many colored days

So it seems though my posts last week may have been more sad/dramatic than intended. I re-read them and didn't see that, but then again, I'm the one that wrote them so who knows. Last week was crappy. Every once and a while you have a crappy week, or two, or maybe its just a day.

This I think sums it up beautifully..

Some days are yellow.

Some days are blue.

On different days I’m different, too.

You’d be surprised how many ways

I change on Different Colored Days.

On Bright Red Days how good it feels to be a horse

and kick my heels!

On other days I’m other things.

On Bright Blue Days I flap my wings.

Some days, of course, feel sort of Brown.

Then I feel slow and low, low down.

Then comes a Yellow Day.

And, I am  s busy, buzzing bee.

Gray Day…Everything is gray.

I Watch. But nothing moves today.

Then all of a sudden I’m a circus seal!

On Orange Days that’s how I feel.

Green Days. Deep deep  in the sea.

Cool and quiet fish. That’s me.

On Purple Days I’m sad. I groan. I drag my tail.

I walk alone.

But when my days are Happy Pink

It’s great to jump and just not think.

Then come my Black Days. Mad. And Loud.

I howl. I growl at every cloud.

Then comes a Mixed-Up Day. And Wham!

I don’t know who or what I am!

But it all turns out all right you see.

And I go back to being…me.

One of my favorite books. Dr. Seuss's My Many Colored Days

Today is a yellow day, though I feel like nothing is getting done. I will get this done though..my weekly goals list. holla!!!

Yes, my bedroom is a diaster..again. Please note that on Thursday I'M GOING OUT TO DINNER LIKE A REAL GROWN UP PERSON WITH NO KIDS!!!

so no one told you life was gonna be this way

The Abercrombie & Fitch store smells like college.

Think if I walk in to the store I'll lose 15lb and be my 19 year old care free self?

Yeah, me either...

I am so caught up on sleep I could stay awake like forever. Okay..maybe not forever, but definitely long enough to watch Grey's tonight. I also need to make a few mermaids for my MYOM project for my Etsy shop. Important stuff going on there.

But what is really important is something that sort of has hit me the past week or so. I don't see ANYONE EVER. Really. I work all day, go home, hang with the kiddos, and wait for Michael to get home.  He gets home late, and that's like 75.98% of the not seeing anyone problem (aka, no one to watch the kids). But honestly, it's been so long since I've seen or talked to a lot of my friends, and everyone is busy with their own lives, that even if I COULD go out, there would probably be no one to go out with. Well, either that or its just been a nice excuse. Don't get me wrong, thanks to social media I  know what's going on with these friends, I just haven't actually talked to them about it. That make sense? Course.

So, I have resolved to make more of an effort to actually SEE my friends.  A few weeks ago my friend Natalie (who I saw WAY more when she lived in NYC) met me for lunch and it was SOOOOOOOOOO nice. Nothing compares to actually SEEING your friends and talking to them in person. That lunch date really got me thinking that I NEED to do this more. Wow. I should have warned this post would be capital letter heavy, but who knew!

So, my goal (yeah..me and my goals) is to reach out to my friends in real life. Call them up, make a date if we can, and actually see each other in person.  Just by luck I'll be seeing a friend this weekend (gotta love kids birthday parties for that), and I'm hoping to have dinner with another dear friend next week. So watch out friends, I'm coming for ya!!

happiness

As much as I'd love this post to be about how I got a great night sleep and now I'm in such a better place, it's not. I'm still tired, and still grumpy.  More thoughts are swirling around in my head and making keeping things straight a bit difficult.

I've been saying a lot lately..mainly to myself that I just want to be happy. I mean very simply, isn't that what everyone wants?? But what does that mean really? I've seen "The Happiness Project" on a few other blogs that I read and I think I'm going to buy it and dive on in.  I also REALLY want to get Jessica Alba's book, I am such a fan of her products. Add to that list Gweneth Paltrow's new cookbook. Because I have so much time to cook. HA!

Here are some happy things that happened over the weekend:

FINALLY!! The ugly over the toilet cabinet is gone! I feel like I have a huge bathroom now. Okay, maybe not huge. I can't wait to paint (and by that I mean I can't wait for Mike to paint) and then get two or three small floating shelves for over the toilet.

And this is happening.

Bought some happy sun yellow spray paint the other day at Walmart and started attacking my vintage fan. Going to take MANY coats, but I've learned the key to spray painting is taking your time. Nice, thin even coats, and lots of drying time. Ignore what the can says!! Let it dry, let it dry, let it dry.


I've decided no weekly goals this week. My goal this week is to catch up on sleep and get happy.


PS. I love this new app!!

cookies for breakfast

Today I woke up in an awful mood. And I HATE when that happens, which of course has made my mood even awfuller  (Is that a word? Probably not..).  Something about going to bed with your mind filled with things makes for a terrible night sleep and can almost guarantee a super grumpy me in the morning. It also probably didn't help that I had a dream that there were zombies and if they touched you you got infected and if someone touched you that was infected you got infected...well, you get the picture.

All this to say I'm in a crappy "I hate myself" mood.
Even having 4 cookies for breakfast didn't help.
Gross. I had 4 cookies for breakfast.  I will now be hiding under my desk all day in shame if you need me.

Which is sad really, because I had a great day yesterday.  Sure, it would have been greater if I had gotten to sleep in (hint hint), and maybe there were 3 extra hours in the day yesterday where I could have done some errands, but other than that it was great.  I had worked the night before and was so happy to see my little buddies in the morning. We cuddled and watched TV, then got ready to go to Nana & PapaNelli's!!! They had been on vacation for the past two weeks and we all missed them  A LOT  They hung out there while me and Liss went to the movies. Then back we went to join the hubbies and babies and have some yummy food. We played outside, had a few beers, and it was great.

PS. I HATE pictures of myself. I SWEAR I have eyebrows..they are apparently invisible to camera lens though.  Roo Ciambrello said it best "Your mirror is your friend, but your camera lies." True dat.


So, despite a pretty great weekend, here I am on Monday...wish a serious case of the Monday's.  Hoping to shake it off this afternoon and be back with a more cheery post. 

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and Mother's Day!!

Till then...

Spring Pinterest Challenge!!

Oops, I did it again!!
I managed to actually complete a pinterest challenge. GOOOOOoooooooooooo me!!!

So, I've been trying to find another fun way to display/organize Taylor's ever growing hair accessory collection. It doesn't help that I started making them myself, so she's got a lot of clips etc. hanging around.

This was my inspiration for this pinterest challenge.

Back when we painted the kitchen, I had taken down a white shadow box frame that I had been using to display the weeks dinner menu.  I replaced it with a clipboard and my household "to do" list, so I didn't need it and was thinking about adding it to my gallery wall in the hallway (and just realizing now I don't think I ever shared pictures of that...adding it to my to do list!)

A while back I ordered some super cute fabrics to use in my Etsy shop, and there was one pattern in particular that I fell in love with. I actually do not plan on using it for the Etsy shop because honestly, i'ts like artwork.  I thought that using it in the shadowbox frame as a backdrop for something like the above picture would be perfect, but also figured I'd try a few other fabrics as well.

I love love LOVED the bird print and was all set to move forward with it when I realized that all the birdy prettiness would be covered up by hair clips and whatever else I decided to put in the frame, so I did the adult thing and used the pretty muted grey pattern. I'll be framing that fabric though and using it somewhere else soon!

My plan of attack for attaching the fabric was to do something that wasn't permanent. This way I could change out the fabric and use it for something else later down the road. I took out the frame backing and simply used some double sided tape.  I placed the tape all along the edges, then lay the fabric out and placed the backing over it. Pulled the sides tight and was done. I didn't worry about the corners since they'd be hidden by the frame. I just tucked those in.

Now it was time to figure out what I wanted to use to actually clip the barrettes to.

I basically just raided my ribbon stash, which is running low, and came up with these four options.  Twine, some silver bakers twine like stuff, cream thin ribbon, or green burlap ribbon.  I was afraid the twine would be too thick...the silver twine would be too slippery, and the burlap, well, that was just too thick. In the end I went with the thin cream ribbon.

In the spirit of keeping things easily changeable, I actually just wrapped the ribbon around the frame backing and tied a bow.  I plan on adding a few more ribbons, but for now, just have one to show you all what it looks like.

Hanging this little project has opened up a whole other issue, as I ended up removing a shelf to hang it, and not I'm not liking the wall at all. I'll post some pictures of that later and welcome ideas on what to do. I found this really cool site that has these customizable FREE initial printable  so I plan on incorporating a J & T somewhere on that wall. I had it all figured out, but now I'm rethinking it..

So, did you tackle a Spring Pinterest Challenge??? Make sure you head on over to one of the party hosts and link up if you did!!!

weddings and weekly goals

Recovering from a very fun and busy weekend. I think I need to be in bed by 9pm today to really start to feel 100% again. I am getting too old!!

Saturday morning Jackson had soccer (he scored 3 goals!) and then I was off to get my hair did.  A few quick errands and I was on my way home to clean up a bit and start to get things ready for the kids sleepover and for the wedding we were going to. The kids were SOOOOOOOO excited to have Kelly coming over for a sleepover. For two days straight we talked about all the fun things they wanted to do with her, and she did not disappoint. I am beyond lucky to have Kelly in my life and to be such a great friend to help us out on this weekend. (I owe you dinner!!)

We needed Kelly to sleep over because we were attending another wonderful friends wedding.  It was open bar, and there was a shuttle bus and a decently priced hotel room, so needless to say we wanted to stay over.

The weather was beautiful  the bride stunning, and a fun mix of friends and people I know from Medford, and college friends I haven't seen since graduation.  See, my friend decided to marry a Medford boy, so I was lucky to know people on both sides of the wedding.  It was a wonderful night, everyone had a great time, and I am so happy for Cara & Jon.  They are a beautiful couple and I wish them all the happiness in the world!!

the happy couple

So, a good time was had by all, but man, I was TIRED!! I can not hang like I used to. Sunday was spent hanging with the kids and a few friends that came over for my RedBook/L'Oreal house party (more on that later) and the day ended with cuddling on the couch and "Wreck it Ralph".

Oh! And I should probably mention that for Cara's wedding I had my first ever experience with Rent the Runway. I was very happy with the way it all worked out. My dress was great, and I loved the bracelet I got with it as well (it just happened to be called "Cara" so I had to get it for the wedding!).  If you haven't tried out Rent the Runway I highly recommend it!


And now Monday is here. And that means a new list of goals to achieve (hopefully!!)

I know...it's a lot. But there isn't anything on here that I probably couldn't bust out in one night..well...aside from running 3x. I mean, I could run 3x in one day, but that wouldn't be good for anyone.

So, I'm totally stealing the "in bed by 10:30" from Roo over at Neon Fresh, and I'm going to try to start to follow Natalie's training plan over at DRB. We'll see how both of those go. Oh. And i SERIOUSLY need to do our family year book, and I want to get the kids new bikes, but those can easily be pushed to next week.

So, did you all do anything fun this weekend? Any good goals for this week?? What are you going to work on for your Spring Pinterest challenge?!?

i got this

It's BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!

Just announced today over at YHL, BowerPower, Sparkle Meets Pop, and Red Bird Blue. Definitely check out their posts and post Pinterest Challenge submissions.

The link party will be on May 8th so you have a full week to get your project done.

I already know what I'll be doing and I'm excited to get this one done....on time. HA!

Here's a hint...

Okay, yes, you guessed it. I'll be building this house and it will be done by next week. Take that Extreme Home Makeover!

What are you gonna make???