Spot Bot LOVE!!!

I really need to do an "About Me" article sometime to give you a little insight to my life.  Let me tell ya.... it is CRAZY!!!  Most of the words in the article would probably be " I have four kids".  Sometimes those will be said as positive loving words and other times.... well, not so much.  It has been one of those mornings in my house where two kids tell me they don't feel well.  One of them happens to tell me that quite often but feels fine after breakfast and being told that if he stays home he will not be watching movies all day, but taking long naps to get better, he quickly decided that he was well enough to go to school.  My other child proceeded this statement by going to the bathroom and throwing up :(  To top off my morning, the first child who said he was sick but then decided to go to school anyway, missed the bus.  I pushed him out the door as the bus was pulling away, ran out in the driveway with my purple cuddle dud pajamas with cute little pink and yellow kittens on them, yelling at the bus and waving my hands ( as all the parents are watching me).  The bus starts to slow and put back on the blinking lights, when my son then drops his mittens and stops to pick them up, the bus decides to drive away, again.  Ugh.  Fortunately I have a wonderful neighbor who had to drop her daughter off at the high school, which is where the buses load and unload some of the kids, and she also works as my sons school, so I know he got there somehow.  Note to self:  make big pan of brownies and then cut them out with a heart shaped cookie cutter with notes that say " I owe you BIG, You are the BEST, BFF FOREVER"!!!  So, that was my morning and I just looked at the clock and it's only 10:30.  Another Ugh...

I was just reading a really cute blog: http://asoftplace.net/.  I loved the reminder about what blessings our children should be and are, even on the worst of days.  Her note about the play dough struck a familiar note in my house.  Remember, I have four kids.  To top that, my dining room, which is the only room that has room for us to eat in, is carpeted.  OH.... with light gray carpet.  Gasp!!!!!  It was probably a year ago when my "now" two year old pulled on the tablecloth and ended up dropping my coffee mug, full of coffee, onto the carpet.  Bigger GASP!!!  I have dealt with messes before.  Hot pink nail polish on brand new cream carpet, permanent marker on hardwood floors, spaghetti sauce on everything, and actually managed to defeat all of those disasters, but this coffee was really playing hard ball.  I ran to the local walmart and looked at carpet cleaners, not to rent, but to buy.  Remember I have four kids.  I should have done that a long time ago. 

When I saw the spot bot it seemed to offer more than the big dogs.  It had settings for set in stains, light spills and even a hose that can be used for areas that the spot bot cannot reach or be sat on.  It had me at set in stains. 

I don't know what I would do without my little handy helper.  It defeated the coffee stain, the hose is great at cleaning up diaper training leakages off of our chair and I take it around the house once a month and spend a day cleaning up any little, or big spot that I may see.  We are saving up to get hardwood floors but this machine has definitely helped me be more patient as I wait.  I'm not being paid to say any of this, but the spot bot is definitely one machine that I don't know what I would do without.  It does have some solutions that you are suppose to use with it, but I'm cheap, so I add a little bit of Any surface Windex to every couple tanks of water.  It works amazingly well.  Today it is going to conquer yet another meal of spaghetti spilled on the floor. 

BTW, if you have questions on how to remove nail polish or permanent marker from pretty much any surface, give me a quick shout and I will let you know what worked for me ;)