miscellaneous

I'll never use a broom and dustpan again. 

I also think I may have decided what gift I should buy for every baby shower I ever go to.  

What do these two statements have in common?  - The Bissel Versus

It is so "THE BOMB".  For real.  Especially when you consider the challenge it has to clean up our kitchen 3 times a day after two VERY messy children. 

Paired with this - Eureka Hard-Surface Steamer - we now have clean floors (more often than we used to anyway)!

I cannot explain how sadly excited we were to have these arrive last week.  Giddy, actually.  In fact we spitefully avoided sweeping and mopping at all costs during the 5 days we waited for them to arrive.  Believe me...EVERYONE was glad when they arrived!

Now Paxton has clean (chemical-free) floors to crawl on.  Yay!

UPDATE (10/11/11) - We still LOVE both of these. That Versus is a must-have in every kid-friendly kitchen and has continued to work well for the past year and a half. And mopping with the Eureka has never been easier (or more calming).  Buy them.  Seriously. You (and your back) will thank me later.

Our backyard is a regular scene from a Disney movie. Birds, squirrels, chipmunks...and the occasional stray cat. But here's the villain of the bunch:

And don't forget his winter-time sidekicks -- The Birds.

The teens at church reenacted this Mr. T video this morning for "children's time". I thought it would be an appropriate video to share today!

What things come in 4's? I'm asking for a reason, but I don't want to limit anyone's answers...so let's brainstorm:

I haven't actually seen the movie, but I think you'll agree there's an eerie similarity between our backyard full of screeching birds and the movie "The Birds".   This is a daily occurrence: