll get your info over to Mimi & Co so you can claim your goods! Enjoy! Update: Deadline extended until Saturday evening! You know how I love to share a good thing with you, right? How, when I find something I truly love, I JUSTCAN'TWAIT to tell you all about it? Well, I've got something to tell you. Remember the "Great Haircutting Debacle of 2012"? Wherein, Baby Girl cut herself some (kind of adorable) bangs THE NIGHT BEFORE our family photos? Yeah. That. Turns out that as cute as those bangs were, I'm not keeping them. And they are now at the "annoyingly in the eyes" s...

My big girl is growing up. It kinda makes my mama's heart a little sad, as I see a teeny bit of her "kid-ness" disappear each day (although, trust me, there is still PLENTY of kid there!). I love watching my kids grow up, but as they grow, it brings up a multitude of conversations to be had! Birds and the bees, boyfriend/girlfriend issues, friend debacles, Santa Claus/Easter Bunny/Tooth Fairy conversations, and one I vividly remember having with my mom--shaving my legs. Seriously, I can remember it like it was yesterday ... I was going into 6th grade, I had hairy legs, and I was sooooooooo wanting to be grown up enough to shave. My pitch? "Girls wear skirts a lot more in middle school. I need (yes, it was a need) to shave my legs 'cuz I'll be wearing more skirts." It worked! My mom went and bought me supplies to start shaving my legs! BlogHer and Venus provided me the opportunity to really start thinking about this impending conversat...

Several weeks ago, I was approached by Betty Lukens to review some of their felt boards. Didn't take me long to say yes, as I remember playing with felt boards in elementary school and loving them! When they arrived, you'd've thought it was Christmas morning over here. The kids were so exstatic and immediately began delcaring which board belonged to whom, and then? Oh my friends, AND THEN? Silence. Pure, sweet, silent silence, as they all played with their boards. I honestly haven't heard that kind of quiet (wait...can you "hear" quiet?) when they are all awake in...well...in...gosh...in forever, I guess! They all quietly played...Baby Girl even "walking" her felt people around the doll house board. Belle, our fashionista, gave me several different style board options, E.W. was hard at work on the farm and Hambone and his kindergarten "sponge like" brain was loving the alphabet board. The quality is phenomenal, the colors bold and bright, ...

Oh. My. Gosh. I get to give away something totally awesome!!! Like, TOTALLY awesome! I'll give you a hint: Isn't it cute????? But...you've gotta head over here to find out the details!!