Boy's Valentines cards

Well, Internet- world, I've been MIA here for a while...sorry about that!
Back today with a big THANK YOU to the blog, One Charming Party.  I am in love with Valentine's Day...as cheesy as that may sound.  I love it.  It's a day dedicated to telling the ones you love how you feel, eating delicious sweets, and, if you're of age, drinking champagne.  Or at least, in my book it is.
I'm all about Pinterest (me and everybody else out there, too!) and decided to search for some boy-friendly free printable Valentine's cards.  Voila!  One Charming Party came to the rescue.
I did use Picasa to add "To" on the printables...preschool is big on the kiddos learning their names and we wanted to personalize each card.
Happy Valentine's Day Eve!
Cheers -
Mama H

Four year old art

Big E took marker to paper and created the above artwork.  I'm kind of in love with it.  Then again, he translated for me.  Would you like insight into his creative little mind?!?!?

How awesome is he???  Love.

Cheers -
Mama H

Fantasy Shopping

My husband loves Fantasy sports.  He's been commissioner of his Fantasy football and basketball leagues.  Both children's birth stories include details about my husband finishing up his research on his picks for that year's draft.  So, just so you know, fantasy sports are totally acceptable around here.
Fantasy shopping is also very accepted around these parts.
As a Stay at Home Mom, there's not a lot of dress code requirements to meet.  Washable.  Comfortable.  Not super frumpy-making.  All things fairly easy to accomplish on a daily basis.  However, I still enjoy pretending I can indulge in my fashion-plate fantasies every once in a while.  And thank god for the internet, because living in a small-ish town in Montana is not the place to go to indulge said fantasies.
You would think, since this is an activity not based in reality, that I would be all about finding things I like, clicking them into my cart, and moving on, with no regard for price.  Oh, but you would be wrong.  I'm a bargain-hunter, through and through.  Even in my wildest internet fantasy shopping sprees, I search out the least expensive option.  I can't help it.  If I find something I like, or there's a particular item I want to research, I simply must search out other more affordable option.  Sometimes this is fairly easy to do.  And nowadays, there are even whole blogs dedicated to this (fashion here; home decor here)!
How far do these fantasies go?  Far enough that I use this site to see if I can find some free shipping or coupon codes, just to get the price down a bit further.
Cheers and happy shopping -
Mama H

Denim backpack - WHAT?

I'm sorry, where the heck did this come from?????  1987??????????

I mean, can you imagine the design meeting for this?
"Let's take some jeans...and, oooh, ooh, remember that backpack your grandma bought you to be one of the cool kids, back in 5th grade?!??!?  Let's take jeans and make an updated version of that!"

Egads.

Cheers -
Mama H

Writer's block

Man, oh man, I've been suffering from some major writer's block.  I know - I've left you and high and dry.  I'm so sorry!  I just don't know what to write.
The boys are good.  I'm good.  The husband is good.
What's not so good?  The weather.  Seriously.  I'm over this:

I mean, really???  It says the low is supposed to be 19 degrees.  NINETEEN.  But that up there?  You read it right:  1.single.degree.  Ugh.
As if the bitter cold isn't enough of an insult, the reason it's this cold is because we're experiencing an inversion.  Which is basically where the clouds have gotten together and decided to hold all this cold down among the lowly people, in the valley, and let the warm air have some fun up in the mountains.  Which also means that the clouds have managed to keep all the pollution (smog, wood smoke, car exhaust, what have you) down here, too.  Which also means that we've had a Stage II air alert for the past few days.  You know what that means for those lucky sufferers of asthma???  Ugh, again.
So, I haven't run in two days.
Growl, growl, growl.
On that note, I shall try to conquer my dislike of January - a long month, full of cruddy, cold, weather, with no festive holidays - and regal you with some Juggle Like a Mama musings sometime soon.
Until then - keep warm!
Cheers -
Mama H

Lust - style

Happy Friday -

Just saw these boots on Aldo.com and am lusting...really wish I had them to bust out tonight for a quick glass of wine with the hubs, or a friend, or just to prance around my house in!

$52.49 doesn't seem like too shabby a price for leather boots...just sayin.

Go here to check them out.

Cheers -
Mama H

Amazon Prime

Hey all -
Just a quickie note...doin' a tiny Thrifty Thursday shout-out.  We're an amazon Prime household and I have to tell you, it's awesome.  The annual fee is a little crummy to choke down each year, but for the rest of each year, I thank myself every time I place an order and get FREE two-day shipping.  In an attempt to save moula (and watch less crappy TV  we also canceled our cable account this summer.  With Amazon Prime, we're able to stream shows and movies anytime we'd like.  Many of them are free to stream and occasionally we'll "rent" a movie (oooh, wild Friday nights here!).
Check it out, here.

Cheers, ya'll -
Mama H

PS I'm not getting anything for posting this review - just letting you in on thrifty secret.