Gizmos, Gadgets, and the weekend too

I came home last Thursday to find my Shark Steam Mop (purchased with my garage sale proceeds) had arrived. I've been waiting for this thing! You have to know that I'm an old school, scrub the floor on your hands and knees with a bucket and a rag, kind of girl. A mop - does not clean the floor! I liked the idea of using steam. Steam. That's gotta make it clean, right? It does. Though, I thought (or hoped) the pad would be really dirty after using it on my kitchen and bathroom floor but, it really wasn't bad. Either my floors were cleaner than I thought or this mop doesn't work! I did surf my kitchen in white socks just to be sure (No, not in my underwear but still in Risky Business style) - the socks are still white. When you're done 'mopping', you throw the white pad in the washer machine! I highly recommend him! **I didn't purchase mine from the link, I found a much better deal elsewhere.

Also Thursday, I found out that Jacob's birthparents were plotting and saving to hire a lawyer in attempt to make their "little family complete". Meaning undo Jacob's adoption. However, God is watching out for us (as always) and they had a huge fight between themselves last week, the police were called, and the Bfather went to jail on domestic violence charges and is now looking at 15-20 years in PRISON! He's been arraigned on the charges and will be sentenced May 14. From this point, we will accept letters from them and I may talk to her on the phone but, we will not see them anymore. Once Jacob turns 18 he can make the choice to have them in his life or not. We will continue to have a relationship with the Bfather's parents. I still fear Bmother will try something. Such as filing complaint with Child Protective Services against Jeremy or I. I wonder if her having an open case on herself would affect her attempt to file against us!?! I always said I had to do what I felt was right with her and for Jacob. God took out a billboard for me this time!

Friday we trekked to Portage to pick up my new camera, buy my annuals, get stuff for to finish building Jacob a giant sandbox, and to have lunch with Bramma H. I have to tell you this too...

We told Jacob we were going to see Bramma. He said, "No Bumpy (Grumpy) Bramma?" (Edna)
I said, "No, we're not going to see her. Do you not like her?"
"She mad!" He said.
"Who's she mad at?" I asked.
"She mad with mommy!"

We were a little delayed on our outing as we stopped at our fire station after seeing the doors were open. Jacob had a good visit with his hero, Shaun. Shaun turned on lights and sirens in a firetruck and let us check everything out. I asked Shaun how it felt to be a 3YO's hero, he looked at me and he just smiled. We did get some sad news - our buddy Shaun has a final interview with a police department in Florida and he will likely be moving away. We wished him luck and told him we'd certainly miss him. We had a great lunch and good visit with Bramma too.

As you may have already noticed from the Fickr previews to the left, the D60 has made its way home. I managed one good day out with Jeremy keeping Jacob occupied so I could click away. Believe it or not, all of the pictures I posted, subtract the flowers, were taken across the street, in front of the...wait for it...Allegan County Sheriff's Department!! Imagine that! The pansy, petunia, iris and tulips were shot in my very own yard. Thank you camera guy for recommending the UV filters for the lenses. I had to run at lunch for a lens cleaning cloth to remove a fingerprint!

We also have new pets. We have fish. Daddy's fish is Albert. Mommy's fish is Howard. Jacob's 2nd fish is Nemo. Jacob's first fish commited kitchen sink suicide. We found him in the drain strainer. He was dead. He either flopped out of the bowl or Albert and/or Howard pushed him. We're not sure.

Saturday I planted. In the rain. Jeremy spread his dryer lint (aka lawn patch) all over the front yard where we cut the tree down last year. My nephew, Matt stopped in and spent the night with us. We were down at the neighbor's watching them cut down trees, Jacob saw Matt coming towards us and ran down the sidewalk to give his cousin a big hug. Matt put Jacob to sleep, lying with him on the floor of our den, holding hands.

Mother's Day was uneventful. We called our mothers. Jacob gave me my "wetters", complete with a "spfonge Bob" card that he picked all by himself. Matt went home. Jeremy went to work. Jacob and I took a walk, came home, made "onies", watered plants, gave Jacob a "wife" (bath), got into our warm jammies and had some "fnuggle wif you" time on the couch. I got unprompted "mo mo (eskimo) tisses". He even threw in an "I wuv YOU mommy." I'm the "wuckiest" mom EVER!