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Currently – Birthday Parties and Mom Hair

Posted on by Sarah Marshall

Currently

Looking
I’m looking forward to this weekend. Brooke’s birthday party is Saturday and both Saturday and Sunday afternoon she will be performing with her Gymnastics Showteam at the Foothills Fall Festival. My parents are coming to town for both and I’m excited to see them and for them to see how much the girls have grown since they were here in July.

Making
This year, I said no to a Pinterest-y birthday party. I’m making little to nothing myself – and I have no shame about it. I made the invitation and I think that’s it. We’re holding the party at Brooke’s gymnastics club and there’s not enough time for a lot of food or activites besides playing in the gym. We ordered cupcakes and plan to grab a veggie & fruit/cheese tray for parents to snack on while kids play. Bottles of water and jugs of apple cider will be thrown in a cooler. I’ll print some coloring pages for kids who don’t want to play in the gym or need a break. I ordered medals from Amazon as a “favor”. I intend to spend my time watching Brooke and her friends have fun and celebrate my sweet 5 year old instead of filling plates, clearing trash, and all that stuff that doesn’t matter in the long run.

Easiest invitations ever – Use PicMonkey or iPiccy to edit it like a picture. Have 4x6s printed at your nearest 1-hour photo. Great for procrastinators like me!!

Wondering
I’ve been wondering where the vibrant, pretty fall colors are. Its not lush green anymore and its seems like its gone straight to brown. I’m hopeful that its just early still and we’ll see beautiful oranges, reds and yellows still.

View from the window behind my cubicle. Where are the fall colors?!?

Playing
Spending time in the Mommy Room pumping three times a day means I need some boredom busters. My favorite is playing What’s the Phrase. It’s like Wheel of Fortune which I personally think I’m pretty awesome at. I still regret not going to the Wheel of Fortune auditions that were in Knoxville last year. If you want to play too, I’d love to beat play you! I’m username Spartyguard.

Wearing
I’m guilty of mom hair…I’m always wearing it in a ponytail. I’ve probably dried it a handful of times in the past 6-8 months. I did have it down a couple nights ago and hubby oh-so-nicely informed me that its too long. And he told me again a couple nights ago when I took the ponytail out of my hair briefly to re-ponytail it. So I need a hair reboot. I think I’ll go pretty short but I like having the option to ponytail if I want. #firstworldproblems here!!

This was my last hair style…been told I should do it again. Yay or nay?

Party for a Cause

Posted on by Sarah Marshall

I wish I had heard about this earlier so I could have really promoted the heck out of it but I didn’t so I’m hopeful that I can still make an impact and even more hopeful that you will help me.

Starting today, I am hosting  a virtual Super Bowl party to raise money for St. Jude.   You can access my page here.

Why did I want to get involved with fundraising for St. Jude?  For starters, they are just a great organization. To quote their info:

St. Jude treats the world’s sickest children battling cancer and other deadly diseases and no family ever pays St. Jude for the care their child receives. St. Jude is researching the world’s deadliest pediatric diseases—doing research that no one else is doing and sharing the findings. Today, millions of children around the world are benefiting from St. Jude’s discoveries. Because of this, it costs more than $1.7 million a day to keep the life-saving research and treatment going.

But my reason for doing this come from a personal place too. As I’ve mentioned here before, Brooke was born with torticollis. Brooke’s was fairly minor case but it still meant weekly (at times twice a week) visits to a physical therapists, x-rays, CT scans and a TOT collar. It was at times expensive and scary.

So, how must it feel to have your child diagnosed with CANCER? I can’t even imagine so I’m happy there is a place like St. Jude that provides care AND research at no cost to families. But that funding has to come from somewhere.

So I’m asking you to help me reach a goal of $250 at my virtual St. Jude Game Day. Give Back Party.

Enjoy the Super Bowl!! Who ya rooting for??