hello hello all:) We are back from vacation and took a few days to do some catching up. How have you been?? I've missed you all.
Have you been pounding the pavement of Target, Wal-Mart and every store in between?
The hardest part at least for me..
is getting back into "routine". I am so not a morning up and at em' person. Are you?
To celebrate Grace turning 13 last week Nikki and I took her to Ulta the night before school to let them do a little makeover on her.
Bonus was she got to spend her gift card she got for her birthday.
I am all about sweetness...I want her to be confident in wearing makeup but not look to made up...does that make sense?
I want her to be confident in how she looks and applying makeup and at the same time encouraging her heart condition because
that is what really makes us girls pretty--is our heart.
She ended up choosing some Bare Minerals foundation. It is easy to apply for young girls the girl told us.
She chose a Cabana makeup kit from Benefit.... mainly for the eyeshadow and the blush stain.
I like the blush stain on young girls because it is a natural bubble gummy pink.
She picked up some Lip Smackers chap stick in Ice Cream Cake too.
We..emphasis on we.. picked out Butter's Gobsmacked nail polish. { i like it for my toes } and it is a good Fall color.
We picked out all of her school supplies but not finding a zippered pencil bag she liked until
Grace scored this bag on the clearance rack at Target...perfect pencil bag!
Nikki and I heard at least 10 times...does this look ok? is it to big..to bright?
Another score at TJ Maxx...10 dollars...clearance. SO for 15 dollars she got a fun albeit a little funky combo.
Had to be written in the stars. It was Grace to a tee.
Do you know what made my night was after we were all done shopping? She looked at me and said...
" I feel for the first time that I am being who I am "
That is the scary thing about first days...being who you are..we take a risk being vulnerable.. praying someone will like us for who we are.
Not what we look like..dress like..or what we have.
Our kids feel just like we do don't they?
I can share with you all that my smile was ear to ear and at that moment that was all I needed to hear.
what about you and your kids? is there anything you did with your kids as you prepared for the start of
this school year? Do you have a memory of a time when you took a risk and were vulnerable? I would love to hear...
some fun changes will be happening around here so stay tuned..
xotiff
Nikki made this little collage of the last 3 years...kinda fun seeing the changes:)
