So yesterday was Easter and as of right now we don't make a big deal of it.  You see "N" just had his birthday on Thursday and so he got some really cool presents, slot cars and digital camera, and since they are fairly young and we didn't really celebrate it.  Saturday night I had a sitter come over because I wanted to run a few errands without the kids but have "The Hubby" around.  Normally he's not into the whole shopping thing but I think he had a good time because we went to Trader Joe's, I've never been in one without the kids and it was nice to peruse.  We did get the kids a little something for Easter but we didn't go all out.  The Easter Bunny brought "N" a camera case and a pretty cool watch and "O" got some sunglasses and a bottle of fingernail polish that she then opened and dumped on my already beat up sofa.

What was the beginning of my problem with the weekend was the fact that I paid my sitters $10/hr and when we got home we still had to spend about 2 hours cleaning up the mess that she should have.  So from now on I'm lowering what I pay my sitters unless they clean up what they use (food, games, etc.).  So after "The Hubby" and I cleaned up and I finished my rant about it, we went to bed and we woke up and spent some time with the kids.  After "O" spilled the polish on the sofa I was seeing just more than just the pink polish and sent her to her room for a little while.  I go up to talk with her and not only had she made a huge mess of water in the bathroom plus put hand soap in her hair, they both had gotten on top of her dresser and proceeded to squirt conditioner and hydrocortisone cream all over her room.

So needless to say, I was not at all happy today and really didn't want to see the kids because of that.  We eventually got over it and so tomorrow after "N's" five year checkup and then pick up "The Hubby's" stuff from the doctor, I get to steam "O's" room.  FUN!!!!

Just so you know too, if you have a nail polish remover with Acetone you can use it to get nail polish off but it doesn't really work.   My furniture is just over five years old and yes the cat used it as a scratching post.  And yes I used too hot of an iron to get the candle wax out, and yes the plastic tubing stuff around the sofas are showing but still now I'm really embarrassed to have people over.  What's worse is that I can't really get a sofa cover because the back pillows aren't attached and it would look funny.  I'm now trying to talk "The Hubby" into letting me buy a new sofa.  That's going to be hard because we are trying to have a new mentality on money, we're poor.  No we really aren't poor but the kids think that have all this money because of the things we buy them and so now we're just tired of spending money.  My goal though is to pay down the Magnum and get rid of her.  It would save us almost $500/mo+$475/yr for tags+ the monthly insurance and gas and maintenance.  So really we would be saving a fortune with a car that I don't even use anyway.

We did have a nice dinner tonight though.  We ("The Hubby") made a glazed ham steak with asparagus and nice salad and I have a couple glasses of a nice wine.  I have been drinking a little bit more wine but at least I'm not wasting it anymore because now I know what to look for and what I like.  When we go back to the mid-west and I want to go to lovely Traverse City, I'll know what to look for at the wineries we go to.