WIWS (Touching on Lent)

This week WIWS is brought to you by the time change! Which somehow helped us get to mass in time for the homily!!!!  (That's a huge deal. Really.)  Rita and Jonah were, considering age, a-mazing!

So I tagged some sistas for the Five Things Thing! Can't wait to hear what they have to say!

Our kitchen is the common place for WIWS photos, don't ask.  Maybe because I spend so much time there? And it's mostly my favorite place in the house?

This week I wore a sort of "style" uncommon to me - using a dress as a skirt.  It worked out well enough.  I'm really trying to shop my closet and come up with new ideas as I work on getting healthy.  Someone I know used to always say she never knew what size she was postpartum, and I always thought that was so odd.  Now I totally get it.  It's difficult to know, and sometimes just because it works one day doesn't mean it's going to work the next.  But, since Jo has passed six months (and is coming up on eight, wahh!) it is getting much easier.

Here's the line-up for this week: 

Clothing:
Dress (skirt): Merona 
Undershirt: Local thriftstore (but Target's maternity line)
Top: Goodwill (but Ann Taylor Loft)

Accessories:
Pearls were my Granny's! Tyler had them restrung for me.  It's so special!
Shoes came from my mom's closet, and then she donated them to me for keeps!  What a blessing!

I'm just realizing I also wore faux pearl studs, which are from Tyler.  They're mighty cute, just trust me.

Sandals!  Come on summer!

Heirloom pearls.

Kitchen coolness!

This Lent God has been bringing me through so much of myself and it's really incredible to learn so much about who I am, how I work, what doesn't work for me, etc.  Most of all I'm beginning to truly understand that God is holding me in the palm of His hand, just showering love and mercy on me.  I just need to turn myself towards Him and allow myself to be loved.

Have a blessed week and check-out the fashionistas at Fine Linen and Purple!

And many thanks to my sweet hubby, who is cleaning the kitchen (I hear pots and pans clanking) and playing with our kiddos so I can have a bit of momma time.  I'm so so blessed!  

WIWS Volume 13 and Time for Recollection

Here we are! Happy Baptism of Our Lord!
Mass was wonderful! Of course we waltzed in mid-ceremony but at least we heard the Gospel!!! 200pts for this family!
Rita only had to be taken outside for a re-group once and Jonah didn't even need to nurse!  All around we blew this Sunday out of the water and the adults actually (gasp! of wonder) enjoyed mass!  Praise you Jesus!

Tyler is missing! But he was handsome as always. 

Shoes: Merona (gifted) (repeat appearance)
Necklace: TVP (gifted by my sweet husband)
Earrings: Silver ball clip-ons (inherited from Granny!)
Hair pin: No idea (gifted)

A simple outfit this Sunday.

What you don't see are pictures from a discussion we had about my nearing excessive "chattiness" (for lack of a better word) with reading, commenting on, and perusing blogs, as well as checking email and spending time replying to people on Twitter.

Yes, I'm a nerd...

Yes, I've gotten carried away...

So when Micaela of California to Korea in my #pray2lose group mentioned doing an internet fast...I KNEW KNEW KNEW that Jesus was nudging me along into selflessness.  And sweet Mary Kate joined in too!  My sweet children look at a luminescent apple probably a bit more than they should during the day.  It's so so so easy to get caught-up!  And get caught-up, I do.

SO this week I will be unplugging (cough, choke, gasp for air) and using my cellphone as a phone and the computer might not see too much action, which is really really really awesome.

I have a stack of books I move around the house with me.  I'm hoping to delve into some for the first time, finish others and just plow through a substantial portion of others.  I'm actually really excited about this.  Really, in a sort of way that feels like it will be very freeing.  Being cell-phone free for the months that we were was really really awesome in so many ways.  I think it will be nice to have some quiet and hopefully put my social media activity back into perspective (and maybe even out the window?).

(And just to say I would MUCH rather my children see me reading a book rather than playing on an electronic device.  I'm much better and faster at throwing gently setting a book down than I am at walking away from technology.)

Linking up with Fine Linen and Purple for What I Wore Sunday.

WIWS (What I Wore Sunday) First Go-Round

(I'm late!!!!!!)
So you and every other link- up lovin person can witness to the side hair-do and chunky bracelet that had me swayin' with a little more sass than before.  Of course the super cute baby is also a total confidence booster.  I mean, he is pretty dang cute and I proudly brought that potato into this world!

Yes, that's a pink bib...you know, second child!

My gradmother's famous gaudy jewelry which I love to sport!

Hello link-up world! How's about my Target fleece to add some glamour?!

The Vintage Pearl Christmas gift from the BEST HUSBAND EVER

Oh pashmina, how I love thee.

Shoes! Shoes! Shoes!

Raised eyebrows courtesy of just having cleaned vomit after Rita ate cat food.  All is well.

Get-up:

Fleece: Merona, Target Famous (given)

Black baby-doll tee: Salvation Army Thrift

Skirt: Merona, Target's second shout-out (gifted)

Shoes: Merona, third shout-out (gifted)

Necklace: TVP

Bracelet: Mom's jewelry chest last time I visited

Pashmina: somewhere in Italy (gifted)

Join the Jesus-lovin' fashion fabulous at Fine Linen and Purple!

This totally had me a bit more excited for mass.  "Yippee!" as Rita says.  Join in!!! (peer pressure!)