I love thunderstorms but last night it was so loud I thought the sky was gonna break.  At least we are finally getting some rain though.

Don’t you just love the smell of rain?

We are going on three months of our debt diet.  I printed out our spending reports (yes I track everything on Money) and we have already spent $8,000 less this year then we did for the first six months last year.  Yee Haw!

Speaking of saving money.  Sunday night I went to the grocery store with about a million coupons and my total savings ended up being $150!  That’s a new record for me.

We’ve been watching a lot of old movies lately.  I love watching the really old ones, like from the 1930’s because the there are zero special effects.   We just watched the original Dracula last night and for the still shots of a house or a hillside the camera would just focus in on an actual picture.

My favorite part about old movies is the melodrama.  The actors or soooo over dramatic, I love the expressions on their faces.

Eva’s favorite new book is Princess Baby by Karen Katz.  She knows all the words and has to dress up like a princess every time we read it.  So cute.  Then she calls me Princess Mommy and I’m all like “Ahhhhh”.”

I absolutely LOVE the CD I won from Michele over at the The Integrated Mother.  It’s Ziggy Marley’s new Family Time CD.  The very last track is Jamie Lee Curtis reading her book Is There Really a Human Race? I highly recommend buying the book for your little one.  Check it out.

PSA – Please please please don’t talk on the phone while your kids are in the pool.  I know it’s  a little late in the summer for this but better late then never right?

I’m getting a shiny new website design soon!  My husband is working on it and it will be up shortly.  I can’t wait!

One last thing…If your kids are looking forward to seeing the new Disney G-Force movie this Thursday Ask.com will have a special promo for the movie.  You can go to there sight with your kids and ask silly questions about Guinea Pigs and stuff.  Anyway here is the spiel.

A preview of the homepage is available below and will include interactive ‘rollover’ components that prompt parents and their kids to experience Ask’s ‘Smart Answers’ [allowing users to obtain answers to their questions without clicking on additional links] first hand for two days to help kick off the opening weekend.  From encouraging children to ask ‘Where did guinea pigs get their name?’ to ‘How is a 3-D movie created?’ the homepage encourages online education, discovery and exploration.   These types of exercises are a great way for kids to learn and for parents to encourage safe searching habits along the way.

So there are your random thoughts for the day some more random than others.  If you’d like to join in jog on over to Keely’s blog at TheUnMom.

Last Sunday Chris woke up and had a bug up his butt to go to church.  We hadn’t been since before Christmas because of issues with putting Eva in the daycare and just general laziness.  I was surprised by his new-found motivation to do something on a Sunday morning but was also kinda glad because I have been wanting to go.  All in all we had a great day, church was great, music was great, and Eva actually did not cry a tear the whole time in the daycare.  Success!

This Sunday we had every intention of going back and I was excited we would be making this a regular thing and that Eva would get used to going and feel even more comfortable there.  Chris made breakfast, I took a shower, we were right on track until Eva decided to be the little heathen toddler that she is and not let me get her dressed.  Me, being in no mood to run after a 2 year old for the tenth time that morning threatened her that we would not go anywhere if she didn’t come get dressed RIGHT NOW.  Of course she still didn’t listen and I was determined to follow through with my threat.

About an hour goes by and I suggest to Chris that we try to make the 12 o’ clock service.  I won’t get into all the details but that attempt ended with another confrontation involving bean burritos.

I hate a wasted Sunday and am having a hard time getting over all the free stuff that was going on today that we could have done and instead have been holed up in this houes on such a beautfiul day.  I love just sitting aorund and relaxing on Sunday’s but this Sunday has been full of confrontation and anything but calm and relaxing.    Instead of sipping coffee and reading the paper I have been vacuuming up those annoying little spiders that hide in the corner of my walls, vegging out on the computer, and crying in my daughters bedroom while she wipes my tears with me feeling like the saddest excuse for a mother there ever was.