…but I’m doing it. All of these boxes (shipping boxes AND random ones that would make great shipping boxes) that I’ve hoarded are being flattened and going to recycling. Please tell me I’m not the only one who hoards boxes.
This meme sums it up perfectly:
I never thought I’d truly appreciate these The Awkward Yeti comics. But here we are.
Me doing my eye looks off camera vs. Me doing my eye looks live.
We just gave Owen his birthday present—a personalized video from a YouTuber we watch all the time—and he freaking loved it! (If you don’t watch Charlie on YouTube, you should.)
Here’s the original video if you want to watch without Owen’s reaction.
If you want your own personalized video from any number of people, check out Cameo.
We have been leaving the kids for short amounts of time to go run errands. Tonight we decided to run to Aldi.
Owen generally texts us at some point just to check in and let us know they’re okay. This was today’s conversation.
I about died when I read his WTH comment. I mean yeah, technically swearing, but it fit perfectly. I actually couldn’t stop laughing as we were walking through Aldi.
(Some of that was for friends, but still.)
So I was all excited to do another eye look after my success yesterday… Hahahahahahaha. What a fail. At least the ladies in my group got a kick out of the live demo!!
One of these things is not like the other. I think it’s my hair. Right? If my hair was down it would look better. And lipstick. I need lipstick.
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As I make my way to the bathroom for the fourth time today… Thought I’d share this hydration tip with y’all. Probably better for those of you working outside the home or dealing with people.
Yes this is showing my age. 🙂
We’ve kinds of always wanted them but I kinda hate typical ugly sweaters. But seeing our friend Katie with hers pushed me over the edge to get these for us. The only problem is we HAVE to wear them together and we have to stand on the correct side for pics. 😂 #christmasvacation
So I’d say my mom is somewhat computer literate but she hasn’t jumped into iOS at all (to give you an idea, they have a TracFone).
But this year she got her first iPad for Christmas from us kids…and I’ve been giving her small lessons. It’s a totally new experience for her but she’s doing well–I’ve been using iOS since 2009 so sometimes I forget how overwhelming it can all be.
So tonight a bunch of us were talking and she was standing by me when she took a photo and she asked if I wanted it so I told her to Airdrop it to me (something I taught her last night) and without hesitation she dropped the iPad into my lap.
The room never laughed so hard. #scoreoneformom #micdrop
I had a photobomber. Now can you see it?
Tom was in the kitchen peeking out while I was outside on the step.
It’s funny because it’s true.
As soon as I knew we were going on a cruise, I knew I wanted to make personalized T-shirts for all of us…thus begin the search on Amazon and Etsy and eBay… betsy was the winner with the best choices but I knew that I wanted to create my own with our names or initials (or something) and not just buy a generic one. So then I managed to find a friend with a cutting machine who volunteered her machine and her services…
It was actually quite a long drawn out process because she had really not done many T-shirts before and I had never done T-shirts before and it was literally just a comedy of errors but we had a great time working on them together.
So without further ado…
They are all the same on the front but the kids have a warning on the back of theirs and Tom and I have a similar warning on the back of ours. (My dad and stepmom escaped warnings on their shirts.) I figured we are literally only going to be wearing the shirts for a few hours on debarkation day so it really didn’t matter what we put on them…and we thought it was hilarious.
The sidenote to this whole story is that Tom and I are now the proud owners of a Cricut Maker and a crap ton of accessories. I had thought about getting one of these machines in the past but knew I would literally go down a huge rabbit hole of projects and expenses so I always passed. So when this came up Tom asked me again if I wanted to get one because he wouldn’t mind having one in the future for some of his projects…so many hours of research later (and YouTube videos and reviews watched and debating the merits of the different machines and getting input from friends)… we decided on one. So stay tuned for many projects!!
I made this meme for a business strategy assignment.
The best thing is one of my friends posted this:
These kids crack me up. Grannie Lin thought they were so creative coming up with this…until they showed her the back of the bag that suggests doing it. 😂 I need to teach them to not share the secrets!! 🤫
The merry-go-round (nowadays probably better known as a spinning metal death trap) was one of the best pieces of playground equipment ever.
My favorite thing to do? Sit on the bars facing forward with my legs hooked around the sides so you could lean back once it got spinning and fling your arms out and feel the breeze in your hair. Of course you had to be careful that no one was standing next to it otherwise you’d hit them…and you had to have some body strength to keep your body vertical enough so that you didn’t flip down and bang your head on the bottom…
If you were fast enough when recess started you would get there first and not have to get off for the whole 20 minutes. If you had a best friend you could work together and take turns.
Whenever we are driving around and see a playground I look for a merry-go-round like this, but of course everything these days is plastic. You do find merry-go-rounds now and again, but nothing like this and it makes me sad. But elementary school, man, those were the times.