I love my husband you know. We have been together since 1985, and we are practically one person now. We agree on almost everything except one thing-what the volume setting should be on the TV at night. I think it should be just loud enough to hear but not so loud that it wakes up the kids, or the neighbors, or the President (well…) My husband, on the other hand, thinks it should be loud enough to hear every word, sound, background noise, if someone whispers, he wants to hear it like it was right in his ear.

The problem is, people who program TV shows have one volume for the show, and one volume for the commercials. Actually, two volumes for the show, because action sequences are always much louder than dialogue sequences. So for us to watch anything together requires him to keep the remote in his hand pointed at the TV, so that I can say “too loud! turn it down! Can you turn it up a little? Too loud!” I keep trying to convince him that we should just turn on the closed captioning so I can read the subtitles while my ears are safely protected with those headsets worn by air traffic controllers. Would that be so wrong?

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My daughter has been blessed with the kind of hair many of us would kill for-soft, shiny, silky, curly, but also slippery and baby fine. I refuse to cut it, even as the wisps hang down into her eyes, because I hated the pageboy-with-painfully-short-bangs styles that my Mother subjected me to as a child. However, as Kaitlyn’s hair grows, it needs to be swept out of her eyes, and therein lies the challenge: How to find hairclips, barrettes, something, that will stay in her hair.

The wonderful Moms at Hooked on Baby must have known how much I needed hairclip help, because they sent me two of their fabulous bow clips for Kaitlyn, and miracle of miracles, they STAY IN her hair!  Each clip has a teeny magnet strip on one side, so the clips stay in without pinching, and best of all, they look FABULOUS. I received the adorable “Little Miss Richmond” clip from the Plain Jane collection, which looks like this:

Isn’t that cute? It looks even cuter in her hair:

They also sent me the beautiful “Little Miss Boston” clip  from the Crystal Clear collection, which features an actual Swarovski crystal!:

Isn’t that gorgeous? And now, want to help me win some free stuff from the Hooked on Baby site? It’s easy! Place an order, and mention my name (Elizabeth Edwards) and my email address (table4five AT gmail DOT com), and if I have the most referrals, I’ll win free loot! And that would be really cool So hop on over, get your daughter/granddaughter/niece/friend some adorable hairclips, and don’t forget to tell them that I sent you!

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Ever since I wrote about how Guidant recalled tens of thousands of implanted defibrillators on my other blog, I’ve been getting comments and emails from people telling me how their grandma/cousin/friend died because their defibrillator malfunctioned and either delivered too strong of a shock or didn’t shock the person’s heart at all during an episode of arrhythmia. And now I’m kind of freaked out because my Dad has a pacemaker, but when I called to ask him what brand it was or if he had received any kind of letter about a recall or anything, he was sort of vague about it. I want to know if he thinks he should be hiring a product liability attorney or gettting in on a class action lawsuit or something. And most importantly, getting the pacemaker replaced if it was made by Guidant! It’s hard not to worry.

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I wanted to come back and show you how GREAT the personalized shirts I had made turned out!  I was glad that I had asked my husband to check in Photoshop and get the name of the font used in the graphic, so I could get the same font for the text:

I’m getting excited about the walk tomorrow! I hope we have great weather, and I think it will be a lot of fun for all of us. I’ve promised my kids a scoop of ice cream at Melting Moments, East Lansing’s BEST ice cream store, after the walk!

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And look, another new theme I’m trying out. I know, I must be driving MyBlogLog crazy, what with my screenshot changing so often. But I’m really looking for a theme to fall in love with, and this one is pretty close. I have an image in mind to replace the one in the header, but I don’t know how to do it myself, so I’ll have to wait for Chris to get home. I know it has something to do with creating an images folder in wp-content-themes, right?

In the meantime, I thought I would officially introduce the family that helps me test many of the products that you see reviewed here. First up is my husband Chris. We met in 1984, started dating the summer of 1985, and have been together ever since. He is my best friend, my soul mate, and a really terrific guy, too. He supports me in every way possible. Here he is last February holding Kaitlyn:

My oldest is Ryan, he will turn eleven on October 2nd. He is smart, funny, responsible, and my second-best friend. He likes testing food products. He is planning on starting a column here on Saturdays called “Ryan’s Reviews”:

In the middle is Nathan, he will be nine on December 21st. He’s a challenge sometimes, but he is loving and kind, and he’s my most willing DVD tester! It’s hard to get him to smile in a photo, so I like this one taken during the Art Festival in East Lansing:

And then there’s my sweet pumpkin baby Kaitlyn. Although she’s not a baby anymore, she will turn two on November 18th. She was the baby we didn’t know we needed to have until we had her, and then our family was complete. She has truly made each of us a better person. She is my go-to gal for testing DVDs and baby products!

Oh, I almost forgot me! ha! I have having my photo taken, but here’s one of Kaitlyn and I playing with Dora’s Grocery Store. I don’t look too terrible in it

I hope you’ve enjoyed getting to know us a little better!

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