Hey, It's Okay Tuesday...

Joining in with Amber today for another edition of Hey, It's Okay Tuesday! 

Hey, It's Okay... 

~To feel a little annoyed when you want to respond to a comment/question someone left on your blog but can't because they are a "no reply blogger".  Check  your blogger profile.  Go to "edit profile" and check that little box that says "show my email address".  Please?  Pretty please? I've never gotten any spam from it.  The only spam I get on blogger comes in the form of comments and goes right into the spam folder.


~To like a little coffee with your flavored creamer. 


~To feel like you lost a good friend when one of your shows ends for the season.  I miss Breaking Bad!  


~To want to roll your eyes when you hear/see things like "Fall Festival" when it is being held on Halloween, there are costumes being worn and candy handed out.  Sounds an awful lot like HALLOWEEN to me.


~To wish your neighbors wouldn't spread manure all over their yards so often.  We can smell that over here.  


~To miss the days of real trick or treating.... When people actually stayed home and the kids went door to door in their neighborhoods for their junk instead of having to be driven somewhere else for a "Fall Festival".

~To think Lady Gaga is a freak on a leash but to still really love her music.


~To feel like you ran a marathon after spending your entire Saturday organizing your closet.  And to lie to yourself by proclaiming that  you are really and truly going to keep it that way forever this time.


~To really be looking forward to "falling back" on November 6th because although it will get dark earlier in the evenings at least it won't be pitch black outside when you try to drag your groggy butt outta bed when the alarm goes off at 6:30 in the mornings and to hope that maybe, just maybe, you won't have to hit snooze three times before actually doing it.


~To have sent your eight year old to school this morning with messy, gelled and sprayed hair while sporting eye makeup and a shirt you wrote "Loded Diper" on with a Sharpie. He was supposed to dress like a favorite book character and I thought the Wimpy Kid's older brother, Rodrick, would be more obvious than the Wimpy Kid himself.  

Happy Tuesday!

A Sunday Drive...

Yesterday we headed up the mountain for a drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway.  Our timing was a little late again since many of the leaves have already left the trees up there but I think we still got some pretty good shots...

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.  ~George Washington Carver

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.  Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.  The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.  ~John Muir

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!  ~Emily Dickinson

As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.  ~Stephen Graham

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!  ~John Muir

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.  ~Eleonora Duse

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.  ~Henry David Thoreau

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.  ~Stanley Horowitz

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.  ~George Eliot

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love.  For me they are the role model for being alive.  ~Gilda Radner

I talk to him when I'm lonesome like; and I'm sure he understands.  When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat.  For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that.  ~W. Dayton Wedgefarth

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.  ~Aldous Huxley

*Linking this post up for Anything Autumn with Jenny Matlock!

Fancy Friday...Brr!

Last week I told y'all it was picture day at the elementary school.  I managed to talk Dracen into moving one step up from a t-shirt to a polo for the big day.  Something I don't think I've been able to get his brother to do since preschool.  


And speaking of his brother... Since he is in middle school this year they are on completely different schedules with everything, including picture day.  I interrogated him about it last week and he informed me that his was coming up and he already had the form in his locker at school.  You have to pay up front.  And whether they smile, frown, or stick their tongues out I am going to have me a  picture to document every year of their  K through 12 public school educations.  


Wednesday morning I just happened to see on facebook that picture day was the next day so I went straight to the refrigerator and made a note with my big arse mom Sharpie so I would not forget.  And I did not forget.  


"Devin, I saw on facebook (he always cringes when he hears those words come out of my mouth) that picture day is tomorrow.  Where is your form?"  


"In my binder", he replied.  "Well, where exactly is your binder?" I snapped back.  


And he gives me the saucer eyes and the Ohhh crap, I'm in deep horse doo doo now! look and says, ever so sheepishly, "In my locker.  At school."  


I threatened to revoke his electronic privileges if he did not phone, text, or facebook a friend to find out some information about who was taking those pictures.  I had to then remind him two more times to do this but what with all my other mom duties around here, I completely forgot to question him a third time until after he was in bed.


Yesterday morning I questioned him a final time and of course he had not found out anything at all about the pictures.  "Nobody else is buying any!"  was the answer I got. "Since when do I care what everybody else is doing?!" I shot back.  "I WANT A PICTURE...AN 8 BY 10 TO GO ON THE WALL TO REPLACE THE ONE FROM LAST YEAR!"  


So I did what any good mother would do.  I put on my best house shoes, rolled my hair up tight in rollers, drove to the school and walked with him to his locker (talking and waving to everyone we passed along the way) to get that form filled out.  


And if you believe that,  then you don't know me at all.  


Oh how I wish I had that kind of gumption and lack of shame in my game.


No.  Instead I gave him the same amount of money I paid for Dracen's package (assuming it was most likely the same company) and told him that if he did not fill out that form, put that money in it and hand it to that photographer then he could kiss his modern day technological conveniences goodbye.  So he did it. But not without informing me that he was the only one in two classes with picture money.  


Their parents probably didn't get the memo. Facebook stalking does has its advantages.


And no, he did not wear anything special. I learned a long time ago that we have to choose our battles when it comes to parenting a stubborn child (26 hours of labor followed by a c-section because he just refused to come out).  I noticed as I was handing him the money and laying down the law that he was wearing an almost identical American Eagle t-shirt to the one he wore in his picture last year. The biggest difference was the letters.  The ones last year were flat and these were embroidered. Or something kinda like it.  


Anyway, I did not mean to get off on a mom rant this morning.  I really came here to talk about fashion and such.  And while I would not wear a shirt with giant letters spelling AMERICAN EAGLE across the front, I would wear this cabled sweater  with "American Eagle" on the label inside that is looking very cozy to me this morning since it is a chilly 37 degrees here.  Brr!

So is this...


Faux shearling coat by Coldwater Creek.

Turquoise Mosaic Ring
Every once in awhile I'll stumble upon a ring that I think I could fully get on board and commit to wearing on a regular basis on my right hand.  And this is one of those rings.  

Cooperative Suede Cap Toe Skimmer
I really have no idea what is meant by a "cooperative" shoe but I just thought these were too cute for words. Not that I go around saying things like "too cute for words" but you know...  

Asymmetrical Cashmere Sweater
I love this, especially in camel...

TOKYOBay Century Cuff Watch
Garnet Hill says this watch was made for the "urbanite at heart".  Well, I can assure you I am not one of those but I still love this watch.  

Tropical Sunset Earrings
I just thought these looked happy.

Winnie Satchel by Imoshion
I saw this in a magazine (can't remember which one) and think I could see myself getting really attached to it. Comes in three colors.

Journey's End Beige Purse Melie Bianco
I'm really feeling the vibe this one is throwing off too.

Falling Leaves Pendant Necklace Set
How very fallish!

Cowl Neck Top by Mystree
I love everything about this.

Talgarth Pencil Skirt
I see this with some tights and a pair of chunky heels.

And speaking of heels...


Strappy Mary Jane
There is just something about a mary jane that sucks me in every time and this pair is no exception.  They also come in brown.

AEO IKAT Loop Scarf
I think this scarf is just as equally happy as those tropical sunset earrings up there.  

Hope y'all have a Happy Friday!  I think we're gonna head up the mountain sometime this weekend to see if there are any leaves still on the trees up there.  Our big oaks in the yard are still mostly green!