Aloha Friday #15 (Ringtones)

Play along at An Island Life for Aloha Friday. In Hawaii, Aloha Friday is the day that we take it easy and look forward to the weekend. So I thought that on Fridays I would take it easy on posting, too. Therefore, I’ll ask a simple question for you to answer. Nothing that requires a lengthy response. If you’d like to participate, just post your own question on your blog and leave your link at An Island Life. Don’t forget to visit the other participants! It’s a great way to make new bloggy friends!

My question this week….. (answer one or all)

Do you have a special ringtone on your cell phone?

What is your ring tone?
Does that ringtone define you?
Has your ringtone ever embarrassed you?

I just got a new cell phone and of course now I need a new ringtone. I hate that AT&T doesn’t let you carry over the items that you have purchased like ringtones and games. I here Verizon now has an option to transfer those items that you have previously purchased but I am an AT&T customer so I am stuck with purchasing a new ring tone. Someone needs to tell AT&T to catch up with the times.

Previously my ringtone was “When the Stars Go Blue” by Tim McGraw (polyphonic tone only). I like my ringtone to be a song that I really like but also something that won’t embarrass me no matter where it goes off or who here’s it. (Example in Church when I have forgotten to turn it off)

Now my husband also got a new phone and this is a relief to me because I hated his old ringtone. He had this voice tone that said “Hey bubba pick up the phone” It is the most embarrassing ringtone he could have chosen. When he picked it he thought it was funny. Since then he has said it wasn’t the best choice especially when it rings at work in the middle of a meeting, not exactly professional… LOL.

I really need a new ringtone and I am looking for some good ideas.

Focus Friday #2

Thrifty & Chic Mom says: As we enter a new year everyone has a list as long as their arm of things they want to accomplish. My list could go on forever and now I have a way to hold myself accountable by choosing one thing to focus on each week. It can be big or small; it doesn't matter just as long as I specify what it is and get it done.

So each week I will post my focus for the upcoming week as well as give a recap of how my week went with the previous focus. Now play along with Thrifty & Chic Mom and everyone else who is trying to put a little focus back into their lives.

Last Weeks Focus: putting my house back in order. Now my goal is not to scrub every room but to just put away the stuff from Christmas that is still out, the bags of presents that haven’t found a home yet and just the general mess that has been collected around the house. The big question, “did I succeed”???? That would be a big fat no… The weekend is when I get things done and both Thomas and I ended up with strep throat. Needless to say I felt awful and did very little. I moved a lot of it to Luke’s room and cleared out the empty boxes but didn’t really find a specific home for everything.

This weeks Focust: My kitchen and dinning room tables have become the catch all again and I need to clean them off. I can’t stand the clutter on my tables and yet everyone in my house feels the need to drop everything or leave everything on my tables. Currently my dinning room table is covered with mail, some toys and some paint project that Luke started but never finished. By next week (God willing everyone stays healthy) those two tables are going to be cleaned off and kept that way. I don’t get why the tables have to be the spot for dropping everything off. Again, my motto… it isn’t going to get cleaned unless I do it. (insert large sigh here).

100 Dinosaurs & Counting

Luke has an assignment for Kindergarten to take a collection of 100 things for the 100 day of school celebration that is coming up very soon. I asked Luke what he wanted to put together for this 100 day celebration.

"Hmmm... how about Dinosaurs" he tells me.

Luke loves dinosaurs and I know he has a lot of them with sizes range from tiny to huge. I told him I didn't think he would have 100 small dinosaurs that we could put together for school. He really wanted to do dinosaurs so I decided we would go around the house and gather up all the small ones and see how many we have.

Three toy boxes, two toy shelves, 10 toy baskets and a tote of moon sand later and we have lots of little dinosaurs. Seriously we gathered up over 100 of these things... and I bet he has 100 or more larger ones also.

As we are sorting through them all I can think of is "seriously we have 100 of these things". Who buys all of this stuff???? Wait, that would be me... Something has got to give because we don't need all of these dinosaurs.

The worst part is I know I throw these things away all the time. I will find them roughed up and I think he doesn't need all these or he doesn't play with this and into the trash it will go.

He had to group them into groups of ten. As we were separating them by the different types of dinosaurs.... he could name them all. I say what about this one, it is spiny like these here... no mommy that goes in Valosaraptor (spelling???) pile. He was so particular about where they had to go. I wish I could see him present it to his class because I am sure he will be telling everyone about the different groups that he has.

Has your child had a toy obsession that has taken over your house? Luke use to love Thomas the Train and I now have 3 large 18 gal. rubber maid totes in the garage full of Thomas the Train toys. I am holding out with the hope that Thomas will love trains so they get a little more use.

Wordless Wednesday

OK, I can't be wordless but here are my two boys.

Luke was playing Mario Cart on the Wii

& Thomas thought he was playing.

It was so cute!!!

Cleaning the Royal Thrown

Why does the queen of the house have to clean the royal thrown???

Yes, I am talking about cleaning the toilet. Three boys in my house and yet I am the one cleaning the toilet. OK so only two of those boys (husband & Luke) use the toilet. Can’t wait for the youngest one to reach toilet using age, ok might be better than diapers but right now I am thinking that questionable. LOL…

Back to my point, why do I have to clean the toilet when I am 110% sure I hit the target every time I use the toilet and I am sure it is the boys who have left the mess on the back of the toilet, the floor or on my seat. Last night I had to scrub the back of the toilet, the side of the toilet, the floor and the bowl of toilet due to my boys and the messes they leave behind. It is one of the grosses jobs in the house and it isn’t even my mess.

I think there should be a rule that if you stand to pee you should be the one cleaning the toilet. Sorry but this isn’t my mess and I shouldn’t be the one always cleaning it up.

Here is my question; do you live in a house full of boys? Do they mess up your toilet and are you (the lady of the house) cleaning it up?