Is there anything more painful...

than moving??  Just wrapped up second move in six months and I wanted to puke with exhaustion.  The only thing that made it worth it is O's excitement at the bigger place.  She tells her grandparents that her new place has upstairs and downstairs, oh and five rooms!  Truly, it is cute to see her hop up and down without worrying about downstairs neighbors.  I even unpacked her little rocking horse now that there is room to ride around!

O put on the hat, hopped on the horse, and said "mommy I'm a cowboy". 

Someone asked for O's Christmas list last week...  Is it really that time of the year already?? 

My new favorite purchase

It seems that I have been searching for the perfect planner all my life... and never found it.  Now that everything is digital, it almost silly to pursue such a quest.  I have always had a suboptimal paper planner to go with my electronic calendar, because some of us just need to WRITE THINGS DOWN.

I think... I hope... so far it seems... that I have found it!  It's the Nomatic Planner!  It has plenty of spaces (and separate compartments) to write down important events, thoughts, randomness!

Halloween 2017

This is the first year Olivia really "participated" in Halloween.  Weeks leading up to it, I asked her what she wanted to be.  Daily, it changed.  Snow white! Peppa pig! Kitty cat!  It was dizzying.  I picked Snow White for her because it was the easiest costume to find and if she hated it, potentially returnable.  

        

Olivia is not one to jump at new experiences and sure enough, she was a shy Snow White.  We had to hold her hand to each door and she sometimes reluctantly held forth her little bag for candy.  Try as we might, couldn't get a peep out of her.  BUT, I knew she was excited because she would hop and skip from one house to the next and shook her head each time we asked her if she wanted to go home. 

Maybe next year I'll get a trick-or- treat out of her!

Earlier in the day she was a Dollar Tree Fairy for school.  It was too cold for the Snow White costume early in the morning so this little fairy outfit worked out perfectly!  My thrifty husband got it for her.  So adorable.