Fashion Forward......?

Now I am not a fashionista, by any stretch of the imagination, but there were just some certain things that I was always convinced I would never wear.
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Things like an entire denim outfit, or Dr. Martin knee high lace up boots (or any over the knee boot for that matter). Those are pretty extreme cases, but I also never thought I would be one of those people who wears the Sketchers Shape-Ups. (Many apologies if you are counted in that group). I just thought they looked a little hokey and maybe it was just all in your mind that they really felt good to wear or that they really worked etc, etc.
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While at a Shape-Up wearing friends house today, I threw on her Shape-Up sandals to make a quick trip outside. Once I had both feet inside I stopped dead in my tracks. THEY FELT AMAZING. Like I was walking on pillows, like my feet were lighter than air. She wears the same size as me and I momentarily entertained the thought of slipping them in my diaper bag to take them home.
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I exclaimed to the kids how glorious my feet felt. What joy! What podiatry bliss! How have I gone this long without experience such waltzing happiness!
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No matter what my earlier opinions of fashion were (as ridiculous and they may be) I WILL be taking myself to the nearest Sketchers outlet ASAP to join the ranks of Shape-Up wearing women! If you have not experienced the glory of wearing such fine shoes, I urge you to go and try some on today!

Wild and Crazy.

Bianca woke up from her nap with the most amazingly punky afro-ish hair. I LOVE IT! She has got such a jazzy personality (just like her Momma) and this hair totally fits it.

Care to re-create this look?

1) Simply feed your kid a home-made oreo cookie (with mint frosting-thank you Kaitlyn!) for dessert at lunch time.

2) Turn your back for two seconds giving your child just enough time to take the fudgy sandwich and rub it all in her hair.

3) Rinse the child's hair under the sink faucet to get all the crumbs and gunk out. But don't use soap because you are too rushed for time with getting the load of laundry done that has said child's blankie for nap time.

4) Lightly towel dry and put child down for their nap

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et voilá

Who knew mint frosting was such a fabulous hair product? AND it makes your hair smell so yummy!

Mom! Take a picture of ME!! Both my poor little babes are sick (with Momma being in hot pursuit). We have been home for two days just laying low. The nights have been pretty long with one or the other waking up.

Even when they are sick, they are such sweet girls. My heart has been so full with how thoughtfully they have been towards each other. Comforting each other, giving hugs, playing gently. When Bianca starts coughing a lot then Olivia will just run and get her blankie and give it to her to make her feel better.

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I have been starting to feel crappier and crappier all day and even though they have been so sweet today, I am definitely looking forward to bed time!

Never take me anywhere. Seriously.

So I am a pretty loud and ruckus person. There aren't a lot of things that embarrass me, so when I tell you that the events that happened today embarrassed me, they REALLY embarrassed me.
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Never take me anywhere.
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So the girls were whoopin' it up with magical Aunt Helen and I was having a magical day of retail therapy with my friends (Kaitlyn and Sarah). I had been looking forward to it all week and to say I was excited would be a GROSS understatement.
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We stop at the first store and I score some sweet workout pants (the others I had got a rip in the bum, a different embarrassing story for a different time...). We are waltzing to our next store and I am just amped up on life. So excited, having so much fun and all of a sudden having to go pee real bad.
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Perfection! We come upon the outlet mall bathrooms and Kaitlyn joins me (well not in my exact stall, to go to her own stall to pee. We are on the same pee schedules, her and I). Someone was just finishing up washing their hands as we walk in and Kaitlyn and I each take stalls one and two.
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We are quietly going about our business when I hear it. A real loud, ripply and wet sounding fart. Like big time. Like think of that one scene in Dumb and Dumber. Assuming that it is Kaitlyn, and feeling wild and crazy with my freedom from kids, I yell (at the top of my lungs).
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WOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo!!
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Like I was a cowgirl. Thinking I am so clever and funny with my bathroom humor I await Kaitlyn's laughter at my perfect timing to what (I was assuming) was her boisterous fart.
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S.I.L.E.N.C.E.
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Hmmmmmmmm. Maybe she isn't feeling in a jokster mood about farts today...
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Walk out of the stall to wash my hands. Out walks Kaitlyn. She mimes to me "THAT WAS NOT ME!! Are you CRAZY?"
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I Die.
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Cue bathroom flush of lady in stall number three.
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Cue Vashti running out the bathroom and down the hall into the next store. Leaving all her friends behind.
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Like I said in the beginning. NEVER. TAKE. ME. ANYWHERE.

Classic Konks.

Bianca rolled down the hall looking like this and Darrol said "Now that is picture worthy. Classic Konks style".

So I ran and got my camera. One shoe on (right foot thank you very much), only in her diaper, dragging along her sippy cup and sunglasses on her tractor.

The photo session ended when we smelled something grodie brewing in someone's diaper. I seriously have had to open windows to clear out stench.

Red Envelopes.

A few days ago we got home to find three red envelopes waiting for us. Sweet little cards from my Marcus. Each of them had special messages for us. Bianca was so excited to be able open mail WITH permission. She keeps toting her little card around the house, so proud that it is hers.


Olivia's had a surprise inside. Some pretty rad Thomas the tank engine stickers. They were super thick and shiny and sparkly... I mean spawkwie. When she opened her card, she exclaimed "Oh Mom! Daddy sent me stickers. I LOVE IT!".
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We used those fancy stickers to make a special creation for Daddy. He should be getting his special surprise in the mail on Monday.

My card has proven to be a little bit harder for me to read. Anyone know Korean??

Standing Room only.

Things are still going great living over at the in-laws. I try to cook dinner three times a week (at the least) with the schedule that I have right now. I am working a little side job that takes up my evenings 2-3 times a week
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Anyway I plan on cranking out more meals here when my side job ends. Cooking the meals takes place in the teeny tiny kitchen. We keep joking about how it is a one man kitchen. Anytime someone is preparing a meal, one of us other non-meal-preparers will try to go in to help and end up just standing there awkwardly because there is really only room for one person.
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Darrol and I are often preparing breakfast at the same time in the mornings and there is a lot of "oops, 'scuse me", or "Just gonna sneak in there for a sec", or "oh I just gotta grab that one thing". I feel like that sequence needs to be in a sitcom or something!

99.9 % of the meals that I have been making have been cranked out of this bad boy of Teri's.

Tonight is sweet and sour pork steaks! I also never knew that you could make your own sweet and sour sauce. It is so easy and all the ingredients are things that I have in my pantry normally. I used to always buy bottled sweet and sour sauce which was kind of a pain and I hate buying a specialized thing I only use in a certain circumstance. Plus it tastes amazing! I love it when I learn something new!

Entranced.

I don't know what rock I have been living under, or how I ever let this slip past my grip until now.... but as of this weekend I have NEVER EVER read or watched Ann(with an E) of Green Gables. I have been dying!
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It is so magically perfect and amazingly exquisite! I watched the first movie (both sides) last night and was laughing and then bawling my brains out. I just started the second movie during Bianca's nap and can't wait to finish the rest.
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I feel like I am kindred spirits with Anne. I definitely have a flair for the dramatic, although I don't have her temper, I know I have stopped and exclaimed on the beauty and the wonder of certain events or places. To an embarrassing degree (like the first time I had a crab leg dinner over Christmas I literally cried over how good the food was and the beauty of eating such a scrumptious dinner with the ones you love).
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Plus I am determined that I will go to Prince Edward Island at some point during my life to walk those fields and stroll along those beaches. OH! And Gilbert!! He is so cute and sweet. He looks at Anne with such love in his eyes (yes I am aware that these are actors playing these parts, but I am choosing to pretend it is all really happening right before my eyes). SWOON.
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Now I am getting off this blog so I can Green Gable my brains out!