Tuesday Tell-All

*What these pictures don’t tell you is this—for the past two days, my left eyelid has been mysteriously puffy and swollen. It’s almost imperceptible unless you’re looking for it, but it has been preventing me from wearing any other eye makeup besides just a little mascara. As I mentioned in this post about my thoughts on …

  (Random pictures courtesy of a trip to Europe way back when I was a wee lass of 19) *Here’s how my day went yesterday: -I learned that all of my craziest, rowdiest, most hard-to-contain, drive-me-bat-crazy kids who all have me for Spanish also all list Spanish as their favorite class. Go figure. It made …

*Guys, it feels SOOOO good to be back blogging again. Even though I desperately needed the break, it was kind of a love/hate thing because almost all I could think about the whole time was how much I missed the therapy of getting all the details of my days out onscreen so they weren’t all rattling inside …

Six Things: 1. Ever since starting my massive simplification/de-owning process at the beginning of this year, I’ve had the best of intentions when it comes to birthdays—I was firmly set on the idea that for birthdays and holidays, I wanted to institute an “experiences, not presents” mentality. The problem is, I still have this absolutely …

  Top 6 Things On My Mind: 1. Today is Matt’s 27th birthday, and his gifts that I ordered online still haven’t come. Amazon, you have very rarely failed me in life, but this is one of those times. And this morning, when I was trying to start his birthday off with a bang, I decided …

A few things on my mind: 1. My hair is at the perfect length for me, which means (of course) that I’m due for another haircut. 2. My husband took the GRE today, and it’s starting to make our future a little more real. We’ve been spending our weekends researching schools and weighing options and …

*It’s a good thing I finally learned (mostly, anyway) to just embrace my pale skin because as you can tell, these legs look like they didn’t see much sun all summer. And you basically have to squint at the other two pictures in this post to see some of my limbs—my arms and legs seem to blend …