Simplicity here I come!

Ohmygoodness, I think I'm having a breakthrough.

I follow a blog called Money Saving Mom.  I actually follow several blogs, but more and more I seem to connect with so much of what she says and does.  She's very much an inspiration for me.

Lately, she's mentioned her minimalist wardrobe.  So I started clicking around her site to see what all she has posted on the subject and then read the comments to see other people's ideas.  I want a minimalist wardrobe.  I want a few great pieces instead of a whole closet full of crap I don't wear.

It doesn't surprise me that I feel this way.  I'm also the kinda gal who likes a few close friends instead of 20 people you can't have a real conversation with.

Anyway, it's like I'm overwhelmed by the greatness and the simplicity of the idea.  Quit buying crap that is cheap the ends up in drawers or in the closet and I never wear it.  Or the color isn't great or the fit isn't flattering.  Why do I buy that?  Because it's on sale?  Yep.  That's why.

So anyway, someone mentions Project 333.

Me=hook, line, and sinker.  I take the bait.  I'm totally sold on a minimalist wardrobe.

It's juicy, yet a solid!

I'm such a contradiction.  :)  I'm like those Starburst commercials.

On one hand, I hate having decisions made for me.  On the other hand, I hate having to make difficult decisions. It's overwhelming, this situation that I'm in.  I'm trying so hard to do the right thing, make the right choice and it's hard for me to do because I don't know which way is right.  I do feel like I've recently been swayed one way, but I know as soon as I see my homies, I'll be swayed another.  :)

Sigh.  Being a grown up isn't always that much fun.  :)

Mom, you shoulda stopped at two.

So I feel like we were super busy today, but didn't get a lot done.  We did get to cut outta the house for awhile and see my girlies.  Robyn is supposed to be going in to the the hospital tomorrow night to have her baby and we wanted to get together one last time.  My Smithsburg lovelies weren't able to make it down, but I'll see both of them this week anyway.  We had our super fave, frozen yogurt.  It's become quite an obsession around here. Adisson worked on selling some popcorn (for Cub Scouts), so that was good!  (ps, how is my "baby" almost nine years old?! Good grief!  Next year, he'll be TEN!!!)

School was light today.  I've decided not to talk about too much school stuff here, because I've started blogging elsewhere regarding our school activities.  It's redundant to type all the same stuff out twice.

In other news, apparently I'm Adisson's den leader for scouts.  I'm not super thrilled with the idea and neither is he.  He desperately wanted his dad to do it (so did I!) but Adam travels SO MUCH for work and the future isn't looking so bright for him (or us) to be around here anymore so he can't commit to doing it.  But the den needed a leader and no one else could do it, so of course I'd say yes.  I'm nervous because I don't know what I'm doing, but when it comes to those kids of mine, I'd do just about anything!

Speaking of, there's a Pack camping trip in a few weeks but we can't go because Adam will be running the Army Ten Miler down in DC that weekend.  So, in order to cross that off of our list of Scout things to do (and work on Adisson earning his Bear badge) we're going camping this weekend.  I've invited my friends and I think most of them are going to come out this weekend to hang out but I don't think anyone is going to spend the night....apparently it's supposed to be down in the 40's overnight and they are all too wimpy!  We're checking out Cunningham Falls, so hopefully my friends to the north will be able to stop by even for a little while.

Ok, I've got tons to do and I'd LOVE to get to sleep before three am (because that has apparently become my new bedtime while Adam has been gone), so it's off to clean up a little and work on school stuff for a little while.

Awkward. :)

Remember when you were a teenager and you'd go to a party or out with friends and you'd see your ex there and it would be all awkward and weird?  What's weirder is having that feeling when you're 29 and run into someone you used to be friends with at a cookout.  :)

I hate awkward situations.  I hate avoiding eye contact because it would be weird or hanging out in the same spot all night to avoid run-in's in the hallway.  :)  Just weird altogether.  I also hate when friendships run their course.  It makes for difficult social situations and I feel like I'm too old to feel this way. :)  

Typically, when I'm hanging out with my girls, time goes by so quickly and I can't believe that hours and hours have passed.  Tonight, I felt like time couldn't be moving slower.  I already didn't want to go to the place when I found out old friends would be there and then I just felt out of place when I got there, which totally sucks because I was around my closest friends in Maryland.

Ugh. 

In other news, my dearest friend Robyn should be having her sweet baby girl at any time and I can't wait to see her precious face!  I know for Robyn that the last nine months have flown by, but I feel like I just heard the news that she was pregnant, or that she was having a girl!  And here it is, time for her to be born!  I can't wait!  I made her a baby blanket but then decided that I hated it so I tore the whole thing apart and started over.  Now I'm in a race to get it done before they come home from the hospital (I don't need to have it ready before she's born, per se, just before she comes home, but I'd still like to get it done sooner rather than later).  

I wish my husband were home.  Sadly, I know the feeling of missing him will be something I deal with on a very long day to day basis thanks to a new, crappy assignment.  :(  Sometimes, being an Army wife is way less glamorous than they show on tv.