Family

My middle daughters is in 10th grade this year – which means it is time for her to start thinking about colleges. She has to start prepping for standardized tests and figuring out what she wants to do.  Unfortunately she is finding it hard to come up with a list of possible majors.  She can tell you what she doesn’t want to do (science or math), but deciding what she wants to do is harder.

Everyone has something that motivates and drives them.  Of course my family is a big motivation for me, like most mothers. But now that my children are older I have more time to pursue some things just for me, and I have found that the biggest thing that propels me is simple curiosity and a desire for knowledge.  I enjoy searching for information, learning new things, and challenging myself, even if what I am learning is not something I need to know right now.

My 15 year old daughter loves to experiment with her hair.  She straightens it, curls it, puts it up in different styles and she enjoys adding color too.  So I knew she would want to try the new Hair Flairs Color Rub, which provides a quick, temporary color for your hair.

This week is winter break week for the schools around here, so all of our outside classes are cancelled.  This frees up the 2 hours or so a day I spend driving my kids to classes, so I am actually getting some things accomplished around the house!  I sorted through my closet and dresser and got rid of a lot of clothes that I don’t need.  For example, for some reason I had a bunch of red shirts and sweaters, most of which I have never even worn.  I look awful in red, it does not go with my pale skin tone at all.  So even though some of these are gorgeous cashmere sweaters they are all going to the Salvation Army.

What better day than Valentine’s Day to talk about wedding rings!  A wedding ring is an important choice because you will be wearing it for years and years.  When I got married I picked a narrow gold band with a nice subtle pattern.

Last night I was browsing around on pinterest and pinning Super Bowl food.  I saw some cool desserts, so I decided to make NY Giants cupcakes and cakepops for the game.  They didn’t turn out nearly as cute as I was hoping!

My 12 year old son has always suffered from car sickness.  His older sisters get nauseous sometimes in the car, but it is much more frequent for him.  He rarely actually throws up, but a long trip makes him feel miserable.  When he was about 5 years old we discovered the Sea-Band Wristbands, and we have been using them every since.  Sea-Band works by exerting constant, gentle pressure on a point on an acupressure point on the inner wrist.  It brings effective relief within five minutes of being applied and can be used before or after the onset of nausea.  These Sea-Bands are FDA approved for nausea, and they work extremely well for my family.

Did you have any big Christmas misses?  One of the things on my 15 year old’s Christmas list was Skull Candy headphones. She broke hers about 4 months ago, and rather than spending money on new ones has been borrowing the headphones of everyone else in the house.  So I bought her a pair for her stocking, and I naively picked the pretty ones at the left because I liked the colors.  I though she would like having striped headphones.

Well when she opened her stocking she was horrified!  She said she couldn’t believe I had bought her these headphones, because they are the “stoner” headphones.  It turns out these are Bob Marley Rasta headphones, and at her high school all the stoner kids wear them. She tells me it would be social suicide to show up at school with these headphones.  So she traded with her sister, who is in college and assured me no one in her dorm will even notice.