Miraculous Adventures

 Saturday's outfit for taking the kids to a play and then hosting a couple over for dinner...

Inspiration from this Nordstrom 'Outfit' look:

I haven't worn this lace sweatshirt for a while so it was nice to create a new outfit with it...

And I love this skirt. It is so comfy, has pockets and never wrinkles...

 Sweatshirt - Nordstrom Rack

Skirt - Rock Republic

Purse - Coach

Booties - Steve Madden

Accessories - Michael Kors, Cookie Lee, vintage...

SATURDAY:
It was a busy day starting with Ice Skating class and Baseball game. Then we had just enough time to eat lunch and change outfits to go to the Jr. Theater to see the play adopted from the book "The Miraculous Adventures of Edward Tulane"....

After which we came home and rushed like crazy getting the house, table and dinner and appetizers ready to host my hubby's colleague and his wife over for dinner...

The days are long but the years are short

 Who can really say when I wore this outfit? The days are becoming a blur when I posted so many days later… I try to schedule them now for each night cause I am just so tired at night to log on and during the day I have very little time… I don't know how so busy I am cause the kids are in school a portion of the day but I have to prep for the crazy schedule when they get out so I have to cook dinner and prep snacks and bags and clothes they are going to need for the after school activities and my own food. And it just leaves very little time after I pick up around the house and clean up and get dressed myself plus exercise… It is just crazy….

Inspiration was from the 'Not Dressed as Lamb' blog:

I adopted the concept of graphic sweater over an aqua skirt with cognac boots and purse and a cool fedora. I didn't have a navy fedora so used the brown one which kind of goes with the cognac shoes and purse...

Hat - Jessica Simpson

Sweater - C Wonder

Skirt - Kika Paprika

Boots - Via Spiga

Purse - Chloe

Earrings - Thread Show

Haven't met you yet

Thursday's outfit was inspired by March 2014 looks of Anthropologie:

Mine is a knee length instead of midi skirt but the idea of solid top with print skirt is there….

This is one of those skirts that is sooo old and actually kind of big on me but I keep coming back to it over and over. The print and the color is just so perfect to create amazing combinations with….

Top, belt - Forever 21

Skirt - Target

Necklace- Baublebar

Sandals - Victoria's Secret

Sunglasses - Karen Walker

THURSDAY:

After dropping off the kids at school in the morning stayed to attend the volunteer orientation followed by 'room mom' orientation. I am co owning that role for my son's class this year with another friend. I also signed up to be the class photographer for both kids' classes.

As I was leaving the meeting another new mom of my daughter's classmate asked if I had time for a cup of coffee. They just moved to San Diego from Canada and she also has a 2nd grader son so it was great getting to know each other and it was apparently her birthday!

At home I caught up on unanswered emails and following up on creating team site for my son's soccer team and updating his class site etc…

Went to pick them up and brought them home for homework and snack. Then dropped off my daughter at my friend's house so she can take her to soccer while I took my son to his 2nd soccer practice of the week. The weather has dropped in temp like crazy and it was actually chilly on the field after days of heat.

I had made sandwiches for dinner for us so he can eat on the drive home to save time and get him to bed when we got home… My husband picked up my daughter and had their own dinner and came home. Teamwork. 

Always gonna be an uphill battle

 Yesterday's comfortable outfit was from the inspiration below… It is either top shop or zara lookbook:

This top has been so versatile and perfect for pairing with unexpected midi skirts. Last time it was with a hot pink crochet midi, this time it is my very old full floral knee length skirt.

Adding the casual slide on sandals underneath makes it very laid back…and oh so practical for me...

Top - Topshop

Skirt - TJ Maxx (super old)

Sandals - Zara

Clutch - Forever 21

Sunglasses - Wildfox

THURSDAY:
It was our free day which I decided to dedicate to running errands. I also had a toothache and wanted to get it checked out which required an appointment. The problem with running errands is it is hard to estimate how much time each task will require. So I thought I would have plenty of time to hit grocery store and back to the house to unpack then to lunch and stop at couple stores to shop for gitfts for Turkey when I booked my dentist but I was wrong. With the kids everything takes longer. I had to push back the appointment which then pushed back my son's haircut even further. So we had free time which I thought I could circle back to a store I never had time to go before lunch but after a stop at Starbucks and Jamba Juice it seems we were out of time again and I was so tired of being stressed and stuck and in traffic.
At the end we finally made it to the haircut and got it done and came home for a very low key dinner.
I just wished the day wasn't so stressful.

I improve with wine

Today's outfit was inspired by this chictopia post:

 I liked these unique colors together. Instead of platinum boxers though I went with gold captoe animal print booties instead....

Jacket - Gap

Blouse - Koton (from Turkey)

Skirt - Forever 21

Belt - Limited

Booties - Shoedazzle

Bracelets - Bauble bar & Cookie Lee

After a long absence, participating in Monday Mingle this week.

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“Monday Mingle” is a weekly fashion/personal style link-up rotated between Momtrends,BonBon Rose Girls, and Glamamom.