Cheap clips??

Does anybody out there know what it's like to do a marathon hair cutting session with 4 (soon to be 5 once Simon needs a haircut...I've been putting it off!) boys/man that need haircuts all at once? Picture if you will a freshly washed floor that I was hoping would last at least for 2 or 3 days and then it happens...."honey, do you think I could get a hair cut today?"....then Son #1 "Mommy I need a hair cut too!"...then Son #2 "Mommy I really need a haircut too and please don't cut it like Troy from High School Musical cause I really don't like my hair tickling my eyes and it's not appropriate for school!"...then son #3 "Mommy my hair is really long too and it tickles my ears can I go before Gavin?"

And then the mayhem begins, trying to keep the 16 month old out of the hair that's piling up without success, having little particles of hair that have now become needles poking into my shirt and pants (and I've already showered!), trying to keep heads steady, making sure my husbands is PERFECT he is quite a stickler...despite the fact that his increasingly grey hairs have a mind of their own, and of course I am left with all the hairy clean up and suddenly my clean, sparkling floor is no more. To any woman out there that knows my plight my heart goes out to you. But when I think of the thousands that I've saved us...well, I'll be doing it again in a couple weeks.

Full steam ahead!!

So my husband works swing shifts usually getting home at midnight or so, sometimes to unwind he'll turn on the TV... there is virtually nothing on TV at midnight unless you count endless commercials for live link dating hot line and of course info-mercials! I walk in the room and my husband is watching an info-mercial for a clothes steamer! And our convo went something like this:
"Honey, you can put in a movie we have several to choose from instead of that dumb info-mercial"
"Are you kidding me? I've always wanted a clothes steamer!"
"Really? Are you kidding me? I never knew that about you!"
"Think of the time it would save me ironing my shirts and I could steam my suits and not have to take them to the cleaners!"

So to put this in perspective my husband attended the Air Force academy where he had to literally iron his sheets. He has relaxed quite a bit but he is all about having things pressed and shined and sharp looking. So I bought him a steamer for Christmas (the only thing he got for Christmas...we were trying to be really frugal this year). So there you go my husband, hot and steamy...knock yourself out honey!