thrifty

I'm not much of a shopper, seriously.  Jeremy bought almost all my clothes when we lived in NYC (it helped that he had a huge discount at Bergdorf Goodman and I often got sample size stuff).  I would rather do anything else than go to the mall, especially take a nap.  My side of the closet is small, yet I consider myself fashionable (thanks to 11 years in Manhattan) but since I hate to shop my wardrobe suffers a bit.  So, last month when we were bridesmaid shopping I saw this little number,

I loved it instantly!  The best part is it was marked down to $42.00 at Macy's . The shoes were $15.99 at Ross.  The way I feel in it...priceless!


Then the other day I bought a crazy yellow shirt at the Goodwill for $3.  My sister in law was more than a bit frightened by it, but I had the vision and luckily it was good! Those are my $.50 skinny jeans and my $15.99 shoes again, voila, I heart yellow!

The point of this post, both outfits combined were less than $100 bucks but I feel way better in them than some of my more expensive items, it's great to be thrifty!

read much?

first books checked out on her own!

spring break reading material

making her go to bed at 10PM, after reading all of these!

A few weeks ago we got C her own library card.  We got her own because we cannot keep up with her reading and we live within a block of a library...have I ever mentioned how much I love the location of our rental house, love, love , love it!  Carter loves these books called Rainbow Magic fairy books, there are 234 in the whole series, she has read 100 of them and wants to read them all.  It takes all 3 of our library cards to get the holds and check out as many as possible.  We still have a bunch left.  The good news is that they range from 60 to 120 pages so she can read a bunch in a one day or in bed at night (her favorite time to read).  I love a good reading goal and I am proud of this munchkin.  She also mops, folds laundry and made her own birthday invitations, I really feel like my life is getting too easy!

Thursday : )

Life is pretty much fantastic when you can put a movie on for your 4.5 year old and then go back to bed...it sometimes feels really good to have a lazy morning!  I am now off to Costco and the usual daily grind but the sun is shining and I got an extra hour of sleep this morning, love it!

hello!

pardon my little absence, we have been having a bit too much fun for me to pause and blog about it...we have been enjoying our fun new(ish) car, who knew I would ever own an American car, but we love it!  We have (obviously) been enjoying our new little family member, new niece/cousin Payton, both my kids are in love, as am I but still no luck convincing Jeremy to have a 3rd, he's pretty happy and content with Carter and Theo and who am I to argue?  They are both quite fabulous as is my husband!  Carter has been dishing out many Girl Scout cookies to various friends and family, since she is hand writing thank-you notes to each and every customer she is getting great cursive practice as well, a serious win win, but I have eaten way too many Somoas and my jiggly belly is suffering greatly, not a win win at all!  But, the best news of all...my brother and his family are moving back this way!!!  We are all super excited and they will be here before we know it, less than a month, whoot!

96

My beautiful sweet Grandma Helen aka Mom Mom died this morning, so sad, but honestly at 96 years of age she was ready to go, she had an awesome life! She had 3 busy boys who combined had 10 even busier grand kids who then had 20 super busy great grandchildren, my kids are in that bunch.  I was going to see her next week while I was in NY, but I have memories to last a lifetime.  Thanks Mom Mom, I love you.

5/13/1915 to 1/26/2012

shake it up

I am trying to make the conscience decision to not be on the computer so much.  It's hard.  The computer is in our playroom, near the laundry room and needless to say the location is very tempting, very tempting indeed.  My plan for now is to use the computer in the evenings after the kids go to bed. Do I really need to be on it 2, or 3, or even 4 or more times a day? No. So that means I may post less, or I may post a bunch of stuff in one day but either way my blogging will be inconsistent at best.

ouch and other things

I broke my toe today, pretty badly,  my poor toe is bending in a way that is not natural at all and my whole right foot is in a boot.  Luckily, my moms husband is a podiatrist and was able to fix me up quickly but holy smokes it. is. painful. like really, really painful. I have to hop on my one good foot or crawl on my hands and knees to get anywhere, obviously it's not a great way to start one of our "super weekend before Christmas" weekends, I will obviously have to slow it down and all my pretty holiday heels will be taking a long hiatus, sad.  My mom was joking that I need a shot of whiskey to help the pain and not an hour later Jeremy came home from work with this:

6 bottles of whiskey, Johnnie Walker blue label included.  Jeremy just went to rent a movie so I will be sitting on the couch with my poor foot up watching a movie while sipping on a little bit whiskey and taking it easy, which for me is really hard!

I heart Thursdays in Fall!

Thursday thoughts

The perk of being so productive yesterday (see below post), is that I am still in pajamas today!  Sure, the beds are made, kids are fed and dressed and the big one is off to school (also a perk? Carter's school bus picks up 2 houses down from ours), there is laundry going but after such a busy day yesterday I can take it easy today, the ebb and flow of life, gotta love it!

In other news have I ever mentioned that I have a fanatical reader in the house, besides myself?  Carter is a crazy reader and I mean crazy.  I am so thankful that we live within walking distance of a library.  We take her every few days and she loads up on books.  Grandma DD took the kids yesterday while I was at work and Carter checked out 4 books. She read all 4 in one day, one day people!  One was 157 pages long and the other 3 were anywhere from 80 pages to 100 pages. She was reading all afternoon.  I pray that her reading skills take her far in life, God has blessed her.  Jeremy often jokes that he should have had Carter read some of his boring grad school books!

This weekend we have some pumpkins to carve and Halloween festivities to attend.  It's going to be fun.

Happy Thursday!

Thursday thoughts...

Extensions anyone?  I miss long hair, why oh why do I chop my hair off every few years? I almost instantly regret it and now I have the tedious task of growing it back out, seriously people, if you love me then don't let me cut my hair!

Does anyone out there in my circle (who actually reads this blog) have a high fructose corn syrup free life?  I am thinking of stepping up my "eating" healthy situation and going completely high fructose corn syrup free.  Thoughts?  We have been trending in this direction the last few years. We started using real maple syrup and I have dwindled the unhealthy treats down, I still occasionally get my kids Gogurts and fruit by the foot (all on sale of course) but I think we can get it out of our lives completely.  It might take a few months to phase stuff out but I have noticed that although I consider myself a health nut (with the occasional many slip-ups) my husband and kids eat not so healthy but I want a family effort to eat better.

I am also on the hunt (again) for some yummy and easy autumn dinner recipes, anyone have some to share?

And last but not least, does anyone else cry on every episode of Parenthood or am I the only sap out there?

Happy Thursday People, have a fabulous day!



I heart Thursdays!

Who knew sidewalk chalk could be so entertaining?



3D glasses are a front yard necessity!



The finished creations, Piston cup race and a farm.

just a regular ol' Thursday night at the Person house!