Vacation Planning

It's getting that time of year again to think about vacations. In the past we usually always went to Florida for vacation, but now that we actually live here, we need to find new ideas. I'm thinking about going to Texas to visit a cool Art and History museum that I read about. We will see.

On top of searching for a vacation spot that will be family orientated, we also need to find a car rental service. We never take our own vehicles on vacation and always rent a car. The reason are numerous, the top on the list are the wear and tear and added mileage on our vehicle. So for the past 10+ years we have used a rental car for our vacations. Sometimes we drive direct to our vacation spot, sometimes we fly and then rent a car from the airport that we arrive in.

While doing my searching for vacation spots,, airline tickets and of course car rentals I always look for the best deals and discounts, I mean who doesn't like to save money right! I found Advantage Rent A Car to have everything I was looking for. The ease of being able to reserve my car on line, search for their best discounts and bargains, and what impressed me the most was Advantage is committed to providing environmentally conscientious travelers with a fleet of 100% fuel efficient vehicles by the end of 2010. They plan to go green, with the assistance of their automobile providers, and offer choices consistent with their pledge to protect the environment with each and every rental.

If your in the market for a car rental service, I recommend Advantage Rent A Car.

Birth at 65

I got this funny in my email today from Mack a Licious..this one cracked me up...then I stopped laughing, and thought, Oh man....where did I put him hahahahha

With all the new technology regarding fertility, recently, a 65-year-old woman was able to give birth.
When she was discharged from the hospital and went home....her relatives came to visit.
"May we see the new baby?" one asked.
"Not yet," said the mother."I'll make coffee and we can visit for a while first."
Thirty minutes had passed, and another relative asked,
"May we see the new baby now?"
“No, not yet," said the mother.
After another few minutes had elapsed, they asked again,
"May we see the baby now?"
"No, not yet," replied the mother.
Growing very impatient, they asked,
"Well, when can we see the baby?!?"
"WHEN HE CRIES!" she told them.
"WHEN HE CRIES?" they demanded.
"Why do we have to wait until he CRIES?"

"BECAUSE I FORGOT WHERE I PUT HIM,O.K.?!"

Let Them Come To You

As I mentioned earlier, my time is limited...very very limited. We are looking to buy a vehicle for Dr Corny. He has a Trooper and it's eating gas like a hungry pig. It's still really nice looking except for a couple of small dings in it..very small ones, and some other wear and tear. We know we could get a better trade in value if we fixed this up.

I couldn't believe when I found out that you can actually call a company and have certified automotive technicians expertly provide scratch and dent repair and then paint the vehicle right at your home or office. All I can say is WOW.

I can save time because there is no need for drop-off or pick-up. Repairs are done while you continue on with your life, at work or at home.

I can also save money - there is substantial savings (20 to 40%) on their dent repair work, which is guaranteed for the time you own the vehicle.

They even do automotive brake line repair, again even at your home or office.
What is really really great is that they offer Free Estimates on All Collision Repairs and will come to your home or office for Collision Repairs also. Sounds like a great deal to me. Anything that saves me time, money and energy is alway a Go for me. Check out Collision On Wheels, where they come to you!

Potty Training

As I mentioned earlier, Mini Bug is in the process of learning how to use the potty. Gawd, I forgot how time consuming this is. I've been at it since the end of April. She will go potty when I put her on the pot to go, but as of yet, except for once or twice, she isn't just going on her own. What I don't get is...since the training pants have come off, so have ALL of her clothes. She wants to be a free Mini bug and run around in her birthday suit all day now. If I put her shirt on her, she throws a fit and takes it right back off. Seems the absence of diapers has given her a new found freedom. I don't think it's right that a 2 year old girl is running around the house naked as a jay bird, but I can't keep clothes on her. What's up with learning to go potty and being naked??? Thank Goodness, she does (knock on wood) keep her clothes on when we go out...BUT...the pull up is on her also. Seee...pull up on..clothes on..Pull Up off..ALL clothes off. Amazing.

Ohhh and here is the Potty Chair that we bought for the little princess. It's cute and all that, and it sings to her and says encouraging stuff....but...WHERE in the hell is the tray that should go across the front to keep them in? I don't like this new age parenting. The last time I potty trained, they were standard potty chairs that had a tray in the front. You could sit your little angel in there, put the tray on, with a couple pieces of cereal or whatever and he would sit there till he did his business. The potty chairs they have now are for the birds. There is nothing to keep the child restrained to the potty chair. I don't like it.

I read that it takes about 3 months for the Potty Training process. I pray it goes faster than that...taking care of a 2 month old, potty training a 2 year old, is making me gray real real fast!

Calgon...take me away!!!! Lately I'm a frumpy mess

Looking for a New Home and Best Mortgage Rates

As most of you know, our family has grown. We now have a new son. When we bought this house, it was the perfect size, 3 bedroom 2 bath. The extra bedroom is Dr Corny's office. He needs this space for work and his PhD.d studies. Now that we have a new addition to the family, we are in need of a larger home. Much larger! But we don't want a larger Morgage Rate.

With the fall of the housing market, we are thinking now is a good time to buy. There are a lot of homes out there that are in foreclosure and can be gotten cheap. A lot of homes aren't selling right now and the sellers are lowering the offering price, to get it off the market quickly. Now is the time for us to buy for sure.

We are searching for the best current mortgage rates we can find, and we came across AAXA Discount Mortgage, I am really impressed with this site, they offer state-of-the-art technology to improve efficiencies and simplify the lending process, allowing them to make sure that your current mortgage rate is the best mortgage rate for you.

There is no cost for me to apply or to obtain pre-approval. An AAXA Loan Advisor will help me determine which current mortgage rate offering and program makes the most sense for our situation.

I'm impressed that they have been listed in the Wall Street Journal numerous times for offering some of the lowest mortgage rates in the Country.

If your like us, and in the market for a new home, check out the mortgage rates at AAXA Discount Mortgage and see what they can do for you to put you in the home of your dreams.

Learniacs Contest

Looky what I found while I was surfing today.
Check out the contest thats running over at Learniacs.com

Here's what they had to say:

How to Get 100+ Free EntreCard Credits

Are you interested? Good! Let’s see…

…What are you going to get
1. You instantly get your EntreCard account credited with 100 EntreCard credits. You can then use them to buy advertising on other blogs.
2. If you are in the first 6, you will automatically get a 125×125 banner (like the one you already use for EntreCard) listed for 1 month on my website (Learniacs.com), sitewide and well placed. Speaking in credits, this is at least 3840 EntreCard credits worth (128 cost at this time x 30days).
3. You make at least a new friend (me :P).


How can you get them
Well, this time you don’t need much luck to get them…

1. Make a post on your blog (at least 100 words - I’m not going to count them, don’t worry) and help me spread the word about this contest. If you are using images in your post, you can use any of the images in this article to make it look better and fit the rest of your website.

2. Drop your EntreCard on my website so I can easily find you in my list of incoming drops (doing that, you get a credit and you also help me with 1% of what you are going to get back!).

3. Leave a comment here to inform me about your post.

4. … Oups…There is no #4! That’s all!

Web Hosting Choice

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I am hoping that soon I will be able to get my own domain and get off blogger, this site was very helpful. It has a chart of all the differnt web hosting sites, I could see the prices right up front. I like things simple and easy to figure out, this site is. I hope that you will find Web Hosting Choice as useful a resource as I did.

Our New Addition

When I was raising my boys, (many many moons ago), I didn't seem to worry and fuss as much as I do now, while raising Mighty Bug. Now, every little hic cup, etc puts me in a panic..ohh no, is he ok? Am I doing something wrong. Sigh. So, either, I was too stupid to know I should have worried more when I was a younger woman, or now that I am older, I worry to much. Either way, he is adorable and I love him. Mini Bug is totally head over heals bonkers over him. She wants to play little mother. When he fusses or crys, she comes a running, and gets next to him and pats his head, cooing, ohhhh baby...ohhhh baby. That's pretty impressive, since her vocabulary is mostly gibberish.

I love the new bassinet we bought Mighty Bug. Its a 4 in one, Whinny The Pooh, it vibrates, plays soothing music and the mobile has cute little Pooh Characters that light up when going around. Geez, they didn't have neat stuff like this when my boys were little.

Make Your Own Chore Charts

chore charts offers free printable chore charts for kids. They are parents themselves and they understand how pressed for time we all are but teaching our kids responsibility is a must and keeping track of chores is a good way of doing so. We don't all have the time to write out a chore chart from scratch and why spend money on something when you can download it for free from chorecharts.com

In 1 month, they have a new feature allowing you to design and share your own chore chart designs.

They also add hundreds of chorechart designs so they will always have a chore chart that works for you.

White Trailer Trash

This one goes out to my sweet friend over at Tips From The Trailer

I'm tired of paying property taxes, school taxes, state taxes, etc.
I want to live more independently.

Some may say I'll become trailer trash so I want your opinion before I make this decision.

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What do you think about my decision?