Look Awake! The Low Maintenance Face

Aside from the whole face washing, eye brow plucking this is a great how-to on ways to look fresh and it is pretty low maintenance. You can do all or a few of the steps on any given day. Some things that I love to look more awake- -Small dot of Nars Illuminator on my cheekbones. Add a bit of that and you get a nice glow that stays all day. One tube lasts all year. -Curling my eyelashes and adding a lash lengthening mascara like Cover Girl LashBlast Luxe. -CONCEALER! Do I really need to say this? It's the first thing on my list. I adore Bare Escentuals bare Minerals Multi-Tasking Face in 'Rested'. That name alone is a selling point to me and many moms. It's easy to apply, takes seconds, lasts all day and a long time in your make-up bag. READ: Economical! I use it on red spots, … [Read more...]

One Lazy SOB

When you decide that you are going to put your all into your work.  Things get left undone. You make one pot pie and the whole kitchen decides it needs to join in. When you decide that you are also going to train for a half-marathon, the laundry monster takes up some real estate.  Like a bathtubs worth of real estate because your ass (is it smaller yet, huh, huh?) is always at the gym logging treadmill miles. Look! Parts of the beast are moving into other baskets! It can't be stopped! Don't let this paltry amount fool you into thinking this is the end.  Oh no, it is residing in corners, on shelf ledges, on stairs and on couches.  There might even be some in an actual hamper.  Gasp! My floors are a crumby, sticky mess.  My bathrooms have enough toothpaste in the sinks to fill a … [Read more...]

What is the Definition of Forgiveness?

As I was driving to the gym yesterday I was mulling over this post in my head.  I knew that I needed to continue with the writing exercise that is the Thirty Days of Truth.  This being post four (am sloth-like in this practice!) it's all about forgiveness.  The forgiving of someone else, that is.  I feel like the Church Lady should be sitting next to me preaching right about now. I thought and thought.  And thought.  Do I forgive the man who tried to wrench me out of a drugstore at age eight and throw me in his car with the promise of toys?  I just can't go there.  Why forgive a stranger who wanted to instill nothing but harm my way?  I feel nothing but relief over that whole ordeal.  Relief that it didn't happen and thankfulness that my mother saved the day.  I can't forgive someone … [Read more...]

Today is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life

Since this is the first post/venture into this blog for me I figured I would provide a bit of background for anyone who is new. I decided to create this blog after realizing that the one I have for my family was not enough. I didn't want to print such personal views on it when it was supposed to be just pictures and updates for the family. Plus I needed a place to vent, question and organize my thoughts on my day to day life as a new mother.How it all began.... on February 24th, 2006 I became a mom. My daughter Reagan was born and for all intensive purposes here I was my daughter's keeper. I'm not a maternal person. Babies are ok, childeren in public places I could do without. Still, I knew one day I would probably have a child but, I knew also I could not be one of those mothers who seem … [Read more...]