Don't just clean, Oxy clean!!

My youngest son, Joel has a new hero. Billy Mays. We were at the store the other day in the detergent aisle and I am looking one way while he and Jonah are looking the other. Suddenly, I hear Joel sing loud and clear, "Don't just clean, Oxy Clean!" I turn around to see a wall of Oxy Clean products!! So today while I was cleaning a little spot on my couch, he says to me, "Momma, you need one of those special cleaning things to get that spot out. You need Oxy Clean. Just don't clean, Mom. Oxy Clean. It's the only thing that makes it really extra sparkly." (I am not putting those words in his mouth, btw. Anyone who knows Joel, knows he's a goofball like that!)

Then, the other day I was on my laptop while the boys were watching some afternoon TV in the living room with me. Suddenly, Jonah turns to me and looks at me a little strange. Then he turns away and soon looks back at me and asks, "Mom, did you get a Bump It?" I had a small portion of my hair pulled back in a little clip,making it look like I had a baby Bump It behind my bangs section!

And I don't know about you all, but I get sick of the mess in the bathroom after my kids attempt to brush their teeth. After complaining about it one day, Jerry, my oldest son, says to me, "Ah, Mom...I keep telling you we need a Touch 'n Brush!"

My kids are suckers for an informercial. They ask me all the time why we don't have those Shamwow rags that absorb 20 gallons of water/pop/wine (if you're a drunk). I was trying to tell Jerry about a segment on Good Morning America that I saw where the hostess actually tested these products and how it just doesn't work like they do on the commercials. He argues passionately for Vince about how they really DO work. There was no convincing him. Finally, I just told him I like to spend $20 a month on paper towels.

And don't even get me started on the Snuggie. They talked about those things so much that one day in March we received a package in the mail containing 6 snuggies, complete with the free book lights that you can attach to a magazine while lying on a couch with the lamp on behind you. Thanks Daddy! You really know how to make your kids day! We can't wait for football season to begin around here so we can show up wearing our snuggies.

We also need the sliders that go on the bottom of ANY shoe that allow my kids to annoyingly slide around all carpeted areas of the house like professional skaters, Hercules Hooks for all the shelves we're planning on hanging (those really do work great though, btw), the Gourmet Quick Chop to slice and dice the vegetables even though I told Jerry that I have one like it from Papmered Chef. But he said it doesn't open up and come apart completely for cleaning. Didn't matter that I told him that actually it did. And don't forget the Roll and Grow flowers that transform your bland, ordinary lawn into a tropical oasis. We need them all.