For the love of... our children. When looking back on childhood do you ever think of the things your mom did for you? Do you think of all the times you ordered food when you went out (for us it was considered a special occasion) and hers looked better than yours... so she gave you hers instead? I think there are many things that our mom's did do for us that we forget about probably even to this day as we have our own children.  Good thing these days there is this thing called blogging so our children can read back on all of the documented cases we will have. Just kidding of course.



I think of the things we do for our children sometimes and wonder if they will remember, if it will create a smile when they look back. I think sometimes about the things we do and think of how I never once thought I would be busying my days with washing pennies or shopping for accessories for chicks. Chicks that are not outside but kept in a little girls bright pink bedroom, with an Aflac duck as a surrogate mom. Yes, I did say washing pennies. Washing pennies for days, washing 82 pounds of pennies to be exact. Why you ask??? Well for the coin drive at school for the playground fund of course. One of my customers had pennies he collected for 15-20 years. In his basement, in his basement that got flooded, in old coffee cans. After time they got powdery, green, and white. So I mentioned the coin drive to him and said if he ever got tired of the pennies I knew a good home for them. He gave up the goods. I should have known then that he gave them up too easy. Seeing the look on her face when I brought home these pennies was priceless, it was so  worth it. But washing pennies for days in my kitchen sink tired the shoulders of this mama. We looked up ways to clean pennies, we used lemon juice, vinegar and salt, ketchup, and Coca Cola. Which one was going to do the job? We even bought Tarnex a cleaner that warns to soak NOTHING in it for over 2 minutes.  They all did OK. Probably ketchup did the best, but how much ketchup do you need to clean 82 pounds of coins? If you ever have to help a child do a project in school to find the best way to clean a penny, we found the solution, we only regret we didn't smarten up earlier. The all time best way to clean a penny, pounds of pennies anyway??? Are you curious... is the suspense killing you??? A cement mixer. Yes you heard me a cement mixer, just put the dusty green/white corroded pennies in a cement mixer for about two hours and they will sparkle just like new! Well, needless to say we won the coin drive, the looks on the faces of the children and the teacher and the bestest girl I ever did have, my Kaitlyn made washing pennies in all of my free time, for two weeks well worth it...

Now on to the chicks (Flyer poops alot and mini man)... or maybe we should save that for a different day, just know they are content in the night snuggling up with their Aflac duck under their heat lamp with a beautiful little girl all snug in her bed in her bright pink room.