For the Love of Snail Mail

Recently I started a new hobby with the help of PostCrossing. I send a post card out into the world and receive one back in return from some other location. I dropped my first in the post today -...

Current Reads

Skinny Bitch: I greatly enjoy the no-nonsense approach of the authors, Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin - they definitely have the "tough love" thing down. And, at times they are quite funny with...

Re-arranging

My Heart and Other Things...I have a monster of chores stacked against me right now.We decided to flip our living rooms;make the former television room a sitting areaand the previous study a...

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Through the weekend. Be back on Monday. Have a happy Saturday and Sunday.

Walking into Friday

While I Cook

Baby begs for me to hold her,chicken screams,microwave beeps,garage door opens,husband is home.

If tired did not start with T

It would start with some other letter. It would be a different word, but there would still be the need for the meaning of the word, even if that very word did not exist. Tired. It is November...

today

there are times that words seem so easy and just roll off my fingers onto the screen.other days i am tongue-tied and feel there is no voice,like i am a girl with tape slapped across her mouth.i...

Today I needed to read this:

Thank you to my source, Dressed Up Like a Lady

Somewhere in-between...

...a good day and a bad day. Monday has too much power over me. Could it be that I had too much sleep because of the time change? Could it be that those students were freaking energized and loud?...

Sunday Shorts

And it is true, I would have been a hideous model.Standing for the camera is awkward,but not as awkward as cutting my head off in this photo.Top: F21Shorts: Charlotte RusseTights: HueWedges: Thrift

new project

This project is has been being produced in my mind for quite some time now. It is not until now that I have taken the leap.Previously, I have frequently posted on my mommy blog, but have realized...

Fall Fashion: To Church

Hat: F21Top: TJ MaxxBelt: Charlotte RusseShorts: TargetShoes: ThriftTights: Vera @ KohlsHeart-baby: best accessory ever

Fall Fashion Take One

Scarf: Thrifted and colorful.Gray top: GAP from my mom.Cardigan: Charlotte Russe - love her sale rack.Skinny Cargos: Old Navy, not a fan of the fit.Gray Socks, apparently my new must with wedges:...

Friday Fashion

Scarf: Thrifted and colorful.Gray top: GAP from my mom.Cardigan: Charlotte Russe - love her sale rack.Skinny Cargos: Old Navy, not a fan of the fit.Gray Socks, apparently my new must with wedges:...

Wee Small Hours

I like to wake up earlier than everyone in the house.I tip-toe around like a kitty cat on silent pawsand sip coffee the way I remember my great-grandmother sipping her's -but she drank from fine...

My new project...

I have been intending to start a new blog project for quite some time now. I have sporadically been posting here from time to time, but nothing consistent. I regularly post on my mommy blog, but...

Swooning: Tights & Socks Oh MY!

Sources: J. Crew & Anthropologie

Sure seems like the bad days are much more frequent than the good lately.I know it is spring and that teachers get burnt out and want to die.I know I am good at what I do.I do know that crying in...

fuck: not the word you want to hear at work

today i made my student teacher cry then i had to have a meeting with a colleague that i did not want to have later a student lost his marbles yelling at me - something to the tune of you mother...