its friday and i like things/ 3

wearing- 

a lot of red. maybe it's the leaves changing? it's been unseasonably warm here, so eliza and louisa and i have been leaving the house in jackets in the morning and coming home with a few layers removed.


beauty stuff-

a lot of lipstick. favorites right now: urban decay matte revolution lipstick (i have this shade), which stays forever and isn't uncomfortably drying. steady hand in application is key. kat von d everlasting liquid lipstick is also fun. i have a few colors and i'm eyeing this one.


did i already mention lash stiletto mascara? don't remember but i love it. i like long lashes (who doesn't?!) but do not like clumping or spideryness. this one produces long skinny lashes.


every once in a while because we buy through an internet rebate thing, i'll get a sephora gift card instead of cashing out. i'm thinking my next sephora purchases will be a new color of stila liquid eyeliner or a new bobbi brown blush- i've heard they last really well.


cooking-

scrambled eggs with basil and truffle oil for breakfast. one day we did it with feta as well, delicious.


baking pumpkin banana applesauce muffins. very very healthy and they taste like it. but eliza loves them. the child will eat anything.


oh! and we made some pickles (FINALLY, greg would say.) making pickles seems so daunting and susie homemaker but it is not scary. ill throw up my how-to (i hesitate to even call it a recipe) at some point if anyone is interested. this week we did some sweet and spicy slices for sandwhiches and snacking, some regular garlic dill cukes, carrots and onions. i think we finished them on wednesday and they are half gone.



reading-

finished liane moriarty's what alice forgot. i liked it! made me want to bring it in the car to read while i waited for eliza to come out from school, which is high praise. any time i'm so into a book that i need to bring it with me in case i get a few minutes... that's such a wonderful feeling. this was another one of those books that made me real grateful for my husband and babies. so that's a positive. easy and enjoyable read.


still reading loving to know by esther meeks. so much underlining happening. a snippet:


"it has been ingrained in us that we should keep our emotions, our selves, out of the information, as you would strive to keep contaminants out of a water supply. small wonder that people are bored, when personal commitment and passion are subjective items we must check at the door, small wonder that we are bored, when we presume that information is ever only dispassionately derived or held to be true. dispassionately gleaned information, dispassionately conveyed and dispassionately apprehended, spells boredom. it suggests that knowledge has little to do with what is meaningful in life."


BOOM.


watching- 

my girls sleep. just kidding but not really. i feel like i'm attached to the video monitor at all times.


still mega into survivor. although some seasons just don't do it for me. season 13 i loved, season 14, not my favorite. can't put my finger on it.

new nursing show- aka what i watch during the one feeding i have where eliza is not awake and i can sit and nurse in front of the laptop. fixer upper on netflix. cute couple makes inexpensive real estate in texas (i guess there's just so much land out there they're giving it away?) look cute. he thinks she's smart and amazing and it's always fun to see husbands behave that way. seems so genuine. i mean, the show seems to take for granted that absolutely everyone wants a white kitchen and that all furniture should show signs of distress, but its sweet. and its a design show that doesn't make everyone's house look like it should be a doctor's office waiting room. I'M LOOKING AT YOU PROPERTY BROTHERS.


making- 


my commitment to continue making things regularly has continued! finished up another quilt top, just have to find an appropriate backing fabric. and i took a strange mumu robe from the thrift store that i had loved the pattern of but never found the right way to wear it... and made it into a dress. will surely be included in the next OOTW picture. i love how it came out, sort of 70's in print, 20's in silhouette.


eliza and i have been gathering rocks on our walks, as per usual, painting them inside, and then adding them to a special rock box. she plays with them on the kitchen floor while i make dinner most days. it's like a set of blocks she made herself. she makes "calaces" castle/palaces. ha. before you tell me i'm a creative parent i should tell you that it weighs approximately one thousand pounds, this box, and is sort of terrifying to watch the two year old play with it in close proximity to the two month old. so whether this was a dumb idea or a good idea should play out in the next few weeks.

WIL/ October

pictures from our little beach trip this october. <3 

hmm. what i learned this month. 

so cheesy, but i love birthdays. this year, the actual day was a bit of a bummer, to be honest. greg had to leave for work before i or the girls were awake, he came home after the girls had already been put to sleep. eliza acted up at a friends house so we couldn't stay. (one of those moments where you put your foot down and then regret the ultimatum because it punishes you also.) it was lonely and a little stressful. i made all the meals, did all the dishes. there was much screaming and gnashing of teeth (from the girls).

greg really felt bad- he was so upset to not be home. if i remember correctly it was an unexpected thing for him to be gone the whole entire day. i kept thinking to myself wow this is a bummer. but what i learned is that i can handle it. it's just nice to think back to five years ago and wonder- how would this have gone down then? i don't know if back then i would have been cool with a "oh let's just celebrate my birthday next weekend instead." 

and then the next weekend came! beach weekend! so much fun, so much daddy time. i didn't have to change a single diaper. it was so, so fun. not restful, but so fun. greg and i kept looking at each other like OK BUT WHEN DOES THE NIGHTTIME COME? we miss dates, we miss leaving the house at night, we miss getting to choose what to do during the day without taking into account 12,000 factors like naptime and feedtimes and crabbiness.  OF COURSE WE DO IT WAS AWESOME. 

but what have i learned? we can also handle it. we can handle that hope deferred. we're taking care of each other and we're different and better as a couple than we were when we could run around free of those 12,000 considerations. we love deeper and are better teammates and know each others drink preferences for after the girls are asleep. 

october just seemed to be a good month for discovering that even when my resources seemed sort of depleted, i actually by god's grace had a storehouse of riches. god's grace has changed me and has changed greg and i together over time, and i'm feeling sustained and prepared and grateful. 

OOTW/4

notes:

burgundy clogs- good investment. want to wear them everyday. 

brown flats- have actual holes in the bottom. should replace. terrified. takes me forever to find a good flat. greg makes fun of me, but when the front of a flat shoe points UPWARDS I CANNOT TAKE IT. i have a slight pickiness about it. however, several days the past week and a half were rainy and my feet were soaking wet... so. new flats soon.

jumpsuit on the left column, worn with leopard vans. old navy, got it for 15$. easy to nurse in & makes me feel like sort of a bad ass mechanic. 

a lot of lipstick lately. i may have to wear it daily to cheer myself up- these days where its dark early are ALREADY making me sad.