Happiness

Saturday was an awesome day! Zumba first thing in the morning then a baby shower for a friend in the afternoon.

I won't post my sweaty zumba outfit. The weather was, once again, perfect that day so I wanted to wear my comfy new shoes. This floral dress was a little out of my budget when I bought it early last year. But it was the last one on the rack in my size and it was just begging me to buy her! So, being the nice person that i am, I gave her a new home! She's been really happy so far.

The alphabet

Today is blue sky and sunshine! Perfect weather to wear my new shoes. I've been walking around in them for more than two hours now and my feet are still happy.

I decided to wear them with these bright pants from Gap and this denim shirt from Forever 21. A it's adorable, B it's so beautiful. This whole outfit equals C (for COMFORTABLE). Okay, not quite how the song should go.

Happy Feet

Yesterday I finally received my shoe prize! I won a giveaway last month and chose this pair. Thank you again Indiana of Adored Austin and Wanted!

I am already coming up with so many outfits (in my mind) that I will wear them with. So far, after walking around the house, they seem to be very comfortable. If it doesn't rain the rest of this week, I might just wear these till Sunday! My feet are so happy right now they don't care if their toe nails aren't painted. Neutral is in right??

Florals

Please excuse this wrinkled dress. I hate ironing. My husband hates that I hate ironing. I only iron on occasions that I absolutely need to. Like a formal dinner or a job interview. But on a regular day like today, with a toddler in tow, I leave it as it is. It will eventually get wrinkled anyway.

This month's challenge over at Everybody, Everywear is florals. I've had this dress shirt for over 5 years and the number of times I've worn it can be counted. I never let go of it though. There is something about it that just keeps earning its place in my closet.

The weekend dress

One dress. One weekend. Two ways.

Last Saturday the hubby took me out to dinner to celebrate Mother's Day. He wanted to avoid the mad crowd in restaurants on the day itself. I decided to wear this dress. It is a maternity maxi dress so there was no way I could have worn it without a belt. Total dinner time - about 2 hours. The meal was awesome by the way! Good thing I wore a dress, the creme brule, would have been a button popper!

Since I only wore the dress for 2 hours (and didn't spill anything on it), I decided to wear it again yesterday to go grocery shopping. This white top is a maternity blouse. It was quite nice wearing these maternity clothes again without the bump (and the nausea and the penguin walk)! So the dress was worn for a total of 4 hours. It can now be thrown into my dark colors laundry pile.

I also tried to experiment with a recipe from the Food & Wine cookbook I received from American Express (for free)! Well not totally free, I paid $2.99 for shipping! The dish is called Chicken Sukiyaki and it can also be found here. It was actually good and healthy - low sodium and low fat. I would use regular soy sauce for a not so healthy option :)

It's Friday I'm in love

Cheesy title but I couldn't think of a better one! Okay so it's everyday I'm in love - ahem to hubby: mother's day is on Sunday :)

This blouse was the last one at F21 a couple of months ago when I was browsing around in there. I found it hidden amongst the hundreds of racks in that huge store PLUS it is a size small! Then I saw it featured in either Lucky Magazine or People Style which made me even more happy for such a great find!

These shoes are not exactly the most comfortable to walk around in especially for someone who is not used to wearing high heels (slowly getting out of my comfort zone). But I love them! I fell in love with them the first time I saw it in Singapore about 5 years ago. For some reason, I didn't buy it though. When I left that country, I couldn't stop thinking about them. So what does a shoe addict do? Ask a friend to buy it for her! Yes, all for the love of shoes!

Just one of those days

I usually wake up in the morning knowing what I need to do or what needs to get done during the day. I work from home so my work hours are early morning and late evening when the little one does not require my utmost attention.

Today's to do list (updated as of this writing):

Morning work - check
Grocery list - check
Grocery shopping
Dinner meal
Evening work - pending

My 3rd and 4th items on my list have just been crossed out due to laziness. Maybe the hubby will be really nice and take us out to dinner tonight! :) Yes it is one of those days where I am too lazy to even take a shower (TMI).

I was browsing through my photos while Sophia was taking a nap and simultaneously jotting down my grocery list, and I found these photos that I was not able to post last month. This was taken on a weekend. For some reason, I totally forgot about it. So no I didn't wear this today, but this is a much better outfit than pink flower pajamas and a loose t-shirt.

Pants: Forever 21, Graphic shirt: Zara, Shoes: Steve Madden, Sunglasses: Oakley, Bangle: Flea market, Watch: Kenneth Cole

White pile

I still had my white clothing pile from yesterday so I thought I'd do another outfit for white-out! Thank you Ms. Weather for allowing me to wear my scarf today. Blue sky, sunshine, 70 degrees and a light breeze just puts you in a happy mood. I'm not quite ready for Texas summer yet! This outfit may not exactly be all white, but everything else underneath that sweater is. Does that count??

White Out

The challenge for this week's Bloggers Do It Better series is spring's all-white ("White Out") trend. I took part in this trend on this post but wanted to come up with another outfit for the challenge. I didn't know how difficult it would be until I gathered all my white clothes together and couldn't come up with one single outfit! So this morning, without looking, I grabbed one white clothing from the pile and decided to just work with that.

Today was in the low 70s (at least until about 2pm) so it was perfect to wear this light trench coat. At about 5pm, at 84 degrees, I had to drive back home without the jacket!

Party girl

Not me... her... down there! Our almost 18 month old attended birthday parties 3 weekends in April. Her month was fully booked so her parents decided to stay home yesterday.

We pretty much followed her schedule from nap time to meal time! I was lazy to dress up - white 3/4 sleeve shirt, olive green cargo pants and metallic ballet flats - so I decided to post the party girl's outfit instead for today! :)

Children's clothing is so expensive. I buy her clothes either on clearance or this store called Once Upon a Child. They buy and sell slightly used clothing and at the growth rate she is going it just makes sense to buy from them. It's like a thrift store for little kids. They have everything - from clothes, to bassinets, to strollers, etc. I bought this Old Navy flower blouse there for $3.50. Her jeans on clearance at Old Navy for $4 i think. And her little white moccasins at Target on clearance for $3.50! They were so cute and cheap I just had to buy them! :)