a belt by any other name...would be just as non-functionally decorative

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTSa7o9zZuSWvEmLv_RIhAd4I6SqDZjP-3bSPD-UErAjpLl6D2TDgZcXUvUr4-XH4Gi1MQSMu83Hz3YMcQyvE9hWsZHzFOrzoYXLnsNeK9g8bKkFg-vawYvMNPq77D8C2r1djajZ3Qr0JA/s1600/X1britt1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="340" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTSa7o9zZuSWvEmLv_RIhAd4I6SqDZjP-3bSPD-UErAjpLl6D2TDgZcXUvUr4-XH4Gi1MQSMu83Hz3YMcQyvE9hWsZHzFOrzoYXLnsNeK9g8bKkFg-vawYvMNPq77D8C2r1djajZ3Qr0JA/s400/X1britt1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">boots, skirt, & belt: kohl's. sweater: don't recall (maybe kohl's as well?). watch: target. necklace: don't recall. tights: forever21.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnbSVeLkw_O6kkZjA6EgMo6AxKb99JrjA-OJ1yGF351L3xG65LHgHaQpR8wVBOtnEah9R9Y9GkmfJrHF1AxUCMK_ZfkaIuL0N8NWQe17W7qn-b_51k3M54VqecSKG8GIxRE0k5y5nvcDw3/s1600/X1britt3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnbSVeLkw_O6kkZjA6EgMo6AxKb99JrjA-OJ1yGF351L3xG65LHgHaQpR8wVBOtnEah9R9Y9GkmfJrHF1AxUCMK_ZfkaIuL0N8NWQe17W7qn-b_51k3M54VqecSKG8GIxRE0k5y5nvcDw3/s400/X1britt3.jpg" width="340" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc0xW7XWzzpoaVp6ruKMq2TSb7OOE5XcSTaBX-941u2WtfTBiLuIOTn01wcvrpnBoUSs2Vc6kpoL1fJNzXUWcz6vuV7Pkq5qx6hWcUa7aTkSGPTIZwka3WVp5BsXcFHQm69B9YEbN10Z2i/s1600/X1britt2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc0xW7XWzzpoaVp6ruKMq2TSb7OOE5XcSTaBX-941u2WtfTBiLuIOTn01wcvrpnBoUSs2Vc6kpoL1fJNzXUWcz6vuV7Pkq5qx6hWcUa7aTkSGPTIZwka3WVp5BsXcFHQm69B9YEbN10Z2i/s400/X1britt2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center">It was bedtime when I snapped these photos. You can tell because the lighting's weird, and my daughter is in her pjs. Which, come to think of it, actually proves nothing, because we're in pjs a lot around here, day AND night. It's like in old movies when there's a scene that's supposed to be in the middle of the night, but it's super bright so you can't even tell. Noon?...or midnight?...</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">Speaking of old movies, I LOVE Pride & Prejudice. 5-hour BBC Colin Firth version, natch. And, sure, the book, too. Jane Austen was a master authoress (yep), if you ask me.</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">Speaking of books, I need to read more. Lately, I barely glance at the newspaper headlines. And do the sudoku. I used to be a crossword puzzle whiz. Now it's sudoku. What an enormous shift in my life, moving from a nerdy word-based thing to a nerdy number-based thing.<br /><br />It's similar, although not identical, to eating a muffin that's really nothing more than a cupcake sans icing. But doesn't the word "muffin" sound just so much healthier? That's what I tell myself, too, as I reach for my third one...</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">Would you believe that when I sat down to do this post I had nothing to say? I mean, look at allllll the interesting and important things I spewed forth in this post! Aren't you so glad you stopped by, guys? Guys?...Hello?...<span style="font-size: x-small;">hello?</span>...<span style="font-size: xx-small;">hello?</span>...</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">Happy Monday.</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Want this look? Get yo' nerd on, then shop below... 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a belt by any other name...would be just as non-functionally decorative

  boots, skirt, & belt: kohl's. sweater: don't recall (maybe kohl's as well?). watch: target. necklace: don't recall. ti...

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gratitudiness

<div style="text-align: center;">I honestly don't know what happened/where I was in the middle photo below. But I like it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwSm9UgAKTN7mS8M9iiUHJExp1OdSu_8b9XjinjC-tuBYe0M97z6sTfVvb0fcmy-X-ZzgJ_1Pa8DiJOpLcAZgqrM10kqAzrKDXdrQIclbf7l-R5dYEy02ud7MLHlZhq3Yxe2TDNHNuHBt-/s1600/C1britt2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="340" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwSm9UgAKTN7mS8M9iiUHJExp1OdSu_8b9XjinjC-tuBYe0M97z6sTfVvb0fcmy-X-ZzgJ_1Pa8DiJOpLcAZgqrM10kqAzrKDXdrQIclbf7l-R5dYEy02ud7MLHlZhq3Yxe2TDNHNuHBt-/s400/C1britt2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> boots & sweater: kohl's (I think). tights: gift. skirt & shirt: gap. earrings: hawaii.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXnfpYJtpdVOUJOGqamfX2CEuVanoDClmHbH6MjJsoPQ_EQYTu1ORhP60QAImUYqt4tiTCGdjXr9-lJYxqEXOaoU3PfSykfaIGh73SoU5seo5QvrQaJf9XjlmD-jNiQMduBNri0fldYXNc/s1600/C1britt1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXnfpYJtpdVOUJOGqamfX2CEuVanoDClmHbH6MjJsoPQ_EQYTu1ORhP60QAImUYqt4tiTCGdjXr9-lJYxqEXOaoU3PfSykfaIGh73SoU5seo5QvrQaJf9XjlmD-jNiQMduBNri0fldYXNc/s400/C1britt1.jpg" width="340" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_TFnq9y3YCxSLxUYfxQRZRXb3h_R9jvTDoZ4Xa_cr9KrIjDrldbhf56b3CXWhgML2wFHCh3BBOa6k0C-HwwNJY1LW_ouP1PswGIVhmKCuBawQxuDCBfx97mPSHiR_VQh232OnTQMEtIqw/s1600/C1britt3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="340" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_TFnq9y3YCxSLxUYfxQRZRXb3h_R9jvTDoZ4Xa_cr9KrIjDrldbhf56b3CXWhgML2wFHCh3BBOa6k0C-HwwNJY1LW_ouP1PswGIVhmKCuBawQxuDCBfx97mPSHiR_VQh232OnTQMEtIqw/s400/C1britt3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Birthday girl struck the pose to show me what to do. Like her belt? She's killing me with the cuteness. 'Cept those shoes. Ohhhh, those shoes...the loves of her life...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This week, I'm grateful for:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">- my kids. and how, in their world, transformers marry barbies, very (very) worn red sparkly shoes are still beautiful, and statements of fact ("charlie licked my FACE!") are hilarious and repeated as often as a good knock-knock joke. which means oft.en.</div><div style="text-align: center;">- disposable plastic tea-ware.</div><div style="text-align: center;">- sentences that begin with, "okay, mom, I'll try..."</div><div style="text-align: center;">- when things turn out to be easier/faster than I thought they'd be.</div><div style="text-align: center;">- soccer practice and a typically not-a-sports-guy kid thoroughly enjoying himself during said practice.</div><div style="text-align: center;">- a husband who bakes the birthday girl's cake. and is so proud of it (and rightly so) that he calls it "my precious." but tries to cover it up by pretending he's talking about me.<br />- prayer.</div><div style="text-align: center;">- concealer. seriously. the zit queen of the universe has waved her magic wand in my direction, and my face has, with open arms, welcomed her spell. stinking face. so. thanks, concealer.</div><div style="text-align: center;">- 13 four- to eight-year-old girls at a tea party.</div><div style="text-align: center;">- family. and heart-to-hearts with family members. and those conversations of nothingness that are just as important as the heart-to-hearts.</div><div style="text-align: center;">- the satisfaction of eating a perfectly crunchy apple. (and, fine, who am i kidding, a perfectly drool-worthy mint chocolate chip shake.)</div><div style="text-align: center;">- sleep.</div><div style="text-align: center;">- sleep.</div><div style="text-align: center;">- sleep.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Happy Sunday. </div>

gratitudiness

I honestly don't know what happened/where I was in the middle photo below. But I like it.  boots & sweater: kohl's (I think). ti...

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