An Ode to the Magic Eraser...

We have been doing some major Spring cleaning and finishing up some major projects around the house lately. We have gotten our Blue Beast (aka the blue bath in our master) refinished to a shiny off-white, replaced the old seashell sinks in our bathrooms, replaced all our old brass door knobs, and now I'm cleaning every wall and cabinet and touching up paint where needed.

During this crazy cleaning and project spree I discovered an untouched Mr. Clean Magic eraser amongst our cleaning supplies. I decided to give it a try on our some poor cabinets that had been "loved on" a little too much by our boys and to my surprise every mark came off! I also discovered that grime that I have been trying to get off for the last FOUR years from our stove and oven MAGICALLY came off with barely a swipe of the eraser. My first thought? "SERIOUSLY?! That's ALL it took?!" And there I went...every wall, cabinet, and appliance has now been scrubbed by Mr. Clean. I'm in love.

Monday's with the MOB: Link up!

Happy Monday everyone! It has been another busy, but wonderful week in this household.

Some sweet moments by my boys this week...

My youngest pressing his cute little hands together and bowing his head to say the prayer. Almost made this momma cry.

My oldest singing songs at his end of the year "presentation" at Pre-school. He was so proud.

My youngest and his new word, "CHEEEEESE". He brings me the camera and says "cheeeese" just about every day. I love hearing all of his new words!

Some "boy" moments...

Our youngest has a new favorite "game": Flying from the ottoman to the couch over and over and over. Typically we don't allow this, because we are trying to keep the couches "alive" a few more years, BUT he does it with the biggest smile on his face and it is incredibly hard to say no to.

That's this week's Monday with the MOB. Link up or comment with your own MOB (Mother of boys...of all ages)stories from the week!

**On a side note, still having computer problems. I'm not going to lie though, it is kind of nice to be forced to stay off the computer. This little "facebook vacation" of mine has been kind of freeing. And for those of you who write on my posts, my wall, or send me messages on FB, I can't get any of them :) Promise I'm not ignoring you! My incredibly old laptop made me do it...

Today was the day!!

Today was the day of the 5k I started training for about 2 months ago!

The result?! It went great! I wasn't dying, ran the whole thing (even at my grandma pace) and hit my goal time. I could have actually kept on running. All the "blah, I don't want to go running right now" training moments are worth it for the adrenaline on race day!

I had a great running partner, Cathryn, who was doing her first 5k. It made it a lot more interesting to have someone to run with who kept the same pace.

So what's in my running future? Right now the plan is to keep running at least twice a week 2 to 2 1/2 miles to work on speed and strength. There is a half marathon in October that I am considering doing. Well, let me clarify...not to run the whole thing (I have to constantly remind myself how incredibly bored I get while running!), but to run/walk it. We'll see about that one!

And, yeah....I have pictures of the wonderful day, but of course computer problems are still present! So just imagine the me smiling with the number 43 on my shirt (descriptive, right!?).

Happy Saturday everyone!