We don’t always get a chance to stop at Goodale’s, so we took advantage today! And Katie was out of her grouchy phase. 🙂
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Trying a new place for lunch and Katie being a poop.
I love that Grayling has some cool breweries (I don’t like beer but I love food!). I can’t even remember what she was being grouchy about, but she refused to be in the picture.
The exciting part? Owen discovered he likes Reubens and Bang Bang Shrimp!
When you’re just browsing and find something perfect…for yourself.
I never shop at Hallmark any other time except when we come home…and I always find stuff I want. Sometimes I splurge, sometimes I add to my Amazon wishlist. Today I splurged because HOW CAN YOU NOT WHEN IT’S PERFECT?! #MargaritasAreLife #christmasornaments #vacation #northernmichigan #grayling #photobomber #livinglippy
One guess where we stopped for dinner.
I was assured this is a normal kid bathroom.
This is what I walked into today in the kids’ bathroom. What the—? A sock, pencil, random pieces of tissue, hand towel, toilet cleaning sponges, cleaning cloth, and a piece of homework. UGH.
The counter wasn’t much better.
I took to Facebook to make sure it was normal. I was assured it is.
Needless to say we will be working on this.
Me and my super handsome boy
He found out today that he gets braces at his next appointment!
It might be a little too subtle.
Any guesses what I did differently today? I think it’s subtle, but maybe a bit too subtle.
Maybe a side-by-side with extra graphics will help. 🙂
Yep, purple brows! I didn’t want to go crazy at first so went with the lightest purple we have. Next time I might try Deep Plum.
Our first matching manicure!
Our first Mommy/daughter matching ColorStreet manicure. 💅🏼 She’s been begging for a long time now—back to when I first tried Jamberry in Virginia—and I’ve told her I will do it as soon as she stops chewing her nails. She hasn’t yet…but I finally caved since I didn’t feel like resealing my unused holiday strip with the FoodSaver to save until next year.
How can that be comfortable, v29.
Maggie…waiting.
Patiently waiting her turn for a drink while Charlie dips her paw and licks water off it. Slowly.
It’s like she’s saying “Are you kidding me with this?”
And now she’s waiting for the window seat! 😂
Don’t worry. Maggie gets her fair share of time in the bed. But that said, she is a pushover. If she’s somewhere the cat wants to be, Charlie will push her way in and kick Maggie out.
OMG I MISS THIS LITTLE GIRL.
It’s not 100% margaritas all the time…
We had Teddy for the weekend.
Each of the kids in Katie’s class gets to bring Traveling Teddy home for the weekend. They have to write a page about what they do and post pictures. I forgot to take a picture of what she wrote, but here are the pics.
Katie’s holiday party!
When we got there they were all reading a book with the teacher.
Katie had to introduce me.
Decorating a snowman cookie.
The kids loved all the snacks and games and gifts. Katie especially loved being able to go home early with me. 🙂
Katie wanted to dress up for her holiday party and ended up borrowing a dress from her best friend Sophia. Then she wanted to wear her Santa hat…and have her picture taken with Maggie.
Then Maggie watches her buddy go off to school…
When you forego wearing season-appropriate colors so your lips can match your sweater. 💕
1. Yes I now believe in “season-appropriate” colors. I don’t always follow it but I understand it now. I’m not sure if that’s too anal or I’m finally just understanding makeup application more. 😂
2. My eyes feel naked but I opted against doing them as I have a brow appointment plus a demo tonight and I don’t feel like putting it all on just to take it off in few hours. #YouAllKnowImLazy
3. It’s cold out so the pic was taken inside in my hot mess of a house…in the one spot that looks clean!
Goodie bag helper!
I volunteered to bring the goodie bags for Katie’s holiday party. I figured I hate all the cheap crap that comes home that just ends up as clutter so I’d make fun bags. It was harder then I thought, because (long story) we couldn’t do food and it’s expensive to fill 19 bags. I think the class has money for these things but I don’t mind spending some money. So I ended up doing a pencil, a tube of glitter glue, an emoji tattoo, a crazy straw, a color-changing straw, and a glow stick bracelet. Katie helped me pack the bags!
You can never be complacent.
Just when you get complacent thinking your 9yo is self-sufficient in the mornings… You find out he put a plastic container in the oven to heat up pancakes. 😳
You see, Katie came up to ask me how to toast the pancake pieces. I told her to have Owen help her (since he heats up pancakes in the toaster oven regularly). She said she knew but they were (cut up) pieces (instead of full pancakes) so it was different. True, good point. So I told her to put them on a tray and we discussed which tray to use.
Owen came up a little bit later and told me that they put the top in the refrigerator because it was hot. Huh? What? Top? What top? What was hot?
A quick check of the June oven cooking replay shows the entire plastic container in the oven. Top and all. Slowly melting.
I asked Owen how he thought that would toast the pancakes (being inside the container) and he says “BUT I DIDN’T KNOW MOM!”
I asked how it was so different from how he normally does pancakes and he stands there like he can’t understand English.
Stuff like this is so frustrating… How can he not have common sense? I suppose that’s normal for a 9yo boy. Right?! 😣 At least he noticed and took it out and didn’t burn the house down.
We’re Pokémoning again!
Since the kids got their phones back on a limited basis, we’ve been going out Pokémoning again. We stopped at a park today and went down to a frozen pond. I didn’t want the sun at our backs but it was a little bright.
Fine.
I am finally rocking a scarf.
A friend and I went to a local craft fair and I fell in love with these big soft floofy infinity scarves. But I’m not a scarf person. I’ve tried. But I put it on and it didn’t look too bad.
It’s even better in daylight!
Spouse Confessions: I am weary.
Every since we moved here, I’ve said this move really felt off. I wondered why everything just felt…harder. Like I can’t get organized and nothing feels easy or settled. And it’s because I’m tired. Of lots of things, big and little. This article hits it dead on.
From MilitarySpouse.com: Spouse Confessions: I am weary.
It kind of feels like a gradual thing … each deployment, each TDY, each PCS move, each homecoming … all chipped away at me. Wore my skin thin. Made me more tired by the minute. And now, I just feel weary … all of the time.
Not every single thing in the article is exact for my life, but enough of it is. It sucks that anyone has to feel like this, but it’s good to know I’m not alone and it’s normal.
Treat yo’ self!
I decided to treat myself to a pedicure…
But it was ever so much more fun with a friend…
Shopping with Mrs. Glenn!
Katie desperately wanted to go shopping with her teacher tonight for “Shopping with the Educators” at Target. To see just how serious she was, I told her she had to spend her own money—and she agreed instantly. So of course I matched her money and had a ball watching her shop with her teacher and a handful of classmates for the local holiday food drive. She loved shopping, ringing everything up, and loading it on the school bus. 💕 Mrs. Glenn is completely awesome and did an amazing job corralling a large handful of kids into buying what they needed.
I love Katie doodles
This dog kills me.
I love my lap cat.
I love looking at people’s carts.
End of season savings?
End of season savings? END OF SEASON SAVINGS? The season just started?! Also, not one snow scraper to be found. I guess bathing suits will be out next week. #getoffmylawn
I wear them every now and again.
New temporary nails!
I am always looking for cool nail products and I decided to try these instead of my usual Color Street.
THINGS I LEARNED:
1️⃣ I’ve never used nail glue. I don’t get along with nail glue. 🤣 I didn’t glue anything to the table or my clothes, though, so it’s all good.
2️⃣ This style (Vee is for Violet) is way too long and pointy for me. But that’s on me because I didn’t want to wait for the others to come back in stock. (I will be filing them later.)
3️⃣ I thought I liked long nails but I can’t do anything in these. I’m so out of practice. Okay, really, it’s just texting that’s my problem. 😂
4️⃣ Probably the only real con for me is that it took a LONG time to find the right nail for each finger… And I could have used one or two more sizes.
But they are gorgeous!!
Ahhh, much better.
I did have a little problem with a few of them popping off unexpectedly, but I blame that more on my failure in application…