New 'Do

Leighton had her first REAL hair cut a few weeks ago. I cut her hair once 6 months ago and it still looked scraggly and icky. I can't stand her bangs hanging in her beautiful face. I decided we girls need a real hair stylist and the boys can just have buzz cuts by yours truly. :)

Anyway she did so good. She was a bit nervous at first, but she sat so still and let Ms. Cori work her magic. We love Cori. She has been doing my hair for at least 10 years and it is in this tiny shop in an even tinier little town.

Cori couldn't let Lo leave with out making her first trip extra special by curling her hair all up. She looked beautiful. Lo kept saying "daddy will say 'oh, Leighton you look so bootiful.'" She was dying to show everyone. Of course in her mind the sucker made the trip extra special! HA!

Here she is Before:

And After:

Regularly Scheduled Programming.

For someone who seems to thrive on routine and consistency I seldom seem to be on one! HA!

I think God gave me kids to shake me out of my ruts and realizing that status quo is not the only way {to go}. But it isn't for lack of trying. I really do think all of us thrive better on routine, I mean all those "how to raise your kid" books say it, so I must be right about it. :)

Anyway, after a long, yet fun holiday season, going back to work to get first quarter audits done, and giving Micah a fun first birthday, I am so ready to get back to regularly scheduled programming. I just it wish it wouldn't take me so long to bounce back into our routines.

I started working out again with My Shape for our kinect and I really enjoy it. I like having someone come up with my work out routines. As a mom I feel like I have to be the entire brain of this family and some days I just want to yell "no, don't want to!" like Leighton gets to and have someone else doing the planning. When I told Chad he could go grocery shopping he said "good now we can get ramen noodles." Really?! Gross. He always knows just what to say to make sure I keep doing it. HA!

And now my house is finally clean{er} again. Thanks to MW's party, but never mind the reason it is done and now I can hopefully get back on my cleaning schedule...of course the will to clean is a whole other issue.

I also have a bazillion projects I am trying to get going too.
*Garage Sale
*Scrapbooking
*Baby books
*Blog books---I am starting to have freak outs that blogger is going to crash (or be shut down b/c of some dumb bill in congress) and I will lose all of this. Seriously I lose sleep over this people.
*Consignment sale
*taxes--bleh.
*Lo's 3rd Birthday---which makes me incredibly sad. I don't want her to grow up she is at such a fun age of innocence.

And I am slowly getting back into menu planning and couponing again. Our last menu plan was the week before Christmas. Maybe I will be cool like my friend Kelley and start posting them here to keep myself accountable and as a fall back when I draw a blank.

And speaking of regularly scheduled programming, have you all seen Once Upon a Time on ABC?! Oh my gosh this is my favorite show, possibly of all time. I have missed the last 3 weeks because I can't stand not being able to watch it all at once and our Roku is out of commission. Grrr. But I saw a preview for yesterday's episode and my heart seriously went pitter patter. Just thought I would throw that random thought out there. HA!

Happy Random Monday!

A mommy pick me up

My friend Ginger brought this blog post to my attention via her FB. And I just had to share it here too!

Nothing means more to me in this mommy community then moms who are willing to get down and real about what motherhood is really like. Enjoy this post!

My favorite part was when she said she hopes one day when she is the grandma in line she can tell that young mom in front of her this:

"It's helluva hard, isn't it? You're a good mom, I can tell. And I like your kids, especially that one peeing in the corner. She's my favorite. Carry on, warrior. Six hours till bedtime." And hopefully, every once in a while, I'll add -- "Let me pick up that grocery bill for ya, sister. Go put those kids in the van and pull on up -- I'll have them bring your groceries out."

I hope I can do that too someday. I seem to however run into more "grandmas" that look at me like they don't even remotely remember what it was like to a have a 3 year old and 1 year old.

Hope you got the mommy pick me you needed today!