Don'tcha hate it when.... Wednesday

Okay, I have been slacking so here it goes...

Don'tcha hate it when...

• You make an extravagant meal that took hours to cook and your family enjoys it. Then you make a 1/2 hour meal and the family is raving as if they were eating steak and lobster.
• Your hubby is actually right. Damn.
• Your baby boy discovers he has "boy parts". Now I have to look at him and the hubby grab their parts. Not attractive.
• Your children bring up your faults in front of company. I don't recall ever saying that I was perfect to begin with.

My list could go on but that would make me sound bitter LOL! What bugs you? Hit us up in the comments...

And the winners are...

We have randomly selected our winners for our 200th post giveaway contest and they are:

Katie from boyz in the hood...er, suburbs

&

Lisa from LisaCWrites

Congratulations ladies and we hope you enjoy your coffee! Thanks to everyone that participated.

Giveaway reminder

Don't forget you have until midnight on August 10th to enter our Starbucks coffee giveaway.

Bawbi has a new look

The temperatures this week in Columbia, South Carolina have been in the miserable 100's. Actually it has been that way for much of the Summer. This is no fun when you carry around what feels like a fur coat on top of your head. The fur coat I speak of would be my hair. I have been growing it out for about a year now so that I could donate it to Locks of Love. I have always wanted to do it but either my hair was too short, too layered or the one time we had a ponytail incident that messed up my chance to donate it. Let's just say that you should not play pass the ponytail. It could get real messy! Here are some photos of what my hair looked like before:

It sounded like my hair stylist was sawing through my hair! It took an entire minute to cut the ponytail off. There were a few other ladies waiting for their appointment and they all sat there nervously watching me get all my hair hacked off. I was the only one that was happy. Everyone else thought I was nuts.

I knew I had a lot of hair but did not realize it was that much!

After losing about 15 inches, this is the end result:

Country girls

Today the girls did a very interesting thing that they can certainly say they have never done before. They shelled speckled butter beans. My father-in-law is from the country and he took a trip this past weekend. He came back with a HUGE bag of what I thought were sugar snap peas or something related to them. He said that they were speckled butter beans and that they had to be removed from the pods in order to cook them. Usually he brings them from the Farmers Market all packed in pound sized bags already shelled and cleaned. Let's just say that 2 1/2 hours of manual labor yielded about 1 3/4 pounds of beans. I helped a little until my fingertips were sore. It is kinda fun and the girls enjoyed doing it. We explained to them that a lot of people in the country grow their own produce and have to do all the cleaning and sorting. I thought they would have moaned and groaned and asked why we can't just go to the store to buy some. They really had fun doing it. What they found to be really cool was that the shells that looked all brown and yucky gave you beans of the most gorgeous purple shades. It's great that my kids are content with doing such simple things with no complaints. I guess I could learn a thing or two from them huh?

200th post giveaway - Guilty pleasures

In honor of our 200th post (yes two hundred posts!), we wanted to do something fun just for the heck of it. We decided to have a drawing for 2 of our readers to win a full size bag of Starbucks Coffee. All you have to do is leave a comment to this post telling us what your guiltiest pleasure is (PG rated! LOL!) If you win, you will be given the choice of whole bean or ground, decaf or regular. Cut-off time for this giveaway is midnight August 10th, 2008 and winners will be randomly drawn and notified. It's that easy! Be sure to tell your friends all about it and good luck!

**Only 1 entry per person. Giveaway is for US residents only.