--I love this picture of Shelby with two of her sweet friends at a birthday party this past weekend!
--In the past couple of months, a few of the girls' shirts have come out of the washing machine looking a little yellowish around the colar/neck and occasionally on their shirt sleeves. It was driving me CRAZY b/c I had no idea what was causing it. I couldn't figure out if it was the washer, detergent, the stain removal stuff I was using, or what was going on! Then about two weeks or so ago, the girls' brand new pumpkin shirts I had made for them came out yellowed, and I was LIVID! I did everything I could to salvage them and got them looking almost as good as new. Then after wearing them again, they came out yellowed again. I've literally been racking my brain (and my mom's) trying to figure out what in the world was going on, and it suddenly dawned on me as I was walking out of the laundry room yesterday afternoon....SUNSCREEN! I always rub in lotion on the girls' faces, but I spray their necks & arms with spray sunscreen. I was simultaneously SO MAD that it was all my fault but SO THANKFUL to have finally figured the mystery out. Here's to no more yellow laundry! ;)
--And speaking of laundry, I always used to give my mom a hard time that she practically lived in the laundry room. But now I know why, I'm constantly in the living room getting the paint out of Shelby's shirts from preschool or getting the dirt stains out of Hadley's pants after a trip to the playground. I've turned into my mother! ;)
--I read {THIS POST} a while back (LOVE this blog!) that really resonated with me & reminded me a lot of my relationship with the Facebook app on my phone. Several times in the past few months, I've read an article here or there that made me stop & think about my "screen time" and its effect on me & my family, but I never actually acted on it until now. Since Friday morning, I have limited my Facebook acesss to 10-15 minutes on the computer during the girls' naptime & another 10-15 minutes on the computer once they're in bed at night. It has been SO LIBERATING! The thing that held me back from doing this before was thinking I would feel like I was missing out on something, but the truth is I haven't missed a thing! I also liked to cling to Facebook on those stay-at-home-mom kind of moments where I was feeling isolated/alone, and Facebook helped give me a connection to the outside world but it was distracting me from what was right in front of me. This quote from the post really rang true for me: "Generally, I just felt overstimulated. So much input all the time." I would mindlessly scroll through my newsfeed at random points throughout the day, and I never really realized its impact until I've stopped that habit. I feel calmer, less anxious, and more PRESENT now. So while I don't want to give up Facebook entirely, I've radically changed the way I use it and it's no longer a distraction/addiction throughout my days. Sometimes I'll pick up my phone to check the time, and I find that my finger automatically goes to the blue F on my phone's homescreen...it's crazy (and scary!) how automatic it had become!
--We got our family pictures back this week, and I LOVE them! But of course now I can't decide on a Christmas card to save my life. ;)
--Shelby has "Donuts with Dad" at her preschool on Thursday, and she is beyond excited! Donuts are her favorite food in the world, and this will be the first time Derek has gotten to see her school...so it's doubly exciting!
--And we'll end with this picture that I took while we were at the airport waiting for Auntie Em's flight to land a couple weeks ago :)
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