Deployment Survival Care Package

My sweet friend who lives in Tennessee husband deployed this month. I wanted to do something for her but living so far away my options were limited. I decided to send her a care package. I searched and searched on Pinterest and Googled and could not find anyone who had posted on what to send to the wife of a deployed solider, only what to send to a deployed solider. So I had to get creative. I headed over to the trusty Target and got to shopping.

What's inside?

- Cute little note cards to write love letters to her husband
- Fancy pens to write said love letter
- Bubbles to enjoy a relaxing bath
- Lotion for post bath continued relaxing
- A candle that smells like the beach since we are both from Charleston
- Gold nail polish for sassy nails :)
- Valentine's Balloons that are tiny that when hit pop up into balloons to add to her husband's Valentine's package
- A Taylor Swift card, to remind her of the Country Music Festival we will be attending in June in Nashville
- A Deployment Survival Cup, which is a wine glass from Etsy

I found a super cute pink and green chevron packing envelope at Target. Pack all of your goodies into the cute envelope and mail!

xoxo

Twenty-Two

My dear friend Annie turned 22 on Sunday so we loaded up the car and headed up to Charlotte. We first headed to Southpark Mall. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. A girls shopping trip is already in the works for sometime soon with my sister and a friend.

Then we headed over to Trampoline World. It was so much fun! I was exhausted after 5 minutes and still had 55 minutes left. And I was super sore the next two days. It was a great workout and super fun!

Then we went to Cheesecake Factory for dinner and it was delicious. I hadn't been in forever, oh I missed it. We embarrassed Annie by getting everyone to sing Happy Birthday and got delicious cheesecake!

 

Happy Birthday sweet friend. Hope 22 is good to you!

 

xoxo

Happy Monday

So after FINALLY getting computer access at work Friday afternoon, I come to work the morning just to find out the networks are down and I again can't get on the computer. So I'm just sitting. Again. Like I did for two and a half days last week. I just don't understand a company this big with this many computer issues. Anyway.

My work clothes challenge has gone well. I'll be posting pictures after I have more than just 3 days worth.

Hope you are having a better Monday than I am.

xoxo

New Beginnings

Happy 2013! Hope you had a nice and restful Christmas, mine sure was. So I don't have any resolutions, well maybe my resolution is to make goals for every month. Each month I want to have several things that I would like to accomplish. I wrote January's goal a few weeks ago:

-employment   I can cross this off the list already because I start tomorrow!
-gym 3 times a week
-no fast food
-blog 3 times a week
-stick to cleaning schedule
-have at least 20 families at Kidtown Open House

To go along with employment and I guess these goals too, I have been challenged to only wear what is already in my closet to work each day for the first month. Then for the second month, I can buy 5 staple items to add to my wardrobe. If you saw the size of my closet, you know the challenge of it is not coming up with a month's worth of outfits, but stopping myself from shopping :)

Have a great 2013 and I'll be seeing more of you on the blog, with house updates, goal progress updates and clothing choices.

xoxo