Motherhood equals tired

Everyone knows that when you have a baby, you can expect to lose a lot of sleep. That whole sleep when the baby sleeps thing is only good for your first child. But here's the thing no one really tells you, your probably never going to sleep much from then on. From the first cries of your precious bundle until your last child gets married. Well at least I hope that by the time Juju is married he'll be out of my bed.
After babyhood comes toddlerhood. At that time you may be able to catch up from the last 14 months of sleep deprivation but your probably going to want to catch up on all those things that are impossible to do with a busy toddler reeking havoc all day. Like... Shower. Or you might want to just bask in the silence.
Around 2-3 kids ditch the nap and you ditch any hope of a quiet minute to yourself. But darn it your little genius is just learning so much and truth be told you just know he's smarter than any other kid his age is or ever was. So, you let the no nap thing slide.
By the time your kids start school you know you'll be up early every day getting them out on time for the bus. Then there's field trips, after school activities, forgetting about projects until the last minute, missing the bus and having to drive them to school... Maybe that's just my kids, lol. Even my oldest who is in high school needs rides here and there early and late. I vaguely remember what it's like not to be tired. And time for myself? This is it. This is my only "me time" and sometime it takes many many fleeting moments to complete a post like this. I'd rather be napping (just kidding).
I just want to know, will I ever get to rest? I'm guessing I'll sleep off the first three months of my retirement.
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Boogie Wipes buy 1 get 1 50% off!

  Right now at Diapers.com they are offering Buy 1 get 1 half off of the 120ct canisters of Boogie Wipes with the code BOOG50. They are a great deal at $9.99 each and with the coupon code you get 2 for $14.99! My personal favorite is the Grape Scent but they also have unscented in that size as well.
  I am a huge fan of Boogie Wipes, I buy them year round. They are perfect for crusty noses especially if you have one of those face cleanliness haters like my guy. Boogie Wipes get the crusties off quickly and painlessly making it less traumatic for little ones who already feel iky.

Hurry over and get your Boogie Wipes canisters!

Bil Jac Two Bowl challenge

  My chihuahua Quico is ridiculously picky. He will only eat certain food (though he prefers people food, the spoiled little brat!) and dry food has to be moistened. The other issue is that for some reason he will only eat if he is alone. He is a very nervous and anxious dog. I don't know why he has these hang ups but he does, and it's making the two bowl challenge very difficult.
  The Two Bowl Challenge is where you give your dog a choice of a bowl of his regular current food next to a bowl of Bill Jac's super premium dog food and see which one he chooses. There's no need for any transition time since Bil Jac is made with real chicken and no fillers are added. We chose the "Small Breed Select" which is the Chicken, oatmeal and yam formula. Dud you know that 4lbs of chicken go into a 6pm bag?! That is pretty impressive.
Well, I did this first video hoping Quico would lose his inhibitions when he saw/smelled the new food. Pretty much a fail. Not for Bil Jac but for me and my video. It's kind of funny and maybe a little sad but take a look...

Thanks Quico, way to make ne look like a fool, haha.
BUT I tiptoed away and a few minutes later I snuck back and took this video:

  So, he actually did choose the Bil Jac. Yay! I guess that's a score for Bil Jac. Now if they can just cure him of his weird eating anxiety it would be perfect! I am very impressed with this good so far. They even include a guarantee that if you don't "see the difference in the way your dog looks and feels on Bill Jac" meaning in the coat, the energy level and muscle tone they will give you your money back. I can't wait to see the changes in my little Quico!

I am a member of BzzAgent and received a free bag of Bil Jac dog food to review and give my 100% honest opinion of. I was not compensated in any way for this post.

A lot of Jelly Beans

  LG is holding a contest where you guess how many jelly beans are in their new French door refrigerator. I love those kind of guessing games. I am a pretty darn good estimator. Mostly though, I am good at it in person. If I can physically see the container and the candy or what have you. I have won several candy jar estimation contests in my lifetime. However, even if I was able to physically see the refrigerator it is enormous and there are so so many jelly beans. If you want to see for yourself you can enter on LG's Facebook page HERE But enter quickly because the last day is today, 9/21
  Anyway, I thought I could form my answer with a little math. I thought I was sooo smart. So, the refrigerator is 31 cubic feet. All I had to do was figure out how many jelly beans fit into a cubic foot. Oh yeah, I'm a genius! I am so going to win. That's when I got going on google. I started typing "How many jelly beans are in one cubic foot" however before I even got through the word "one" the phrase popped up as one of the top searches. Coincidence perhaps? Because every average Joe wonders how many jelly beans are in a cubic foot. While not only did I find the answer but without having to do any math or additional searches, there were plenty of results with the answer of how many jelly beans are in 31 cubic feet. Darn! Someone stole my brilliant plan!
  How many jelly beans are in a cubic foot? Well, I can't quite find a straight answer to that one. I think my husband chose a random wiki answer and I used that. For all I know it could be way way off. Especially since the answer he chose was 3456 without explanation. Just four consecutive numbers that are most likely made up. I think the real winner here will be the guy with real determination. The one who went out and bought a cubic foot square box and then, filled that box with an obscene amount of jelly beans. That's probably the best, smartest and most time consuming way. I am certainly not up for that. Oh well, turns out I'm not going to win after all.
 What on earth is LG going to do with all those jelly beans after this contest? And who is going to count those all? Can I have a couple hundred jelly beans as my consolation prize? And darn it, how many jelly beans are in a one cubic foot box?!?!


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