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Last night while trying to get Jonah settled down, Bobby and I were watching highlights of the Royal Wedding on You Tube.  We were both just amazed at the huge crowds of British people out to celebrate this marriage of their future king.

“Say what you will about the monarchy being outdated and archaic,” I said, “but there is NOTHING in America that would bring our country together like this.  We got nothin’.”

Bobby agreed. (Such a smart guy, really.)

Around 10 p.m.  we got Jonah to sleep and I went to bed.

When Jonah woke up at 2:15, Bobby told me, “After you went to bed, the President made an announcement that they got Osama Bin Laden.  He’s dead!”

I grinned sleepily.  Grinned like the Cheshire Cat.

This morning, I awoke to thousands of pictures like the one above all over news outlets and and Flickr.

It seems I was wrong when I spoke last night.

Justice can bring Americans together.  And today, we have Justice.

Thank you to your government and military for continuing to pursue it and win it. God Bless America!

**Congratulations to week two winner, Jacob!**

As you know (hopefully, since I’ve written about it a couple times!), Scott Naturals is celebrating Earth Month by encouraging everyone to take their 4 Week Test Drive, and try their new products out for four weeks. Additionally, they’ve pledged to give $1 to the National Wildlife Foundation for every person who clicks on this link. All you have to do is click, and they’ll donate up to $25,000!

Today I was sitting at our kitchen table, and happened to notice the tree we planted when Sam was born three years ago. It was given to us as a gift from dear friends – it was such a unique and special gift. And now, much like he has, it has grown and is so pretty! I honestly hadn’t noticed it this spring and it caught me off guard by how beautiful it is and how much it adds to our yard.

Planting the tree was a wonderful way to recognize the birth of our baby boy, and it was also a wonderful way to reduce our carbon footprint. According to Wikipedia,
“Climate scientists believe that human-induced global deforestation is responsible for 18-25% of global climate change. The United Nations, World Bank and other leading nongovernmental organizations are encouraging reforestation, avoided deforestation and other projects that encourage tree planting to mitigate the effects of climate change.”

Of course, it’s even more important to save the trees that we have already, which is where taking the Scott Naturals 4 Week Challenge comes in! If everyone did that, we would save two million trees during that time. And, if you take the 4-Week Test Drive Challenge, you’ll be entered to win a new hybrid sedan.

Win/win!

And speaking of winning, we’re giving away another package of Scott Naturals products again this week.

To enter, leave a comment about trees!

For extra entries, click here, and Scott Brands will donate $1 to NWF for YOU and/or take the 4-Week Test Drive Challenge, and leave separate comments telling us you did so.

The contest will end on Thursday, May 5 at 5p.m. EST and a winner will be chosen randomly.

To learn more about Scott Naturals, visit their website, “like” their Facebook page or follow #ScottNaturals on Twitter.

Good luck!

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I received a package of Scott Naturals and additional compensation via this campaign through The Motherhood, but as always, the thoughts and opinions are my own!

I originally titled this post “Running on Empty” and I intended to moan and complain about how we’ve been out of town the last two weekends, how Sam landed himself in the emergency room in St. Louis on Friday, how because of being gone I haven’t had time to do normal weekend stuff like go to the grocery, how tennis season is about to start and I won’t see my husband for about two months, how my cell phone won’t actually make or receive calls, and how I am completely unprepared for my kids’ joint birthday party that is taking place on Sunday (oh and btw, Jenny & Aunt Diane – your invitations are still in my purse so it’s Sunday at 2 at my dad’s, k?).

And also how I am freaking exhausted.

But really none of those things are really all that terrible, so I felt guilty about my impending complaints and decided not to wax poetic about them (even though in telling you that I wasn’t going to complain, I still got all my complaints in).

Since I have nothing else to say, I decided to leave you with a whimsical cartoon and googled “It could be worse.”

I was in equal parts horrified and amused by what I found, and I couldn’t pick just one.

(I apologize ahead of time.)

So yeah. It could be worse.