Fav Products

Okay - because I am probably the biggest makeup and skin care junkie around these parts, I thought I'd share some of my fav products and you can share yours with me. First, I have to give a shout out to the Murad Resurgence line. Give it up for Dr. Murad - whoop whoop! At the age of 37 I never in a million years thought that my skin would be hormonal, but guess what? It is and this stuff works!! I honestly cannot say enough about it. My skin looked like crap for a long time and I tried everything under the sun and I mean everything and this works. Check out the site at www.murad.com.

Okay - second. I just started using Mally Beauty Cancellation Concealer and love it. It's light but the coverage is great. It also comes with finishing powder, and brush and a cute pouch to hold everything. It's definitely a must have.

Mascara - I used Lancome Definicils for the longest time... until I stopped working to raise my kids. I mean, who the heck can afford $25 bucks for mascara these days? So, through trial and error I found a very close second for a fraction of the price. It's Maybelline Define-A-Lash. Save yourself the extra $$ and buy a new blush! Speaking of blush, I am awaiting a new cream blush by Trish McEvoy so I will have to report back on that one.

Those are just a few of my favorite things. Please share some of yours!

Clipping away...

I consider myself to be pretty saavy when it comes to clipping coupons. In fact, I save our family approximately $40 each month, but think it could be even more. Especially after seeing countless couponing moms on morning shows telling me how I can get $250 worth of groceries for just $50... WHAT? I understand their concept of buying things when they're on sale and using coupons for the sale items, but don't these moms have a running tally of items they need for their next trip to the store? What if they are low on deodorant? Do they wait until their deodorant goes on sale to buy it? All this said, do you have any couponing or money-saving tips when it comes to grocery shopping that can make my monthly grocery bill less than my mortgage?

Why Let Grandparents Rule?

I have been vacationing at my parents house for a week or so, which is why I have not posted a blog (jen), but have realized while I've been here that it does not matter what I do or say to my parents about the way I discipline my children, because it goes in one ear and out the other! I understand that grandparents are supposed to "spoil" their grandkids - I get it, really, but I don't necessarily agree with it one hundred percent. There are some things that I won't get crazy over, but not disciplining my children is unacceptable... chocolate for breakfast I can get over. So, do we as parents say something to our parents or do we let it slide because it's not every day our kids see their grandparents?

I wear my sunglasses at night...

Well, actually I don't, but it bothers me when people do. So, let me set the scene up for you. Last Friday night, my family and I were enjoying a dinner out on the town at a local restaurant and we were sitting on the patio. There were two women and one man wearing sunglasses and albeit, it was sunny outside, but we didn't see the sun because it was setting on the other side of the restaurant, so there was no need for sunglasses. Not only did both of these women (or in one case, girl) have on sunglasses, but the sunglasses were enormous! They took up her entire face and she looked completely ridiculous! It clearly bothered me enough to post it... so my question of the day is, do oversized sunglasses bother you as much as they do me?

Teething Woes

So, my daughter who is 22 months, has had a runny nose for over two weeks and has been cranky as hell. She's even waking at night which is strange for her so I was certain she had an ear infection, which she gets often. Her brother had croup the week before so I thought for sure he had shared something with her for the first time in his life... I was wrong. I had my husband take her to the dr. where I knew they would write a prescription for her and life would be good.... wrong again. No ear infection. I asked the hubby if he asked the dr. what could be causing her fussiness, but he didn't ask... so I decided to start playing nancy drew and figured out that her 2 year molars were coming in. It's been a nightmare and I don't like pumping her with Tylenol all of the time. So, the question of the day is, have you had terrible teething experiences and if so, what did you do to remedy the prob?

Cable woes

Isn't it the most annoying thing in the world when your cable company runs one year long promotions? Why don't they just offer it to me as a set price so I will stay will them instead of going to DirecTV? Question of the day - what sets you off about your cable company?

Tears of... joy???

So, a friend of mine updated with Facebook page by writing that she was so sad that her little baby was starting preschool in the Fall and what was she going to do, etc... Don't take this the wrong way but I couldn't wait for my son to start preschool. Okay - you can take it anyway you want... but even though I cried on my sons first day of preschool the tears were mostly because I felt like he was so grown up and quite frankly, it bothered me that I wasn't going to be in control of his life for four hours! So, my question is does it make you a bad mom to be excited about your wee ones being gone for a few hours a week? I'm thinking that it shouldn't!