What would you pay?

I've been thinking about ways to earn money, yet still be home for the kids. I have no special training for a GOOD job that pays well, so it would be kind of silly to go to work and let someone raise my kids and me pay all my earnings to them. I thought about babysitting...but do I really want to do that? Not especially, but would if thats the only thing I can do to get more money. Then I thought of making cakes and cookies for people's special occassions. Not sure on what to charge though. I'd never be able to charge enough to pay for all the time I put into stuff, but my time isn't that important, I'd just like to make some money on the items, not break even. So I'm asking you, my readers, what you would pay for items.

How about cakes, with basic flowers?
8 or 9 in. round
1/4 sheet
1/2 sheet
full sheet

How about cakes with more personable things, things that are more time consuming...such as Bree's Kai Lan cake or some of the cakes here?
8 or 9 in. round
1/4 sheet
1/2 sheet
full sheet

How about decorated cookies? What would you pay for something like this or this (hopefully more pretty lol I'm still improving on my cookie skills)
per cookie?
how about a dozen?

I appreciate you taking the time to give me your opinions.

Toodles

QOTD: Are you doing anything special 'green' for Earth Day today?

C, D, and a Silly Bree

I mentioned previously that I have been working with Bree on some letter crafts. We try to do a different letter each week. Now that the weather is getting nice we've slacked quite a bit, but have still managed to do some projects. Recently we did the letters C & D. For C we made chocolate chip cookies, caterpillers, crazy critters, a cherry tree, cotton candy, and a fake cookie.



For D week we did ducks made out of footprints, a dog bag puppet that we made to look like our Moo, daffodils, daisies made from a pop bottle, and a I love Daddy picture. Bree also picked a bunch of dandelions...which she does whether it's D week or not lol.



Bree has been silly yesterday & today, when she is not being super cranky. Last night she told me to open my mouth, so I did. She looked in there and said, "Hmmm Just what I thought, you have a frog in your throat!" What a goof. Today she did that again, so I got out the video camera. She again talked about a frog in my throat, and a donkey in my throat! LOL must be a big throat! The donkey she talks about is the one we told her that took the boobie milk when I was weaning (story is located here) and its also the same one that we told her took our cuddle chair (where we sat to nurse, and cuddle to get to sleep and back to sleep during the night) when we went to Springfield a few weeks ago. LOL don't laugh! Whatever works right? It has helped with the chair gone. Anyways, here are a few videos I took today of Bree being silly. Excuse the mess in the background.

Dr. Aubrey from Renee Kofoid on Vimeo.

Dr. Aubrey part 2 from Renee Kofoid on Vimeo.

In other news, I have a great friend named Kami :) She custom made a purse for me! Kelsey wants one now too. Kami totally made this purse by herself, it is awesome. She made a keychain to match too. It came today and I was soooo very excited. Thanks Kami! You should check out the stuff Kami makes on Etsy, cool stuff, she is very talented!

That's all I have for tonight, thanks for stopping by, have a great night/day, whatever it is when you read this :) Toodles!

Today's QOTD (Question of the Day) for you to answer in the comments area is: Do you have painted toenails right now? If so, what color? (mine are alternating bright pink & green, because I'm cool like that LOL)

5 Question Friday 4-16-10

Wow its April 16! A lot has happened in my life on this day. I was married to my first husband on a April 16, divorced from my second husband on a April 16, and found out I was pregnant with Bree on a April 16! I wonder if anything will happen today...if something does, I hope its something GOOD. (NO, I will not be announcing a pregnancy...not in the cards right now.)

Its also FRIDAY. You know what that means don't ya? It's time for my installment of Mama M.'s 5 Question Friday. I'll post her questions then my answers. Please feel free to answer these questions too over in the comments or even blog about them...but if you do so, please link up to Mama M (and me too please :) ). Are you ready? Here we go....




1. What words do you use on your blog/online that you don't use in real life?


2. Do you still write checks?


3. Who was your favorite President and why?


4. Are you a yeller?


5. Have you ever dumpster dived?
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1. Ummm I guess LOL. I use it a lot (to much) when blogging and chatting, but I don't say L O L in real life, although its almost slipped a few times!

2. Yes I do, mostly for paying school lunches, stuff like that. Other then that I use my debit card...which gets me into trouble with the fast food joints. Before debit cards, if I didn't have cash in my purse I'd not stop for junk food, now all I have to do is whip out the card...its very dangerous.

3. Hmm I don't know. I didn't vote for anyone, so I just deal with whoever is in term. I guess I'd have to say Obama, I know a lot won't agree with me though. He is TRYING to make changes for the better (although they don't always seem to work out that way), and well, lets be honest, he isn't to bad to look at.

4. I have been known to yes...don't like that I do though. Sometimes its the only way I can be heard! No one listens to me EVER.

5. Actual dumpster diving I don't recall doing so...but I have picked up some used stuff on the side of the road on garbage day before. I got a dresser, repainted and finished it all nice and cute. I got a like new slide and ride on dragon toy for Bree too.

There ya have it! I hope you enjoyed this weeks questions and answers. I hope to hear from you soon on what your answers are :) Oh yeah, please be sure to answer today's Question of the day below. See ya in the comments area!

Toodles
QOTD: What is the best imaginable thing that could happen to you during the next five years? How do you think you would handle it?

Nice Service

Today was Elliott's memorial service. While sad, it was a nice celebration of his life, with a lot of his friends & family there. Cindy did remarkable today. Dan seemed to not do as well during the service, but he was a little better after. Like Cindy told me, she thinks she's known this day was going to happen for quite a while and has prepared herself as best she could. I'm sure its really going to hit her once things settle down a little. When it does, I hope she calls me if she needs someone to talk to or hang out with.

It just dawned on me that I have a few pictures of Elliott on my computer, so I'd like to share them with you. Cindy & Dan usually have a July 4th party at their house, with swiming, food and friends, its a great time. I have a picture from July 07 and July 08. I might have more but if you saw all the pictures on my computer you'd understand why I can't find them at the moment...
Here he is being goofy. I remember him saying something totally preverted (because he was silly like that from time to time). Cindy is seen in the picture just shaking her head like "I can't believe you just said that". Everyone else was chuckling :)



This next one is him sitting at the food table chilling out


When we arrived at the service today Cindy asked Kelsey or I if we'd want to say a few words during the service. It caught me by surprise. I had a sleeping Bree on me (who slept through the whole service), so I declined. I probably would have frozen up if I got up there. But what I would have liked to have said if I did was this:

Elliott. I had the pleasure of meeting you several years ago, after meeting your mom through another caringbridge site. You are a great young man who has been through so much over the years, and you were such a fighter. I'm glad I had the pleasure to get to know you, and see your crazy side, and your brave side. I consider myself lucky to have known you, and your marvelous parents. Your mom and dad are awesome, they've been with you for everything, and fought along with you. They've been your advocate when you needed one. They are so proud to have you as a son and they will miss you every day. You put up such a strong fight when you were handed one crappy hand after another. Now is your time to rest Elliott. Rest in peace. We will never forget you.

Ok, thats all I've got tonight friends. Take a minute to hug your kids tightly and let them know they are loved. Toodles.

QOTD: (if you are new here thats the Question of the Day, please answer it in the comments)
If you knew that tomorrow would be the last full day of your life, how would you spend the day?

Interpret this will ya?

Sorry for the lack of post yesterday. I was just in a bad mood, didn't feel like blogging. Been stressing over some stuff.

Today was sad. We went to Elliott's wake. Cindy & Dan seemed to be holding up well, at least the little bit of time I was there. I'm sure they've had their times where they weren't though. Tomorrow is the memorial service. I'll be taking all the girls with me. I sure hope Bree cooperates. I think she will...might have to bribe her though.

So early this morning Bree woke up, I laid in her bed with her and got her back to sleep, then I went back to my bed for a bit. I got about another 30 minutes of sleep. In that time I had a weird dream. I'm going to copy & paste it from my mommy group where I told them about it...they all thought I was nuts LOL. Here ya go:

I dreamt we lived in a apartment thing, where there is hallways connecting other peoples places, and stairs in the hallway leading up to each persons door. Anyways, I was on the stairs, when in the hallway I saw this animal. It was huge. It was white and had like a polar bear body, but the face of a white tiger and a white mane like a lion. At that time it was just sitting there in the hallway. I was freaking out thinking it would try to come up to my home so I was trying to put up a baby gate to protect us LOL. I called our cats Tigger & Sissy and made them come in so the animal couldn't eat them. There was another cat in the hallway, a big fat ass black cat, it was wearing one of those old lady shower cap looking bonnets, it was yellow, and the cats name was Abner (LOL I didn't smoke anything or do drugs before going to bed, I promise). The animal went into an open door on the other side of the hall. Then, Kelsey comes out the doorway next to ours and I yelled to her to watch out and hurry up there was a big animal on the loose! Next thing I know the animal comes out and bites Kelsey's arm! I was throwing toys and rolls of duct tape at it to get it to let go of her. It did and she ran up the stairs. We went into our place and shut the door, then looked at her arm. It had teeth prints and a little broken skin, but that was it. Then I woke up. So besides me being nuts, what do you think?

OK, that's it for now, I have a stinky cranky Bree to tend to. Toodles

Be sure to take a second and answer today's QOTD in the comments area: Have you ever gotten stitches?

Pictures as promised!

Yesterday I promised pictures from our visit to my brothers in Springfield and by golly today I am fufilling that promise and posting a bunch! I put a lot in collage form so you can see more without to many pics loading. I hope you enjoy them.

So we got to Springfield on Thursday night, we visited and spent some time with Trinity getting used to us crazy girls lol. On Friday we had a busy day! We went to a zoo (had lunch at the zoo, we got surrounded by peacocks! They came right up to us and ate from Kelsey's hand!), then to a park, then we went home for a bit to refresh, then went out to dinner. We went to Darcy's for a horseshoe, it was YUMMY! Last time we went to another place that had them, it was featured on Diners Drive ins and Dives on the Food network, but to be honest they sucked. Darcy's is MUCH MUCH better. Thanks Beth for taking us there! Saturday we chilled out at the house with Robb & Trinity (Beth had to work). Spent most of the day outside and taking lots of pictures. Robb's house is so cool. Its big, and located way back away from the main road. When you turn in the long driveway road to get to his house you see a pond on the right, then down a bit there is a little bridge where the water goes underneath. The girls saw a snake there Saturday, and lots of frogs too. (ICK). Behind Robb & Beth's house is a lot of field areas and some trees. Back there we saw deers, and a pheasant. Sometimes they even see turkey's and hear coyotes (we didn't see them this time). Anyways, you get the picture, its a cool place :) Saturday was great (minus the sad news about Elliott :( ). Sunday we packed up and headed out. We got on the road around 10ish, and we stopped for a coke and gas, and we made it home by 12:20.

Here are the pictures as promised.













Oh, I forgot to mention lol, on Saturday morning Beth had to work, but Robb wouldn't be home for about another hour, so she asked if I would mind babysitting. I said no problem! So I had her wake me when she was leaving, then I got up to go to the other room so I'd be able to hear Trinity if she woke up. So I'm sitting in the recliner, in the semi dark room just relaxing when I saw something move. Over at the corner of the fire place was a MOUSE! EEK! I quickly got my feet up into the chair lol because I'm a chicken! The mouse scurried behind the entertainment center. Every so often he would peek out and I'd make a noise and it would run back. I *think* there were 2, one looked more brown, one looked like it had white on its face, but I was in shock so I could be imagining things haha. Anyways it finally got back up onto the fireplace then ran along the seat thing and into a vent in the brickwork. Mice are cute...as long as they are far away from me. They have a super clean house, but living out there with fields and wild life all around they are bound to get mice. I hope Robb is able to catch the little dude(s) soon.

I hope you enjoyed hearing and seeing pics about our trip. Sorry for the photo overload.

Please keep my friends Cindy & Dan in your thoughts as they prepare for their son's wake and memorial service later this week.

Toodles
QOTD: (if you are new here, that is the Question of the Day, take a minute to answer it in the comments area!) If someone gave you enough money to start a business of your own, what kind of business would you start?

5 Question Friday on Sunday, and other stuff.

As you know I've been out of town, so that is why I haven't posted. I missed posting 5 Question Friday before I left so I'm going to get around to doing that in just a sec.. First I want to say that I have had Dan & Cindy in my thoughts big time lately. They have been there for a while since Elliott has been so sick and struggling in the hospital, but even more so now that he has passed. I know that he is in a better place, and no longer suffering, and he can finally rest after such a long battle of illness over the last several years, but its still hard. Elliott is Dan & Cindy's only child, its going to be a major adjustment for them now that he is gone. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. Cindy, if you are reading, big hugs to you. I love ya friend and if you need anything please by all means let me know.

The girls & I got home from my brothers around 12:20 today, but I've been busy ever since! I've had mountains of laundry, a messy house and a cranky little one to deal with. I finally got to sit down about 20 minutes ago, darn I'm beat! We had a great visit at Robb & Beth's house. The girls enjoyed running around over there (especially Bree). We spent a lot of time playing with Trinity, being outside, going to the zoo and park, eating out (yum!) and taking pics! I will have to post pics tomorrow. Right now I'm uploading some to Flickr, then I'll have to put some on picnik to make collages because well...I took a gazillion pics! 596 pics to be exact.

Ok, on with Mama M.'s 5 Question Friday, on Sunday...




1. Who would you want to play you in a movie of your life?


2. Did you ever go to summer camp?


3. What sends you running and screaming in the other direction?


4. What is something you do that drives your spouse nuts?


5. What is currently your favorite song?
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1. I think if Queen Latifa could be white with make up then she'd be a good me :)

2. nope, to poor and to shy, didn't want to go, wasn't forced to.

3. Slimy stuff, critters, that kind of stuff. I don't like spiders, lizards, frogs, snakes...blah.

4. Everything? talk quietly I guess. He says I don't speak when he asks me things, I do, he just doesn't hear me. So either my voice is to quiet or he has selective hearing!

5. Do your boobs hang low do they wobble to and fro? Thats what I've been singing for some reason. That and the commercial song for I think Dairy Queen (maybe Baskin Robbins), "Ice cream and cake eat cake" I don't have a real favorite song because I never get to listen to music on the radio anymore. We always have the dvd player going in the back seat for Bree, so I listen to what she watches, and to the older girls bickering.

There ya have it! Better late then never right? Please feel free to answer these in the comments, or blog your own 5 question Friday.

I'll post more tomorrow, and have some pictures for sure. Right now, I'm beat, and will be heading to bed in a few if I am lucky...so Toodles...and please take a minute to answer todays Question of the Day posted below, over in the comments. Thanks!

QOTD: What has been one of the most memorable compliments you've received as an adult?