an imposter

Shoes: cato brand. skirt: j.crew. shirt: gap.

I kind of wore this yesterday to church. I mean, once again, the photo's pieced together from old ones. Yesterday, I wore a super-chunk necklace instead of the turquoise one you see here, though, and my tweed jacket almost made it into the mix on top of the lavendar shirt. Until I remembered it was, like, 14,000 degrees outside...about half of what it was INside (broken a/c at church). Realizing that, Mr. Tweed was happy to stay home with his spectacles, reading the newspaper, sipping his iced raspberry lemonade. Pulp-free, natch.

This week I'm grateful for:  

- air conditioning.

- parents. Specifically, mine.

- cheerful children who listen to me and heed what I say with a smile and a response that goes along the lines of, "Mom, you're awesome and you always know best." (All I want is for them to be perfect...is that too much to ask?)

- when flooded basements can be dried out relatively quickly with minimal damage.

- and also, when basements DON'T flood. That's nice, too.

- my husband's cancelled business trip.

- the Internet. Is that a weird thing to be grateful for? So be it.

- fresh produce.

- ice cream.

- when I consume fresh produce and thereby, in my head, justify the heaping bowl-ful of ice cream. Ooops. But also...delish.

- improving my surroundings. And dreaming about more ways I can improve my surroundings. But having them be too expensive to actually carry out...so back to ye ol' dreaming board.

Happy Monday!

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