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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...but what if the shoe DOESN'T fit?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjegB7OTgK8l4RgQSDkd4yVionEfm0F8iGN8ZMV2Pr0RpoHVLeY5q2n9U1HVSAASJAYUo_m3sSo08MDxvHPiVbcv6w1rGbiSyjEiavKE8iT7raWJssX62a88LGzZVfpb-fnnf039N8esy0Q/s1600/D1britt2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjegB7OTgK8l4RgQSDkd4yVionEfm0F8iGN8ZMV2Pr0RpoHVLeY5q2n9U1HVSAASJAYUo_m3sSo08MDxvHPiVbcv6w1rGbiSyjEiavKE8iT7raWJssX62a88LGzZVfpb-fnnf039N8esy0Q/s400/D1britt2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">boots: target. socks: smith's marketplace. skirt: gap. shirt: pocket's. belt & hairthing: f21.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0_4cDWEBN_MBZcl_DpJe4WDo_seR5QzJkxWvTmOQfZOswDoUTUJOO7GULGFfAIDeFqJCRYwH_6JtmaxlMRnoyZbjy2EtzamClFCbpLMVY0di7Ac_L-aVUX3On1m5UTrmNL03ZUbpsli2w/s1600/D1britt1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0_4cDWEBN_MBZcl_DpJe4WDo_seR5QzJkxWvTmOQfZOswDoUTUJOO7GULGFfAIDeFqJCRYwH_6JtmaxlMRnoyZbjy2EtzamClFCbpLMVY0di7Ac_L-aVUX3On1m5UTrmNL03ZUbpsli2w/s400/D1britt1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This outfit isn't much to speak of. Not lots going on, other than the fact that I busted out wearing one of Pocket's workshirts. The good news is, I'm about 99.9% sure that the engineers down at his work aren't following this blog, so they'll never know. And if they ARE reading this, the fact that I'm wearing my husband's shirt becomes one of the least of our worries, now, doesn't it.</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Today's jumping-off point: this grey wool skirt. It's well over 10 years old. And it's supposed to be a pencil-skirt-that-wraps number, but I can only wear it at my hips, making my bottom half look larger than I actually am. In keeping with the bigger-is-apparently-better theme of today, I thought I'd throw on one of Pocket's shirts and waddle myself around the house. Which, for the record, is kinda fun to do on occasion. Waddle, that is. 'Cept instead of bread crumbs, I'm throwing myself fruity tootsie rolls and catching them quite adeptly, if I do say so myself. Quack.</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">To balance out the masculine, I overcompensated with some bling-shine-boom: a sequinilicious (yep) skinny belt, an enormous jewel-encrusted-jeweled hairthing, and diamond stud earrings. Which are real. A surprise gift from xoPocketxo himself. And I l.o.v.e. them--perfect size, shape, and stone. Thankyouverymuch.</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I considered adding tights today but didn't. Maybe I subconsciously wanted to show off my neon-translucent legs? Yeah, probably that. I just felt like socks today...but only socks that yelled "supersize me!" at the manufacturing plant. Which these obviously did. And I admire them for that.</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Then I got cold and added a cardigan and took three more pics. The end.</span></div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrpY7fhwOMKtVAGNJWBEYU6WZ0qhP8J2NDlxT7Pmd07Taxa5DzvXjW-w01lyQIkb-6cvszIa70v6PyQsIdWYvamYRs6yoxFX5uPiGZkerhIQ9poI25oJ2H36QKsB3-3OCKeP0qEU0wqe3m/s1600/D1britt3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="347" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrpY7fhwOMKtVAGNJWBEYU6WZ0qhP8J2NDlxT7Pmd07Taxa5DzvXjW-w01lyQIkb-6cvszIa70v6PyQsIdWYvamYRs6yoxFX5uPiGZkerhIQ9poI25oJ2H36QKsB3-3OCKeP0qEU0wqe3m/s400/D1britt3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Happy Wednesday!<br /><br /><em>[Addendum: If you'd like to check it out, I'm featured today on Jill's fabulous blog, <a href="http://spoilsofwear.blogspot.com/2011/01/blogtrotting.html">Spoils of Wear</a>. Thanks, Jill!]</em></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Want this look? <a href="http://www.beso.com/banana-republic/womens-skirts/banana-republic-lightweight-wool-grey-melange-pencil-skirt/2330477682/detail?af_assettype_id=4&af_creative_id=5&af_id=44772&af_placement_id=1&rf=af1" target="_blank">skirt</a><img border="0" height="1" src="https://adserve.shopzilla.com/img/publisherID-44772/assetID-5/placementID-1/url-http:%2F%2Fwww.beso.com%2Fbanana-republic%2Fwomens-skirts%2Fbanana-republic-lightweight-wool-grey-melange-pencil-skirt%2F2330477682%2Fdetail" width="1" /></img> <a href="http://www.beso.com/womens-shirts-blouses/ae-womens-striped-boyfriend-shirt-ae-blue/2060433471/detail?af_assettype_id=4&af_creative_id=5&af_id=44772&af_placement_id=1&rf=af1" target="_blank">boyfriend button-up</a><img border="0" height="1" src="https://adserve.shopzilla.com/img/publisherID-44772/assetID-5/placementID-1/url-http:%2F%2Fwww.beso.com%2Fwomens-shirts-blouses%2Fae-womens-striped-boyfriend-shirt-ae-blue%2F2060433471%2Fdetail" width="1" /></img><a href="http://www.beso.com/womens-cardigans/mustard-yellow-versatile-vee-cardi-womens-cardigans/2276441160/detail?af_assettype_id=4&af_creative_id=5&af_id=44772&af_placement_id=1&rf=af1" target="_blank">cardigan</a><img border="0" height="1" src="https://adserve.shopzilla.com/img/publisherID-44772/assetID-5/placementID-1/url-http:%2F%2Fwww.beso.com%2Fwomens-cardigans%2Fmustard-yellow-versatile-vee-cardi-womens-cardigans%2F2276441160%2Fdetail" width="1" /></img><a href="http://www.beso.com/apostrophe/womens-boots/apostrophe-nova-black/1418982190/detail?af_assettype_id=4&af_creative_id=5&af_id=44772&af_placement_id=1&rf=af1" target="_blank">boots</a><img border="0" height="1" src="https://adserve.shopzilla.com/img/publisherID-44772/assetID-5/placementID-1/url-http:%2F%2Fwww.beso.com%2Fapostrophe%2Fwomens-boots%2Fapostrophe-nova-black%2F1418982190%2Fdetail" width="1" /></img></span></div><br /><div style="background: white; border-bottom: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-left: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-right: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-top: #bfbfbf 1px solid; display: block; position: relative; width: 424px;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="244" name="shopstyle_search" scrolling="no" src="http://widget.shopstyle.com/widget?pid=uid6676-2041974-73&fts=womens%20boyfriend%20button-up&cat=womens-clothes&width=3&height=1&border=0&footer=0" width="424"></iframe><br /><div style="bottom: 2px; height: 18px; left: 0px; line-height: 12px; position: absolute; width: 100%;"><div style="left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; position: absolute;"><a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/browse?fts=womens%20boyfriend%20button-up#pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: #606060; font: 11px verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;">womens boyfriend button-up</a></div><div style="padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 3px; position: absolute; right: 0px;"><a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/#pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;"><img alt="ShopStyle" src="http://resources.shopstyle.com/im/widget/ShopStyleLogo_powered.png" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></img></a></div></div></div>

...but what if the shoe DOESN'T fit?

  boots: target. socks: smith's marketplace. skirt: gap. shirt: pocket's. belt & hairthing: f21. This outfit isn't much to s...

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