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Me and my paper cutter did some work for Ashton's teacher all while enjoying the season premiere of Grey's Anatomy!

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This year, I am FINALLY able to be a room parent for the girls. I am one of two for Landry's class and I am one of four in for Ashton's class. I haven't been able to do this until now since Landry wasn't in school. 

This evening I had my "Room Parent Training" meeting for Landry's class...now that I have had my training, I guess I am official and need to get to work!

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Do ya wanna know how I feel about cleaning blinds?

Well, here you go...

strongly dislike, loathe, detest, and really I just hate to clean them!!!

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PLEASE ... Help A Sista Out!

~I am a HORRIBLE decorator.

~I don't use many accessories because I don't know what to do with them, or how to arrange them, or even what to get.  (My brain just doesn't work that way at all!)

~I have never had a lamp on this end table because I have had small children who would pull it off.

~But now, I think I need something to go on this table with this lonely lamp that I just got today which is why the tags are still on.

~I would LOVE any ideas or suggestions...

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The other day the girls and I ran into Target real quick to get Lan-Lan some shoes and as we walked by an endcap,we spotted this box of Halloween shaped mac-n-Cheese.  We decided to grab one and give it a try. 

So today I made this trick or cheesy mac-n-cheese for them for lunch. They loved it...they had the best time inspecting each bite and announcing whether they were munching on a bat, a ghost, or a pumpkin.  It was a fun change and we love all things fall and halloween in our house!

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Landry attended her first birthday party for a classmate today.

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Does this barrette look familiar to anyone?

I remember making these when I was a little girl.

One of Ashton's friend's mom made this for her to wear with her spirit wear on Fridays and Ashton was totally thrilled not only because of the "really cool barrette" but because it is old school from Mommy's days of being a little girl!

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This morning, my littlest girl wanted to have her hair in braids just like her Sisser.  Sounds easy enough...only I couldn't do "piggy tail" braids like Ashton's because Landry's hair isn't quite long enough yet. So....I had to do french braids and I wasn't even sure I could do those.

But as you can see, I was able to make french braids an Landry was happy as can be.  Ashton LOVED that Landry requested braids to be like her!

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This is a guaranteed 30 minutes of our day Monday-Thursday...Ashton's reading portion of her homework! 

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Oh how I have missed the gym! I am pretty sure there was a layer of dust on my gym bag since the only use it got lately was when the girls played with my equipment on a few occasions.

Today I was able to get back at it...I had taken a little hiatus with potty training and school starting.

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College Week for ARB is upon us once again...and this year she chose a different college to represent!

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$6 wallflowers make me so happy! 

Now I have some fall smells and I am excited to make it a little more fall-ish around here!

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Today we headed out to our first ever Balloon Festival. This event has been held for several years and we have never been (we tried to go last year but we had a ton of rain so we opted out of the mud and mess) so we were excited to go this year.

Let's just say that we have been there done that and we can check it off our list of things to do.  I am glad the girls were able to experience seeing a hot air balloon up close!

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This evening, Ashton and I went to celebrate Macy's 8th Birthday! Miss Jodi had a super cute and fun party planned....all the big girls had a blast! I think it was everything MGL wanted! The best part was that it was on her actual birthday!

Happy Birthday Macy G...we love you bunches!

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I love, love, love the Container Store. I love my newly organized and LABELED pantry. 

Unfortunately, no one else in my house is as in love with the pantry as I am. Well, Landry does love the snack box with her name on it, but I was hoping for BB and Ashton to get excited too.They just didn't respond like I wanted them to. I think they think I am a little on the weird side for being THIS excited over a pantry!

But this just makes me happy....and calm....and giddy...and excited. Maybe I am a little weird....

Believe it or not, I wasn't able to find a solution or storage thingy for everything as you can see from the "collection" of stuff directly above the girls' snack boxes...but I will keep looking. But for now it works and I just focus on the things with labels and boxes and bins!