We're taking a break

I know. I've had a long enough break already. But we've been hit with the flu bug. First Sweet Pea, now Little Bit. I'm tired and last night, Dale was coughing.

I don't like being sick. For now, I'm going to take a break and just concentrate on getting our happy family better.

WFMW

So it's time for another Works for me Wednesday, the day where I share my useful tips with you, and spend way too much time reading everyone else's tips. (LOL)

Do you remember the saying, "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." My Sweet Pea (who will be 9 on Monday 8O) loves her apples. I think she has had an apple every single day of her life since she was 1 and a half, with very few exceptions. (I just calculated. That's roughly 2750 apples.)

I'm getting sidetracked. Anyway, Little Bit has also come to like apples. She's no where nearly as enthused as Sweet Pea. But to make life easier for everyone, I use this. ***drum roll please***


A handy dandy Apple Wedger (picture is from the Pampered Chef website). I can "cut" Little Bit's apple into manageable sizes, and I don't have to worry about her swallowing seeds.

And a side benefit.... I also use it to cut potatoes into bite size pieces when making Granny's Potato Soup recipe. :D (Thanks to Unclutterer, I try not to have unitasker items in my kitchen. I have a few, but I'm working on it.)

Well, that's what Works For Me, and now.... I have to go do laundry. :( Hopefully, my next post will be about the disappearing 9 patch I've been working on.

Steel Magnolias

You know, I love my family. Thanks to my cousin, I had an itch to watch Steel Magnolias again. Let me tell ya now... Don't watch it alone. I've cried more in the past hour than the past six months. It's sort of a hard movie to watch when your dad has had a kidney transplant, and you watched your mom slip into a coma and then pass away.

But it was sort of therapeutic in a way as well. I guess if I'm ever asked to play the part of M'lynn, I'll be ready, because, "Life goes on."

Time for National Treasure. :)

WFMW - Backwards

Okay, today is a backwards edition of Works For Me Wednesday. It's where I ask a question, and you help me figure out the answer.

This is my problem. The love of my life and I will have been married for 11 years this coming Saturday. He is taking off a half day of work on Friday, and we are going to take our girls to the babysitter.

What do we do next? I know it sounds odd, but with him being in the Army for 5 years, with being having major financial troubles last year, we just haven't ever really celebrated our anniversary.

We know that we want to go out to eat at the fancy restaurant inside the new Bass Pro Shop that just opened up. (It's my gift to him.) And Saturday, we are getting family pictures made. (That's his gift to me.)

But what do we do on Friday? He's going to be off a whole half day, and I have no idea what we're going to do. We live in Kansas City, so I thought, maybe we could go to the art museum without the children (he wrinkled his nose at that), or the zoo (too cold). Maybe we could just drive around and look at houses (gas is $3 a gallon).

So, what is your favorite anniversary memory? And what would you do to spend time with your honey that was fun for both of you and reasonably cheap to free? :D