Bad mom?

Does it make me a bad mom when my almost 4 year old gets in the face of my 2 year old and teases him, so he smacks her in the face and I just stand back and watch? I say she deserves it after all the teasing she does to him.

Kirby- the salesperson from HELL

Ever had a kirby sales person knock on your door? I have. The first time they came to my door about a year ago they came into my home and shampood my living room floor, for free. It looked amazing and the vacuum was pretty amazing too; however, priced at over $1500 there was no way I was going to buy one. The sales person wasn't to pushy, gave me her speech and cleaned my carpet and left. She stayed maybe 45 minutes tops. Well when they knocked on my door again today I thought sweet, they are going to clean my carpet again. Boy was I mistaken. I let them in because they said they would clean my carpet for free. All I would have to do is suffer through there sales pitch again, which as I remember wasn't to bad. When they showed up at my door it was 4:45pm. The girl said they were just finishing up another house and would return in 15 minutes. Fine no big deal plenty of time to get the carpet cleaned and dinner started before Jared returned from work. They showed up at 5:00 and started there sales speech. Of course he had to go through each and every attachment and show what an awesome thing it was and how it would save me "money and time" buying this product. He cleaned, my blinds, the sliding door, my ceiling fan, my kitchen floor, my carpet and then asked me if I would take him to the nearest bed mattress. My first thought was "are you kidding me" you didn't just ask me to take you to my bedroom or any other room in my house for that matter. Of course I'm to nice and really didn't say anything and after a moment of hesitation I took him to Londynns room. He started cleaning her mattress and after a second I could smell something was burning. I totally forgot that she has a plastic covering over her mattress and if he continued doing what he was doing it would melt this covering. I told him that I got the picture and he didn't need to do anymore but he insisted that if he didn't do a mattress then he wouldn't get credit for doing my house. He asked if he could do another mattress. I was a sucker and took him to my mattress. He showed me all the dust mites that I have been sleeping with and we returned to my living room. It's now 6:15 and kids are hungry, jared is stuck at work and I'm stuck with this stranger in my house. He continued to show me the "magic" this thing did. Finally after being in my home for two hours and asking for a drink, asking to use my cell phone, using the bathroom and another guy showing up at my door trying to give me the sales speech, I told him that I still had things I needed to get done tonight and could he please just shampoo my carpet and wrap things up. When all was said and done he left my house at 7:30 and only shampood half of the carpet. Are you freaking kidding me? Even if I wanted the vacuum and had planned on buying one, just the fact that you stayed at my house for 2 1/2 hours and wasted my time (and his) would have changed my mind about buying one. Never again will I let a Kirby sales person in my home.....and neither should you!

The weekend

Our weekend was full of activities as I'm sure everyone else's was. Friday night was our neighborhood block party/barbeque. Saturday was a picnic in the park with my side of the family and later that night was a barbeque on Jareds side of the family. Tonight just our little family hung out. We decided to head up the canyon for a little picnic and stroll around silver lake. We quickly discovered that we came unprepared and found that if we spent much time outside we were going to get eaten alive. The mosquitos were thick. Being the great photographer that I am the only pictures that were taken the whole weekend was our little trip up the canyon tonight, and even then only 4 pictures were taken. Fun times!!

We had a little visitor join us on our picnic.