Someone was a happy happy girl this morning when she discovered the bag of play makeup from a friend. She asked if she could wear it on her wrist like I do. 💕
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It’s been at least 25 years…
So today the boys’ baseball game was cancelled due to flooded fields but we took a few of the kids for some pitching and batting practice.
At the end I decided to pick up a bat and try hitting some pitches from Tom. I haven’t tried batting in probably 25+ years so I thought it would be a complete shitshow. Needless to say I surprised everyone there when I hit most of them!! They were underhand pitches but still…
I will need Aleve and margaritas later today but I have to admit it was fun!!
Friends, drinks, dinner, baseball.
Drinks going down. Dinner done. Kids playing. Time for baseball planning…
This never gets old.
Owen’s Crazy Mohawk
So Owen has a mohawk but he never lets me put product in to actually show it off so I’ve just given up asking. But today…today he said it was Crazy Hair Day and had a smile on his face.
“Soooooo, can I do your hair today?!” And he smiled big and bright and said yes. So we washed it with purple shampoo, then I loaded it up with Gorilla Snot gel, and then sprayed it with not one…not two…but three hair colors.
My boy is growing up and slowly turning into a pre-teen before my eyes (he’s almost 11) so I’ll grab these chances to do something fun with him.
Katie’s Curriculum Night & Tornado Warning
Parents who do their kids school projects for them? UGH. Our second graders had to create a square about themselves/their family. Are you kidding me with these?! I mean she they’re GORGEOUS and amazing but c’mon.
The letter Katie left for me:
All the things she references are other projects hanging around the room:
Baseball sheet:
Her shirt (her goals):
And she wins the most organized desk over Owen:
When we all walked in it was sunny and nice. Then we were in the basement and couldn’t see because it was getting dark out. Then everyone’s phones started going off…
Then there’s nothing like being sent into the hallway to wait out a tornado warning! There’s a first time for everything!
I checked in with Tom because they had been at baseball practice and he said it had been cancelled so they were actually already at home…eating dinner in the basement. And Owen was showing Tom what to do in case of a tornado. (Interestingly he wasn’t nearly as scared as he used to be with wind issues. So that’s a bonus.)
They ended up cancelling the rest of curriculum night as we had had ended up waiting for like 30 minutes. Thankfully our teacher had been about done.
Where’s the technology?!
With all of the technology today, why the hell are there new window stickers that do this? Seriously?
Before & After: Garden Veg
I’m not sure exactly what this is going to turn into, but I know it’s going to be delicious. How can you go wrong roasting red onions, garlic, and garden fresh tomatoes, banana peppers, and serrano peppers? (The serrano peppers were from our friend’s garden.)
After roasting I decided to just grind it all up into a paste. I think maybe bruschetta or on pizza? It has a little kick to it!
And then I just sliced and froze some jalapenos because we can’t use all these before they go bad!
Retainer day!!
An unexpected new friend for me!
Katie was invited to a birthday party for a friend from first grade. I dropped her off since it was at the same time as Owen’s baseball game…and because I didn’t know the mom at all and staying at a four-hour party where I don’t know a single person is one of my personal hells. That said, the mom seemed super cool and I did promise to come back after the game and hang out because it was also a party for the adults if you catch my drift. I can get behind that kind of party for sure.
Fast forward to post-game and I really didn’t want to go because, you know, personal hell. But I went. Walked up to a garage of strangers. Made funny small talk, they laughed, okay maybe this won’t be hell. First room of strangers… Second room of strangers. Ugh. Deck full of strangers. I wanted to grab Katie and run out. I head into the tent to get Katie and leave early and she’s having an absolute blast making an unholy mess with paint, glitter, glue, and assorted craft paraphernalia. (They had already done paintings and were on to photo frames.)
There was so. much. glitter. Another personal hell to be honest.
So I talked to Katie for a minute, she obviously wanted to stay, so I just kind of hung around until I ran into a mom that I’d met before and chatted with briefly…and we did the somewhat uncomfortable chit chat for a bit (she’s PERFECTLY lovely, it just felt a bit weird). Then I finally found the host and we started talking and…y’all?? I found a new friend. We really hit it off, literally chatted for almost two hours straight, and planned a morning hangout in a few days!
This is the kind of party it was and the people they are. Can you see why we might have hit it off? SIX FLAVORS OF MARGARITAS Y’ALL. SIX.
Kafie decided to combine her two projects into one. It’s pretty cute but there’s so much glitter…
Thought we’d do a recreation with cousin Liam.
#nbcsports #sundaynightfootball #liammchugh
Where did my wrinkles go?!
😳💩 HOLY SHIT BALLS!! I have to share this because I am honestly blown away—I was NOT expecting what I saw!
I was trying to find an old pic to see how much (if any) my lashes have grown since using a new mascara (because I thought they have but photo proof is always great) and I found proof…but I totally didn’t expect to see the huge reduction in wrinkles, too!!! I mean, just look!!! 😱
👉🏻👉🏻 Anti-Wrinkle Treatment 2x/day for the freaking win!! 🙌🙌
👉🏻👉🏻 VolumeIntense mascara (and primer) for the win! (I have only recently started wearing it 4-5 days a week – for the first few months it was maybe once a week).
👉🏻👉🏻 And though you may think my dark undereye circles look better, too… Honestly that’s due to the Light Concealer I wore today (which I don’t always wear)! 🤣
And just the lashes…
Unfortunately I have become that person that feels naked without mascara now… but the benefit is really long lashes!!
So anyway I’ll just be over here high-fiving myself 🙌🙌 and staring at these AMAZING results. #nofilter
Every woman needs a good red lipstick!
Even if sometimes it’s just to go to a kids baseball game on a lazy Saturday morning! ⚾️😜
SeneGence has a bunch of reds to choose from (so there’s literally something for everyone, even if you think you can’t wear red!) but Hurricane Red is totally my jam. Unfortunately it doesn’t last the longest…but it certainly looks amazeballs while it does. I always get a bunch of compliments on it and today was no different.
Do you have a good red lipstick?
Our bag…not our cat.
We had birthday dinner with friends then went back to their house. We had brought a game in a bag and after we started playing we noticed this.
Purple OPI92
So I thought I had found my color but then I got this color today and maybe this is my color. It’s about the same as the last one but with less glitter.
The last color:
I don’t do coffee but I do Espresso.
I didn’t think I’d be able to pull it off and it was somewhat scary but looking at the pics it’s actually pretty good!
This was waiting for us at Owen’s curriculum night.
Add just look at this messy desk. /shudder But why am I not surprised?!
Let’s take these braces off! Koo
I am stunned it’s only been about a year!
Before…
And they’re off! It only takes seconds to snap them all off!
Cleaning off the glue…
His first look!
The success pic with the doc!
And then…this happened.
I’ve been looking at this face with braces for a year. You wouldn’t think the smile would look THAT different without them…but it does. And look how happy he is!! And how cute (and old!) he looks!!
Now he’ll get a retainer he has to wear at night only and we go in for checks every three months. The teeth that are getting ready to come in might give us some trouble—one is perfectly angled and one is crooked—so she warned that one might need to get pulled. Stay tuned!
It took too much to get this look.
She has soooo many cute clothes that she says she loves…until it’s time to get dressed and then she comes out in exercise-type clothes or play clothes. Today it took 10 minutes of arguing to get her in this.
Is it even morning if someone doesn’t spill something?!
This is not where that should go.
This is the stuff about parenting no one warns you about that makes me insane. Owen seems to think that’s how you throw away a rollerblade box. In the bathroom, not broken down, on top of the basket. With all the other bathroom garbage on the floor surrounding it. 🤬
Yes I guess it’s still in the garbage. But we’ve been trying to work with him on doing the right thing the first time…and this is not that.
Summer Treat
Damn devices.
We went to our friends house after the pool…and this is what happened. We then made them put the devices away and go to the park.
Last day at the pool!
Since it was a nice day, Tom even came to the pool for the last day.
Today’s garden haul!
I went out to grab a few tomatoes and ended up with a shirt full!
When you go to take your makeup off and find the mascara you forgot to put on today.
It’s in water because they’re both getting near the end and drying out a bit, so putting them in hot water for a few minutes (while I do the rest of my makeup) makes them a bit smoother to apply. Some people stick them under their arms or in their cleavage…
Yep. I’m not much for sightseeing but give me all the good food.
I’m ready for CSI.
Every time I take a photo wearing these sunglasses I feel like someone is going to CSI it to find clues in the reflection.
Baseball ready!
Katie has little lady bugs!
So we did a thing.
It wasn’t really planned or begged for (her friend Sophia recently got hers pierced so she knew about it but she hadn’t asked)…but rather it was more a matter of Katie wanting earrings and clip-ons not really working well.
We tried, though. We searched Amazon together and decided on a pair. But one fell off and broke the first day she wore them.
I didn’t really have any issues with her getting them pierced so I talked to Tom about it (I had no idea what his thoughts were?!) and he said he didn’t care, so…we asked her at dinner and she said sure. So off we went!!
She wanted to take something big to squeeze in case it hurt. (She did hug it but she didn’t need to. She said it didn’t hurt at all.)
SUCCESS!!
Crossed wires equals selfie takeover.
When you show up at your friend’s house and realize that your wires got crossed so you have some time to waste so you make yourself comfortable in her house, take a selfie in the best natural lighting ever, and enjoy a view of the lake.
