Kate and I went shopping recently, and for some reason I got to telling her about a store that’s now long-gone – County Seat.
Who remembers it? The bright colors, crazy patterns, and matching earrings for every item of clothing in the store. It was the best.
I hope a lot of you recall that place, because evidently it only lives on in our memories. Stores that found themselves in Chapter 11 in the late 90s never existed, according to the interwebs. I thought for sure I would find images of County Seat goodness all over the place, but I was wrong. The only evidence that it was ever a real thing is in a few lonely Ebay listings, where the clothes are described as vintage.
VINTAGE, people.
But tell me they don’t bring back memories.
Man, I loved that place.
No really. I loved it. Like, a lot. A quick trip down my grandma’s hallway displays just how much I loved it. Check out these gems.
I am pretty sure I was wearing matching teal jeans. It’s too bad the Olin Mills people didn’t show them off.Earrings with the same pattern as my sweater were hiding under all that hair.
And here’s the real winner.
The bright color-block shirt almost makes up for the fact that my sister and I look clinically depressed.
Sunday I was awakened at 10 til 4 IN THE MORNING by Joshua coming into our bedroom and saying “Jonah’s throwing up!”
Of course he is. Because I’ve had the cold from hell for a week and I cannot control the coughing at night, so why would he throw up during the day when I could actually take care of him without hacking up a lung? As I was deliriously bathing Jonah and Bobby was deliriously stripping the boys’ beds of pukey sheets (because of course he got it on Joshua’s bed, too), Bobby looked at me and said, “Why do our kids ALWAYS have to start throwing up in the middle of the night? They never START throwing up in the daytime. If they throw up in the daytime, it’s just a continuation of something that started in the middle of the night.”
This morning, as I groggily moved to the coffee pot, his words popped back into my head, and I tried to think. Think, think, think, about when the kids had started a pukefest pre-bedtime.
In my ten years of parenting I can recall TWO TIMES. TWICE. Two whole times out of eleventybillion that they didn’t start off a pukefest during the wee hours. Once was when Joshua was in kindergarten, and we had to go pick him up because he threw up in class (first kindergartener of the YEAR to blow chunks in class. WINNER!!) and the second time was in December when Sophie and I were at a basketball game and Jonah started hurling all over Bobby about 7 p.m. If only he could’ve held it in a few. more. hours! Just to torture us as we tried to care for him!
Jonah is totally fine today, and has had no more instances of pukage, hallelujah! He’s been running around happy like a maniac and I will confess I’ve let him indulge in a few more of his favorite YouTube music videos than I normally would because I’M SO TIRED from being up in the middle of the night and then sleeping EVER so lightly (with Joshua in our bed because we only had one set of clean sheets, natch) so that I’d hear Jonah if he got sick again.
So yeah. I think the little boogers hold it in until it’s prime sleeping time, because WHEEEEEE being up in the middle of the night is AWESOME and mom and dad being too tired to care what happens during the day is AWESOMER!
Kids. I tell you, the method to their madness is positively Machiavellian!
What do you think? Are your kids in on the conspiracy too, or are mine just “special”?
I am participating in a skin care review campaign with the Motherhood and RoC, for which I am being compensated. All opinions on the product are my own.
Skin care is very important to me, y’all. Because as I wrote many years ago, you only get ONE face, and you gotta take care of it! And as Emily may have mentioned several times, I REALLY LOVE MY FACE.
I think Emily exaggerates when she talks about how much I love my selfies.
So ever since I turned 30 (a really long time ago, sigh), I’ve been taking great care of my skin. Every morning I use a cleanser and a day moisturizer with SPF, and every night I cleanse again and then put on a night moisturizer so my skin can be repaired while I get my byoo-tay sleep. I also use an eye cream morning and night to help with dark circles, puffiness, and fine lines around my eyes.
Listen, people, no one is ever CUTTING or sticking a NEEDLE into my face! So I am taking care of my skin to keep the wrinkles at bay!
Recently I got to review some RoC skin care products, and I am happy to say they fit perfectly in with my established skin care routine! I first started using RoC’s resurfacing cleanser last year after I got a sample at Mom 2.0, and I loved it. So I was excited to review their whole line of anti-aging skin care products! I’m also learning some really helpful information about skin care from RoC’s online resource, RoC Academy, and I’ll be sharing all my new skin care smarts with you in another post later this month. In the meantime, check out my video review below, then stay tuned for a giveaway!
SO far I am LOVING these products and what they are doing for my skin! I’m really excited to share them with you!
You can get these fabulous products at drug and grocery stores, including Walgreens!
Some of my fellow RoC Academy skin care cadets and myself will be hosting a #RoCAcademy skin care Twitter party on Thursday, April 3 at 1 pm EST and I hope you’ll join us! We’ll have a board-certified dermatologist on hand to answer your skin care questions, and of course, lots of great prizes! Here’s the invite so you can get all the info you need and RSVP!
And speaking of prizes, I’m giving away a fabulous RoC Skin Care basket to one lucky commenter on this post! Simply comment below with a skin care question for me and I’ll choose a winner at random. I’ll also choose a couple of the questions to answer in my next post.
The contest will be open until 6 pm EST on Friday, March 21st. Can’t wait to hear all your skin care questions!
