A Few of my Favorite Things

I've been thinking lately about the things that I've been loving. From home stuff to Soph stuff to mommy stuff to...well, you get the point, right? Ok here we go.

Lipstick. RED lipstick. THE RED lipstick. Ok, it's more like a lip stain but you get it, right? It's (IMHO) perfection. It's perfection and it's AFFORDABLE! I can put it on in the morning, eat, drink and kiss all over baby and husband all day long and STILL need to use makeup remover to take it off before bed. True story. I fell asleep in it one night (oops!) and woke up the next morning with perfect red lips. Also the truth. You're dying to know what this amazingly fantasticly perfect RED lipstick is, right? I know you are. Drumroll, please....



Yep! Revlon! It's by Revlon and I bought it at Target for $8.99! It's not some crazy expensive lip color. Matter of fact, I was hesitant to spend the $8.99 on it, but boy am I glad that I did! This stuff is solid gold. Don't believe me? Look how gorgeous it is on!



Up next on my list of loves has to be my running shoes. I have tried several different types of running shoes and they all have given me the same results: knee pain, foot pain, or shin splints. That is, until I found these. Late last summer I purchased my Under Armour "Spine" running shoes. Seriously, these things are solid gold. I have had no sort of pain except "the good kind" in these shoes. I have run hundreds of miles in them and they are still going strong. And when they run out, you bet your ass I'll be buying another pair. I just may go with the water resistant ones that are out now, since rain puddles gather BAD on the sidewalks around here during the summer.



This next one goes hand in hand paw with my running shoes. You see, I love my Liesel Bear. She's my biggest baby (our oldest fur baby) but she is TERRIBLE on a lead. She LOVES to run with us, and I love to take her but usually, I end up with a seriously sore arm/shoulder from constantly having to pull on her because she pulls and lunges so bad. We usually have to run around 2 miles before she lets up even a little. We have tried a regular collar, we have tried a choke chain, we have tried a harness. We hated them all for their own reasons. Then, I was talking to a girlfriend one day and she recommended the Gentle Leader to us. We bought one and our walking pains have been cured! She has become SO amazing to run with now. She no longer pulls or lunges and she is fully aware of every move that I make. Some people have looked at it and said that it looks "cruel" or "like a muzzle" but let me be clear; she can breathe fine, she can drink and eat fine, and if she were vicious at all, she could still eat your face off with this thing on. All it does is give me control of her nose. If her nose is redirected, her body will redirect. It's that simple. The collar was like there was nothing there at all, the choker...well, it choked, and did nothing. The first harness rubbed her raw under her arms (sad face) and the second harness was completely ineffective. This thing is AWESOME. She sports the hot pink one.



This may gross some of you out but I have a confession. About 4ish months ago, I stopped washing my hair. Ok well, I still wash it, just only every 4 days or so. I can hear you! Shhh! Let me explain. I've always had this conviction that my hair is a greasy mess if I don't wash it every.single.day. Well, it was true. But only because I made it true! See, what happens when you strip your hair of its oils every day is the natural oils in your head freak out and gang up on your roots. It's true. Just imagine their little oil army coming to attack. It's a little scary. So anyway, now that you have that image, these little oil monkeys rush in big time if you're washing every day BUT...if you STOP washing every day, these dudes get to relax a little bit and miraculously, your hair will stop getting so oily, so fast. Also, another break through I've had is that my hair is SO much more manageable now! Really. If you saw me on day 1 after washing you'd be like "Dude, Kammi, what the heck is going on with your hair?!" because it's so clean and slick and unmanageable, but if you saw me on day 3 or 4, you'd be like "Daaaaaang girl! Your hair looks GREAT!". I'm not lying. Anyway, I'm on a tangent just to tell you that my secret weapon for getting through these 4ish days of not washing is simple...and cheap. It's dry shampoo. The one I use is TreSemme Volumizing dry shampoo. It's like $3 at the grocery store. Sure, there are fancy ones out there and sure, they're probably better than this one but hey, I don't care. This one works for this girl!



Ok, I have more but we'll save them for another post. I'll leave you with one more. Sophi's current thing (besides the iPad that she begs for daily). LEGO Duplos. The kid is obsessed. I hear "leegoos leegoos" all.the.time. It's cool though, because mommy and daddy love to play with them, too. We find so many ways. It's amazing, before becoming a mother, I would have told you that legos are simply building block. Hmm, I guess that's true. But on SO many more levels! Building blocks physically, sure, but building blocks for learning and developing? It's true. I won't get all deep on you here but I'll say that we work on her fine motor skills with actual building, we do color sorting, imagination building, counting, and whatever else her little self can come up with. We love LEGOs! Aaaaand now I just made the mistake of looking at amazon.com for a link to post here and I've discovered new sets. Well babe, your wallet is doomed. ;) Loooooook!!!



Babe...if you're reading this, we NEED this! ;)



So that's it for now. I mean, there's more but I have to save some for next time. Thanks for stopping by!

I'd love to hear what some of your favorite things are right now. Care to share?