pixie girl....

this girl told me a few weeks ago that she doesn't want short hair anymore.......

and it's taken me this long to get myself together in order to write a post about it.

let me tell you a few things about Lola.....she's a strong willed....no holds bar....a non girlie girl....

she wears striped shirts with polka dot tops....

she wore a dress over jeans and converse shoes to the mother daughter tea.....

she has a closet full of dresses and skirts.........that have never been worn.........





i have to bribe her with candy in order to take her photo in something decent ......

she lives in jeans........

we had the discussion of where babies come from and she said...no thanks mom....i don't think i want any babies.....




....i only have control over two things in her life at the moment......

...her hair and her room.....

she asked that i paint her room......and i said....hmmm.....sure...let me think about it....

and now she doesn't want her "signature" short pixie cut.......she's had the look since she was almost 3.

It's HER look. No one else has her look at her age. I love it.........

....like i love her name......and her whole self.......her image...her personality......

...at what point do you say....o.k.?

i know it's just hair....i know.

but i also just booked a ticket to let my 8 year old boy fly home from his grandparents home...on an AIRPLANE............................ by HIMSELF!

Do parents actually do this?..........let an 8 year old fly by themselves?......

....o.k...................

i'm hyperventilating.........

....call 911.....

...oh...flashback.....please don't ....because i hear i might get a bill for that........

...and yes..i did give them the cookies.................and i asked them if they wanted my children....

...for free...nothing involved.......but they smiled.....

o.k....i don't know if they were really smiling...but they took the cookies....

..please tell me this is normal....and i will survive not being in control of such a minor problem such as hair....

..pixie hair....on a girl named Lola....

...L..O...L...A...lola....

{and yes...she rides a vintage PIXIE pink banana seat bike......

..and the Lola b shop....will re-open thursday.......

xo

my date with a fireman...

I hate to toot my own horn, but the reality is.....i receive many awards in the mothering department. I also hate to disappoint ladies like "Pioneer woman" and "dooce", but it's just the truth. I love to bake cookies with the children....so much so, that yesterday as i was wallowing in my "life defining moment", i grabbed my favorite box of oatmeal cranberry cookies from Trader Joe's. I always keep a box of them in the freezer for those moments of baking with the children......

....so we opened the bag of already rolled and ready to put out on the cookie sheet....when i heard the sound of a fire truck.........hmmmm.....i thought to myself as i looked around the kitchen and noticed NO children were helping me bake cookies.....strange i thought............it sounded like the fire truck was right outside my front door........i better take a look........

.....and still no children.......but then another fire truck pulled up.......

...I had a feeling that the award i was supposed to receive this evening ......was not going to happen....

.....and instead was indeed going to "pioneer woman"....... Can i ask you now.....why..oh..why....

do kids like to take the phone and hide in the closet to crank call 911?....and why do they yell...

FIRE.....and hang up....

why?.....

.....thank GOD they didn't say.....my mom has a belt in her hands and she's going to beat me....no....

thank goodness they didn't say that......

....so my lovely readers....i am so sorry to have to forfeit my lovely award this year.....i guess i can try again next year?.....

life defining moments...

I was told there are 3-5 life defining moments in one's life......like the birth of a child......a marriage.....or something like this.


I knew this day would come....i had been waiting for it. I knew joining facebook had the possibility of it, it was just a matter of when.



where.



how.



I had a great group of friends back in elementary school, as a matter of fact....it was the four of us and we did everything together. we even started our own version of the babysitters club.Four friends.



My elementary school went thru 6th grade with 7th and 8th being middle school.



Life was lovely.



Then middle school started.


There really should be no middle school.


I don't know anyone that loved middle school.



It was fun....for the first couple of months anyways.


The four of us.....



my good friends....the other 3 girlfriends that i loved.......


and one day......



dumped me.



i use that term nicely.



dumped.



i was humiliated.



i had to start my life completely over and to tell you the truth, it's probably the reason i hated school so much.



Oh, i made new friends and survived but the fact is and was....



i was dumped by my 3 best buds.


my besties...


this was a life defining moment.



to this day i'm still very touchy about friendships...i don't get very connected or deep.



oh, i have plenty of friends, but i only have a handful that thru the years have i stayed connected with....a handful.



which brings me to today .....



one of those girls contacted me......



"hey kasey.....remember me....jenny from elementary school......remember?"......



oh yeah....jenny.....i remember you.......you dumped me..right?......that jenny..is that you?



"lol....ha....i guess that's a harsh word....but ......oh...yeah...your right.....maybe we call it water under the



bridge and start over".



start over?



seriously?


flash back to life defining moment......



So....this is where you my lovely friends can help me.......maybe you've been there.....



Do i say "heck with it", let's be best buds.....i mean really....i'm not 13 anymore...i'm 34 and married with children.....with awesome blog readers.......and.....



or



let it be.....not accept her invite to be friends......
oh....the trials and tribulations.......



xo


..on a lighter note......my home was featured on this awesome blog yesterday.

the bad side....

the bad side of my brain got ahold of me yesterday. I don't know about you but every once in a while it gets me and makes me do things i don't want to do.......like shopping. I don't necessarily WANT to shop, but the bad side of my brain FORCES me to. I have been eyeing this shower curtain from Anthro {duh} for a while now. ....actually just a few weeks to be exact. So after i dropped the kids ALL off at school after a LONG weekend, i decided that a trip to Anthro was necessary.

Hello new Madoleine shower curtain!

she's a shabby,cottage, frenchie new addition to my petite bathroom in my petite farmhouse cottage....

Do you like that chandi above? I do. I love it. There will be some more in shop soon......

Stop here before you read on. .....because right next to Anthro was Gap. Now, normally i'm not a gap girl. sorry, i'm just not. BUT........i saw a sign in the window that said "SALE".

The bad side of the brain saw it also and dragged me in.....

sunburn and all.

long winters in the midwest does bad things to us.........we think that the first warm long weekend requires sitting outside ALL weekend with no sunscreen on.

BAD BRAIN.

But bad brain got a good deal on this grey dress. .......and the last one was just my size.

who needs boys anyways..

Did i lose you with the title? I hope not.


I came upon a meeting yesterday......and i guess i didn't get the invite....

I am pretty sure they were discussing world peace or the economy.....but maybe they were discussing something else...like who's going to take care of the baby? Well.....we know who the baby's daddy is....

apparently the daddy got upset and is storming off..........{typical boy like behavior}.....

these girls don't care......they want to figure it out on their own....... {typical girl like behavior}

the decision didn't take very long....and they didn't need the boy after all....

looks like everything turned out o.k.

Did you have a great long weekend, or was it to long? lol

I'm lucky, my kids still have 2 weeks of school left....

What did i do this weekend? I read. I read Twilight, all in one day because i couldn't put it down.....and yes i realize i'm a little behind on the bandwagon with this book. I read it on Saturday then borrowed the second book New Moon yesterday and got half way thru.

I'm hooked.

xo

good bye...

I'm not very good with goodbye's....because i tend to shed a tear or two. But not today. Do you see a peek of the black ceiling fan in the pic above? I bid it farewell.......

thanks to my electrician, who happened to be in town this last weekend. His name is "dad", and he's quite pleasant to work with.......

in it's place, i put my beloved grey chandie that's been sitting quietly in a corner for the last year......

i have to say i do love it....

I hope you all have a wonderful long weekend...

oh....and my good friend Anne over at City Sage said i really should bring 8 pairs of shoes to Spokane with me, 2 pairs for each day...because shoes are like food....you need a variety to stay healthy.

I think i have to agree.

xo

the release....

I am "one" of those moms that is not very involved in "school" activities.
Don't judge me......{i can see you rolling your eye's...}
You should be glad that i don't home school.
I don't volunteer for field trips......{but somehow i am going on one next week},
I rarely help out in class...{but somehow i'm there every Friday morning},
I am not part of the PTA.
nope.
am not.
But I do hang with the PTA moms at boot camp, so at least I feel like i can catch up on what is going on
between the moms while sweating my arse off.....














so i felt really good about showing up at school last week for the butterfly release. I even dragged the sick 4 year old.
Did i mention at all about my kids having a 12 hour stomach bug last week?
probably not.
because i was too upset with my husband
for sleeping thru the night
while they all vomited.
all night.
all over me.
I just started talking to him today....






these are the images i took......

so we're on the same page....

Just in case you are wondering what I might be wearing when i head to Spokane in 3 weeks.....i mean just over 2 weeks.....eeek!

Of course this is only 5 outfits and I still don't know what i'm wearing when I meet up with all the girls for drinks the first night.

I only plan on bringing 4 outfits total.

really.

promise.

truly.

I know i can.

I'm only there for 2 days, 2 nights and Sunday is my travel day back home.

and I only plan on bringing 3 pairs of shoes/boots.

really.

promise

truly.

xo

life in the fast lane..

It's been a busy weekend around here. My parents came into town over the weekend so we have been busy.

If you've been reading "me" a while then you know that I have only lived here in Illinois for almost 2 years, it'll be 2 years the beginning of July. I'm 34, i've been married almost 11 years, have 3 kids, and since meeting my hubby over 13 years ago, have not lived in one place for more that 5 years.
that's alot of moving.
We started in Vail, Colorado and from there went to San Francisco for 4 years, then back to Colorado...this time outside of Denver for a almost 5....
and now here...outside of Chicago.
I grew up in Southern Cali, so i'm a cali girl at heart.....so moving to San Fran from Colorado after we got married was going to be great. It was.
I love the bay area.
I would move back in a heart beat.
But here we are in the midwest.
The people are fabulous. The city is wonderful. I love my home...love.love.love
but....
i'm out of place.
It's been hard. I'm not going to lie.
so why am i writing all of this?
because you girls make my life here so much more easier...


it doesn't take much to put a smile on my face.
I guess i'm writing this to really just say a little thank you.
a little thank you for letting me be "real" with you...
a little thank you for letting me be funny with you...
a little thank you for letting me into your lives and really
thank you for coming into my life....
xo
{and as i write this..i just found out i'm going to be an auntie.....get out!.....auntie Kasey.......}

meet and greet winners...

I knew you would like this pic above....and later this week i will do a post about it;-0.

you have been so patiently awaiting the winners of last Mondays meet and greet...

so here they are:

Petit Coterie pillow: Tamara

Dreams of France frame: Lissa

Flax and Spindle pillow: Tricia {backyard candle}

Ruche : Kristin {twinkle life}

Paper Hill necklace: Lindsay Mckay

Little Lotti girls capri's : J.J.

Little ByRd clutch: Michelle Bebe

SadieOlive design: Mindy {Mindy loves to garden}

Have a fabulous rest of the weekend girls and i will see you tomorrow.

winners...email me and i will get you in touch with the goods.

xo

imperfectly beautiful...

I've had this vintage armchair for 3 years and it was done in salmon toile. Fine if you like a pretty toile in a salmon color. I bought the chair because of the bones and it sat in my living room for a while, kind of looking like a lost soul....a bit out of place.

Then i came across some old burlap coffee sacks....that still had some beans sitting at the bottom.

I'm not going to lie.

I'm not the biggest burlap fan.

It shed's. ......really bad.

Its like having a dog ....on steroids.

burlap hair everywhere.

but i was determined to re-cover this chair myself...

It's not perfect. I didn't want it to be.

It's imperfect.......

and fits right in.

....just don't sit in it....

...because I am not going to buy you a lint roller to get the burlap hair off your bottom.