Newsday Tuesday!

Good morning Tuesday! I dub this day as Newsday Tuesday. Tell me a good News story you found today. I found one on TMZ. 


""Mob Wives" star Renee Graziano plans to kick off next season with a LOT more booty -- telling TMZ, she went under the knife yesterday ... for a $30,000 full-body surgery, including a massive [booty] LIFT.


Renee says she was a little nervous about the 5-hour procedure -- but gave it a lot of thought, and ultimately decided to take the plunge. According to Renee, the "full-body lift" also includes a tummy tuck.

The mafiosa tells us, she's not getting the surgery because she's self-conscious -- she's getting it because she gained a lot of weight since Season One ... and she's always wanted junk in her trunk.

According to Renee, the show had nothing to do with the procedure -- "Mob Wives" didn't pressure her to get the work done ... and they didn't pay for it either.


The recovery time for such major surgery takes about 10 days -- but once she's in the clear, Renee tells us, she can't wait to get naked."

Alright Renee, you go for it. $30,000... lots of money. 
Top 5 things to do:

1. Total debt completely paid off. Including those stinking student loans.
2. I'd like a new car. I like the Hyundai Santa Fe, but Grant would probably decide something else.=)
3. New clothes are ALWAYS fun.
4. Big shopping spree at Sephora.
5. Finally, I'd save the rest!

What's your News story? What things would you want to do with $30,000?

Yesterday, we meant to do a lot of things.. one of those being buying diapers & wipes. So this is the time I'm seriously thinking of reusable things. We have a washing machine. I can do this. So I found this GREAT "formula" for DIY baby wipes.

Homemade Reusable Baby Wipes

• 2-3 receiving blanket or flannel
• 2 cups of water
• 1/2 cup of baby oil
• 1/2 cup of baby wash

Take the receiving blankets and cut them it into squares. Fold and put neatly in a baby wipe tub (or another airtight tub).

Mix together the water, baby oil and baby wash. Pour over the baby wipes.

I found this through Money Saving Mom newsletters. She originally found it at Rattles And Redheads. 

Do you have Pinterest yet? I'm new... so I don't understand everything right now, but it so much fun! I have a picture up there on the reusable diapers I've been toying with using (for the next child.. I'm not dedicated enough to change 9 months into this). I got the picture & idea from Money Saving Mom, who got it somewhere else.. I forgot though. You can go to Pinterest & see where I got the link from!

Have a great night!

A New Start

First off. Today June 25th is my mom & dad's 23rd wedding anniversary! Happy Anniversary! I love you both. 


A new start? Yes, please! Who doesn't need, or want, a new start in something! We learn from our mistakes, isn't that what they say? Whose they, anyway?! Parents and anyone who has any knowledge about anything I guess.... 


As I mentioned before I started to blog because of my daughter and to catalogue her days and the things we do. I got this idea mainly from this BLOG. I love reading her blog. It breaks my heart, but makes me glad that this helps her try and start a new. If you have time read her blog, fair warning though. It will hurt to read how much hurt she has and how much she misses her baby princess. I feel like I know her personally, even though we've never met. I've learned SO much from her - she is an inspiration. Even if she doesn't know me. 


Another new start working is.... repairing our credit! We recently went to a meeting to hopefully get a loan to get a house. It's a really cool program and they build the house for us and it's low mortgage and nice neighborhoods! I found out my credit score was 600. at best! ughh... 600.


Hubby was sitting nice and straight after we found out our scores.. his is higher! Well. WHY!? I pay his bills too. (Yes, its our money, but I actually click the "pay here button" to pay them!). Well shoot. So I started googling. =)


This website is for Credit Repair. It has information you may or may not know. I'm young and don't really know a lot yet, so I had A LOT to learn. Learn I did. I read and read. If you've wondering where I've been the last few days.. this is it. Repairing our credit. 


A great thing on her is that is shows what's the most risky that shows on your report. Bankruptcy is up there, but it can be helped!! I have medical collections and it's on the lower scale and easier to take care of. It also has Letters you can copy and paste and then conform them to your situation and send to the CRA's or actual debt holders. It tells you some things you should NEVER do. Like:

1. Failing to disputing with the credit bureaus FIRST - sometimes they will initially be dropped off! So then you can fight in different ways on tougher stuff. Plus, you may need to take legal action and without a dispute FIRST, you don't have anything. =(
2. Failing to document your efforts - I'm keeping a folder of EVERYTHING, just in case.
3. Disputing items online. - don't do this!!
4. Being unrealistic. - it may take awhile to fix if it's in real bad shape.
5. Giving up. - don't give up, though!

*** All information was taken from the site cited above. The tab for the "5 mistakes" is in there. 

Hope that helps somebody out there! Have a great weekend.

Amish Friendship Bread

A few days ago, on the 11th actually, my friend gave me this zip lock baggy at church. First off this friend is a nursing mother that just bought a huge deep freeze for all the breast milk she has. So i put my hand out and you can tell on my face that I'm confused and a little troubled. I thought it was breast milk! What can you say to that? Thanks. Thanks is what I said. She started to laugh and explained that it was Amish Friendship Bread and she'll email me the directions later. Goody! I've never done this and was excited to smoosh the bag throughout Pastor's sermon. Well, it takes a total of 10 days to "cook". You just leave it in the baggy and smoosh everyday and on the 10th day. Viola! You bake bread. You add more to it and then scoop out 4 baggies from yours and you can give all of them away or keep 1 for yourself. I will be keeping one since it makes 2 large loafs and 1 is already gone! Monsters I live with. =) It's very good and I encourage you to try.

If you want to try you can google it. There's tons of ways to make it. You do need a "starter bag" since its a special deal... it takes 10 days!

In other news Aubrey's still fussy. Still teething! I didn't get a picture of the actual tooth. Since it's just poking out and she's not real happy with my hands in her mouth with my camera down her throat and all. There is a picture of her from yesterday. Don't let it fool you - she is fussy! She knows to smile at cameras... my goals have been complete. Miss America here we come!

Another momentous occasion was that we finally lowered Aubrey's bed! I wake up in the morning and I see her on her hands & knees, in her crib, rocking back and forth.. then sits up! She hasn't done this before! So, then she sees the top of her crib bars. I'm just starring from my bed trying to figure out if this is a dream. Nope, she pulls right on up and gets to her knees before me, mother of the year that I am, finally gets out of bed to stop this! Needless to say when Grant got home I put him to work lowering her bed down. You might ask why did I wait so long, she is almost 9 months old! Well. You see. I'm 5'4 and  I can hardly reach her in her crib on the top level let alone on the bottom. So if Aubrey chooses to just lay there I will never be able to get her out! We'll see. Speaking of sleeping.. when is it okay for babies to sleep on their tummies? Aubrey is and is okay (i've been at work for 6 hours...) so I think it's okay. She flips herself over. Motherhood worries...

Father's Day & Aubrey's 1st tooth!

Today was a fun day! A few weeks ago I was appointed to be the Nursery Director at our church and I love it! We went to church and as usual I was running around and making sure everything was right on track. Well... let me tell you, the AC in this church isn't the best, but in the nursery. WHOOA. Heat. It was at least 86 degrees and was NOT cooling off. Of course we have children that are newborn to 3 years in there and they, sweet children they are, were fine. The workers were fine. We only had one family a little too hot and they decided to leave early, but overall it was ok. I'm getting Grant and Tyler, the Pastor's son and our good friend, to look at it this week and see if it's an easy deal to fix. Pray that it is!

That's really all we did today for Father's day. Grant went out to the Zoo with his dad to see a car show. whoop whoop. I was going to go and take Aubrey, but really?! It had to be near 100 degrees. Not. Happening. So we stayed home and took a 2 hour nap!! Gotta love that. For our Dads I printed off these pictures:

In order is, Grant's Dad and Aubrey, My Daddy & Aubrey, and Grant & Aubrey!
We put them in nice 5X7 black frames with little cards from us all. I like this idea. It's simple and grandparents LOVE it.

Good news! Aubrey has her FIRST TOOTH!! I found it only because I was putting teething gel on her gums before bedtime and it's just poking out. :) I'll try to take a picture of the actually tooth tomorrow, but I'll get a picture of the happy teething baby tomorrow! 


Tomorrow I'm working on her birthday party invites and going to get more diapers. Goodness that child goes through those. I've been thinking about cloth diapers lately. I saw on coupon mom or money saving mom a great way to make your own with a diaper cover... I'll find it tomorrow and post it. I just may do that... for the next one? Aubrey's just too big now. When can we potty train?! :)

Baby gate is here!

Finally! Aubrey's been crawling around and slithering all over. We ordered this gate from Walmart online and it came today! It's pretty big, but we love it! She loves it!

Overall it wasn't an exciting day. We went to a beautiful outdoor bridal shower and Aubrey had a great time! Now my hubby & I are watching Hall Pass... very different kinda movie! Lol.

Night!

First Post!

I decided to start a blog a while after I saw so many moms blogging about their kids. I see a lot of craft ones that I'll eventually follow and I hope to have some of my craft creations up here soon so I can "show off" what I learned from so many other people!

Background story.. my adoring husband and I met in 4th grade and have just about been together since then. We married January 9, 2010 in a big Cinderella Fairytale Winter Wonderland wedding and went to Las Vegas for a weeks honeymoon. I came home feeling weak from the travel and on vacations you just can't lay around! Soon enough we found out that we were expecting a baby in the end of September 2010! We did want to know the sex, we're lame like that, it was a girl! Grant, my husband, received the honor of picking out the first name if I got to choose the middle name. We choose Aubrey Elaine. Pretty, huh!? She's our princess... So now you understand the "Sweetheart Stories" and "Cinderella Mommy hood". =)

Aubrey is almost 9 months old. The other day, the 14th, she started scoot crawling!! It's the cutest thing. (she's obviously our first child). Today, well I guess it's yesterday now, she got on all fours, hands and knees, and started to actually crawl. It's adorable. She started to pull up onto her knees from sitting up awhile ago... bad mom for not documenting that, but I'm taking the chance to do it now! I have taken a picture every month on her "birthday". I'll post those later. She pulled herself all the way up to standing today too!! I'm impressed, but a little broken hearted that my baby is getting so big.

I started planning her birthday party months and months ago and you'll see more about that, our buying a house trials, marriage, and our church and how involved we are in that. I will try to entertain myself! I'll post the crafts I'm so excited about then I'll move onto a new thing. haha. Can't help it! I hope you enjoy the crazy posts of this Cinderella Mommy.