Five and a Half

Five and a half hours is the amount of sleep I got last night thanks to a rousing slumber party we hosted to celebrate Kira's birthday.  At twelve thirty in the morning, the girls were shooting stuff of Kira's balance beam using her nerf rebelle cross bow and bow and arrow.  Shortly thereafter, my husband got out a box of glow sticks and transformed our family room into a freakin' little girl rave party complete with a flashing disco ball light and techno pop music.  At 1:30, I told the girls to settle down, which they did until I rounded the corner and they started back up again.  At 2:00 this morning, they fell asleep and I think I fell asleep around 2:30 and was up a little after 7. I'm getting way to old to do this and I feel it in every inch of my body today.  The girls had fun, though, so I'm sure I will get talked into doing this again at some point.  For now, I'm going to just sit here in peace, work out and then go to bed....early.

Goodnight.

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Lori

The Big Day

My daughter turned 10 last week and we're celebrating today with a small slumber party.  In about an hour, my house will be overrun with little girls and I'm enjoying the peace and quiet before it ends.  I took yesterday off work to decorate and get things ready and I think it looks pretty cute in here.   I'm the "bad" parent who doesn't think carrots and apples are appropriate for a party, so I've got ice cream, chips, cookies and about 10 pounds of candy ready to go.  I think as long as they don't do it every day, it's not going to kill them to splurge. I'll shut them off at 9 tonight, but until then, it's anything goes!

I'm sure I'll look like hell in my blog post tomorrow because I'm getting way to old to stay up all night!!

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Lori

Got Florals....Check

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Shantung

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St Patty's Day

I live in Dayton, Ohio and one of the local universities in town, the University of Dayton, ranked number one for the best St Patrick's Day parties.  People start celebrating at four a.m. drinking green beer and at some point today, a couch will be burned in the street.  Gotta love the college kid parties!

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Lori

Seafoam Saturday

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Twirly Bird

I bought this skirt at J Crew several weeks ago, but it's been way too cold to wear it.  Today, it was in the 30's and even though it's still cold, I decided I was tired of waiting.  The skirt is amazing.  It has a fluidity to it that other pleated skirts are missing and I think it's because of the color tipping on the pleats.  I paired it with the french hen sweater because I was feeling childish and whimsical this morning!

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Lori