For the past four years, getting anywhere near my daughters feet has been out of the question.  I clip her nails usually at night when she’s asleep, otherwise there is a major meltdown.  It has been a major sensory obstacle for her.  However this morning out of the blue, she notices my toes are painted from my last pedicure and says she wants to paint her toes too… ~OMG!!!!  Naturally I said sure, this was HUGE!  So I let her pick out a color, and she actually let me paint her toes, with NO squirming or screaming.  I am sooo excited (obviously) that I texted everyone and then felt it necessary to create this post also  haha.  Finished product:

“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” ~Earl Nightingale

Ok, so if you read my bio, you know I have 4 cats, what you may not know however, is that I am also a major clean freak with allergies.  I also go thru vacuums like water, and since my one cat has been ill recently I have slightly injured my carpet cleaner.  So I was beyond ecstatic when I made friends with my new Euro-Pro Shark Navigator Bagless Vacuum which is purple, YAY! (I swear it had nothing to do with the decision process, it was just a bonus hehe), and my Bissell SpotBot Pet Carpet Cleaner.

I was completely skeptical of both items, but since they both had such good reviews on them I figured OK give it a try.  The first thing that shocked me was how lightweight the Shark Vacuum was.  I haven’t had a vacuum that weighed so little unless you count the Dustbuster I used to have, and the SpotBot carpet cleaner that cleans all by itself??  Both of them together coming in way under the $500 Dyson pricetag? Just couldn’t be true…

Well it was!  They are the two best cleaning appliances I have EVER bought and I LOVE them!!!!

So my husband was patiently (ha) waiting for the Fed Ex man to deliver his new Ipad today. While he had me practically glued to the door and him checking the website every 3 min, it was my Kayla who yells out “Mommy the Chipettes are here“. Chipettes being from the new movie Alvin and the Chipmunks the Squeakquel, arrived at Jett Records via Fed Ex.  I sign for the package, while she tugs at the package “let them out mommy“.  She then begins singing “All the Single Ladies“.