Highlights of the Week Thus Far

I tackled the kitchen on Monday. I know our guests were here on Saturday, but there was still much I wanted to get done. So Sunday night I planned ahead and I tried this trick I saw on Pinterest where you clean stuff with ammonia fumes. The oven itself was also supposedly able to be cleaned with ammonia fumes...just heat the oven and then stick a bowl of ammonia in there overnight. So I did. Super stinky....and then it didn't even work. Nuthin'.

So frustrating!

My burners looked like this:

And I was so excited to stick them in some baggies with a bit of ammonia and have that do all the work for me. It didn't do much. :(

So instead I geared myself up:


Relegated Autumn to the living room:


And got to work with good ol' fashioned Easy Off in the oven and steel wool on my burner pans and a lot of elbow grease. Oh well. I got the results I wanted:


Tuesday was Autumn's earring day and while we were in her room hanging out, the kids wanted pictures of themselves:




I took this and Dalton said, "Did I look a little bit awesome?" :)


This was in Dalton's folder when I picked him up from school on Wednesday.

I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I saw the "art" he thought worth saving. He said it was Pluto's nose.

And then he requested a "McQueen face sandwich" for his lunch. I did my best:


My big guy came home with this in his backpack this week:

I said, "Easton, who is this from?" And he was all, "I don't know...where did you get it?" and seemed super surpised that I found it in his backpack. Could he have an admirer? He brought home another note last week from his friend (a girl) who said he was the best friend anyone could ever want and wrote "BFF" and such. But she is a good reader and speller and that "liek you so moch" note couldn't be from her.

Hmmmm....