Broken Furnace and Eggs

First, the eggs. For the last couple months I have been finding raw eggs, from the fridge, here and there around Jessie's room. I collect them, count my blessings I haven't found a broken one, tell her how bad that would stink, tell her to knock it off, and throw them away. This has happened so many times I am at a loss of what to do, or why she is doing this. Does she think it's easter? Who knows, but this week I went in to Jessie's room, picked up a pillow off her chair, and found a dozen eggs. Yes, an entire dozen. I don't know how long they had been there, I called Jessie in, and she immediately started crying that I had found them. I called Chad in to see and he thought it was cute, I was just mad, until she explained that now that we took off the pillow, she couldn't sit on them anymore and now they won't hatch.

I guess that's cute.

We explained eggs from the store won't hatch, and she seemed devestated, but now maybe my eggs will stop disappearing!


Stinking Furnace! (literally)

So it was the middle of the night last weekend when we were awakened by the smoke detector. We got up thinking "stupid piece of crap", went in the hall into a cloud of smoke, that's when the panic set in. Chad and I ran into the kitchen first, nothing. Ran downstairs to the kids rooms, no smoke down there, kids all fine, ran back up stairs, turned on all the lights and saw the smoke was coming out of the vents. So Chad went to the furnace, the fan motor was siezed and burning. So we turned it off. No fire, but a stinky, smokey, cold house. And then, a big storm, Nice! It turns out the furnace was under warranty, and Lennox was sending out a repair man, on Monday. What? Yes, a weekend with a big storm, and no furnace. I had to work every night, so I was in the warm hospital. My kids thought it was fun having the gas fireplace on, and cuddling up with dad. I got some pictures of where Jessie pretty much camped for 3 days. But don't worry, it is all fixed and warm at our house now!!



That would be her bubble-tape there with her, gotta have the essentials!

Kara DioGuardi

So I'm sure some of you have been watching American Idol, me too. How do you all feel about the new judge Kara DioGuardi? I love her, she adds that girl power that was missing. Between her and Paula they can finally put Simon in his place, am I right? She is sassy and fun, but do you really know much about her? Who is she? Why is she qualified to be an "American Idol" judge? Well, I decided to find out these questions and I was very surprised at what I found. She is a grammy nominated "Hitmaker". Of the several hundred songs she has written, 268 have been released on major labels world wide, and over 168 have appeared on multi-platinum selling albums. Impressive eh? Her songs have been recorded by grammy award winning artists such as: Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Kelly Clarkson, Celine Dion, Pink, Faith Hill, and Carrie Underwood. And tons of other artists like: Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne, the Jonas Brothers, Hannah Montana, Leona Lewis, EVEN David Archuleta! I have added a bunch of her songs to my blogs playlist if you want to hear them, and you can visit her blog here to find out more about her. So watch out Simon, I'm tuning in to see what she has to say from now on.