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Always Thinking of Others

Well, folks, it’s almost that time of year again.  I am sure I don’t need to remind you because you have it in RED on your calendar: MY BIRTHDAY IS COMING!  You have 10 shopping days left, so in case you’re stumped about what to get me, I thought I’d give you a few ideas, like I did last year.  Because that worked out pretty well for me!  So, because I’m always trying to make life easier for you, here ya go.

JENNY’s BIRFDAY LIST:

1) New styles from Lands’ End.  Oh em gee have you SEEN the new catalog? Me want!  And don’t think it doesn’t KILL me that I am too pregnant to wear much of it right now!  But as I will be un-pregnant in just a few short months, I would like these for my birthday anyway.  They are so pretty they will distract from my baby fat!   I would like this cardigan and shell from the Blissful Knits collection. I will need at least two different colors in each, pleeeeeaaase:


Also, I will need a couple of each of these fab comfy tees. Love the feminine details! Surprise me with the colors, I trust you! Just make sure you get a size medium in everything!

2) Speaking of clothes…one of my FAVORITE retailers, Shade Clothing, is going out of business. 🙁  I can hardly imagine why as Bobby claims that SURELY I must have bought enough to keep them in business…but they are.  So that is the bad news.  The good news is that they are liquidating EVERYTHING so you can get some really great prices on stuff for ME!!!!!!!!!  I would like one of everything they still have available, in a medium please.    Especially this Embroidered Cami and V-Neck boyfriend tee.  Multiple colors in the tee would be SUPER!


Ok, so, moving on from clothes (bottoms are JUST gonna have to wait til I lose all the baby fat!)…

3) I need a nice pair of everyday earrings.  My suggestion are these Effortless earrings from Lia Sophia.   They are only $22, they are perfect for what I need, and they are sold by Melissa Ballweg who has supported our last two Dayton Mom’s Night out parties.  Really, you cannot go wrong!

4) Maternity Clothes. Seriously I have no shirts.  And the world does not want to see me pregnant and t*pless.  So do the world a favor and give the birthday girl a gift certificate to Old Navy, Motherhood, Gap, or somewhere else I can get something to put over this bump!  Sadly, I already bought out the *two* maternity shirts that Shade has left in my size. They are hopefully on their way to me as I write this!  If you really want to get me a *specific* item, go for this tee from Old Navy (ahem, it comes in two colors, *cough*Medium*cough*):

5) Finally, let’s talk shoes.  I mean my butt may be larger for awhile in 2010 but my feet I expect to retain their size 7.5 as they did in previous lives.  And mama wants these Exitosa black boots from You by Crocs for the winter.  My old black boots died a sad death when the heel broke off at BlissDom last year. SO it seems only fitting to move on to wedges, yes?

So, how do you like my birthday choices? I’m pretty much in love with all of them…I need pretty things to cover the grief I feel at getting to be such a GEEZER!

P.S. This is not a sponsored post. Oh, how I wish it were.  It is however, part of Things I love Thursday at the Diaper Diaries! Go check it out!

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Cleanest diaper I ever saw

Oh, hi there, remember me?  I’m one of those two girls who used to write actual blog posts before they started doing all these crazy back-to-school giveaways (which you have til  Monday at 3 pm to enter! So do it!)!!

So, anyways, the giveaway posts are done and now I have a tale to tell, about how graceful and coordinated I am.  And how, as all of you know, I am a perfect housewife.

And my fabulous new Frigidaire Affinity washer & dryer *might* figure into said tale.  Which starts like this:

A couple of months ago, in the same week in which I began the HELL on earth that was potty training Sophie, I accidentally (because really, WHO would do that on PURPOSE?)  threw a DIAPER in the wash with Sophie’s pee-pee laundry.  When I opened my beautiful new washer (which I had less than 2 weeks at that point) I was horrified to see that gel stuff that is inside diapers ALL OVER my washer, and Sophie’s CLOTHES.  When I realized what I had done, I was slightly despondent.

When I realized I was going to have to scoop that diaper-gel all out by hand, I was severely despondent.

And then, I was thankful.  For three things: 1) That my Frigidaire Affinity washer & dryer BOTH have a “Sanitize” setting, 2) that the diaper I washed was only a pee-pee diaper and contained no poop and 3) that my Frigidaire washer also came with a coupon for Tide Washing Machine cleaner (which I had learned about at Fabric Care University).

I raced to the store with said coupon, bought the cleaner, ran it through my washer, and WOW it was never so clean, not even when it was brand-new!

Then, I sanitized the CRAP (oh, pun SO, SO intended) out of those clothes with the “sanitize” setting.

My Frigidaire appliances are fortunately much more graceful and coordinated than I am.  And SO much better at doing laundry than I am.  If only they could cook dinner and bear children, they’d probably replace housewives altogether!

This review is part of my participation in the Frigidaire Test Drive program.  I am on Team Washer and Dryer and totally get to keep said bad-a** appliances.  Thanks to Frigidaire and Mom Central for making me a part of this awesome campaign!

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Yet another occasion when I should have kept my mouth shut

Friday night Bobby and the kids and I were staying in a luxurious 2-star hotel that we pricelined for $50 in Charleston, WV, stopping over on our way to visit my folks in Virginia.   Joshua and I woke up before Bobby and Sophie, and as I was starving, we decided to sneak out and check out the free hot breakfast at said location of luxury.

It was pretty good! Waffle maker FTW! 

Anyhoo, I was looking lovely in my PAJAMAS and no makeup (at least I had washed my face the night before!) and unbrushed hair – kind of like this:

photo by aloha orangeneko on flickr

And for some reason at 8:15 am there were ALL these people in suits and dresses in the hotel breakfast area!  Um, awwwk-ward (for me.)

I was getting Joshua his bagel and muffin when a guy in a suit walked toward me and started getting some other breakfast product.  I did a double take.

It was an old high school boyfriend.

Wearing a suit.

Did I mention I was in my pajamas?  What was old high school boyfriend doing in Charleston, WV wearing a SUIT at 8:15 am?? Standing next to me in the breakfast line???

I wanted to ignore him and pretend I didn’t see him, but really, he was 3 inches away from me.  So, I bit the bullet and said, “Um, hi George (not his real name.)”

He looked me in the face and said, “Huh?”

“Um…aren’t you…George?” I stammered?

“Nope.” he said as he looked at the strange woman in the pajamas.

“Oh, um..sorry.” {Grabs six year old and runs to nearby table to consume scrambled eggs in shame}.

Most of me was very relieved it wasn’t George.

But ALL of me was wishing I’d just kept my mouth shut!

And he TOTALLY looked EXACTLY like him.

And all the people were wearing suits and dresses because they were there for  a Jehovah’s Witness convention.

And yet, NO ONE tried to save the soul of the woman in the pajamas.  At least I had that going for me!

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