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As I have mentioned before, our current home is a rental property. You know what really stinks about rental properties?

The carpet is disgusting!

When we moved into the house 5 years ago, the carpet needed to be replaced (but of course it wasn’t).
The previous tenant had a cat and she never had the carpets professionally cleaned, she just did them herself.
It wasn’t long after we moved in that spots in the carpet that she had previous cleaned were starting to show up because they were absorbing dirt as people walked over them.
Now, our carpet is horrendous.
I’m sure adding 2 more children to the mix since we moved in didn’t help matters.
Toddlers are messy yo!

Now that we have another baby in the mix, who will be crawling before we know it, and multiple family members with different allergies, we are making plans to get our carpet cleaned.

To combat this difficult allergy season this spring plus truly make your homes clean, consumers should consider a deeper cleaning twice a year by the professionals at Stanley Steemer.
**Not just for carpet cleaning, Stanley Steemer’s expertise extends to hardwood, tile, air ducts, water damage restoration, and more!
**Stanley Steemer’s proprietary equipment and cleaning processes remove more than 98% of dry soil from floors
**With over 70 branches and 220 franchise locations in 48 states, Stanley Steemer services 95% of the country

Corine Ingrassia from Complicated Mama recently invided Stanley Steemer into her home to give her carpets a once over and I am mighty impressed with the results she received!

After seeing the results on her carpet, I can’t wait to get ours done! Now I just need the stars to align and find one day where I can make this happen!

Disclosure: The gift certificate, information, and additional gift pack have been provided by Stanley Steemer through MyBlogSpark.

Outdoor Fun for Every Little One

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As we get closer to buying a home of our own, I keep thinking about all of the awesome things I want our new home to have. Not only do I want enough space for the entire family, an open kitchen where we can cook as a family and a basement that we can convert into a rec room/bedroom/office and laundry space I also want a HUGE backyard.

When we finally have our house and our backyard to do whatever we want with, I will be putting in a vegetable garden, a patio, a firepit, a sandbox and a big playset for Ellie and Alexander. I want out backyard to be a place the whole family can enjoy.

Of all of these wants, I find myself constantly ogling different playsets online. What I have in mind for our backyard playset is a wooden playset like the playsets in Hickory, north carolina that I found online.

I don’t want a huge playset made of plastic. I want a huge, wooden structure with a clubhouse, 2 slides, a climbing wall, swings, and more. I want my kids to have the opportunity to go on an awesome adventure in our own backyard. I want them to want to play in our yard and not run off to the park or a friends house every day. I want our yard to be the place children gather.

It's All About Me

Crashed

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This week has not been a good one.
I’m pretty sure when 2012 comes to a close it will definitely be a contender for one of the worst weeks of the year.
Tuesday afternoon, Zack called from school because his hip was really hurting him and he wanted to come home and take some pain killers. He doesn’t take them at school because they have a tendency to knock him out cold.
Since Ellie was sleeping and Alexander was in the middle of eating his lunch, I woke up the Alex and asked if he could run and fetch the boy.

(**Now, a lot of people (points big fat finger and judgmental in-laws) think that it was wrong for me to wake up Alex to go get Zack and asked why I didn’t just take the little kids and go get him. Picking up Zack would have meant I had to wake up Ellie from a MUCH NEEDED nap and load her into her car seat. Get Alexander out of his costume, interrupt his lunch, get him dressed and load him into his car seat. Load both littles into the car and head up to the school. Unload the littles and lug them into school to sign Zack out and assist him with the zero free hands I have and get him and his wheel chair out to the van, get the littles back into the van and then help Zack into the van and load up his wheelchair and return to the house. Unload both the littles and help Zack into the house. Blah. blah. blah. So yeah. Easier to wake up Alex and ask him to go.**)

Alex went to get the boy from school.
15 minutes after he left I got a call from Zack.
They had been in an accident when they were leaving the school.

Thankfully no one was hurt.

Alex hit another van and was cited for inattentive driving.

This is the damage to the van he hit.

All he did to the other van (a 1994 Plymouth Voyager on its last legs according to the owner) was pop the tire and put a huge dent in the rim.

This is my van.

Our van has almost $4000 of damage and is in the shop getting fixed and is expected to be done by the 22nd.
Right now, our family of 6 is using a 2012 Ford Focus. So yeah, we can’t all go somewhere at once. It sucks.
It.Really.Sucks.

We are hoping they can upgrade us to something a little bigger tomorrow but it will just be a full size sedan instead of a compact.

It is the 22nd yet???
I never thought I would miss my minivan so much!!

What do you look like online?

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Have you ever wondered what your internet reputation is like?
Interested in seeing how the internet views you?
Reputation.com offers online reputation management to help you keep tabs on your reputation with their FREE internet monitoring service.

The site will find existing posts about you online, send alerts when new posts appear, finds any exposed personal info in different online databases and identifies and alerts you to damaging posts.

Monitoring your online reputation is completely free for this service. There are also paid plans as well that will help you fix your Google results by replacing inaccurate or misleading search results.

I know that I constantly monitor my internet reputation. I have had a search setup for the last 3 years and get daily updates for anything new that is posted using my name, my blog name, my Twitter; etc. I like to make sure that my personal information is safe at all times in addition to making sure that my site content is safe as well. After the recent plagiarism scandals in the blogosphere I want to make sure my words and photos are all protected.

Reputation.com offers both personal and business services and may very well be my newest online addiction.

So, what do people find when they “Google” you?

Check out the New 2 Box Cheerios Packaging

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I don’t know about your family, but ours goes through A LOT of cereal! We tend to find ourselves buying up a lot of the double packs of cereal when we make our monthly trip to Sam’s Club.

Well, Cheerios is changing the way they do 2 packs. Meet the new 2 box Cheerios.
New 2 box Cheerios contains two individual boxes, making them easier to store and easier to pour!

Plus…..
By reducing the amount of air in each individual bag, these enhanced containers fit 10% more cereal than before and use less packaging.

While each box contains more cereal, packaging material has been reduced by over 200,000 lbs, saving 1,000 trees and taking 130 Cheerios trucks of the road, decreasing CO2 emissions

We are loving the extra space it has freed up in our pantry!

You can see the new packaging yourself by visiting your local Costco, Sam’s Club or BJ’s.

Disclosure: Cheerios® cereal, information, and giveaway have been provided by General Mills through MyBlogSpark.

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