Things I Love...

Makeup that actually matches my skin

I've been planning on trying Almay's smart shade foundation ever since a friend of mine, Megan, recommended it, but just never seemed to get around to it. Well, last night, after seeing they were throwing a concealer in for free, I splurged a little and finally bought it. If I had known how much I'd love it, I would tried it a loooong time ago.


So now, after all of these years, my mother, who has always been convinced I wear too light a shade of makeup, can rest assured that my foundation does, in fact, match my skin.

Fabulous Mommy Jewelry

Spencer, very uncharacteristically, surprised me with one of these (from here):

(mine, of course, has my children's names on it, with the girls' spelled out in the lowercase cursive (as shown) and Ezra's in tiny lowercase plain)

Can I just say how absolutely in love I am with this necklace...and of course with the guy that gave it to me ;)

Baby teeth

After 9.5 months of waiting, Scarlett finally has a tooth! yay! yay! yay! It's barely visible to the naked eye, but I promise it's there. A random old lady in JoAnn's noticed her half-tooth the other day and I could've just about kissed her (the fact that she thought my kids were adorable didn't hurt either). The downside of a tooth nubbin? Said nubbin can cut the skin while nursing and cause much infection, swelling and pain. yep...it hurt like h*ll.

(please excuse her mowgli-ish appearance, it had been a long day)

Georgia is also fiiiinally getting her bottom canine teeth in. Her top ones have yet to make an appearance. I'm very relieved. I was beginning to worry she was part of a select group of kids our pediatrician mentioned that just never get some of their baby teeth in...you know the kind, 'round here we fondly refer to them as Okies.

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Sleeping in on Sunday mornings

My husband is sweet enough to often let me sleep in on Sunday mornings. This is always much appreciated. Well...almost always. When I wake up to this, I can't say I wouldn't have preferred to supervise.

If you don't recognize it, Ezra is pouring his own pancakes
(there's that face of Georgia's again...)

As is obvious, Scarlett loooves her yogurt

My daughter, the Art Historian

Background: as some of you might know, I studied Art History while in college. Art is a *huge* passion of mine and the mere sight or sound of a beautiful piece makes my soul lighter and brighter. When I doubted the usefulness of my chosen major at school, I reassured myself that in teaching my children to appreciate art, I'd be doing them a great service and that one day, hopefully, one or more of my children would be as dedicated to the humanities as I am (preferably one that doesn't actually have to work to support their family ;).

Fast-forward to a visit to one of Kansas City's finest (not to mention FREE) art museums, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. We were walking around the grounds (also known as the Kansas City Sculpture Park), looking at a piece done by sculptor Henry Moore, Relief No. 1.



This extremely abstract piece is a depiction of a woman standing with her weight on her left hip and her right knee jutting forward. The viewer usually cannot just see the woman in the piece and Moore intended it that way. He desired to have an intentional ambiguity of form and expressed that desire when he said that the “non-logical, instinctive, subconscious part of [the viewer’s] mind must play a part” in understanding the piece.

Anyway, leave it to my two year old, to walk up and immediately recognize the sculpture as a naked woman. Georgia looked at the sculpture, looked at me, and asked, "Why she naked? She have no clothes! That's silliness, Mommy." To double check, I asked Georgia to point out the lady's knee to me, and sure enough, she pointed out both with no problem and then went on and pointed out her torso. We then discussed the location of the rest of her body parts. While I realize it was most definitely a fluke, that one conversation absolutely made my day.

WooHoo for making it through another one of my uber-posts! Have a fabulous day!