Monday, September 29, 2014

Noise With Dirt On It...

My boys... They are my greatest accomplishment... my heart... my reason for living and being tired all time...

School supply shopping.  They were both so excited to pick out their own supplies... Jack's favorite color is black, so black folders and notebooks it was...



First day of school...Alex is in full day kindergarten and Jack is now in third grade.  Both my boys in the same school, for a full day...so joyous to have only 1 school drop off and have them both occupied all day... too bad I don't  have time to enjoys the quiet solitude...


I still like to dress them alike for special occasions...until they are old enough to protest.  To my boys dressing up means something besides pull on track pants and t-shirts.  Cammo cargo pants and orange polo shirts for the win.  They look like traffic cones...handsome traffic cones!!


Alex will be six next week and I just cannot believe my baby is going to be that old!  He is learning to read at school and he was so excited and proud the other night that he could read his bed time story to me!  (there were only 3 words on a page...baby steps) He read it to everyone that comes over...I pretty sure he even read it to the cable guy last week!  I am glad he is having such a great experience in kindergarten, but I do miss our afternoons together...having lunch at the salad bar at Mariano's and trips to Target...

Jack has become such a big boy. He will be nine in March and has grown up so much in the last year. He has always been skinny, and now his face and body have filled out. I had to buy him a new wardrobe... none of his clothes fit anymore.  I think he is going to be taller than me as a teenager! The older he gets, he even more he looks like me...what a lucky kid...ha!

Thursday, September 25, 2014

The Anatomy Of This Mom...

For those who celebrate, happy New Year.  With today being Rosh Hashana, the start of the new year according to the Jewish calendar, I felt it would be a perfect time to come back to blogging.  Things around my coordinates have been crazy lately... I am in school 3 days per week, work at the hospital 3 days per week...that only leaves me one day to get my bearings, study, spend time with the boys...take a deep breath...There really needs to be 9 days in a week...please.

I am kind of going through a bit of an identity crisis at the moment and I plan to use the new year to get back to being me...not what I think everyone sees me as, thinks I am, or wants me to be... I am stuck somewhere between taking a patients vitals...studying the bones of the skull...helping the boys with their homework and relaxing on the couch with my husband to catch up...I need to just start being ME again...

So, besides showing my style and talking about fashion, I plan to use my corner of the web to vent...sort out what I am doing and where I am going...physically and mentally...

For the Rosh Hashana services today, I could just not figure out what to wear.  I am getting so good at dressing up my jeans, that I think I forget that I used to love wearing dresses and skirts...




Skirt-Target/Sweater-Old Navy/Shoes-Kenneth Cole/Jewelry-Old Navy, Target, Groopdealz

So this outfit...pretty much a copy of what I used to wear to work back in the day when I actually had an office job to go to.  Wearing this today made me feel good, remembering a part of myself that I thought I had lost...somewhere between a patients room and the anatomy lab...