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Middle Names

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(Sunglasses: Charming Charlie’s  Top: Plato’s Closet-Lauren Conrad  Dress & Belt: Clothing Exchange  Shoes: Goodwill-Banana Republic)

I love my middle name. In fact, I love it so much (combined with the fact that NO ONE can pronounce my first name) that when I go to restaurants and they ask for my name, I tell them it’s Annie (my middle name is Anne, but I love Annie as a first name…and don’t you think I look like an Annie?). I also love to know people’s middle names. I am a middle-name-knowing-hoarder. I can’t stand when people don’t have middle names. It’s like life has not been fair to them and dealt them the short stick. I say, if your parents did not take the time to bless you with a middle name, then make one up! Or I’ll make it up for you…because we all know how much I love to name things. 😉

Smelling Salts

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(Sunglasses: Charming Charlie’s  Necklaces: Cookie Lee  Jacket: Target  Dress: $5 Store  Shoes: Plato’s Closet-MIA)

The other day I was watching an old favorite “Merrily We Live” (you can watch the whole thing on youtube if you haven’t seen it yet…it’s a great film!). Not to give anything away, but in the end there is a hilarious scene where people keep fainting. They yell to each other to “get the smelling salts”! My husband commented on this and said, “How crazy is it that people fainted so much that they kept smelling salts on hand?!” So true. Why did people faint so much back then? Was it the corsets they wore or was there less oxygen in the air? Are we just hardier humans nowadays? So weird.

Highs And Lows

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(Necklace & Watch: Target  Tank: Clothing Exchange  Skirt & Shoes: Thrifted  Purse-Plato’s Closet-Coach)

Every night we talk about our “highs” and “lows” (the best and worst parts of our day). I love how this makes us reflect on our day and a lot of the time we are so amazed with all the blessings we have been given. I love how often my kids say “I don’t have a low, just a lot of highs today” or when their low is “going to bed”. Ha! That’s the mind of a 3-year-old for you. I swear there are some days that I wake up just waiting in anxious anticipation to go back to bed. What’s your nightly routine?