These days buying candy for trick or treaters is too expensive. Kids are more greedy now so they go to more houses and want more than one piece of candy per house. It cost A LOT of money. Bags of candy are getting pretty high in price too! I work at a group home with people with mental and physical handicaps and we, the staff, have to purchase the candy for the trick or treaters! It cost too much money. Even buying the candy in bulk from places like Sam’s Club is still expensive!

There is a TV series called Parenthood. It started in 2010 but I just discovered it on Netflix. It is an amazing show that teaches you all about being a parent! I fell in love with this show. It address everything that might happen while being a parent. It teaches you how to deal with all different problems that you might come accross with your children. It also address how to deal with all of the stress that comes with being a parent. It also teaches you how to keep the connection with your spouse or how to reconnect with them. It is a huge family show. It helped me to realize that it is very important to keep in touch with your family because you never know when you are going to need them. It is heartwarming and beautiful in so many different ways. I strongly suggest that all parents watch this TV show! In fact I think that eveyone should watch this show!

I Love Love Love my son Dexter! He is the most amazing little boy in the entire world. I cannot comprehend why he is so wonderful! I know that I am a decent, kind hearted person but I have no idea what I have done to deserve such a perfect being! Dexter is 9 1/2 moths old and the only time he gets fussy is when he is tired. So all I have to do is lay him down in his bed and Dexter falls right to sleep. He sometimes talks to himeself but he never needs any help falling asleep! Dexter is such a happy baby, all he does is smile. It doesn’t even matter if he has never seen you before a day in his life, you are still going to be his best friend for that brief period that he knows you! His laugh, oh my goodness, it is the most angelic sound in all the universe! I am telling you, you have not smiled and have not experienced true joy until you have heard Dexter laugh! He laughs when you look at him. He laughs when you smile at him. He even thinks that it is hilarious when you just open your eyes! He is just amazing. Every part of his tiny body is tickelish! He is so smart too. He recently had his 9 month check up and some test were done on him and his doctor told me that he is smarter than the average 14 month old baby! I am so proud of him. Now I am not taking all of the credit of raising such a wonderful and well behaved child! My Husband Dagan had a lot to do with it! He teaches Dexter so many different cool things. On days when I am at work, they watch the Minnesota Wild play or the Minnesota Twins play. He may not be old enough to understand what he is watching but boy does he love to watch his sports with Daddy! So I just wanted to kind of brag about my wonderful son. If you also have a wonderful family like I do and want to tell us about it then do so! I would love to hear all about it!

Oh my goodness I think that I am way behind in my christmas shopping! I have too many people to shop for and too little of money to shop with! Not to mention I started way too late this year! If I had just started early I would have enough money to buy everyone a good gift and would not be struggling with not having enough money or time to do all of my christmas shopping! My advice to all is that you start you shopping in January and purchase 1 to 2 gifts every two weeks!

I love shopping for winter clothes for my family. Kohls is actually my favorite place to shop for every member of my family! Kohls has the cutest clothes for my 9 1/2 month old son. My husband can get some nice dressy clothes for work, and some handsome everyday weekend clothes. And for me, forget it, they have everything that I could ever possible want! The shoes there are simply great too. I get everyone in the family new shoes too!

I LOVE my son! He is simply wonderful! I read to him every day! I play with him constantly when I am home with him! We do everything together. Every night before his bed time we dance to some songs from One Republic and the Rascal Flatts! He loves to dance with his mom and dad! I do not think that you can have too much interaction with children no matter how young or old they are! My son, Dexter, is 9 1/2 months old and we do everything with him and because we encourage so many activities for him he is, according to his doctor, is smarter than the average 14 month old baby! He is so curoius about everything and has to know what everything feels like! I like to think that because of all the interaction that we encourage to have is what makes him so smart!

Milk is not that cheap and families can go through it pretty fast. CVS pharmacies always have a great deal on milk where you can get it for $2.18 a gallon. If you like the bags of milk, Kwik Trip is the place to go getting a gallon for a little more than CVS but less than a gallon jug of milk at Kwik Trip. If you have a family like mine where you go through milk incredibly fast then CVS or Kwik Trip are the places to go to purchase your milk!

I recently went to a wedding. It was a beautiful small wedding. It was both the bride and grooms 3rd wedding so they did not want any gifts or money. They just wanted their family and friends to come and celebrate with them. It was so amazing, it was outside and freezing but simply beautiful. Dancing is the best part of weddings if you ask me. I did not leave the dance floor even when they were passing out the cake. So I did not even get to try the cake. But everything else was amazing so I am going to just assume that the cake was delicious too. I would love to attend a lot more weddings if they were all like the one I went to last weekend!

I love Sesame Street. It is a nice whole some, innocent TV show. My son loves it. It helps him learn things like shapes, colors, numbers, and other things like problem solving and sharing. It is brighly colored and full of loud but not scary sounds so it is something children enjoy.  It keeps children occupied and gives mommy and daddy a chance to sit down and relax or a chance to get something done.

I love DVRs. They save my life some days. On days when I am really busy at home or I am sick, I just turn on my DVR and pick out one of the many PBS shows that I have recorded on our DVR and let my son watch TV while I either get a bunch of things done or just rest on the couch and watch Sesame Street or Curious George with him. A different reason that I love my DVR is because sometimes I am not home to watch my shows and I really can’t miss them so I just schedule a recording and I can watch them anytime I want to! It is a wonderful thing to have!