DO's and Don'ts

To sum up what the Peacock's have been up to lately, I've made a list of "Do's and Don'ts" based off of our recent experiences.

DO THIS: General Conference weekend

Go to the hospital to see your new baby niece, Joelle Eva Frandsen

(Congratulations to Jason, Joy, and Jocelyn on your new addition. We are so grateful for you in our lives and so glad we got to see you and your beautiful baby.)

DON'T: Take your 15 month old to the ER 

On Saturday morning we got to take Adelia into the ER because we suspected she had eaten an asprin-free Excedrine..... which yes, it's asprin free, but loaded with acetaminophen and caffeine..... luckily, a blood test proved to be zero in her system. So she didn't really eat it...and if in deed that is what caused the mysterious bright red stuff around her mouth, who knows where the actual pill went after the gel coating wore off.  

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DO: Spend time with your wonderful families... and take a ride in Grandpa's tractor

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DO: Go with your child's preschool class to the fire station (Sept 24th). 

It was so fun and educational. The girl's even got their own red fireman hats!  It also motivated us to do fire drills for family home evening the following Monday

DON'T follow these steps when taking your child to Preschool. (the monday after our Price/Castle Dale visit)

Step 1- lock your purse and keys in the car over night. 

Step 2- Find this out as you are getting in the car to go to preschool

Step 3- Quickly load the kids into the bike trailer

Step 4- Pedal like mad in your tight denim jeans and sandals

Step 5-  Notice the quickly deflating tire (also causing difficulty in pedaling to be all the more difficult)

Step 6- Try to inflate tire to get home

Step 7- Pull valve stem off bike tube-creating massive hole

Step 8- Hitch ride home with kind stranger (aka--other preschooler's mother)

Step 9- Call husband, tell him to pick up child from preschool

Step 10- Feel like an idiot.  

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DO: Spend time revising and revising your resume

Luke's resume It looks really nice now, and today he has a technology expo at school that hopefully brings opportunities for job interviews!! One step closer to the REAL WORLD!! 

DON'T: get suckered into using an online auction site (other than Ebay etc)

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We joined this website (against our usual good judgement against scams) because I had seen on KSL.com an advertisement done by a reporter (not KSL's) about these online penny auctions where you can buy big ticket items at steal-of-a-deal prices. I'd heard about them before but never paid them any mind. But this reporter had done and investigation and had found this sight to live up to its claims and that it really was easy to win these items.  Since we're needing a new laptop etc, we figured paying $150 "one time fee" plus whatever cheap price we get the item for, really wasn't much. 

Basically, we realized AFTER the fact that there is a lot more into it than just bidding like you do on Ebay. A LOT More. it's basically like gambling........ and requires as much time and determination it takes to gain with gambling. Such a time waster! Luckily we only wasted time on it one night...but we're out the money and probably won't get anything for it.  

BIG BOO.  So just be warned! If you ever see these websites RUUUUUUUUUUUUN! 

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DO: Use this nifty trick for your kid's toys. 

Baby friendly toys closest to the bottom, Older toys higher up, things I only want played with when I get them down at the VERY TOP (minus the Barbies)

Their LITTLE, multi-piece toys always drive me nuts. I've tried several other ways of organizing but the result is always the same. Everything is always scattered all over the place, or put away and completely forgotten about--which defeats the purpose of having the toys in the first place.

We've used these shoe hangers (thanks to my brilliant friend, Janelle)  for holding our "junk drawer" items like batteries, tape, glues, screws, etc... OR in a pantry for holding things like seasoning packets etc.... so i figured I should try it out with the toys. 

It has been fantastic! I don't LIKE that it only fits on the outside of the door and thought about hanging it on the wall behind the door. 

But on the other hand I LOVE having it on the outside of the door because when Adelia is sleeping, Tianna can still get to them, and when they are both playing in their room, it faces out, so the door remains OPEN--the way I like it. 

Clean up is easy, you can find whatever you are wanting at a glance, and Adelia can't get to Tianna's small toys because they are out of her reach.