At 36 with 5 children, I thought I knew a lot of things. But this weekend I was highly educated on one of the most well used (and most well loved) appliances in our house. My refrigerator. On Sunday (while Erik was on Meriter call…it figures) I open up my most gorgeous LG bottom freezer french door stainless steel, does everything but cook for me refrigerator and I smell a most horrific thing. Nope, not rotten food. Because food just does not have time to rot in my house. FIRE. I smell the distinct smell of something burning. So I start searching around the refrigerator and discover that the cover of my refrigerator lights is melting! MELTING! And it is HOT. So I do the responsible thing. FREAK OUT. And call LG. Only to find out that since I can’t find my “original” sales receipt…from 2 years ago (and who can when something in their house is BURNING), that they can’t help me.

So I say to the lady, “So what exactly am I supposed to do? I am afraid that my house is going to burn down if I don’t do something IMMEDIATELY”. “Jou need to remobe da Balls” she says. “The balls”? I ask. “Jes”, she says. “da Balls”. “What the hell are the balls”? I ask (yes, at this point I am kind of losing my temper). “The refrigerator light balls” she says.

Did you know that my refrigerator has balls? And that somehow I am supposed to figure out how to remove them? Wow. I honestly had no idea. No WONDER it was so freakin’ expensive. And no, it is Wednesday and I still haven’t heard what I am supposed to do. The store is trying to locate my original sales receipt. Because they purge their files after a year, apparently. And despite the fact that my refrigerator is obviously an LG…and it was their brand spankin’ new most awesomest model of 2006, they won’t help me. So I have duct tape on certain points of the refrigerator to keep it’s balls from turning on. And I wait…..

Here it is in better days:

I LOVE sibling relationships. It is one of the things I enjoy so much about having a large family. I especially cherish the relationships of my children who are more spread apart in age. Their love for each other melts my heart. This big brother is soooooo in love with his new baby sister. Insert a little mommy and daddy love and you have a perfect family

Baby G had sweet little piggies….mix those with some lovely morning light and as Rachael Ray would say, “Yum-O”. I am going to let the images speak for themselves

Enjoy! And a special shout out to you labor and delivery nurses….I can seeeeee you checking my blog for these

Hello, my name is Anya, and I am the dork who changed my blog configurations rendering it unable to display all prior images. Yes, I am blonde….naturally.

Therefore, I will be spending the rest of the evening re-coding my images correctly. I apologize for the inconvenience to those trying to view their sneak peeks. Me take pretty “picher”, I am not brilliant in the IT department!

Until then, here is the adorable baby “E” that I photographed last week…her gallery is almost complete and ready to be sent to her parents….so here is an extra yummy sneak peak (again)

Yes, I am the dork that can’t remember the exact day of this poor child’s birthday. Even despite the face that I was THERE! Of course I can’t remember the exact date of my Anniversary, either. Is it the 28th of December or the 29th? Ummmmmm, I don’t know….LOL! So, my dear Amina, here is your birthday post….is it a day or two early? I am not sure…all I know is that it within day’s of Miss Annika’s birthday. Which is the 7th of October. Right? Well, ummmm, yeah. That I actually DO remember

So yeah, that is a Debbie Boone song….and the fact that I not only know that but can sing it and remember it playing on the radio….well, I think that makes me old. And kinda lame….LOL!

But that was that was going through my head when I came upon this image as I was downloading my memory card from my camera. The light, the shadow, the sweet baby feet….it doesn’t get any better than this! The image of her eating just melts my heart as well. So sweet and teeny tiny! Enjoy your sneak peek, mama, there are LOTS more beautiful images where these came from