What's Caught My Eye? - The Milk Man

from the blog Celticpridehomeschool

My title sounds scandalous, doesn't it?  The Munroe Dairy Milk Truck has caught my eye this week!  The babies will soon be on whole milk.  We can hardly wait as our budget needs some help and milk is much less expensive than formula.  In anticipation of the big change over, I decided to start researching local dairy farms.  I got a lot of positive reviews regarding Munroe Dairy and their milk men.  The milk is not FDA certified organic but it is hormone and antibiotic free.  Another bonus is that it arrives on your doorstep withing a day of being milked.

The milk comes in either glass half gallon or glass quart containers.  It costs either the same, or $0.50 less than the organic milk at the grocery store at $2.99 a half gallon.  There is also some kind of bulk buying milk discount but I haven't figured that out yet.  Once the kiddos are on while milk I will see how much we need to buy for a discount.

The best part of the milk delivery is all the other stuff!  I would like to applaud Munroe Dairy for supporting so many local businesses.  Looking over their order form was completely refreshing.  We like to support local business, when we are able to.  They have local pies, including a Chorizo pie, local raviolis, sauce and meatballs from a delicious local restaurant, fresh bagels made locally, fresh, local ice cream and so much more.

So far we love the skim milk and the chocolate milk.  We haven't tried the coffee flavored milk due to it containing NFCS.  The coffee creamer is great, and fresh, but just too rich!  The bagels are great.  our milk man is really nice, too.

from: cowtruck.com

What's Caught My Eye? - Comcast DVR Manager Online

One day this week, we received a postcard in the mail from Comcast.  It mentioned how we could manage our DVR and choose shows to record online.  This is right up my alley - heaven forbid I leave the house without my shows all setup to tape!  The problem was, I do not know my Comcast email address.  I called customer service and was on hold.  While I was on hold, I was clicking around the site and sure enough I was able to get my user name and password emailed to me. I hung up the phone and got busy setting up my online DVR Manager!  If you log in and try to setup your own DVR manager, be aware that it is not available everywhere yet (sorry) and that it does take a long time to link up to your house DVR.

Oops, I should also mention that Comcast cable is now Xfinity!  I keep forgetting (who are we kidding, I will never remember this!).

Something spiffy that the site also offers is that full episodes of some shows are available.  Comcast owns Fancast.  That part I knew and I would occassionally check out the site.  But, I think now that it's all linked up to my online DVR that I will use it more often.  A friend recommended Covert Affairs and 6 of those episodes are available online now.   Got to run - TV to watch...

What's Caught My Eye? - I Can Not Do It All

Once a week on Fridays I will do a post about something that has caught my eye.  It may be political, funny, outlandish or it may be something to create, buy or lust over (if it's too $$$ - don't worry - no adult content here).


Today's topics is -

JonesDesignCompany

I got this awesome little pic from this interesting and talented blogger .  It caught my attention for a slightly different reason - I keep thinking of things that I WANT to do, but, I don't seem to have the time.* 

How can I not have the time?  I'm a  SAHM.  I only have 2 kids.  Said kids take 2 naps a day.  Sometimes we have 3 days a week when we don't leave the house.  I keep the TV off, I keep the phone chatting to a minimum.  I occasionally close the computer.  How is it that I can't get everything that I want to get done - done?

Oh, that is right!  There is the never ending list of cooking, baking, shopping, letting the dogs out, letting them in, feeding them, feeding the babies: 3 meals and 2 snacks and 4 or 5 bottles a day, clean the house, do the baby laundry, do the adult laundry, run the dish washer at least 1x a day for dishes and 2x a week for bottles, make the 2 pitchers of formula, make the bottles, change the sheets, change the crib sheets, change the pack and play sheets, get the mail, sort the mail, pay the bills, check in with Grampa, check in with Grampa Danny, check in with both in-laws, check in with everyone else, take picture of the babies, share pictures of the babies, check in with Jessica, check in with our lovely neighbor, clean off the high chairs, clean them off again and repeat 4x, go to the post office, sell our old stuff, declutter, change 10 diapers a day, pack up seasonal clothes, pack up babies' clothes that are too small, give stuff back to people that we have borrowed, make social plans, plan our social functions, call various doctors for appointments, check in with girlfriends, put our laundry away, put the baby laundry away, give the dogs water, Furminate Boone, wash the Exersaucers, wash the high chair covers, take out the trash, take out the recycling, exercise, update the blog, order pictures from Snapfish, go to Church, give kids am nap, give kids pm nap, story time with kiddos, have some fun, have a date night, go out for some alone time, go to library, go to dry cleaner, return emails, work on baby books, find new recipes, eat more locally grown foods, go for walks, have playdates...

*Sigh*, I do feel better after typing that out!






I do occasionally get things done, woo-hoo!

*These expectations are all self-induced.  No one is cracking the whip or making me feel badly about anything including the days that we don't leave the house!