Why I am giving up on Perfect? A Behind the Scenes Picture Reel of Mom Life.

Why I am giving up on Perfect? A Behind the Scenes Picture Reel of Mom Life.

We cruise through Instagram and Facebook seeing all these adorable kids in their crisp new clothes holding a beautiful back-to-school sign that their mom stayed up until midnight hand-chalking. In part we do it for friends and family, to be sure. But part of the thought is that maybe they will want to see this someday, or someday I am not going to remember to tell them all about it.  I guess it is a sort of photo-journaling the history of the child’s upbringing. But what was really behind the scenes of the picture?

School has started!Back to Life, Back to Reality!(Insert Soul 11 Soul )

School has started!Back to Life, Back to Reality!(Insert Soul 11 Soul )

You may have noticed after the 30 Day Static wardrobe experiment I took the summer off. Not only did I take the summer off blogging, but also from my businesses, my diet, my exercise and my communication with anyone outside my family or my lake friends. You could say I basically checked out of life. [...]

Day 24 Packing Light for Travel

Day 24 Packing Light for Travel

Like I was Cinderella and the fairy godmother had made a dress just for me. Wow, they were good: they never took my measurements but had the coat altered to fit me perfectly, I was ecstatic.

Day 10 Wearing Crisp White

Day 10 Wearing Crisp White

Tips and trends: Crisp white is almost always part of a trend; it’s just the powers that be reintroduce it in different seasons and somehow reinvent it to make it look new and fresh. For instance, last year white jeans in the winter was a big trend, setting all of the traditional Fashion Rules followers on their ear.

Day 7 Fashion Cheat Day

Day 7 Fashion Cheat Day

Day 7 of my fashion experiment landed on Easter Sunday, and like any good deprivation diet, you cheat on holidays … or on a random Tuesday. It did not take any thought at all preparing for the Easter Sunday dress, because Tim had surprised my daughter and me on Valentine’s Day with matching Lilly Pulitzer.  [...]

Day 5 Multiple Outfits

Day 5 was Good Friday, and we were going out of town the next day.  I had to go to the salon (getting’ blonded up, y’all!) and go to church and dinner with my family. Also on the agenda: packing for a quick Easter weekend trip south. Packing was actually super simple from my end, and even moreso than [...]