Small glimpses into my life with odd, but fun, children.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

CSN Stores are awesome, but the UPS guy hates me!

A few weeks ago I was approached by the people at CSNstores.com to do a product review for them. After many hours of searching, and changing my mind multiple times, I finally settled on a Fatboy beanbag chair, and placed my order.

Checking out was super easy, even with using a gift certificate and my credit card in the same order, and my beanbag was sent quickly. Unfortunately UPS messed up and it danced around in transit for much longer than it should have, but CSN was great about updating me when they expected my chair to arrive, every time the package was re-routed.

Finally the day of delivery came, which happened to coincide with some boxes of Christmas things for my kids, and I think the UPS delivery driver was having a bad day, because he wedged the heavy box behind the screen door, essentially blocking me in the house. Normally I would have just shoved on the box until it moved, but I was recovering from major surgery, and lifting/pushing is a big no-no, so I had to wait until the kids got home from school.

My younger two kids get home first, so their eyes got HUGE when they saw the boxes of things in the doorway, then they looked confused when they realized they were trapped outside in the cold. After a few minutes of them pushing their hardest, they were able to manipulate the box into the doorway, enough so they could climb through and get inside.

Once my husband got home and brought the box all the way into our house, we opened it and there was our new beanbag chair! The kids had never seen such a large beanbag before, and instantly all of them wanted to sit on it. Luckily it's big enough for two of them to sit together on it, like a love seat, if we turn the chair on its side, so most arguments were avoided.

Everyone who comes over falls in love with our Fatboy beanbag chair, and wants to buy their own. We are planning to buy at least one more soon, and will definitely use CSN again.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

She Can't Be Irish

My 9 yr old, talking about her best friend:

"She says she's Irish, but she's funny, so she can't be!"

Friday, December 10, 2010

Yum.

My 12 year old just ate her way through most of a giant bowl of cereal before realizing it was full of birdseed moth larvae.

She quickly washed out what was in her mouth, and dumped the rest of the bowl, then said, "Great, now my mouth tastes like moths."

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Anything to get out of bed...

My 9 yr old got out of bed around midnight and tried to convince us that she couldn't stay in her loft bed, "because it's made of wood, and when the heater turns on, the heat rises, and my bed might catch on fire while I'm in it. DO YOU WANT THAT?"

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

7 yr old: "I know a long time ago people thought the world was flat."

me: "Yes, they did."

7 yr old: "A long, long time ago though. All the way in the 1970s!"

Monday, November 22, 2010

CSN Store Review

I've been given the opportunity to review an item from the CSN Stores. They have over 200 stores, and carry just about anything you can think of, at decent prices. Many of their items also have free shipping!

For back to school time I was very tempted by their great selection of children's backpacks, but, since it's closer to Christmas, I'm really thinking about getting something my kids can all use. With the huge selection it's so hard to choose!

I'll let you know how this goes!

Friday, November 19, 2010

Santa isn't like Chinese knockoff toys...

While eating tortillas, my 12 yr old tore one to look like a beard, stuck it to her chin, and said, "Hey, look! I'm the Mexican equivalent of Santa Claus!"