This last week has been hard.  I've almost throat-punched two different punk four-year-olds on two separate occasions for pushing my two-year-old around while their parents sit idly by on their phones, we've seen several houses but purchased zero, we're still living with my parents, and my nerves are about shot.  So de-stressing via web browsing has been key to my sanity this week.  

Here's a list of links I'm loving right now:

1.  The 6 Cult-Classic Films Every Fashion Girl Should See  I still love Clueless but my favorite movie quote (almost of all time) is from The Devil Wears Prada.  

"This... stuff'? Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select... I don't know... that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise. It's not lapis. It's actually cerulean. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent... wasn't it who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff."
-Miranda Priestly 

Mic drop.

2.  How Well Do You Know These Minor Details From "Friends?" Because gum is perfection.  

3.  9 Common Household Items Everyone Forgets To Clean   Yuck.  

4.  Snap + Style   For a little fashion advise on the go.  

5.  15 Things A Registered Dietitian Always Keeps In Her Pantry  Because #goals. 


Keeping with the theme of this post, this face sums up our house search so far:

I'm super hopeful for a better week and a new house soon.

This weekend we surprised Jason's dad for his birthday with an unexpected visit and a surprise party. Katherine loved spending time with her five cousins, especially her older and cooler cousin Taylor.  Being the only girls in the family, Katherine and Taylor were inseparable over the weekend.

Towards the end of the birthday party, Katherine was given access a real microphone and drum set, where she presented The Katherine Show.  This kid loves to perform, and having a real working microphone only made her ham it up even more.





We were back home in time for a Valentine's Day snow day, but that didn't stop us from having Valentine's lunch at our favorite pizza place.  Because our lives are a bit unconventional these days, we had a simple Valentine's Day.

I can't believe we're a month away from Katherine turning 3.  The party planning is already in full swing and everyone is super excited!  Perhaps there will be another production of The Katherine Show at her birthday party.

There hasn't been a whole lot going on around here lately.  I feel like I spend most of February wishing for spring, and that's definitely happening now as the snow falls outside.  

I've mentioned before that I'm not brave about changing my look, and I over think things to the point of talking myself out of them all together.  I'd probably never get a tattoo.  I don't dye my hair.  Even my wardrobe has become more and more neutral and safe.  Every time I leave the house, I'm always around other moms now.  They're at the store, at gymnastics class, at story time at the library, at Chick-fil-A.......

I see all of the different kinds of moms and I think I could totally pull off that look.

Enter the purple hair dye.  Like I said, I don't dye my hair.  But when I saw a mom with purple streaks in her hair, I decided to be brave and do something out of the norm for me.  I decided I wanted to add purple streaks to my hair.  Two months later I bought a box of purple hair color.  A week after that I thought about it some more.  A few days later, I added purple streaks to my hair.

It turns out, I'm not that cool mom with purple streaks in her hair.  I immediately felt self-conscience about it and felt like everyone was judging my parenting skills based on my crazy hair color.  In reality, my purple streaks are barely even noticeable, and they're already washing out thankfully.

The only "cool" mom who's style I can pull off is my own.  Or Kate Middleton.  I'm crazy like that.  

In other news, Monday was my grandmother's birthday and though she's not the most tech savvy 86-year-old, we were still able to FaceTime with her to tell her happy birthday.  Like I said, she's not the most tech savvy (and who is at her age), so she holds her iPad upside down when she's using it so the camera is chest level.  We had a captivating conversation with her right boob.

And lastly, between the snow and frigid temps and needing to get out of my parents' house for a couple of hours, we've been going to Chick-fil-A.  A lot.  We go at breakfast, lunch, or dinner.  Katherine can run off some steam in the play area and I can sit with free wifi.  It's a win-win.  We go so often that the lady who takes our order has started to recognize us, and I'm beginning to base our house search on it's proximity to a nearby Chick-fil-A.  So when I came across this YouTube video, I knew I wasn't the only one.  Enjoy this super cheesy parody that sums up my life.  

I haven't done one of these posts in a while, so here you go.  Here's a look into our super interesting life.  Maybe not so much interesting as it is random these days.

7:30 am - Callie not going potty in the yard.

8:30 am - Good morning sleepy girl.

9:30 am - Getting Etsy orders ready to go to the post office.  

10:30 am - "New" story time at the "new" library.

11:30 am - Then the rains came.  

12:30 pm - House hunting/viewing with our realtor.   

1:30 pm - More house hunting/viewing with our realtor.   

2:30 pm - Christmas in February:  Opening presents my dad brought back from Arkansas from the Christmas we missed because we were moving.  

3:30 pm - I normally avoid Walmart like the plague, but decided to check out the new Neighborhood Market down the street....just to see what it was like.  

4:30 pm - It turns out, it's just like every other Walmart.  Long lines and one check-out open.  

5:30 pm - Post Walmart meal prep.  

6:30 pm - Chicken Noodle Pot Pie Casserole with semi-burnt crescent roll topping.  

7:30 pm - Katherine likes to carry around this hideous photo of me that she found in my mother's den.  She's obsessed with it.   

8:30 pm - Ahhhhhh finally.  

9:30 pm - Night before breakfast prep.  

10:30 pm - Glamour.  

Until next time.....