Despite an allergy shot and meds, I am not winning the battle but come tomorrow my hose and I will be in full force and I am determined to win the war this year!
Until then, sweet dreams of the non_pollen variety!
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Yellow Is Not My Favorite Color Today
My car, front porch and I am pretty sure the inside of my lungs are yellow today. Not a pretty pale yellow, or a bright sunshine yellow, but a nasty, cottony (is that even a word?) POLLEN yellow.
Despite an allergy shot and meds, I am not winning the battle but come tomorrow my hose and I will be in full force and I am determined to win the war this year!
Until then, sweet dreams of the non_pollen variety!
Despite an allergy shot and meds, I am not winning the battle but come tomorrow my hose and I will be in full force and I am determined to win the war this year!
Until then, sweet dreams of the non_pollen variety!
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Beantown...
I co-chaired Mini K's school auction this year. It was Friday night and so much fun, but I spent the weekend catching up and watching Mini K play a great lacrosse game. Our Sunday night dinner was spent with Mini K lobbying that we fly up to Boston for the "holiday" as it was educational. Baby C spent dinner screaming Go Sox and Red Nation. Then yesterday happened.
I am speechless and for me that is saying something. I went to college in Boston, and watching those images yesterday took me back to more runs around Copley and down Newbury than I can count, cabs rides to and from Logan down Storrow Drive and evening spent at Dad's Diner, which I am not sure even still exists.
I met Mini K after school yesterday for track practice and she asked how fast the winner ran. I answered and left it at that. How do I tell a 7 year old we have some sick people in this world? That an 8 year old boy has gone to heaven? For the past decade we have been blessed, terrorism has been kept at bay by the men and women who stay up around the clock and see and hear things that we are shielded from, yet yesterday we saw it, and many many people felt it. This morning Mini K came down for breakfast and I changed the channel thinking I had outsmarted her. I was wrong.
On the way to school she said, I know something bad happened at the race yesterday and people went to heaven and are in the hospital. I asked her how that made her feel and she said sad. We arrived at school and I hugged her and she said something I will never forget: "Mommy I knew something was wrong yesterday because you hugged me really tight like this. Can you hug me really tight all the time?" I nodded, told her I loved her, got in the car and burst into tears. My sweet little 7 year old summed up what I think we as adults forget, tell the people in your life how much you love them, don't take them for granted and live each day. Unfortunately, we live in a world with bad people, and while it took our government a day to label yesterday, we all knew that anyone with the intent to harm people is an act of terrorism, their nationality doesn't make it any easier to understand.
Tonight, the minnies are snuggled in their beds, tight hugs were given and prayers were said.
God Bless You Boston. You are strong and a nation is hugging you tight!
I am speechless and for me that is saying something. I went to college in Boston, and watching those images yesterday took me back to more runs around Copley and down Newbury than I can count, cabs rides to and from Logan down Storrow Drive and evening spent at Dad's Diner, which I am not sure even still exists.
I met Mini K after school yesterday for track practice and she asked how fast the winner ran. I answered and left it at that. How do I tell a 7 year old we have some sick people in this world? That an 8 year old boy has gone to heaven? For the past decade we have been blessed, terrorism has been kept at bay by the men and women who stay up around the clock and see and hear things that we are shielded from, yet yesterday we saw it, and many many people felt it. This morning Mini K came down for breakfast and I changed the channel thinking I had outsmarted her. I was wrong.
On the way to school she said, I know something bad happened at the race yesterday and people went to heaven and are in the hospital. I asked her how that made her feel and she said sad. We arrived at school and I hugged her and she said something I will never forget: "Mommy I knew something was wrong yesterday because you hugged me really tight like this. Can you hug me really tight all the time?" I nodded, told her I loved her, got in the car and burst into tears. My sweet little 7 year old summed up what I think we as adults forget, tell the people in your life how much you love them, don't take them for granted and live each day. Unfortunately, we live in a world with bad people, and while it took our government a day to label yesterday, we all knew that anyone with the intent to harm people is an act of terrorism, their nationality doesn't make it any easier to understand.
Tonight, the minnies are snuggled in their beds, tight hugs were given and prayers were said.
God Bless You Boston. You are strong and a nation is hugging you tight!
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Discount Thursday FInds
I had a different post planned for today, but decided to share some deals instead! All but one of these you can double your savings by shopping through your Ebates account. If you haven't joined Ebates yet, you are throwing money away so join HERE.
Horchow is offering 25-30% off the ENTIRE site, PLUS 6% cash back via Ebates. If you pay with your Neimans Card and are an Incircle Member you get free shipping. They currently have their monogrammed towels on sale, plus the additional 30% off makes them cost the price of a monogram...it's like getting the towel FREE! I love giving these as graduation and housewarming gifts.
You can save an additional 30% off you purchase at Gilt with code: GILT30.
C.Wonder is offering 30% off sale prices with code CITRUS and you can also get 5% cash back when you shop through Ebates. They still have a lot of letters left in their fabulous monogrammed mugs. These would be great as hostess gifts, teachers gifts or for yourself!
Happy Shopping!
Horchow is offering 25-30% off the ENTIRE site, PLUS 6% cash back via Ebates. If you pay with your Neimans Card and are an Incircle Member you get free shipping. They currently have their monogrammed towels on sale, plus the additional 30% off makes them cost the price of a monogram...it's like getting the towel FREE! I love giving these as graduation and housewarming gifts.
You can save an additional 30% off you purchase at Gilt with code: GILT30.
C.Wonder is offering 30% off sale prices with code CITRUS and you can also get 5% cash back when you shop through Ebates. They still have a lot of letters left in their fabulous monogrammed mugs. These would be great as hostess gifts, teachers gifts or for yourself!
Happy Shopping!
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Stick A Fork In It
This is NOT a recipe post. Our dishwasher has been hungry for the past month...I am pretty sure it is on its last temper tantrum before it leaves us for dishwasher retirement home. Unfortunately our forks have been the target its bad behavior!
So I know find myself on the search for new everyday flatware, or maybe an excuse to purchase new flatware. If something sits still lon enough I will find a way to monogram it and my target is flatware.
I have found a few options and now I must decide. If you have a set you love, and are willing to share, I would love some more choices. Remember I have 2 minnies and am not looking for a service that I will need to hand wash!
This set from Ballard Designs has a vintage feel but is still casual, and there is always a coupon code for Ballard in Coastal or Southern Living.
I found this set on Ebay, a place I never would have thought to look for a set of new flatware. I like the clean lines and classic block initial.
Believe it or not this 46 piece set is less than $60 with engraving!
Decisions, decisions....
So I know find myself on the search for new everyday flatware, or maybe an excuse to purchase new flatware. If something sits still lon enough I will find a way to monogram it and my target is flatware.
I have found a few options and now I must decide. If you have a set you love, and are willing to share, I would love some more choices. Remember I have 2 minnies and am not looking for a service that I will need to hand wash!
This set from Ballard Designs has a vintage feel but is still casual, and there is always a coupon code for Ballard in Coastal or Southern Living.
I found this set on Ebay, a place I never would have thought to look for a set of new flatware. I like the clean lines and classic block initial.
Believe it or not this 46 piece set is less than $60 with engraving!
Decisions, decisions....
Monday, April 8, 2013
Something to Remember
I haven't felt like blogging. There isn't one thing, but just haven't felt like it. Over the past week I have missed it. I am now officially 38, my youngest is now almost 3 and another summer is taunting me in the not too distant future, but I have realized that the feeling of being unsettled might go away if I come back to just writing it all out, the good bad, the stuff that makes you wonder if I have lost it, essentially life!
This weekend was a reminder of how precious life is and how fast it can change. I am a wife, a mother and the owner of two companies and I do not think I would be able to do any of these things without the wisdom and guidance of those that have gone before me. I remember watching the news as a kid and not really knowing who the famous people were whose lives as ended. Now it seems I remember them all...talk about feeling old.
The world has lost two amazing women in the last 72 hours: Margaret Thatcher and Lilly Pulitzer. One of them ran a country and the other created an empire based on living life to the fullest...neither required a discussion of the theory of "leaning in" neither took sides in the working mom vs. stay at home mom debate, both of them just lived their lives and did.
I can look in my closet, as well as Mini K's and Baby C's and see the impact that Lilly Pulitzer had on the world. Her clothes make us smile, they make us think of vacations, and parties and family photos. They are a wearable pick me up that were created out of one women's need to solve a problem and in solving the problem of juice stains she gifted us all with generations of happy memories, laughter and smiles.
Mini K had a date on Friday night...with her Daddy and without a moment's hesitation said I need to wear a Lilly dress. Even 7 year olds know that a Lilly Pulitzer dress can change an evening!
Margaret Thatcher taught us all that a tough women is not another word for a witch. She showed us how to go toe to toe with a man without the need for a quota or special help...in fact I think a lot of men wished they didn't pick a fight with her as it didn't end well for them.
Leave it to these two women to get me back to blogging. I am not sure if anyone is still reading, but I am happy to be back!
This weekend was a reminder of how precious life is and how fast it can change. I am a wife, a mother and the owner of two companies and I do not think I would be able to do any of these things without the wisdom and guidance of those that have gone before me. I remember watching the news as a kid and not really knowing who the famous people were whose lives as ended. Now it seems I remember them all...talk about feeling old.
The world has lost two amazing women in the last 72 hours: Margaret Thatcher and Lilly Pulitzer. One of them ran a country and the other created an empire based on living life to the fullest...neither required a discussion of the theory of "leaning in" neither took sides in the working mom vs. stay at home mom debate, both of them just lived their lives and did.
I can look in my closet, as well as Mini K's and Baby C's and see the impact that Lilly Pulitzer had on the world. Her clothes make us smile, they make us think of vacations, and parties and family photos. They are a wearable pick me up that were created out of one women's need to solve a problem and in solving the problem of juice stains she gifted us all with generations of happy memories, laughter and smiles.
Mini K had a date on Friday night...with her Daddy and without a moment's hesitation said I need to wear a Lilly dress. Even 7 year olds know that a Lilly Pulitzer dress can change an evening!
Margaret Thatcher taught us all that a tough women is not another word for a witch. She showed us how to go toe to toe with a man without the need for a quota or special help...in fact I think a lot of men wished they didn't pick a fight with her as it didn't end well for them.
Leave it to these two women to get me back to blogging. I am not sure if anyone is still reading, but I am happy to be back!
Friday, March 22, 2013
Friday FIVE
Can you believe it?? I am actually posting twice in 1 week! I promise I will keep at it. This week has been a roller coaster, but the weekend has finally arrived and I am hoping it brings some much needed peace and sleep!
My 5 are all over the place which pretty much sums up my week!
1. Easter Baskets, or should I say Backpacks
Each year Mini K's school "adopts" kids for Easter. We always try to choose a child that is the same age as Mini K. This year we actually found a 7 year old girl and Mini K and I had the BEST time shopping, packing and wrapping the backpack. We filled it with candy, a stuffed lamb, school supplies and fun little toys. We hope she enjoys it half as much as we enjoyed putting it together!
2. Candy Grams
I have loved these since I was in high school and I think I have successfully passed that love onto Mini K. Today her class celebrated her teacher's birthday and we had to make a candy gram! If you haven't made one, you need to change that this year!
3. Crossing Things Off My List
I have been waiting 3 weeks to hang our drapery rod in the living room. For 3 weeks, I have seen the item on my list and been itching to cross it off, but my schedule has been insane and I haven't been able to be home to tell our contractor where to hang the rod and Mr. G has been out of town so he couldn't hang it for me. Well today, the stars aligned and not only is the rod up, but so are my draperies! That item on my list now has a kelly green Sharpie line right through it!
4. Summer.
Or the thought of summer. Okay, let's be honest, I would settle for spring at this point. The high tomorrow is supposed to be in the low 30's. I am praying global warming arrives or people stop claiming that just because Virginia is below the Mason Dixon line it is the south as the weather feels more like Boston.
5. A Gel Like Manicure
I love that a gel manicure lasts 3 weeks. I do NOT like that I have to soak it off and my nails feel weak afterwards. About a year ago I joined the Julep Maven club and have loved every SINGLE box. I tried Birch Box and wasn't impressed...everything was sample sized, it was all over the map and it just wasn't me. Maven is great, you can select your profile, change it monthly if you want and you receive FULL SIZED polishes and beauty products...at least 3 in every box. The boxes cost $19.99 a month, but you can get your first box for FREE when you join HERE and enter in code: FREEBOX One of their newest products is the Polymer Top Coat. You simply apply your favorite polish and then this topcoat and wait 5 minutes. It dries your nails completely to a gel manicure shine and strength. I am HOOKED.
Please leave a comment and let me know if you do the Friday FIVE as I want to pop over and check it out!
Happy Friday!
My 5 are all over the place which pretty much sums up my week!
1. Easter Baskets, or should I say Backpacks
Each year Mini K's school "adopts" kids for Easter. We always try to choose a child that is the same age as Mini K. This year we actually found a 7 year old girl and Mini K and I had the BEST time shopping, packing and wrapping the backpack. We filled it with candy, a stuffed lamb, school supplies and fun little toys. We hope she enjoys it half as much as we enjoyed putting it together!
2. Candy Grams
I have loved these since I was in high school and I think I have successfully passed that love onto Mini K. Today her class celebrated her teacher's birthday and we had to make a candy gram! If you haven't made one, you need to change that this year!
3. Crossing Things Off My List
I have been waiting 3 weeks to hang our drapery rod in the living room. For 3 weeks, I have seen the item on my list and been itching to cross it off, but my schedule has been insane and I haven't been able to be home to tell our contractor where to hang the rod and Mr. G has been out of town so he couldn't hang it for me. Well today, the stars aligned and not only is the rod up, but so are my draperies! That item on my list now has a kelly green Sharpie line right through it!
4. Summer.
Or the thought of summer. Okay, let's be honest, I would settle for spring at this point. The high tomorrow is supposed to be in the low 30's. I am praying global warming arrives or people stop claiming that just because Virginia is below the Mason Dixon line it is the south as the weather feels more like Boston.
5. A Gel Like Manicure
I love that a gel manicure lasts 3 weeks. I do NOT like that I have to soak it off and my nails feel weak afterwards. About a year ago I joined the Julep Maven club and have loved every SINGLE box. I tried Birch Box and wasn't impressed...everything was sample sized, it was all over the map and it just wasn't me. Maven is great, you can select your profile, change it monthly if you want and you receive FULL SIZED polishes and beauty products...at least 3 in every box. The boxes cost $19.99 a month, but you can get your first box for FREE when you join HERE and enter in code: FREEBOX One of their newest products is the Polymer Top Coat. You simply apply your favorite polish and then this topcoat and wait 5 minutes. It dries your nails completely to a gel manicure shine and strength. I am HOOKED.
Please leave a comment and let me know if you do the Friday FIVE as I want to pop over and check it out!
Happy Friday!
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Wednesday Wants
***UPDATE*** So I thought I had scheduled this to post at 8p.m. and realized, I had entered the WRONG date so better late than never!
I disappeared again. Life has been insane between spring sports starting for the kids (yes Baby C is now in swim lessons and soccer!), co-chairing the auction at Mini K's school and trying to get the house furnished before we start construction on my new office in a month! Then it hit me one night, around 3a.m., the time I think my greatest thoughts, that I miss blogging. I have been reading blogs but not commenting and missing my blog friends who in many cases have become in real life friends too!
SO I am back and decided to start the Wednesday Wants. Full disclosure, the Wednesday Wants are either things I have wanted and now own or things that are still on the wish list, I do have a birthday in less two weeks so a wish list is okay right?
I am not much of a make-up person. In fact, my make-up bag, monogrammed of course, contains 3 tubes of mascara, a tweezers, band aids, Neosporin, a safety pin and 8 different lip balms, glosses or lipsticks. When I find a lipgloss I like, I stock up. When my Chanel helper at Neimans told me Glossimer 105 was being discontinued I purchased 7 tubes. Well this summer tube number 7 was emptied and I was in a panic.
Then I discovered Three Custom! Friends, this was a LIFE changing moment. Pathetic to admit it, but it's the little things that can cheer you up, make you deliver a kick butt presentation or just keep you going and a good lipgloss is one of those things.
Essentially you send a sample of your color and they will custom make it for you. Two wands of lipgloss or two tubes of lipstick are $60.
I placed my order in October and was concerned about if the lipgloss would look and feel like my treasured Glossimer 105 and let me tell you I was one happy camper when my replacements arrived!
So if you have been searching for a new favorite, you might not need one after all!
I disappeared again. Life has been insane between spring sports starting for the kids (yes Baby C is now in swim lessons and soccer!), co-chairing the auction at Mini K's school and trying to get the house furnished before we start construction on my new office in a month! Then it hit me one night, around 3a.m., the time I think my greatest thoughts, that I miss blogging. I have been reading blogs but not commenting and missing my blog friends who in many cases have become in real life friends too!
SO I am back and decided to start the Wednesday Wants. Full disclosure, the Wednesday Wants are either things I have wanted and now own or things that are still on the wish list, I do have a birthday in less two weeks so a wish list is okay right?
I am not much of a make-up person. In fact, my make-up bag, monogrammed of course, contains 3 tubes of mascara, a tweezers, band aids, Neosporin, a safety pin and 8 different lip balms, glosses or lipsticks. When I find a lipgloss I like, I stock up. When my Chanel helper at Neimans told me Glossimer 105 was being discontinued I purchased 7 tubes. Well this summer tube number 7 was emptied and I was in a panic.
Then I discovered Three Custom! Friends, this was a LIFE changing moment. Pathetic to admit it, but it's the little things that can cheer you up, make you deliver a kick butt presentation or just keep you going and a good lipgloss is one of those things.
Essentially you send a sample of your color and they will custom make it for you. Two wands of lipgloss or two tubes of lipstick are $60.
I placed my order in October and was concerned about if the lipgloss would look and feel like my treasured Glossimer 105 and let me tell you I was one happy camper when my replacements arrived!
So if you have been searching for a new favorite, you might not need one after all!
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