Category: Life

What a great Easter! We went to church, had a great brunch, and hunted for Easter eggs. We all had a wonderful day.

We went out to brunch this year. I had the most delicious stuffed french toast. It was filled with gooey cream cheese and strawberry preserves. I could have eaten a whole tray full of that stuff. My husband had a huge plate of steak, eggs, and hash browns. The kids had smiley face chocolate chip pancakes with whip cream and cherries. Everyone left with full a belly and a big smile.

After breakfast we went home and let the kids hunt for a few extra eggs. They already had quite a few from the neighborhood hunt we had yesterday. We just wanted to give them a little private hunt in the backyard. Now our house has tons of plastic eggs and neon green grass all over the place.

After the hunt the kids dug into their eggs. They don’t get candy very often so were thrilled at the collection of sweet treats they had to chose from. I helped myself to a delightful chocolate covered marshmallow peep. Peeps always remind me of my childhood. I look forward to having a few every year.

My sister called me last night and didn’t sound too happy.  Apparently her house was flooded.   She had water damage to her computers and wasn’t able to get online to find help.

I told her I would help her however I could.  Being on the other side of the country, all I could really do was look up information.  I started by typing in water damage emergency service austin into Google to see what would come up.   I got a ton of information and places that could help my sister out.  A bunch of companies even said they were open 24 hours a day because you never know when your house might get flooded.

My husband had suggested that I try looking up water damage restoration services austin.  He said that she would not only need it all to be cleaned up but, restored to it’s original condition.   He was right; so I looked further into the companies that I had found already.

I also looked up water damage claim tips to see what she would need to do in order to make sure she got what she needed.  I told her that she should take pictures of everything to have documentation of all of the damage.  I bet her insurance company will take their own pictures but it might be a good idea to take her own just in case she needs to dispute anything.

I gave my sister a list of places that looked good and hoped that she was able to get the help she needed and fast.  I think I’ll check in with her later to see how things are going.

What do you do when there is a pink elephant in the room?  If the person you are talking to has a big chunk of spinach in his or her teeth do you tell them or just ignore it?  What about when someone has a giant pimple that you can tell has been freshly picked at and is oozing blood?

Today at work I saw a coworker with the biggest booger I have ever seen in my life hanging from the end of his nose.  He’s not someone I interact with on a regular basis so I felt a little awkward approaching him to let him know.  If it was one of my girl friends or closer coworkers it might have been easier.  But, I asked myself if I would want to walk around with a huge booger like that hanging from my nose and of course I said no.  So I walked up to him and very quietly whispered that he might want to use a tissue.  He turned bright red and instantly shielded his nose.  I told him it happens to us all and walked away.  I’m sure he was humiliated but, at least I prevented him from walking around longer with that monster hanging out.

Ugh!  It’s laundry day.  I’m not the biggest fan of doing laundry.  Well, let me be a little clearer.  It’s not the doing the laundry that gets to me; it’s the putting away of the laundry that I despise.  Sorting it out and tossing it into the washer and then the dryer is the easy part.  Sometimes spot cleaning is a pain when you have kids but not a huge deal if you do it right when it happens.  Folding, ironing, loading items onto hangers and stuffing drawers… yuck!  I’ll pass.  I know there are laundry services out there.  I wonder if there is a service that would include putting it all away for me.

I remember when I was a kid and mom would gather us all of with probably six loads of laundry and we’d go to the local Laundromat.  It was a big event for the day.  We’d all pile into the car with the mounds of dirty clothes and head out.  Mom would have us scope out a row of washers next to each other and load in the clothes.  As soon as all of the washers were loaded, we walked next door to the Pick ‘N Save.  We’d each get a dollar or so to spend on something small.  About 40 minutes later we’d all head back and swap things out into the dyers.  Then after the dryers, came the dreaded folding.  Ick! I’m glad I don’t have too much to do today.