Kitten Update 9 28 2019

The kittens have grown by leaps and bounds again.

Here is the latest update on the babies:

See ya soon!
Danielle

Walk for Life Event

This year, we participated in the Walk for Life event here in Tennessee. 

After having a miscarriage back in March, I felt it was important to recognize how important life actually is. 

Enjoy the event with us here:

See ya soon!
Danielle

Package from Nana Karen

Family can be a burden or a blessing.  In my case, it is a very big blessing.

In this short video, my mom sent Skye a Halloween costume. 

See the video here:

See ya soon!
Danielle

Finally Working Air Conditioner

Really?  Air conditioning is finally fixed now that its September?!?

It was a long hot summer that is for darn sure, but the heat wave here wasn't over yet, so I was thankful for the air. 

See the exciting moment here:

See ya soon!

Danielle

DIY Enzyme Scrub

 Remember that DIY enzyme cleaner that I made a bit ago? 

I took the rinds of the fruit and turned that into an enzyme cleaning scrub.  If you have a high powered blender, this will be so much easier of a project for you than it was for me. 

Find out more here: 

See ya soon!
Danielle

RIP Chicago

Today was a very sad day for us. 

Bella attacked and killed Chicago this evening.  We tried to save him, but she punctured through his skull causing him bleed and to have a seizure. 

We were thankfully that he didn't suffer for long and he has been buried in a place of honor and will forever be in our hearts and minds. 

Hear more about the situation here:

See ya soon!

Danielle

Disappearing Kitten

Have you ever had one of those crazy funny moments that will keep you laughing for hours?  Then again later down the road when you think back on that moment and it makes you laugh all over again.  Today was one of those moments. 

Join me in today's giggle here:

See ya soon!
Danielle

Clean with Me Fridge Edition

I wish I knew how the fridge in my place go so dirty.  I get that I have a kid, a partner, animals, but the animals can't get in the fridge to mess it and the kid and partner claim it isn't them either.

It must be ghosts that come in during the night (or day) and dirty the apartment including the fridge.  That is the only explanation I can come up with.

I do know what some of the yuck in the fridge is this time, the kid confessed, but still how it gets where it gets always amazes me.

Watch it here:

See ya soon!
Danielle

Clean with Me Microwave Edition

Of all my appliances, I think my microwave is used the most often and given the least amount of cleaning love. 

I did a video a while back on how to quickly clean your microwave and I revisit that information in this video.

Put your WET sponge into the microwave.  I stress wet because a dry sponge could catch fire.  Fire equals bad thing.  Set the cook time for at least 2 minutes.  I have done up to 5 but the sponge needs to be able to stay wet during the entire time, but not dripping.  Once done, use sponge to wipe down the insides of the microwave.  Use caution, the sponge will the HOT as all get out.  Learn from my errors.

Watch it here:

See ya soon!
Danielle

Fixing that darn sheet that just keeps coming off

I don't know about you, but it happens for me every morning.  There is usually at least 1 corner, sometimes more, that have come up off the bed.  I get so frustrated with it that I just had to figure out a solution.

Pinterest here I come for some ideas.

Ideas I did find too.  I show you how I do it in the video but first just a note.  I have a king size bed with a deep mattress.  I found that not all sheets worked for the measurements I had from the post I found.  Some of my sheets, the ones with elastic all the way around, it worked fine as long as I didn't sew on the elastic of the sheet.  Others with only small spots of elastic around the corners, I had to redo.  I put the sheet on the bed and then marked the best spot on each side with a pin, then sewed the elastic on.

Watch my video here:

See ya soon!
Danielle

Clean with Me: Kitchen Cabinet Edition

I don't know about you, but I swear my cabinets get dirty and cluttered during the night while I am sleeping.

This one is partially my fault though, as I was the goof ball who thought the molasses wasn't going to leak out of the upside down bottle...oy.  What was I thinking there?

Anyway, I took everything out of the cabinet, wiped up the mess, and then put everything back a little bit more organized.

Watch me here:

See ya soon!
Danielle

Kittens Eat Soft Food

The kittens are growing every day.  I feel like I say this all the time, but it is true.  Like children, pets change daily when they are babies. 

They are finally old enough to start eating normal kitty food.  They are still nursing when momma will let them, but we have started them on soft food.

Watch their first food feeding here:

See ya soon!
Danielle

Hands On Science Center

Locally, we have a little place where kids can go to see different science things.  There are little blurb areas on the brain, different fish, magnets, building blocks, and all different areas involving science.

Recently, they celebrated a birthday and had a "party" for the community.  The invitation made it sound like very thing was free: entrance fee, food, activities, and crafts.  The reality was that only the entrance fee was free.  They charged for everything else, $2.75 for a slice of pizza, $5 for the bouncy house....who knows what the rest was because we didn't even check at that point. 

We were all disappointed and a bit frustrated.  I can understand wanting to raise funds for the center itself and would have had no problem with knowing that before hand instead of finding out when we arrived at the center.  Overall, we thought the science center was geared more toward younger children with multiple building areas with legos, blocks, and a few other type of building toys, but not really much for our older kids.

We did discuss this with one of the ladies who worked there, I can't remember the chicks name but she was pretty nice and listened to our ideas on what the older kids might like to see there. 

While there, Skye did take a few photos so I thought I would share them.

You can watch it here:

See ya soon!
Danielle