AIW Favorites

Every week I like to share a few of my families favorite things. This week, the boys wanted to get involved and share a few things that they like as well!If you're interested in an item, click on the picture below.

  1.  Meyer's Cleaner. This is my absolute favorite cleaner! It's concentrated so it lasts forever. With toddlers around the house, I like to use as many natural products as possible. If you're in the same boat, try this out!2. Signing Time. Liam just started watching this show and he calls it, school.  Both of my older boys love watching this and have learned a lot of signs in the last few weeks. Sign language is a great way to help kids memorize different things as well as make some new friends. WARNING. If you watch this, you will get all the songs stuck in your head. 3. Kid's Tent. If you walk into our house, you can instantly tell we have kids. One dead giveaway is the big tent in our living room. We love this tent because it's the perfect size and you can buy a tunnel to go with it.4. Moroccan Oil. I don't have a lot of time to get ready each day. This stuff has been a life saver. I take a quick shower in the morning and then throw this stuff in it. Instant curls!5. Home. This is probably the cutest movie I've ever seen. My kids are all obsessed with it and would watch it every day if I let them.  

First Day Home Alone

My first day home alone with the boys. Well, they all survived... The house definitely looked like a construction zone while Joel was gone, but we pieced it back together pretty well before he got back. Joel was great and let me sleep in until he had to go to work. He had some training to do and had to go in a few times over the week. My usual routine is to wake up, make an iced coffee, get the kids breakfast, and start on some housework. I figured I'd aim for the same routine. Instead it took me two hours to make my coffee... When you're running on fumes, coffee is a MUST. Why don't my children understand that fact? We are huge coffee drinkers in this house. They even know daddy will not play or wrestle until he's had his coffee in the morning and start yelling for someone to make coffee when he wakes up! Come to think of it I don't even think they had breakfast... Wow. I really don't remember if I fed them an actual meal that morning. I know they had lots of crackers and snacks at least. Well, they ate right? I'll count that as a success. They even had a bath! Although it was unintentional. Levi got into the bathroom and turned the tub water on. He ended up getting wet enough that I figured he might as well. I left while the tub was filling up to get towels and of course both older boys had already hopped in. The rest of the day was spent keeping my kids up for the plumber to come fix our sink. It's been clogged for two weeks!!! I scheduled him to come while the kids napped. I figured I'd keep them awake until he got here and then put them to sleep while he was working. Each minute I waited felt like an eternity. He got lost and ended up getting there a few hours late. Luckily it only took him five minutes to fix the clog!All in all day one was pretty productive. I made myself a coffee, gave my kids a bath, fed them, and got our sink fixed. I feel like I deserve two gold stars for my day!

How was your first day alone with your new additions? Share you stories in the comment section!