A Day in the Life Too... a blog about modest style

A 30-something mom's blog about modest style, DIY stuff, and limiting dessert. Just kidding. We eat dessert first around here.

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Showing posts with label white sweater. Show all posts
Showing posts with label white sweater. Show all posts

Monday, April 4, 2011

a belt by any other name...would be just as non-functionally decorative

 boots, skirt, & belt: kohl's. sweater: don't recall (maybe kohl's as well?). watch: target. necklace: don't recall. tights: forever21.

It was bedtime when I snapped these photos. You can tell because the lighting's weird, and my daughter is in her pjs. Which, come to think of it, actually proves nothing, because we're in pjs a lot around here, day AND night. It's like in old movies when there's a scene that's supposed to be in the middle of the night, but it's super bright so you can't even tell. Noon?...or midnight?...

Speaking of old movies, I LOVE Pride & Prejudice. 5-hour BBC Colin Firth version, natch. And, sure, the book, too. Jane Austen was a master authoress (yep), if you ask me.

Speaking of books, I need to read more. Lately, I barely glance at the newspaper headlines. And do the sudoku. I used to be a crossword puzzle whiz. Now it's sudoku. What an enormous shift in my life, moving from a nerdy word-based thing to a nerdy number-based thing.

It's similar, although not identical, to eating a muffin that's really nothing more than a cupcake sans icing. But doesn't the word "muffin" sound just so much healthier? That's what I tell myself, too, as I reach for my third one...

Would you believe that when I sat down to do this post I had nothing to say? I mean, look at allllll the interesting and important things I spewed forth in this post! Aren't you so glad you stopped by, guys? Guys?...Hello?...hello?...hello?...

Happy Monday.

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Sunday, March 27, 2011

gratitudiness

I honestly don't know what happened/where I was in the middle photo below. But I like it.
 boots & sweater: kohl's (I think). tights: gift. skirt & shirt: gap. earrings: hawaii.

Birthday girl struck the pose to show me what to do. Like her belt? She's killing me with the cuteness. 'Cept those shoes. Ohhhh, those shoes...the loves of her life...

This week, I'm grateful for:

- my kids. and how, in their world, transformers marry barbies, very (very) worn red sparkly shoes are still beautiful, and statements of fact ("charlie licked my FACE!") are hilarious and repeated as often as a good knock-knock joke. which means oft.en.
- disposable plastic tea-ware.
- sentences that begin with, "okay, mom, I'll try..."
- when things turn out to be easier/faster than I thought they'd be.
- soccer practice and a typically not-a-sports-guy kid thoroughly enjoying himself during said practice.
- a husband who bakes the birthday girl's cake. and is so proud of it (and rightly so) that he calls it "my precious." but tries to cover it up by pretending he's talking about me.
- prayer.
- concealer. seriously. the zit queen of the universe has waved her magic wand in my direction, and my face has, with open arms, welcomed her spell. stinking face. so. thanks, concealer.
- 13 four- to eight-year-old girls at a tea party.
- family. and heart-to-hearts with family members. and those conversations of nothingness that are just as important as the heart-to-hearts.
- the satisfaction of eating a perfectly crunchy apple. (and, fine, who am i kidding, a perfectly drool-worthy mint chocolate chip shake.)
- sleep.
- sleep.
- sleep.

Happy Sunday. 
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