Family Road Trips Just Got Easier

I'm SUPER excited about seeing my family in Florida soon! And to help us plan our big car trek from Toledo to Orlando, I've been using Pilot Flying J's website.

Did you know you can plan your trip on their website?

I didn't either!

If you are planning a road trip this summer, this feature on their website is very handy!  Just click on the "locations" button...

...and viola'! You can suddenly see all the Pilot Flying J locations around your neck of the woods!

Down at the bottom I typed in my starting and ending points and BAM! There was complete turn-by-turn directions to Orlando! Simply hit the print button and you're all set for your road trip!

The nice thing about using Pilot Flying J's trip planner instead of a map website is that they put the exits that have Pilot Flying J locations right in the driving directions! SCORE!

That sure makes planning potty breaks and gas stops way easier for a family on the road! And, you can even search for certain amenities the Pilot Flying J has.  Need a stop that has a public laundry? Check that box in your search and you're golden!

Now if you're like Lazy Dad and I, you rely heavily on your smart phone. So here's the best part... Pilot Flying J has put all their trip planning awesomeness on an app for your phone!

Not only do they have the trip planner on their app, but you can also see current gas prices! Woohoo!  Trip planning just got easier my friends.

Next time you're hitting the road download this app!  It rocks.  You can even see your Pilot Flying J Rewards!

If you aren't a reward member, just pick up a card at your next Pilot Flying J stop and get to swiping!  You could win a $1,000 gas card if you do!

Disclosure: Pilot Flying J is one of our June road trip sponsors, but they did not ask me to write this post. I just wanted to tell you about this awesome feature they have. So there.

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Why I May Sue Lazy Dad (and other random stuff)

So this weekend we had a garage sale.  It was Lazy Dad's idea, not mine.  So guess who was "conveniently" out of town the first day of the sale?

Mm, hmm.  Lazy Dad.

Yes, I was left to fend for myself.  Thank God we have fabulous neighbors who also wanted to have a garage sale and they were willing to help set things up with me.  We hauled heavy garage-sale-item-covered tables in and out of garages more times than I care to recount.

And I also thank God that our fabulous neighbor is a lawyer, so I can sue Lazy Dad for neglect and slave labor.

In other weekend news, I saw a lady pulling out of a convenient store with something on the roof of her car.  I was at a red light and she was pulling out in front of me to turn the other direction so I rolled down my window and said, "Ma'am, you have something on your roof!"

To which she replied, "I'm defrosting my chicken."

Wait. What?

No lie, people. That's what she said to me as she drove past me.

Defrosting chicken on top of your car roof.  It's how things are done here in South Toledo.

Speaking of South Toledo.  Check out the sign my kids and I discovered as we walked to the library this weekend.

We keep it classy here in the South End.

Oo! Oo!  Speaking of walking to the library.  Every year around this time the kids and I impatiently await the bloom of honeysuckles on a particular chain link fence on the way to the library.  And this weekend we discovered they were ready!

You do know what's awesome about honeysuckles, right?

When I was in Elementary school in my hometown of Nacogdoches Texas, honeysuckles grew on the chain link fence surrounding the playground.  It was there that I discovered what you do with honeysuckles.  The kids on the playground would hang out at the fence and eat the "dew drops" inside of the honeysuckles.

Did you know that there's a tasty little dew drop inside each honeysuckle?

So several years ago, on a walk to the library, I saw this fence covered in honeysuckles and had to show my kids the secret dew drop God put inside them!

 
It reminds me of that fence around my school's playground. 

And now is making a nice memory for my kids.

Also this weekend I went on a date.  But not with Lazy Dad.

I went with Bible Man!

Well, this cute little Bible Man.

Several weeks ago at church this cutie came up to me and said, "Miss Stacey, I want to go out to eat with just you and me next week."

So I said, "Um, did you just ask me on a date?"

"Yes," he replied.  But I'm pretty sure he didn't know what a date was.

It was so cute I quickly relayed the story to his parents.  And then Lazy Dad caught wind of it, who became enraged with jealousy and turned into an evil villain right before our very eyes.

So no wonder he had to show up for our date in a Bible Man cape.  He had to fight the evil villain for me.

After he defeated Lazy Dad and turned him back into a nice loving pastor, both family's went to McDonald's together.

It was a chaperoned date. 

And my date played in the playland for pretty much all of the date, but I was okay with that.

And so was Lazy Dad.

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How to Not Lose Your Kids in an Amusement Park {A Lazy Mom Tip!}

In less than a week we are heading to Florida to hang with the rest of my family and hit up some great amusement parks in the Orlando area! Woot!

So today I thought I would share with you a GREAT Lazy Mom Tip that is perfect for amusement parks.  I wish I could remember how I came across this tip, but alas I can't remember how I came across it.  Cause, uh, I don't remember.  Remembering isn't one of my strong suits.

Anyone else have this problem?

Anyway! What's one of the main worries you have about taking your children to an amusement park?  Well if you're like me, you're worried you'll lose them!  Those parks are big and full of people and there's so much to attract kids away from their moms.

So what's a lazy mom to do?!

Well, the next time you're heading to an amusement park, make your kids a cell phone bracelet to wear!

Photo credit: unknown

String your cell phone number on the bracelet and instruct your kids to show it to an amusement park worker if they get separated from you. 

If your kids are old enough you can even get them in on the fun!  They can make their own bracelet and string beads that they like on the other side of the bracelet.

So last night I went in search of number beads at Walmart (my go-to store) and couldn't find any.  I'm sure you could probably find them at a craft store though.  I did find some on Amazon, so I put them in the Lazy Mom Store if you'd like to buy them online.

Isn't that a fabulous tip?! If you have a great lazy mom tip to share with us, click on submit a lazy mom tip under the "submit" tab at the top of this blog to learn how!

P.S. That is not my cell phone number pictured above.
P.P.S. So let's all prank call it!
P.P.P.S. Everyone ask them if their refrigerator is running! (Then why don't you catch it?)
P.P.P.P.S. Just kidding.
P.P.P.P.P.S Geesh, don't be so immature.

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Red White & Blue Strawberries {A Lazy Mom Recipe}

My friend Sarah emailed me a recipe for the cutest and most patriotic chocolate dipped strawberries. I just had to share them you for this coming Memorial Day weekend!

We always have a party for our church peeps at our house for Memorial Day.  We call it "Party @ Pastors."  I know, I know.  We're just so darn creative.

Anyway, these would be super cute to put out for Memorial Day or the 4th of July, or any patriotic day really!

Red White & Blue Strawberries

1 cup of white melting chocolate
12 strawberries
sprinkles

Place wax paper out on a work surface.  Wash and dry strawberries.  Melt chocolate in microwave, stirring at 10 second intervals, until it reaches dipping consistency.

Dip strawberries in chocolate and shake sprinkles onto the bottom.  Lay on wax paper to harden.

Photo Credit: Unknown (I just know it's not mine!)

Aren't those just SO cute?  And as lazy moms we know that they don't have to be perfect, so why not get your kids involved too!  They would have so much fun dipping and shaking!

Thanks Sarah for sending this recipe in!  If you have a lazy recipe to share, click on the "Submit" link at the top of this blog to learn how!

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Sticky Buns and Underwear Issues (Not that those two things are related)

Wow. Y'all must really like the Lazy Cake Cookies recipe on this here blog. I've had over 55,000 page views on that recipe alone this month!  Thanks for sharing!

Oh! And be sure and check out my Lazy Sticky Buns while you're at it!

Uh, I should clarify....not MY lazy sticky buns, the recipe lazy sticky buns.

Are we clear?

Speaking of sticky buns (just brace yourself for this transition), yesterday I mentioned on Facebook that I've had a pair of underwear that for several months now has been hurting me when I wear them.  Namely, they hurt under my right "cheek." (Are you blushing yet?)

I thought maybe the elastic in the leg of the underwear was stretched taught or pulled, but never remembered to inspect them to find out. 

Yesterday I had this pair of underwear on at church (didn't you want to know that about me?) and noticed it again.  I started thinking (in the middle of Lazy Dad's sermon, no less) that I was just gonna have to ditch this pair of underwear when I got home. Come to find out, upon inspection in the bathroom stall, the culprit of my underwear torture was a burr this whole time!

I can only come to the conclusion that in order for me to put up with a burr in this certain pair of underwear for several months on end (not that I wore them everyday, mind you) is because I must, just MUST, have buns of steel.

So please now assume that any gorgeous girl you see walking around with buns of steel is me. Mkay?

(Did I really just write all of that?)

(Any minute now the Assemblies of God is going to call and revoke my pastor's wife membership in their fellowship.)

(Oh wait. There is no such thing as pastor's wife membership.)

(Phew!)

Speaking of discovering my underwear issue at church yesterday, Lazy Dad told the story of Job during his sermon in a way I'm sure you've never quite seen in "big church."

Using a gigantic "Bible" that he used to use when he was a kids pastor, he pulled out different toys from this "Bible" as he told the story. 

For instance, Ken and Barbie played the role of Job and Mrs. Job.

What?  Even "big kids" in "big church" like a good story with Ken and Barbie in it every once in a while.

Oo! Speaking of Lazy Dad, look who started to get his funk on over there on the dance floor at a wedding reception this weekend.

Can't wait to see what the wedding photographer got of him.  Although I doubt it can top this awesome picture of funkiness that is my all-time favorite picture of Lazy Dad ever.

Speaking of pictures, we stopped by one of our area metroparks yesterday and took in some beautiful photographs of nature on display there. 

Outside they have this ginormous picture on the side of the building, so I made my kids pose in front of it so I could say in my best German accent, "From way up here you all look like little bitty ants!"

They clearly thought that was funny.

Anyway, to wrap up this random blog post I thought I'd share with you something that I spied on the Olive Garden website.  A "Taste of Tuscany" Sweepstakes where you could win an eight day guided tour of Italy for two!  Uh, be sure and go enter that!  Who couldn't use a trip to Italy, right?!

Disclosure: Olive Garden is one of our June road trip sponsors, but they did not ask me to post about this contest, it was something I wanted to share on my own. 

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Lazy Mom Tip #60

Woohoo! It's time to share with you all another great Lazy Mom Tip that I have instituted around my house!

*Lazy moms everywhere go wild!*

Thank you, thank you.  I thought that might excited you.

If you're like me you have GOBS of pens, pencils, crayons, and the like scattered all over your house.  I know this because when we listed our house for sale and started going through every nook and cranny of our home, I FOUND THEM ALL.

In the past I had tried corralling them in various small tubs and such and keeping them in a central place in our house, but they would inevitably get scattered back around.  So when I cleaned my house out for our listing, I knew it was time to take control.  To truly keep everything in ONE accessible place where everyone can find it!

Behold.  Lazy Mom Tip #60....

These tall tower of drawers are great!  I bought one several years ago when we homeschooled to keep paper, workbooks and the like organized, but it had fallen into disarray when we decided to put our kids in school and stopped using it regularly.

When I cleaned out our basement after we listed our house for sale, I dusted these bad boys off and decided they would be the perfect place to house all our pens, pencils, colored pencils and markers.

And speaking of pens, did I ever find some PENS when I cleaned our house out!  I told Lazy Dad, and I quote, "We should never ever have to buy pens again in our lifetime.  We have enough pens to get our children's children's children through college!" 

The bigger drawers on the bottom were perfect for holding our (multitude of) crayons, folders and scratch paper for coloring.

But as I continued cleaning out our house I discovered I needed a home for additional items of this general nature.  So I ran to Wal-Mart to buy another tower of drawers, but alas, they don't sell them anymore! NOOOOOOO!

So on my way to another store I passed Big Lots and on a whim decided to stop and see if they had them.  AND THEY DID.  AND THEY WERE CHEAPER! I did a happy dance right there in the store, drug them home and propped them up next to the other set of drawers. 

Then I promptly filled them up with stuff so they'd feel all useful and loved and stuff.

The top drawer holds general office supplies: permanent markers, sharpies, tape, staples, etc.  The other drawers house scissors/hole punches, rulers/compasses/protractors, and a whole drawer of note pads.  

The bottom two house workbooks I didn't want to part with and spiral notebooks.  

Now everything is nice and neat and has a home to belong in! Woot!

I love this tip because it makes you feel super organized.  B, b, b, b, BUT!  I'd be remiss people, just REMISS, if'n I didn't give a shout out to my sweet, gorgeous, fabulous sister who originally came up with this tip for her home many years ago.

She rocks.

And she's gorgeous.

Proof:

She has two of these drawers that fit perfectly in her kitchen pantry area. She keeps stuff in them like lightbulbs, owners manuals, batteries, cameras, wax bars for her candle warmer, etc.

But she takes the organization one step further than I do, she discovered that you can write on these types of plastic bins with a sharpie or permanent marker and when you're ready to use the drawer for something else, you can erase the permanent marker off with fingernail polish remover to relable them!  (Did I mention she was smart, too?) 

So.  That's our fabulous Lazy Mom Tip! What's yours? Find out how to send it in to me!

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I May *Possibly* be that "Crazy Sponge Roller Lady"

This week we had our last MOPS meeting at our church.  (For those of you who don't know what MOPS is, check out MOPS International's website.)  Since it was the last meeting, we decided to have some fun with it, so we had a pajama party!

*sigh* I just love pajama parties. 

Because I love pajamas.

But anyway!  The person who came with the craziest pajamas won a prize.  I didn't really have crazy pajamas that were prize-worthy, so I had to get creative.  I decided to up the ante with a throw back to something I loved as a girl.

Sponge rollers!

That's right people, I rolled my hair up in my daughter's sponge rollers (with her help) and we giggled and laughed the whole time. 

And then when we finished, I realized something......

How am I going to get to church like this?!

I couldn't find a hat that would cover it. 

I couldn't find a scarf that would work.

So in the end I drove 15 minutes across town like this.

Yup. 

I looked awesome.

About half way to church I realized that I had forgotten to bring my "favorite munchie" for our snack.  I thought about stopping at a grocery store on the way, and I NEARLY did.  But in the end decided I just didn't have the nerve to walk through a store in my pajamas with sponge rollers in my hair (even if that would have made this blog post THAT much better).

When I got to MOPS everyone had a nice laugh over my curlers and wanted to know how many people stared at me as I drove down the street this way.

"I don't know! I purposely didn't look because I didn't want to know!" I said. 

Well, technically I did steal two glances at cars beside me when I first pulled out into traffic.  Both of the cars drivers didn't seem to notice me so I decided to not look at anymore!  But I did laugh a whole lot on the way to church.  Especially as I drove through intersections with a bunch of stopped traffic.

So basically, if you live in Toledo and saw a random woman driving down the road with sponge rollers in her hair laughing at nothing in particular, that was me, mkay?

Mkay.

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I didn't expect to be blown away by a plunger! But I was! {Giveaway}

I was TOTALLY blown away by Rubbermaid's® new Clean & Dry™ Plunger. 

I know, I know, it's a PLUNGER.

But this plunger is like no other.  Let me explain.

A basic plunger has one major problem in my book.  You plunge a nasty backed-up toilet and then afterwards have to put it away.... causing drip, drip, drips across your bathroom floor.  EW! GROSS!

But not with Rubbermaid's® Clean & Dry™ Plunger!  They have FIXED THIS PROBLEM FOR GOOD!

The head and the pole of the plunger is coated in NeverWet™ nanotech coating and repels water and germs.  Like car wax, the water beads up and rolls of instantly!  This helps minimize the spread of germs and keeps homes cleaner and more sanitary! Woot!

In other words people, IT DOESN'T DRIP ON THE FLOOR!

So okay, when I got the Clean & Dry™ Plunger in the mail, I couldn't wait for a chance to use it!

(Is that lame?) 

(Wait, don't answer that.)

And with two young boys in the house, I knew it wouldn't be long before a plunging would be necessary.  Just a few days later, "Mooooom! The toilet's backed-up!"

I do believe this was the only time that statement excited me. 

Yes... yes, it definitely was the only time.

"DON'T PLUNGE IT!" I yelled, "I have a new plunger!!"  And I skipped with glee to the backed-up toilet. (Did I just really say that?)

After a few plunges with the new Clean & Dry™ Plunger I pulled it out of the water and much to my utter amazement the plunger was completely DRY.

NO. LIE.

Now, I didn't actually touch it to feel if it was dry.  So don't get all grossed out on me.  You aren't supposed to touch the head or pole of the plunger that is coated in the NeverWet™ nanotech coating because the oils in your hands can cause it to break down and be less effective.  So instead, I pulled the plunger out of the toilet water, saw that it looked completely dry and then shook it to see if any drip, drip, drips would occur.  AND THEY DIDN'T.

People, are you hearing what I'm saying?!? The plunger was totally wet, but came out totally dry!  It's like a weird Twilight Zone episode.

(I think.)

(I have never actually watched a Twilight Zone episode.)

(I just hear people say that, so I thought it sounded good to use in that sentence.)

(Can someone confirm that I used it the correct way? K, thanks.)

I was so blown away by this plunger that that night when Lazy Dad got home, I told him to immediately go get the new plunger and dip it in the toilet, "then prepare to be amazed!"

He looked at me funny, but seeing that we've been married for almost 12 years, he knew to just go with it, so he got the plunger, stuck it in the toilet water and WAS AMAZED.

He flung that plunger around and shook it like mad trying to get water to drip off of it, but the plunger was completely dry!

"Wow. That's amazing."

"I know! I didn't expect to be blown away by a plunger, but I totally was!"

Don't believe me?  Check out this 18 second video by Rubbermaid® and prepare to be amazed!



BELIEVE ME NOW?!

You can purchase the Rubbermaid® Clean & Dry™ Plunger at Meijer, Target, The Home Depot, Wal-Mart or Menards for $12.99. Or you can purchase it on Rubbermaid.com or on Amazon in my Lazy Mom Store!

Wherever you buy it, just BUY IT!

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Disclosure: Thank you to Rubbermaid for providing me with your Clean & Dry™ Plunger. No other compensation was received and all opinions expressed are my own.

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Since Wednesday

So life's been a bit crazy lately.  Well, who am I kidding, it's been crazy since late January, but whatever. I'm sure you've noticed my lack of regular blog postings.

You HAVE noticed, haven't you?

HELLO! I asked you a question!

Well anyway, my TV debut went well!  Other than me looking 300 pounds on TV.

Seriously. I couldn't believe how BIG I looked.  And neither could my friend Carrie who called me to point out the fact that I looked enormous on TV, but don't really look that way in real life.

Mental note: don't go on TV ever again.

Mental note #2: break-up with Carrie.

Here I am getting mic'd up for the show.

(See? I am SO not 300 pounds.)

(I'm also SO not 115.)

(But whatever.)

Here is the two hosts of the show on the set.  This is where I started sweating profusely.

Seriously y'all.  I was sweating so much that I regretted not putting pads under my armpits that morning.

No lie.

I was contemplating pads under my armpits.  But decided against it.

So as the sweat started to pour and as my shirt started to show it, I went to the bathroom and stuffed some tri-fold paper towels under my arms.  And that's how I got through the show.  With paper towels in my armpits.

Mental note #3: Don't stuff paper towels in your armpits before a TV show, this could attribute to the fact that you looked 300 pounds on TV.

Mental note #4: Next time go with the pads. Less bulky.

And this is me after my part of the show.  I had survived.

I think.

Mental note #5: Don't take pictures of yourself after something that made you sweat profusely.  This does not help your "crazy lazy" image.

Mental note #6: Ignore mental note #5.

After I left the TV station, Lazy Dad met me for lunch.  Where he proceeded to tell me we had a house showing the next night.

Everything was a blur after that.  All the half-finished projects around our house loomed over our heads and we hit the ground cleaning, hauling, organizing, staging and painting.

I had to go get more paint from the store, so I took a picture of it so I could remember what it was I was looking for. Do you do this?

Then I came back from the store and continued cleaning, hauling, organizing, staging and painting. Fun was had by all!

Mental note #7: Not really.

Mental note #8: It wasn't fun at all.

We are also in the throes of baseball season here at our house.  My oldest son is one of the "captains" of his team.  So when he led the team out on the field to warm-up before their game on Thursday night (during our house showing) I had to take a picture of him leading them in stretches.  (He's the one in the middle showing them the next stretch.)

Mental note #9: Cherish these moments.  They go by fast.

Mental note #10: And take pictures.  Lots of pictures.  Motherhood wrecks havoc on your memory.

Some sweet friends of ours came into town on Friday and we took them to eat at the infamous Tony Packo's.  It's a Toledo institution thanks to Jamie Farr and M*A*S*H.  Have you heard of it?

If you've never been to Toledo and had a Tony Packo's Hungarian hot dog, GET HERE.  It's the bomb. Our friends really enjoyed it.

Mental note #11: Take a picture of your friends the next time you take them somewhere to eat, not just Lazy Dad.

Mental note #12: I promise we have friends.

Also this weekend, I hosted our annual Ladies Luncheon at our church.  

I promise people came.

You just can't see them here.

Mental note #13: Quit taking pictures without the people your talking about in it.  It makes people question your sanity.

Mental note #14: Next time I'm at Wal-Mart, pick up some new sanity.  Mine's expired.

Then of course, Mother's Day rolled around.  I was walking into the kitchen when my daughter met me at the door and ordered me to "go get back in bed! I'm making you breakfast in bed!!"

I just love when people tell me to get back in bed.

It makes me happy.

I got all kinds of sweet hand-made presents from my sweet kids.  Two coffee mugs, homemade soap and lots of cards, kisses, and love!

Mental note #15: Don't eat the homemade soap.  Even though it looks like a cheese ball.  Or a ginormous lump of cookie dough. 

Mental note #16: Hire someone who's sole job is to order me to get back in bed.

I preached at our church for Mother's Day.

Lazy Dad took the day off.  Well, from preaching.

Explain that one too me?

Then we had a nice lunch out at Burger Bar 419 and I spotted a table in the middle of the restaurant that I took one look at and declared to Lazy Dad that I wanted it.  So I proceeded to take pictures of the table with my cell phone in the middle of the restaurant.  It's rustic and awesome.

And apparently my daughter likes it too.

Mental note #17: Make Lazy Dad preach on Mother's Day next year, and I'll preach on Father's Day.  That just makes more sense.

Mental note #18: Next time people stare at you for taking a picture of a table you want in a restaurant, just hand the camera to your daughter, hop up on the table and strike a pose.  Gives them more to talk about that way.

The rest of the day, we hung out in our backyard and randomly invited neighbors over to see our house while it's as close to perfect as it will ever be. 

It was a gorgeous day.  And the neighbors enjoyed the impromptu tour.  And didn't think that was weird at all.

Mental note #19: I love my neighbors.  They embrace our weirdness with open arms.

Mental note #20: Well, at least to our face.

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I'M GONNA BE ON TV! AHHHHH!

Oh my lazy people.  Pray for me!  PRAY. FOR. ME!!!

I'm making my TV debut tomorrow LIVE on WLMB-TV40 here in Toledo.

AHHHHHHH!

If you're wondering how this happened (kind of like I still am) WLMB is doing a bit of a Mother's Day show on their weekly program, Main Street, and they asked me to be one of the ladies on the "mom panel."  I was chosen because I happen to know one of the hosts of the show, Virginia, and I guess when they were throwing around the idea of this show she thought of me. 

First mistake: knowing someone who works at a TV station.

Second mistake: saying yes.

And guess what?  You don't have to live in the Toledo Ohio area to see it.  Oh no!  You can tune in to see me sweat profusely and act like an expert on mothering on their live webstream on their website.  

AHHHHHHH!

I've got to brush up on my mothering advice, so why don't you help me out.  What's YOUR best mothering advice?  Share in the comments area below this post.  I already have an idea of what I'm going to be sharing, but I'd love to hear from you!

Plus I could use the moral support.

And ideas on how NOT to sweat.

And how to have white teeth by noon tomorrow.

And how to appear 20 pounds lighter on television.

GO!


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Monday Musings

On Thursday I got a package from Amazon delivered to my house.  I was actually backing out of my driveway when I spotted it, so I jumped out, grabbed it and proceeded to rip it open.  Even though I was thinking to myself, "What did I order from Amazon?  I don't remember ordering anything from Amazon."

Inside I found this.

Puzzled, I thought that maybe it had been delivered to my address by accident.  So I fished around in the box for the slip of paper from Amazon and pulled out this.

As soon as I saw it was from my friend Carrie, I knew it was one of her famous gag gifts.  She cracks me straight up.  She's the only friend I know who goes to this much trouble, and spends that much money to send someone a gag gift!

And apparently she thinks I need clearer skin.

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This weekend I taught my almost 11 year old son how to mow the lawn. (I say "almost 11" just in case you think 10 is too young to teach a kid how to mow a lawn, by the way.)

This was quite humorous considering I have no idea how to mow a lawn.

Let's just say I've been slightly spoiled my whole life.  Well, in a "I-got-out-of-mowing-the-lawn-my-whole-life" type of way.

I did finally have to learn how to mow when I was 21 years old though.  I was house sitting for a couple from England who were friends of mine when I was going to Bible College in Florida.  They had gone back to England for the summer months while school was out and I inevitably had to mow the lawn when it got embarrassingly high. 

So I called my friend Paula (Hi Paula!) over to teach me how to mow.  She showed me the ropes and then together we knocked the yard out.  What can I say? She's a great friend.

But that pesky grass keeps growing for some ungodly reason.  So after I let it get embarrassingly high *again* I decided it was time to break out the mower another time.

I pushed and sweated and heaved and huffed while I was working on the front yard.  Then the neighbor came over.  Apparently he had been watching my display of awesomeness and was impressed.  Either that or he was laughing his head off at how ridiculous I looked.

"You know, you shouldn't have to work that hard.  I think their mower is self-propelled." He said.

Huh? What does self-propelled mean? I thought to myself.

Then he showed me, with little effort mind you, how the mower moves by itself once you get it started.

WHAT?!

I felt like a nincompoop. 

So yeah, that girl that mowed three times that summer (because I let the grass get embarrassingly high before I would do it, remember?) tried to teach my oldest son how to mow our lawn this weekend.  It was loads of funny.

Guess you had to be there.

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Do your kids love LEGOs as much as my kids do?

Seriously, the one toy my kids NEVER tire of playing with is LEGOs.  It's amazing.

This weekend two of them built the ultimate "LEGO Land" in our family room.  I am always amazed at my kids' creativity when it comes to building with LEGO bricks. 

I know you can't see all the little details they had by this photo, but take my word for it, it was seriously impressive.

Because of my kids love for all things LEGOs, we are BESIDE OURSELVES EXCITED to go to LEGOLAND Florida this summer!

Speaking of that, this morning I saw on LEGOLAND Florida's facebook page that they have a contest going on right now for Twitter and Facebook fans.  Simply build a LEGO model of a roller coaster ride vehicle (just the car, not a whole coaster) capable of holding a LEGO Minifigure and either tweet it to them or upload it to their facebook page for a chance to win a gift package, or if you are the grand prize winner, two water park combo tickets to LEGOLAND Florida!

You can learn more about the LEGOLAND contest on their blog or here on their Facebook page (which has instructions on how to upload your picture to their Facebook page to be eligible to win).

If your kids love LEGOs as much as mine do, get them to enter!  I know mine will be after school today!

Disclosure: LEGOLAND Florida is one of our June road trip sponsors, but they did not ask me to post about this contest, it was something I wanted to share on my own. 

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