housewives vs the cosmetic counter

I have officially hit a new low.  I have been running low on makeup.  You know you are in trouble when your beauty routine is comprised of a pony tail and barely any makeup.  Lets be serious here....I am no supermodel.  A pony tail and barely any makeup is not "adorable" on me....it is scary.  I used to be a real makeup whore.  I was a slave to those promotions where you spend something like $49 and get a whole bunch of freebies.  My drawers were full of options.  I had time to go into makeup counters and "play" with makeup.   I had different "looks" depending on what I was doing.  But since I have had kids the only I have time to "play" with are cars and trains.  So instead of picking out new looks I have been picking lipstick out of the tube with my fingernail.    It is no wonder that housewive's start to look a certain way.  I was walking around downtown chicago last week with the kids and all of a sudden I realized that I looked like one of those women that I used to pity when I was a working gal!

So when a magazine arrived recently it had various tiny foundation samples stuck under sticker like things on the page.  It was meant to peel away the sticker to get a sample color of the foundation.  Of course I spent the next week using this as my foundation even though the range of colors on the sticker page could not have been a worse match for my skin tone.  To make matters worse I then tore out the $2 coupon and took my three kids to Walgreen's where I selected the makeup in about three seconds flat.  The kids were two aisles away yelling about Silly Bandz  When I got into the car and applied my new $5 lipstick my daughter asked if I was going to a party.  It was 10am and sadly I had no party options.....

just living the dream........

sorry i cant figure out how to flip the video.  just a little glimpse into the wonderful world of a child.   It's not all puppies and rainbows!

One of my friends who I just love dearly told me today that her son called her BOOBFACE.  Of course she was embarrassed but how can you not be a little bit amused.  The hardest part of a situation like that is reprimanding the child without a smile on your face. 

We were driving in the car and my son noticed a birthmark on his twin sisters leg.  He asked what it was and I tried to explain what birth marks were.  She said that she had tried to scrub it off many times but it would not come off.  I explained that most people have a birthmark of some sort.   I then told them that our littlest guy also had a birthmark on his tummy.  When Jack heard this he asked where his was.  In an attempt to tease him I told him that it was on his backside or bottom as we call it.   I said that you have a big birthmark there but he could not see it because he could not turn around that way.  Instead of being mortified he was JOYFUL and said "Oh yeah!!!!!!!  I have a birthmark on my butt.....HOORAY!

The Traveling World Of Reptiles

We celebrated Jack and Emma's 6th birthday with the "Traveling World of Reptiles" coming to our house.  It was really fabulous.  I don't have any funny stories from the day...my face just hurt from smiling and laughing the whole time at the very entertaining guy who was doing the show and seeing the reaction of the kids to the reptiles. 

last year we did a princess party.....this year we did snakes....oh my how thing change quickly