Here Kitty Kitty Kitty... Hawk!

We went south on Saturday to the Home Depot to pick up some tile that we ended up not using. While there, we went to VoldeMart to get a binky for Grand Duchess because I left hers sitting on the kitchen table (and her spare was removed from my purse previously in the day).

So as we were leaving the parking lot, we saw a van with a sign that said, "Free Puppies". No thank you - even though they were UBER cute!

But then, parked to the side of that van was another van. IT had a sign that said, "Free Kittens". We were intrigued. So we turned around.

And 20 minutes later we were on the road home with this...

His name is Kitty Hawk. He's about 10 weeks old and Princess Monkey Eyes will NOT put him down. It took everything inside of me to get her to leave him home during church. Can you imagine it? Our family sitting on the back row, all of the kids with their church bags filled with pens, paper, scriptures, and ... kitties? Mew.

Anyway. We love Kitty Hawk. He is used to us now and comes out of hiding more readily. There has been only one poop accident on the first evening, but no more! It's pretty nice. He's furry and soft and playful and sweet. We like him.

A funny story to finish this post: tonight Princess Monkey Eyes was pretending to be a kitty; wandering around the house, mewling and jumping onto laps. Well, she jumped up onto Popeye's lap and curled up. Popeye: "Are you a kitty?" Princess ME: "Meow." Popeye: "Will you purr for me?" Princess ME: *fart*

It was the funniest thing and I'm still laughing about it!

Tuesday Tip!

Brain freezes and migraines don't mix. Avoid these at all cost!

Change is good, sometimes

I wanted to dye my hair. I've been a brunette my whole life and lately I've been wanting a drastic change. But what color? I've gone auburn before - the closest I've been willing to go towards the red tones. I've highlighted my hair with blonde before and really liked how that was.
So why not go blonde all the way? See what it's like for a change. If anything, I can go back to brown if I don't like it, right?

I don't like it. Basically the blonde didn't turn blonde, more of a coppery-orange hue. BLECH. Next time I'll use a bleaching kit instead of a highlighting kit. But that may be towards summertime before I attempt that.

So this morning I went back to brown - well brown with orangey highlights. It's the best I could do.

And Princess Monkey Eyes thought she'd like to go brown, so I used the remainder of the bottle on her.

She makes a beautiful brunette! Pictures might follow. But just know that we are bobsy-twins today. Sporting "brown" hair pulled back into a ponytail with a flower holding it together, white shirts and jeans.

It was a fun bonding time with her. She turned out beautiful. Me, not so much. :D

Knowledge is power

But some things I wish I didn't know.
For example:
I don't need to know if your husband wears boxers, briefs or boxer-briefs.
I don't need to know that you (or someone who lives in your home) is a total lush and that your liquor cabinet is too small to hold all your liquor.
I don't care to know what you had for dinner last night by way of your commode.
I'm glad that you're having a good time in the sack and keeping from procreating, if that is your wish, but please discard of the birth control accordingly.

Please keep these things in mind the next time I come by.
Thanks.

Still alive

Our internet has been down for the past few weeks. Okay, so it hasn't been down because of weather or anything like that. I didn't pay our bill and it got shut off. Oh well.
Today, though, I got it turned back on! YAY! So here I am, posting to my blog that no one reads anymore because I don't go and check anyone else's blogs because I'm too dang busy with life to spend lots of time reading (as much as I want to). I am bound and determined to check all blogs tonight, though, because I'm caught up on all of my housework & will have nothing to do after the kiddos go to bed.

So here are a few facts at the Royal House:
Grand Duchess is finally sitting up unassisted and is attempting to crawl everywhere. She gets very frustrated because she doesn't go far and is pretty slow about it. She has my temper.
School started for Optimus Prime, Mr. Fantastic & Princess Monkey Eyes. They all love their teachers. I love them being gone.
Popeye just got home from his 2-week long training in Washington at the Navy Hospital. He absolutely LOVED it there and wishes that we can move there. Sara, I'd be so much closer!!!
While he was gone, I did a few home improvements.
- I ripped out the carpet in the boys' room (STINKY), scraped the ceiling in there, washed the walls & replaced the icky boxsprings with particle board.
- I painted the stairwell hallway
- I textured the bathroom walls, primed them & have 3/4 of the shower tiled
- I rototilled, smoothed, put down landscaping fabric & planted a tree in the front garden area.
(Thanks be to Cap'n for surprising me with it all being mulched when I got home from picking up Popeye at the airport!)
- I primed a majority of the trim outside and replaced some of the rotted trim around the windows.
- I purged through Popeye's and my clothes and donated 5 garbage bags to a local church.
And I did it all while keeping up on the laundry and taking care of 5 kiddos.
So now I'm back to work and wishing that I had a little more time to renovate. Maybe soon - they're deploying from Popeye's unit so he may just be leaving. We're not sure when they'll stop with the picking and choosing - but part of me thinks we're in the clear! (Now that I've said that, though, he'll probably get called out tomorrow.)
I know there were other things to blog about but it's hard to concentrate with Duchess screaming in my ear because she can't go anywhere and Thor wanting to lay down but won't.
So I guess I'll close for now. I'm excited to go read up on everyone else later tonight!!!

Tuesday Tip!

Here's a cleaning product that you MUST buy. My mom just bought it and she said it's AMAZING!!! I will buy one someday.

It's called a Tibetan Almond Stick. She found hers at her local Ace Hardware and it worked on any color of wood finish. It takes the scratches out. (Keep in mind this is not for major gouges, just scratches.)

If you have some furniture that is scratched up that is driving you crazy, you may want to purchase this.

Ooh la la!

Grand Duchess is 6 months old! Check out her pics that fabulous Jenni took! You can see more of her work here. She was wonderful to work with & if you live in our area, you should totally contact her for a sitting! (And Grand Duchess' eyes are THAT blue, Jenni didn't tweak those at all!)

THANKS JENNI!!!!!