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There is one thing to be said about spending your days in bed. You get to catch up on ALL of the good, the bad and the ugly on TV. Have you heard of this horrible new kids show called Yo Gabba Gabba? It’s HORRID! My two little ones hung out on my bed with me because I couldn’t chase them around the house and we watched this:

I’m sorry, but this is just terrible! People mocked Barney and the Teletubbies–I know, I was one of them. But this one takes the cake. I can’t imagine anyone acting in this, making it or paying for it to be on the air. It’s just unfathomnable!

Our neighbors just got home from their second honeymoon. They are the nicest people, and just married off their 3rd and final child. Hence it was time to “rediscover” themselves as a couple! They headed off to the Wynn hotel in Vegas for the week, and had a great time.

I love looking at pictures of Las Vegas hotels. It seems like each one tries to out shine the others, so you get some pretty beautiful and amazing hotels. The Wynn is definitely one of my favorite. I’ve never stayed there, but we always take a walk through it when we are in Vegas. I actually have a picture that I had to take in the Ladies Room. Who takes photos in the Ladies Room? It is amazing, and the tile work is to die for!

All of this just makes me wanna hit the strip soon!!

My sister is an incredibly talented cake decorator. She is totally self taught which honestly, makes her work even cooler! Well this week I went with her to Restaurant Depot. She was wanting to price cake ‘things’ wholesale rather than continuing to purchase them from the local hobby shop.

Can I just tell you that this store was AMAZING!! It had everything from exit signs to those cool air deodorizers you see hanging on the walls in the swanky restaurants that send out a fine mist of yummy smell every few seconds. Just enough to keep the restroom smelling fresh and clean. Yeah, I totally bought me one of those!

Kids aren’t allowed in the store at all, and with 8 kids between us it’s kind of hard to find a sitter for all of them in order to go together. But baby….this little outing has caused quite the addiction…and I can’t wait to go back!

Well, the in laws have changed their minds…THANK HEAVENS!! They have decided that rather than piling on more debt while they are already so deeply in a hole—that they will just live with the consequences to their foolishness (my words…not theirs) and will be moving into the house that we moved out of. Now we are looking for cheap long distance moving companies. I mean—why are we not getting a ton of family members together to move these people? Why are we spending one more dime (that they don’t have) to have someone come and do it for them.

Now, I understand hiring someone to come and get the super heavy stuff…but everything…that’s just crazy!

Do you wanna know one more crazy thing?? They have a big beautiful refrigerator in the house they live in now. The one in the house they are moving into is old and nasty. I should know…it was mine for the 6 years I lived there. But instead of swapping out these refrigerators, they are going to leave the big one in the home they are in now, and buy a brand spanking new one when they get settled. Well…that’s what they think. Once they are done and out of their current house, I will be hiring someone, and we will be swapping out our crappy refrigerator for the one that they left behind. And yes…I am paying them a couple hundred bucks for it!

I’ve gotten a few comments about my previous post. My in laws do own two homes. Both outright at one time, but due to some really poor financial choices, they are losing one. They do have the paid off home up for sale, but it is an older home closer to the city of Chicago. It has a tiny front and back yard, and the garage is too small to park a car in. That leaves you parking on the street. There are two bedrooms in this home–and honestly, old as it is, it’s a nice home. However, prices in that area have dropped considerably and they wouldn’t be able to get the amount out of this house that the owe on their house. But worst of all is the fact that homes aren’t selling in this area nearly fast enough to save their home.

Since I wrote the last post however, they have come up with a possible solution. I’m a little wary of it, but if they plan to keep the home they are in, their hands are tied. They are taking out a $50,000 loan on the home that is for sale. This will pay up the current loan on their house–as well as finish off some of the repairs they need on the other home. Neither mortgage will then require a payment for a year and the home should sell within that time frame. I’m wary because these people don’t move on things! They had 2 years before they got into trouble with the home their in. I pray their house sells, but if not–they will be walking away from this house as well as losing the home that is currently for sale. At that point, the only thing I will have left to offer them, is the boys bedroom upstairs. And I will be LIVID if it comes to that!!

I wrote a few days ago about the ‘bridge’ loan my in laws were taking out on their older home to pay for their newer home. With this loan, there has been enough money included to finish fixing up the house. I was over there today and my father in law and brother in law were in laying tongue and groove laminate in the kitchen. It was looking really good. So much better than the crappy floor we had to live with! After the flooring is in, they will fix the front door and put it up for sale. We are all hoping for a quick sale, but here in Illinois, that isn’t always what happens, and with 3 other homes on the block for sale…it might be a long wait!