My Tooth!

UGH! My teeth are horrible. I had perfect teeth with no cavities until I was in my early - mid twenties. After several years of battling with severe acid reflex, it took a huge toll on my teeth. All of a sudden my teeth literally started to crumble with no indication there was a problem. I have lost so many teeth because I couldn't afford root canals & crowns. One of my front teeth has been in bad shape for a while and had chipped. Last night a huge chunk came out of my tooth. It looks so bad! I guess I will be calling a dentist on Monday morning in hopes of being able to save it. I just really dread forking out the money to do it. I really just want to get them all pulled and get some falsies.

The Witch Family

Big Witch, Little Witch, and "The Witch Doctor"...

Tuttle's Farm

Tuttle’s Farm
2701 N.C. 135
Stoneville

We had a blast on the hayride, find our way through the corn maze, and Cerdwin loved riding the Cow Train.

Meat Hands

Oh these are gruesome looking, but I like it. Fun Halloween recipe for sure!
http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2009/10/27/meat-hand/

Newsletter time

I finally finished up the newsletter at about 12:30am! I have literally worked on that freaking thing for about 12 hours today. I stopped long enough for some lunch, do a load of dishes, and to fix dinner (aka - toss a pizza in the oven & throw some salad on a plate). It still isn't what I wanted, but I suppose it will do this time. I have learned a great deal of HTML today by trial and error. I still need to figure out a lot of other stuff. Anyway...I hope you like the look of the newsletter. Next month may not be as fancy schmancy.

To view www.DanRiverMommies.com November 2009 Newsletter...click here:
www.DanRiverMommies.com November 2009 Newsletter

I want Wednesday

Can you believe there are only 3 days left until it is November? Did you know that November is National Novel Writing Month? NaNoWriMo is a creative writing project held annually in November in which participants attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in one month. That sounds like something fun to try. However, I don't think I could come up with a creative idea and write enough about to get 50K words. Hmmm....makes me think though. I certainly don't need to take on another project. I can't even keep up with my blog. I think I will try simpler things for November

I want to be able to maintain some focus and get my house cleaned during the month of November so I can decorate for Christmas. I want to be able to pull out all the decor and do it up right since I haven't been able to do that since 2005.

Short term, this week I want to finish cleaning my bedroom and have a fun Moms Night Out this coming Sunday.

What do you want to accomplish in November?

What do you want this week?

Lessons in laundry detergent

I recently had one of those "light bulb" moments. It just hit me that the bottle of laundry detergent was nearly empty and I had just bought it. I looked at the bottle and it reads 32 loads. No way had we done nearly that many loads of laundry. Given there are 3 adults and 1 child in our house hold, we do 12-15 loads each week. I looked at the back of the bottle and the directions explain how much of the liquid to use. It is approximately 1/2 of the cap full for normal loads and about 3/4(1.9oz) of the cap for large loads. Makes sense now! All 3 of us had been filling the cap to the brim. We had used Charlie's Soap liquid for a while before switching to the powder. Since I had to stop using Charlie's Soap, I have been using All Free Clear. Charlie's Soap liquid directions call for 2 ounces...so why wouldn't other brands call for the same amount? Well, apparently they do. We have just been pouring money down the drain, literally. Why did it take me so finally realize this?
I guess it is kind of like other things...we just don't read the instructions that come with so many items.