As seen on TV

Do you purchase any of the "As seen on TV" products? I recently saw something you connect to your garden hose that turns it into a power washer. I really want to get one. Dwayne might not let me since I have one of those Pedi-paws things that has been used once (by Dwayne)! I insisted that I had to have it and have yet to actually use it.

Do you have any of those items that you swore you would use and just had to have it and it collects dust? You know you do...admit it, I want to know!

Flashback Friday & our 400th post!

It just dawned on me that we are on our 400th post! Thanks to all of our friends that have been following us and taking time to leave comments. I never really thought we would get this far or we might run out of things to say so I guess I was wrong! I leave with this great old school hit and the Ismail family theme song. Have a great holiday weekend!

Getting William to not wake up at night

Okay, if you read yesterday's post you would know that William was sick and waking up throughout the night. I knew I had to do something about this since this means Dwayne and I are not getting our sleep either. We do not do the pick up at night thing or the sleep in our bed thing so I had to think hard. I came up with something. As a matter of fact, it is what has worked all along. Strangely William can go 6-8 weeks sleeping perfectly through the night them Bam! He starts waking up a few times at night for about 2-3 days. I end up changing his bedding and voila, he goes back to sleeping through with no interruption. I have even found that moving his crib around to the opposite side of the room seems to do the trick. Your boy Dwayne aka "Ismail the Great" likes to call it Feng Shui. You let him tell the story he would say he made it all up on his own! I find it amazing how subtle changes can make a huge difference.

Do you have any tricks to getting your baby/toddler to sleep through the night? If so please share.

What kinda Wednesday is this?

So sorry, no Vent Day today because I am taking care of a sick little one. Believe me I had lots to vent about. When you live with Dwayne you could never run out of stuff to say! Today I am running off of about 2 hours of broken sleep. William has a head cold and has decided that he needs to whine all night long. He seems just fine in the day though. I am so lucky that Dwayne really takes the most care of him at night since I have the all-day shift. I have so many little things I want to write about but my brain is not really connecting with my fingers at the moment. Thank goodness for spell check! I hope everyone has a fabulous day! I think I am going to take the girls out so I can sneak by Starbucks for a quick pick-me-up.

Fundraising for school without the work

If you are a mom like me, you probably have participated in many fundraisers for school. I have tapered off how much I do over the years and have replaced it with Box Tops for Education. If you have been reading Momfiles long enough you would know that I have mentioned it quite a bit. We purchase tons of General Mills products each month and we make sure to save those little Box Tops so we can donate them to the kids' school. I subscribe to the Box Tops email list so I was recently offered a FREE collection box to store the Box Tops. Now I don't have to have them randomly floating around the kitchen in 50 different places including the infamous "junky drawer".

Now I can keep my collection box in my pantry so we all will know exactly where to keep our box tops!