Pregnant and not in Heels

I know y'all only follow this blog for the Single Gal's shenannigans but sometimes you just get me......mommy blogging. Forgive me if I have any crazy typos because I'm doing this from my iPad. My computer didn't feel like working and I didn't feel like dealing with it. This is not even mom blogging today it's just me and my irrational and crazy thoughts. Like when I read MODG's fears about having her second child and I think I will be having a second and third child....at the same time. Yeah. I will be really sleep deprived. After you have your first baby you think you'll remember what it felt like when you were suffering from manic exhaustion but you probably can't really regenerate what it felt like. I sure can't. Also, I'm afraid of having a c-section for several reasons. I've never had major surgery before and poor Turtle is a little squeamish and by that I mean TOTALLY squeamish. I hope he's not on the floor in the operating room. Poor guy. He's like, don't you just want your mom to be there? (He's kidding people.) Second reason is that I want as minimal a recovery as possible. I know people have c-sections every day and they aren't as bad as they seem but still. Third is that I'm terrified I will die of a flesh eating bacteria. You heard me. I swear I heard some news story about a woman who had a c-section and caught a flesh eating bacteria at the hospital. At least my good friend J has had three c-sections and can talk me off the ledge. By that I mean as many times as I need her too. I have a doctors appointment this week so we can all look forward to a gender reveal soon. I know that people have multiples with siblings all the time and they survived and so will I. Because any good Southern woman has a little bit of Scarlett in her. The Housewife

Monday Obsessions: Blogs and Hair Products

Well, I made it back from Wedding Weekend alive.  Really tired, but alive.  After dragging myself out of bed this morning at 9:30 (seriously, I never sleep this late!) I made my coffee and began catching up on all my blogs when I remembered that I had my own blog that was in dire need of an updated post.  Today is Monday after all, so you know what that means...time for an update on all the things we are obsessing over. 

Lately I am completely not obsessed with having to wash my hair every single day. Especially in the summer since when I do wash it and dry it and break out my fancy curling iron the humidity here in Georgia absolutely kills any dreams or illusions I may have had about having a good hair day as soon as I walk outside.  The best bet I have for even holding curl is the day after I have washed my hair when it's dry and starting to get a bit of texture.  Aside from my general use of baby powder to dry my scalp a bit since it basically functions as the cheapest dry shampoo ever, I have sought a little help from my favorite product line - Big Sexy Hair.  I can't always afford it, but all of their items work wonders on my super fine hair.  

Big Sexy Hair - Powder Play

Little A introduced me to this one. Just a bit on your hair kind of dries it up and allows me to get some extra volume on the top of my head.  It can kind of give you that "2nd Day" hair feel on day one, or you can use it on a day when you aren't going to wash it.  It's not crazy expensive and it will last you a while. 

If you have more money than me (most people do) then you can also try this Aveda Pure Abundance Hair Potion.  Our hairdresser for the wedding put this everywhere on my hair for volume and I'm tempted to spare $24 to go and grab some. It just makes your hair follicles swell up magically.   

Also, I am sure you all already know about both of these blogs, but I am behind the times (as usual) because I really don't make a ton of time to just sit on the computer and read unless I am wasting time on Pinterest.  I am a new-comer these but I am completely obsessed with  The Everygirl  and  Wendy's Lookbook!!!  

Why I love {The Everygirl} -- It seems to be for just what it says -- every girl.  And, they are always featuring items that are budget friendly and elements for all parts of your life. Not just fashion. Not just stuff to decorate your home with. Not just entertaining ideas and etiquette.  They address every part of your life and they seem nice and cute and I feel like we are friends.  

  

Why I love {Wendy's Lookbook} -- Even though I read a lot of "fashion" blogs just to see what people are wearing, I am not that in love with, well, any of them. Except this one.  First, this girl is seriously beautiful beyond belief, but I follow her on Twitter and she seems incredibly kind and giving. She does some charity work, makes fun YouTube videos, and while she loves fashion, it doesn't seem to be the only important thing in her life.  While most of her posts are clothes, she also writes a bit about other things in her life, but keeps a central focus while doing this.  It's kinda hard for me to explain since I am still not quite awake -- but check her out if you haven't seen her stuff. Impeccable style. I want every outfit she wears. For real.  Most of the fashion bloggers seem like they are just trying too hard in a lot of the posts I see.  Except for Wendy. She is as effortless as Kate Middleton. 

What blogs do you love? What can't you live without when you fix your hair?

Happy Monday! Here's to a great week for everyone.


Love you. Mean it.
~the single gal~

Keep Calm And....

Well, Birthday Season has started with a bang.  A big, fat, nasty one to my savings account.  I'd like to send a nastygram to the government for putting a large, black cloud over my Birthday which stressed me out to the point where I had a hideous migraine that kept coming back from Friday all the way through Sunday. I'm tapped out with a total of $1500 going to the car.  I mean, it's fine -- a new car is seriously not in the picture for at least 5 more years and I really refuse to get anything until my student loan is paid off and the wheels are also falling off the Honda.  Thank God my ad valorem tax is all of $36 and then a $20 tag fee. 

Tomorrow is D-Day.  There are no more lights on the dashboard glaring at me every time I get in to go somewhere. That car better pass that damn test. After the aphids I really can't take much more this summer. Sheesh. 

I spent so much on the car that I really was going to guilt myself into taking my Lilly maxi dress back.  The dress was expensive. I probably don't really need it. {Ok. I don't need the dress at all.}  I had already ripped the tags off my seersucker mimosa skirt and was sporting it around town so I couldn't cut that one from the closet.  So far I haven't taken it back.  It's on my credit card.  It's irresponsible of me not to return it. I can't afford it. But I'm still just 28 until Thursday...so I can still slide on responsibility for a few days right? 

Might not be the best idea, but it's a lot easier to deal with all this mess in a pretty dress if you ask me. 

Also, a quick note to everyone who has helped me out over the past two weeks or so. It's seriously hard for me to ask for help. I hate it. I don't like depending on other people for anything. I don't like appearing vulnerable or incapable in any way, shape or form. It kills me.  I really don't know why I work myself up so much.  Everything always works out in the end.  So, for now, I'm going to try to repair my savings account.  And I am going to keep calm and wear my expensive maxi dress for the rest of the summer while I do it. 

But thanks for the rides.  Thanks for helping me find someone trustworthy who could fix my car for a reasonable price.  A million little "thank you's" to 3 Putt for bringing me a huge bag of dog food for Hogan (and a bag of treats).  Sympathy tweets were appreciated, too.  And I am sorry for all the complaining.  I am lucky to have a reliable car and even luckier to have some reliable friends. 

Love you. Mean it. 

~the single gal~

Birthday Blues

I really haven't thought a lot about my/our birthday this year. The Single Gal and I are leaving for Little A's wedding next weekend and sometimes when you're not eight years old having the most amazing pool party of your life after you got a Nintendo...birthday's are just lack luster. We were not bloggers the year of one of the most awkward birthday dinners ever.

I got to find out #1's sex on my birthday in 2010. One would think that would be fantastic. Guess again. It was traumatic. I just really thought we were having a boy and the 20 week ultrasound is a big check on the baby's spine and organs.. I was very worried about the latter, not the gender. It's not that I was disappointed I was having a girl; I was just expecting it to be a boy. On top of that my OB was giving me the up and down because I gained 10 pounds between visits but I think they forgot that I had not been for a check up in more like 7 weeks and not the usual 4 due to the holiday and the tech for gender etc is only in on Mondays. There were lots of tears on the way back to work. So to finish out the day we had made what we thought was a triple date when the Single Gal wasn't so single, myself and Turtle and our friend C and her husband. No one else confirmed they were actually going to show up to this dinner. Except then K-Woww and The Situation text to say they are coming and the Single Gal had already invited he who will be known as a flip flop stealing jerk. This is also the first time said jerk was getting a dose of The Single Gal AND The Housewife........which can really only be considered as viewing a tennis match. Like a Rafa vs Federer match. Oh, but Baby and her guy show up. Late. As usual. However, our table is full at this time so we have to have the waitress seat them at this two top right behind our table. I don't even remember what we did last year. We can safely say that next Thursday we have just planned our usual three person meal at our favorite Mexican place. Just The Single Gal, Housewife and Turtle.

I really don't "need" anything but here are some things I would gladly accept to keep away the birthday blues. The first is so I can be stylish like Single Gal....and maybe if I wear a bold necklace it will draw the eye away from the belly this summer. $29 on top of that!

Sky Blue Bubble Statement Necklace- Etsy

Kendra Scott Danielle Earrings

Drizzle by Oakley $130

I think the best thing I have scheduled on my actual birthday is a mani/pedi. And I do love getting a manicure.

The Housewife

Weekend Happenings and Birthday Prep

 I hope everyone had a wonderful long (or wonderfully long) weekend.  I had to work on Monday -- but I needed a comp day to attend Little A's wedding as I am still building up PTO (lame) and it was OK because my manager let us go at 2 (yay!).  I had a great weekend even though it was short. I have done all my "pre" Birthday shopping, the philosophy behind this being that I would like to have said items around to wear during Birthday Season (read: the entire month of June). 

So...Saturday I got up and had a coffee date with The Housewife since she can't run right now and then I relaxed and headed into the city for shop serious shopping.  They just opened the Lilly Pulitzer store in Phipps and I just had to run in a take a look! It was super cute but y'all, I really can't ignore all the Lilly stuff at Belk -- because Belk has great sales, and well, Lilly wasn't having any of that on Saturday (or probably ever for that matter).  Here are a few things I am prepping for Birthday Season: 

Lilly Pulitzer Alaya Dress

Lilly Pulitzer Mimosa Skirt in Seersucker

(already worn it. love it. want to wear it every single day this summer. if i had thought enough to write a Monday Obsessions post, this would have been the feature)

Jack Rogers Navajo in Platinum

(note, these are en route from Piperlime so if I hate them I may return them. verdict pending.)

I also got in some serious pool time with my fave friend STV (sweet tea vodka), had two  dinners in the city with 3 Putt (Lord help me) at the Brookhaven Noche and back to the lovely patio at Varasano's (since repeating history is apparently a new theme with me right now) where he so eloquently stated that we were "seeing each other". Um, news to me. I have an idea how the story ends, but c'est la vie.  I stayed up very late on Sunday and I paid for it at work on Monday. I also ate lots of Fro Yo (duh). 

This week and next week are all about gearing up for Little A's wedding.  You will all be happy to know that nothing has changed I am basically still completely and utterly undateable for any real event in my life as I am sitting pretty and alone for my entire trip to Savannah.  I was going to try to entertain you with a lovely post about how undateable I am but I am truly exhausted just thinking about it all. Not to worry, there is plenty of fun to be had. I have the luxury of staying with the sweet, lovely, and amazing bride on Friday night for our last slumber party as Single Gals.  Little A and I used to spend the night with each other in middle school and stay home on Friday nights playing Scrabble  (see, I was undateable then, too).  I am so lucky to have her as a friend and I cannot wait to see her walk down the aisle and glow all day about how gorgeous and perfect one of my very best friends is that day, and always.  My dress is at the cleaners, I will be working on her rehearsal bouquet of ribbons from her shower, and praying to Little Baby Jesus to seriously help my car pass emissions testing so I can legally drive it on my road trip. 

Also - my spell check doesn't like the word "undateable". Let's call Webster and get it in the dictionary.  Single Gals need more words.  Because we are special. And sometimes undateable. 

What did everyone else do for Memorial Day? I want to hear about all your fun!

Love you. Mean it. 

~the single gal~

Twice the Babies = Twice the Hormones.

I am truly not a person who minds being pregnant. When I was pregnant with #1 I had a very easy and uncomplicated pregnancy. I had some early swelling that never seemed to go away and so far do not have that this time around. With #1 I was sort of a little sick.....maybe......when I woke up in the morning and on my drive to work. With the twins I was sick all.day.long from around five weeks to ten weeks. I would wake up in the middle of the night and feel sick. I don't know what is worse, just feeling like you will vomit all the time or vomiting all the time. The Single Gal has a dear friend who is still sick and throwing up most days and she's due the first week of August. My mother-in-law pretty much threw up everyday with her first (not the Turtle).

Also, when these twins are sassy teenagers I will remind them how they broke mommy's nose because I'm pretty sure my nose is jacked up. Problem is the only way to tell is by a CT scan and I can't get one of those things until I deliver. And I can't afford a nose job anyway so why get the CT scan? Now the Single Gal can say her nose is better than mine when we used to be equals. Stab her.


This little adorable gal loves the word "NO" right now. Can we go change your diaper? NO. Do you want to take a bath? NO. NO. NOOOAAAAH. (runs away from mommy). I can't even have my own water as you can see. (This is one of my better pictures that's not over exposed. Kind of self teaching and half learning from the Pioneer Woman blog.)

Do you know what you buy when you're pregnant and having a bad day? Candy. Candy and magazines because you can't buy a magazine and a bottle of wine. The grocery bill is a good place to hide these things from your husbands because it's very general and doesn't show up as "GAP" on your billing statement. I am struggling because one of my placenta's is over my cervix right now (placenta previa) and I've been placed on "pelvic rest," with no heavy lifting, no running or jarring activities. I can swim. While I have no problem adhering to the doctor's orders for the safety of the babies it is mentally frustrating. I really like working out.....and while I was a competitive swimmer for many years I really do not enjoy swimming that much anymore, especially by myself. The midwife said this should hopefully resolve itself and not be an issue down the road but they can't really say when. I hope by my 16 week appointment. 

I promise not to be a crazy, grumpy, hormonal basket case. Most of the time anyway. Y'all enjoy your Memorial Day weekend and eat some BBQ and hang out on the lake or something.

The Housewife

Wordsday

Judging from the stats "Wordless Wednesday" isn't all that popular...except this week has been stressful and hard already so it's a good thing we run a dictatorship here on this blog and not a democracy. I kid. But seriously, y'all are getting mo' pictures today.  And mo' words on Wordsday...get it???? OK I'll stop now.

This weekend I was strolling through Target and these drew me right in.  I spent $20 for 6 blooms which is not typically my flower budget, but I had a $25 gift card and they were just too gorgeous.  I am overwhelmed with their happy, pink, joyfulness every time I walk into the house. Totally worth the price!  

Saturday afternoon was spent at the pool with The Housewife and #1. We took turns dipping her into the pool and swimming her around. Then, it was back to my place for pizza! {Except she had some crackers first...hence the spot on her sweet face!}

I took the words "Sunday Funday" to heart and had a wonderful three hour brunch with Elise at Varasano's in Atlanta. It's located at the bottom of a giant condo building on Peachtree which meant that we had complete shade and a light breeze on the patio until 3 p.m. I had wine, but I will have to return since they have $10 bottomless mimosas, bellini's, and Bloody Mary's on the menu.   I also ended up heading home...and the to PURE with 3 Putt for margs and dinner. Needless to say I was quite toasted by the end of the evening and fell right to sleep. {Big thanks to 3 Putt for a lovely meal and for fixing all those fuses that blew during the storm.}

In other news I have been pretty down and grumpy this week. I am trying my best to have a good attitude about being the main person assisting with files that belonged to a rep that quite my office...but, I am SO over getting yelled at because of things that person never did or returned calls that person never made.  And, I am over fraud training classes that are 1 hour each. Stab. My. Eyes. Out. I have also just been stressed about my car and trying to get it repaired so it will pass emissions before my birthday. It needs a lot of work which equals a lot of money out of my small savings account. 

But...the UPS man made a surprise visit to my house today and I was overwhelmed with a generous gift from Little A.  I felt so much better and it reminded me that if nothing else, I have great friends who will listen and support me in these hard times and you can't really ask for much more than that.  Even so, a little kate spade doesn't hurt! 

Love you. Mean it. 

~the single gal~