Sunday update

What is going on at the Qtpies house?

Well, things are going well with our foreign exchange student. Being from Germany, he is very fluent in English, so there is very little language barrier. He doesn't understand some slang, like "shotgun." We were coming home from the Mall of America and the kids asked if he wanted to ride shotgun, which he didn't understand, and he didn't want to do, either. He preferred the way back seat. But, he is starting to spend some time with us. Choosing not to go to church, as he has never been before, except one time for a wedding, but I think he will join the kids for youth group and dodgeball on Wednesday night. Max is even starting to eat our food. I was getting a complex! I don't want him to starve, but Donnie doesn't want me cooking foods his way because Max needs to experience and try American things.

Tonight the kids are having their weekly movie night at our house, so my house is slowly filling with teens right now.

I am a featured blogger on Five Minutes for Mom's 5 minutes around the Blogosphere today. That is really cool! I am excited to have new visitors and people entering for the book I am giving away, Love Letters to a Child! Welcome, newbies!
Five Minutes for Mom is a great website for moms run by two moms, Susan and Janice, who happen to be twin sisters. They both have stores that are really cool: A Rocking Horse to Love and Peddle Cars and Retro Collectibles.
I love how they help promote mom blogs and stores. You can find links to their readers' blogs and mom owned stores. They also are always running really great give aways like their Digital Camera Giveaway!!!

I am also about to post another set of give aways here. Mr. WiggityBang sent me some prizes for my readers, it is just kind with the amount of talk I subject everyone to about Quelf. I'll be getting those set up this week, hopefully kick it off tomorrow or tonight. We'll see if these teens let me stay in the room while they have their movie night.

The Eight~ A meme

I've been tagged by Diary of 1 for a meme of 8 random things about me.
Here's the fine print:
1. All right, here are the rules.
2. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
3. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
4. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
5. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
I've done several of these, so can I come up with 8 new things? So, I've asked my family to give you the 8 random facts, enjoy!
1. I wear glasses.
2. I'm a computer hog.
3. I'm a female Cliff Huxtable, from the Cosby Show. Devon says I act like Cliff towards girls like he acted towards boys wanting to date his daughters.
4. Apparently instead of 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, I have 9 billion rules for girls being friends with my boys.
5. I like to embarrass my children.
6. I like to scare my kids by standing outside the bathroom door with Halloween masks and scare the pants off my kids. Some of them like it.
7. I think its funny to freak our kids out about sex. (we think its more along the lines of the kids knowing that we are a couple and that being together is natural and wonderful, not being kinky or nasty, but they act all grossed out when we kiss or something.)
8. I wear a size 8 shoe. Yes, a woman's size 8. Yep, boring, lol.

So that's what my kids have to say about me. Feel free to play along! I'm kind of busy with getting the house in order and getting Kaytlin out the door to the airport in the morning.