Meanie

For Christmas, my Papa Kurtz bought Diesel a doll.  Not just any doll.  The doll looks like this:

This doll even has wire toe hair sticking out of its feet.

When we asked Diesel what we should call it, he replied, "Meanie."

Meanie scares Diesel. 

We can't keep it in his room.

So, it ends up everywhere around the house.  My husband, David, likes to hide it under the covers while I'm showering before bed.  He gets a chuckle out of me finding it.  Diesel likes to push him around in Sawyer's riding toys.  

But, you know who plays with it the most? 

My 8 month old.

The Washing Maching that will be Passed Down for Generations

Every time my washing machine or dryer breaks, I can't help but get a little

excited.

My washing machine and dryer are AT LEAST 13 years old.  They were passed down to me from my mother.  And although I love my mother very, very much, I do not want to pass them down to my daughter (if I ever have a daughter).

I want a new set.

I know we can't afford a new set, but when they break for good, we won't have a choice but to buy new ones.

Well, my washer broke about a month ago.  I excitedly told David it was broken. 

He, the man who thinks he can fix everything, tipped the washing machine on its side. 

He took out hundreds of pieces. 

He found the broken ones.

He looked online.

He found the pieces for sale (yes, even though the machine is over 13 years old).

He bought them.

He rushed shipped them.

They came in the mail 3 days later.

He (and Diesel) fixed the washing machine.

When he was done, he smiled and said, "We're going to have this washer and dryer forever."



The Gnat Problem

If you are drinking something at my house, please look at the beverage before you drink.  90% of the time there's extra protein floating at the top.  Why?  Because my husband fertilizes his indoor lime tree (that's never produced a lime in 5 years) with used coffee grinds.  Apparently gnats are attracted/addicted to the caffeine.  I always wondered where all these gnats came from.  I thought (many times during the past couple months) that they would go away after the first big frost.  They didn't.  I was steam mopping my floor about a month ago and relocated the lime tree (it's about 7 ft tall) to mop under it.  When I moved it, hundreds of gnats flew out.  My husband has been experimenting with the coffee fertilizer for a couple months now.  So I've been treating the tree with bug killer (which I'm sure is super safe for my kids) weekly.  A gnats life cycle is obviously more than a week. 

Goat Painting

I found this painting at a store in El Ghetto.  I'm thinking about getting it for David, but I don't know whether it would look appropriate in our house.  I can't decide whether I want to look at it for the rest of my life.  It SCREAMS "DAVID" though!