"Belly fat, Mama?"

:-D "Um, no Honey...ballet flats." Thank you Jenny!
Here's another snippet of the day...
Jenny and Charlotte had sat Zoey (who was doing something naughty-ish) down and then proceeded to give her their best shape up, or ship out talk. Evidently they DO listen when we talk! ahem.... It involved a variety of voice tones, encouragement, and some very sound scolding...Lots of, "Okay, Honey?" lol Then when they were done Jenny skipped past me and said, "Don't worry, Mommy-- We saved the day!" :-D SO funny!

I'm off for an at home date-night with subs from our favorite pizza/sub place and "So You Think You Can Dance"...perhaps not the most exciting...but wonderfully fun!

A Change of Pace

Go check out my new homemaking blog, While The Water Boils ! It's still a work in progress, but I hope to have it up and running soon! I will be continuing this blog, keeping it as a family journal of sourts, with the kid updates and daily life part.

It's Time Again!

Flowers for Joe's sister Sarah (her 14th birthday was Wednesday!)

Every so often a sewing board I'm on hosts something called a Week in Feminine Dress (known as WIFD, pronounced "wifdee" lol). I usually participate, but don't always share pictures. I'm going to try again this time though! So, here I am for day one... the top is a new one from Down Est Basics (love them!!), and the skirt is one I've had for 4 years. I need to try to make another before I wear this one out! It is reversable, so you'll probably see it's other side later in the week. As for the rest of the outfit, I got the earrings and the nursing necklace from Etsy, and my sunglasses are my current stand by hair style (head bands are to tight). This is my first try with the timer option on my camera...I think we shall be friends. It did sort of over do-it on the flash though...

This is a better view of the skirt colors...it's made up of three tiers on each side, if that makes sense. :)

The flowers were such a lovely orange! Which happens to be my very favorite color for roses.This was my effort to dress up a simple bunch of spray roses from Wal*Mart. I cut down the plastic sleeve you slide them in (to hold in the water drops), then wrapped them in a soft shade of gold tissue paper with a robbins egg blue bow.

The extra challenge this time, for us girls who already wear skirts everyday, is to make sure that we are also being feminine. It is so easy to just grab whatever skirt is near the top, with a big comfy t-shirt and slip and slide our way into frumpiness. Not good. So, I am trying to pay attention and to be just a bit more feminine...still practical of course, but if women used to do it in hoop skirts, then I can surely manage to put some earrings in. ;)

P.S.) For those wondering, these are in the little box! Perfect for "14", don't you think? The blue is about the size of a dime/penny and they're about 2" long. So Sarah. :)

Still here...

Thank you all for your nice comments! I'm sorry I've been gone for so long, we've had a round of rather high fevers here, and this Mama's hands were busy with other things. I've got the little babe asleep on my lap, so can't really type...don't give up on me though, I'll be back soon, with lots of pictures!
Love,

Tilly

I leave you with "Sir Laundry of Basket"