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Lands’ End – Quality Matters

Jenny & I got together on Saturday to shoot a little vlog about one of our very favorite topics – Lands’ End.

You know we love their clothes (zomg have you seen the new Ponte Collection? I’m in love) but we also love their outerwear. I was about to say “particularly for our kids” but that’s not really true – our coat closet is full of LE for all of us. It’s the best.

(I really want this, in case any of you are wondering what to get me for Christmas.)

We have a trade agreement in our family that clothes and such follow a pattern that goes: Kate-to-Sophie-to-Lily and Joshua-to-Sam-to-Jonah. The Lands’ End stuff our kids have go through those three steps and still come out looking great – it’s really kind of amazing.

Here’s a little video of the coats and jackets that have taken our kids through several seasons:

Our kids are set for their coats this year, but they needed some new winter-wear accessories, and LE was kind enough to send us some of their new things to try out. I am so anxious for Sam to try out this stuff that I am almost looking forward to cold weather. I can’t wait to see this hat on his head – it certainly looks great on Jonah!

And finally – boots.

As Jenny said, it makes sense for us to buy quality outerwear that will not only last our own kids a couple of winters, but will still look great when we pass them down to their cousins. (And with the exception of the new accessories, we did actually buy it all!)

Lands’ End is the only place we look, because they agree with us – Quality Matters.

What are you doing to get your family ready for the winter?

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Fall Footwear

As I’ve said before, I’m rather shoe-challenged. I’m a terrible shoe shopper! So I’m always excited when someone wants to send me a pair for review, because then I know they’ll be fashionable and I won’t have to be left to my own devices and buy granny shoes, and I was not disappointed in the latest shoes I received from Naturalizer.

Not only am I a bad shoe shopper, but my feet are terrible and I get awful blisters from many kinds of shoes – which is why I love Naturalizer. They are so comfortable – they’re flexible, light, and soft. And they’re cute!

They’ve got lots of fun styles for fall, from tall boots to flats. Check them out on www.naturalizer.com and become a fan on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/Naturalizer.

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Life on the Main Drag

Perhaps I’ve mentioned a few times, that I live in the city.  Specifically in an older, only kind-of run down neighborhood called Belmont.  And, I live on one of two “main drags” in Belmont.  It’s a very busy street.  It’s really busy around 4 p.m. on weekdays because the entrance to our local high school is on the street that is directly across from my driveway.  So, getting out of my driveway around 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. every day is murder.  And so is turning left off of the street the high school entrance is on. (And may I just say, yes, 9 a.m to 4 p.m.?  What kind of crazy school hours are those?  Oh, the “urban” kind. Where you can’t get anyone to get up and be at school before 9.  But whatevs.)

So there’s your background, now imagine me yesterday afternoon standing in my dining room, joyfully parenting my three beautiful children, when I hear a loud BOOM and my house shakes.  I ran to the back window to see if someone had hit my neighbor’s car (they park behind their house), because I could tell the boom came from that side of the house.  But there was nothing to see.  So I ran to my front window and saw this:

Well, the hedges DID need trimming...

That right there is the front of a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck in my hedges and the bumper in my front yard.  The blue you see peeking out from behind the tree is the fire hydrant that is usually under where the truck is sitting.  Thank goodness it didn’t spray everywhere!

So, I called 911, which made me feel pretty bad@$$, and reported the accident.  From what I could see, it didn’t look like anyone was hurt, and there were plenty of people out there checking on the driver, so I decided to stay inside until the cops got there.  Which took FOREVER.  After they got there, I went outside with Jonah and talked to the policeman.  I had him put the damages to our hedges in his report, because, there is now a huge hole in our hedges and who knows how much that costs to replace? Beats me.  I talked to the driver and she was fine but her airbag did deploy (thanks to the fire hydrant I’m sure!) I didn’t get the story of what happened, because I just wanted to get inside with Jonah, it was a pretty yucky day out.  Which leads me to what I am thankful for…the weather has been really nice this week, and we’ve been outside playing a lot.  I am so thankful that yesterday was yucky and we were safe inside!

I am also thankful that they built a big new high school with a nice traffic light entrance around the corner and that it opens in January. It will make it much safer at my house!  Also, it will cut down on teenagers walking down the sidewalk yelling the F word in the afternoon. SCORE!

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