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Febreze Noticeables

Ok, so I had a nice little picture with the Febreze logo to go along with my post, but for some reason it won't upload...so, you don't get a pretty picture, but you do get me sharing my experience with the new Febreze Noticeables...are you excited? I bet! I signed up to get a free one, with the promise of blogging about it...so , here I am keeping my promise.
Well, lets start with price...I don't know how much they are, because like I just said, I got mine FREE. But I'm sure you could find out easily by just clicking on an online store and checking it out. I can't imagine it's too costly. Ok, now for the product quality...well, I was very surprised when I opened my package, it was heavy and the refills of "scents" are actually in glass. So good workmanship there. I'm always impressed when things are glass and not plastic. So after taking it out, I realized they had sent 2 refills, wow, that was nice!! I chose the scents "morning walk" and "cleansing rain", they're ok. Oh and the plug in changes back and forth between scents and you can adjust it to "high" or "low" depending on how many times you want it to switch back and forth and to what degree you want the scent.
The next refill I have to use is "calypso breeze" and "hawaiian paradise" and that smells yummy!! Although I'm not really into "rain" or "hawaiian" scents, they are both really nice. I will have to check out what other scents they make and find one that is more my taste. So, I plugged it in my living room first and within minutes I could smell it working. I went away that evening and when I returned home I could smell it as soon as I walked in. Not an overwhelming smell, but a nice smell. I have it at the top of our stairs now. So, overall, I think this is a very good product and would definitely recommend it.

Ooops Missed A Day!

Well, I guess my hope of getting a post on here every day this week just didn't happen. Better luck next week, eh?! Yesterday wasn't the best day anyway...I had a daycare parent get really upset at me and although I tried to explain my side of things, I wasn't getting upset which I think made her more upset. OH well...I didn't do anything wrong and I think she expected me to say I was sorry and that I was wrong. I think she thought I had sent a nasty note home, but in reality, they just took it wrong. I told her that I was sorry they took it that way and I wished I could explain things better but that I felt like since I didn't mean the letter in a hurtful or angry way, I couldn't really feel bad about it. Well, not in those exact words, but you get the jist of it. Maybe? Anyway, I got a phone call this morning that their child would not be here today and they'd see me Monday. No good bye or anything, she just hung up. Oh well, maybe she didn't mean anything by it. I'm trying not to assume. However, I will not be surprised if they walk in Monday morning with their termination notice. As a matter of fact, I'm expecting it! Not hoping for it because I just love their little boy, but if they are as unhappy with me as she told me they were last night, I would rather not have them here. So, needless to say I could use some prayers, ok A LOT of prayers with filling some daycare openings. I'm thinking positive...I could get a call today, or this weekend!! Ya never know!! What I do know is that I'm not stressing out over it, things like this have happened before and the Lord has always taken care of things. I'm almost kind of excited to see how He works this all out for me.
Here's a great link for you:
http://www.gotquestions.org/trials-tribulations.html
I really like these verses:
"Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing." "Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him" (James 1:2-4,12).

Happy February!

I can't believe it's February already, it seems like Christmas was just yesterday. February means my oldest son is going to be one year older...this year...12! Which means next year...official teenager. WAIT, hold on, I want off this ride!! Please lift the bar back up...I have to get off!! Pleeeease!

I'm not ready for him to have a birthday...because that means that I'm getting ready to have another birthday next month, which means my parents are having another birthday because all 3 of our birthdays are in the same week. Neat huh. I'm not looking foward to my kids getting older and I'm not looking forward to ME getting older but what I'm most not looking forward to is my parents getting older. I don't want my parents to get older! I don't want them to be turning 6-0!! I remember when they were in their 40's! And my grandparents were in their 60's and THEY seemed so old! My parents can't be that old!!

So how to we stop this? Anyone? Anyone? Cause I need to know!! 33 is ok! I can handle 33! But, I can't handle my son becoming a teenager and I can't handle my parents coming up on retirement age. So, where's the secret formula? If you have it, please give it to me...I'm willing to barter! What do you want? I have a few dollars in the bank (and when I say that, I mean about 24 cents)...I have a nice SUV...maybe you could use my daycare services? I give good back rubs....any takers??

Anyhoo...speaking of daycare... here's a tidbit and a vent, ya ready?!...
The "tidbit"~ On the news last night they had a story of a provider who is probably about 10-15 miles from me, who owns 2 home daycares and just became licensed last fall. So, she's been licensed for about 3 months. Well, I guess a former employee of hers has accused her of abuse. She's suspected of physically abusing kids age 4 months to 4 years. Of course the media does everything possible to make her look bad. Ok, so maybe she did it, but maybe she had to fire that former employee and this was her revenge. I can't imagine doing something like that to someone, but I know people will do just about anything if they're mad enough. It's happened to me by "disgruntal" daycare parents. I've been taken to court (over money issues), had negative things written in the newspaper about me, I'm sure I've had former clients talk bad about me, but hey, if you can't go by the policies of my daycare, you're probably going to get asked to leave and you're probably going to be mad about it. Get over it! And sorry...but I don't do daycare for free... so when I make you pay, you can get an attitude all you want, you're still paying me! Geesh!

Now to the "vent"~ Speaking of my policies... I have very strict ones when it comes to bringing sick kids to my daycare. Point being...I don't want them here!! It's not fair to the sick child to have to be here - they are sick...they want to be home with their mommy, it's not fair to me - when I get sick many people have to find back up care for their kids, it's not fair to the other kids - who will most likely get whatever it is they have, and it's not fair to the other daycare parents - who will have to miss work and take their children to the doctor, and pay for the office visit and any meds needed. BUT, for some reason, you can't get most daycare parents to understand this! They get upset when you won't take their child. And I'm going to leave it at that, because I hate to point fingers or name names (cause I don't know who reads this blog and who doesn't)...so let's just say that I have a child here today who should NOT be here, and when I confronted the dad on this, he got a little upset, (or at least looked like he was about to get upset)...so I kept the child, but I won't do it again. I only have one other child here today and she's older, so hopefully they won't share germs. Except for the truth is, he's been here the last 2 days and have probably spread these germs around anyway, so if someone's going to get sick, it's probably too late now. Gotta love germs!!

So that's it for today...I can't believe it's Wednesday already. I know I said I thought last week was going fast, but this week is going in warp speed. It's those birthdays creeping up! I just know it!!