choices

I have been cleaning up at the thrift store lately.

I found a grey wool blazer by Oscar De La Renta for $2. Yes....TWO BUCKS. (ok, so I think it's a man's blazer....it's kinda big on me, but I bought it anyway. I couldn't pass it up!)

I'm gonna belt that sucker and wear it.

I've been really boring in my clothing choices the past couple of years. I used to be "quirky" and "original" and I lost myself in there somewhere. Feeling like I had to be someone I wasn't.

But I'm getting back to myself, so the clothes are following me. :)

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I can't believe that my BABY is a senior. In high school. and will graduate in a few short months. Let the crying and endless wailing begin. He's still undecided what he wants to do. Right now, its the Navy. UGH. But he's going to spend the summer with his sister in VA, get a job at the beach and go from there. Im excited for him...to have your whole life ahead of you and the whole world wide open to what you want to do. He's so charming...I could just hug and kiss him all day, but, being a 17 year old boy, he's not too keen on that. But he does tell me he loves me every day. he even texts me from school sometimes...with a joke or a request for dinner. ;) and he always, ALWAYS, says I LOVE YOU MOM.

Ya, I'm pretty crazy about my kids.

I was thinking the other day....when my husband and I started having kids, it was really important to both of us, that I stay home with them. I couldn't have handed my baby over to a daycare provider or a babysitter and gone to work. No offense to women that do...Im not saying that at all. But it was important to us that the main caregiver be a parent. So we sacrificed alot of "things"...alot of material things. So we didn't drive an expensive car or go on cruises....or wear clothes that didn't come from the thrift store! But I think its paid off, in the long run. For our family and our kids, it's worked out for the best. i LIKE my kids. I would want to be their friends, if I was their age. I like who they've become, and Im excited for their future. and I am in NO WAY, knocking working mothers!!!! IN NO WAY.

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I'm off to do some shopping for the weekend. Ezra turns ONE this weekend. ONE. Can I emphasize that enough??? ONE. where did the time go? so we are off to VA to spend it with The Emperor. I can't wait to see him!