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If this is in fact the case and your house is completely clean and white all the time with no help from the outside word, then you my friend are a much more organized person than I. Dirty bottles, paint on the wall from the kitchen remodel from 3 years ago, and toys everywhere are my real life. To try and help balance all the clean white fancy house photos out there, here is what my house looks like on the daily with 2 children under 3. I mean lets be real, is your house really that clean all the time with 4-5 children under 9? ! ? !

This year my secret santa was Katie Pratt who blogs over at Rural Route 2 . I also received a jar of hot chocolate for those cold nights, and my favorite, a little note pad holder that holds a roll of paper that was hand made! It is a great way to meet other bloggers and share home made local gifts! One of my favorite things about the holidays is the annual Christmas in the Country gift exchange that some of my favorite blogger friends host!

I feel sometimes God throws subtle hints my way that I don't take the time to recognize, so then he throws a ton of bricks in my face to make me think, and that my friends is what happened this day. She said that thanks to skype, she is able to see her family that were also placed all over the world. She was given $3 a day when they got over here She said that seeing children today during the holidays open gifts and throw them aside because it wasn't what they wanted really makes her sad for them.

Before you chew my head off, I'm not saying they don't work, I'm just saying there isn't much science to support them. Just saying So here are a few questions to all the amber wearing teething moms out there. Wouldn't the concentration need to be pretty strong to be able to absorb through the skin, into the blood stream, and make it to the point of pain? Not saying it isn't, I'm just saying the science isn't there to make me a believer.