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What Mothers Secretly want for Mother’s Day!

Leigh Leigh asked and Mom’s responded! It is almost that time of year where we get to spoil and lavish our Mothers with gifts of love and appreciation for being the WORLD’s GREATEST! So what does she really secretly wish you got her for Mother’s Day?

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She wants to hear how much you love and appreciate her!

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She wishes that you would complete her Chore list, or at least give her the day off!

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She wants to be pampered! Whether it be a gift certificate or card to her favorite Day Spa, or a home-made gift basket full of foot scrubs, facial scrubs, her favorite shower gel, body lotion, and or body spray.

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She loves the boogies and snot out of her little darlings, but most Mothers are so tired, especially if they are Mother’s of Preschool aged children. She would love some TIME ALONE! To do what? WHAT EVER SHE WANTS! She could go shopping, take a relaxing bubble bath, read a book, take a friend to lunch, book a hot date with her husband, the sky is the limit!

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If you no longer live at home, she wants to see you!

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So here you have it, the TOP SECRET Mother’s Day Gift LIST!

What’s on my wish list?

Lot’s of hugs and kisses and a delicious meal I don’t have to prepare with my whole crew!

XOXO

Leigh Leigh

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I hate shopping for ….

Clothes!

Wait, there is one exception…. gym clothes! I could actually shop for gym clothes all day!

I hate shopping for clothes that are suppose to represent my class and age. I am 29 so I believe that means I was supposed to exit and never return to the juniors section a loooooooooooong time ago. The thing is the ladies department screams OLD LADY to ME! (no offense) So because of this dilemma I decided to shop clothing boutiques for the past couple of years in hopes that I find something that is cute and fashionable. My every day attire can consist of running shorts and an ADIDAS shirt for all I care.

Todays mission: Locate a nice top for the pair of MISS ME jeans hanging up in my closest.

Sounds simple, right!? You have never shopped with me!

That is what I thought too! I was going to run my errands, grab a top, and then enjoy the rest of my time while the kids were in school brain storming and writing.

I make it in to the boutique and browse around. I see a whole lot of nothing that is really just catching my eye. I finally come out of my shell and start throwing things over my arm while making my way to the fitting room. I am taking my time examining each blouse that I try on in the dim light dressing booth. After about 5 different tops and dresses, I decide that the leopard print top is cute, fun, hip, young, and will look great with some rose gold jewelry and my black high heals. I make my purchase and head off to search for the perfect rose gold jewelry to accessorize my ensemble.

Boutique jewelry is like a gillion dollars so I end up at the clearance section in Bealls! I am pleasantly surprised to see a variety of cute shirts hanging in the OLD LADY department. I stop to try them on. It must be my lucky day, because the cute top in the old lady department fits like a glove. Too bad this isn’t dress up attire!  I ended up trying on quite a bit of clothes. This really isn’t my fault it is due to my adult ADHD, OCD to try things on in this particular store, and freedom with out my 5-year-old driving me bonkers asking for everything in the little girls department. I am very picky when it comes to pretty much everything, so after a good hour, I finally find my hodge podge rose gold jewelry set that I pieced together. I remember that self-control is a fruit of the Spirit, deny myself the pleasure of over spending, and put the shirt back in its spot; check out, and go next door to grab lunch.

I feed my starving stomach and then decided it is time to marvel at the spectacular outfit I created his morning. My MASTERPIECE!

 I begin to start trying on my new leopard top, jeans, heals, and jewelry………..and…………………I……………HATE IT!

Ugh……maybe it needs to be tucked in? hmm..No maybe it’s my slopped on make up from the morning rush to get out the door this morning that is throwing me off? I place my Hair up, then let it fall down……nope, nope, nope! The top just does not fit my torso right. The colors of the print do not complement my skin tones. I feel defeated!

I spaze, look at the clock and the remaining minuets of freedom to shop alone, jump in my car and hit the shops back up to return my merchandise. Yes I am one of those who takes full advantage of the refund policy if I am not 100 percent satisfied with my merchandise. I couldn’t help but to pause and be thankful that such policies exist for women who change their minds! I mean it’s kind of what we are known for!

I can’t receive a cash back refund at the local boutique so I decide it would be best to take another look and start the whole trying on process again. With the help of the sweet girl working today, I finally find something that definitely looks more like me! I check out, jump back into my car and glance at the time.

My little shopping adventure monopolized my whole day! It’s time to pick up my littles from school!

My five-year old daughter giggles in the back seat as I explain to her all the fuss of shopping and then getting home and not being happy with my ugly clothes. She insists that I show her what I bought when we arrive home. She leaps into my closet and I gather the top and the cute boho vest to go with. She approves and awes over how cute she thinks it is!

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Maybe next time I should just take her and let her pick my outfit out!

All this mess over one, yes ONE piece of clothing!

Are you as picky as me when it comes to your clothes? What are some of your favorite go to shopping stores?

photo credit: yourrhinestonecowgirl on instagram

xoxo

Leigh Leigh

Swimsuit Season

I have always been obsessed with swimsuit season. I have no clue why, but it has always been a MAJOR thing to me. Clothes can be very forgiving, however swimsuits are not! In the past 10 summers I have aggressively searched for the perfect swimsuit that would bring compliment and grace to my girlish figure. Well take in account two of those summers I was carrying my two children in my tummy, therefore those years really didn’t count! 😉

I have gone to the extremes of finding the perfect swim suit. I have spent Hours upon hours spent online shopping, Victoria Secrets, Venus, to name a few. There have been countless hours trying on swimsuits in local department stores, with small children! Which you know is as successful as making your children sit down and eat their lunch at a place that provides a children’s playscape! It’s more of a struggle then an accomplishment. Not to mention to all the dollars spent on these expensive swimsuits! Why? Because if it holds everything in place, really good, its going to cost some extra dough! I’m sure my husband never really minded this process though, after all, I wanted to share with him my favorites and get his opinion on which suit he liked the best. 😉 It’s a hard job to have to check out all these gorgeous swimsuit models, but someone had to do it!

This year I dared to do something different. I can honestly say that I didn’tt window shop, online shop, or catalog shop one time this preswimsuit season.

I actually fell in love with the look the little Lifeguards were pulling off at our local YMCA. Sporty and Modest. I thought to myself, I work out, why not!?

With Birthday cash in hand, we made our way over to Academy and as dear husband took the kids to check out all the sales the store had to offer, I shopped alone. I went straight for the ” lifeguard swimsuit area” and fell in love with a super cute, super sporty one piece swimsuit. I tried it on, in hopes I would only have to try one swimsuit on this year, and too my surprise felt happiness in the eye picking choice I made. It fit my body and it was comfortable. No room for the girls slipping out or having to stay completely sucked in for the entire duration of swim. I felt confident in my choice and made my purchase! Oh and I have to add that it is reversible. One side is a safari print, the other black with hot pink trim! (The picture below shows like and blue because I couldn’t find the black and pink!) The price tag of $60 in my opinion was a steal. I had to hurry up and buy it before the company realized they were selling an awesome suit, two really for the price of one!!
I have to note, this is the cheapest amount I have spent on a swimsuit in the past 10 years as well!

My older swimsuits, to their defense are cute, but they were premediated, and searched for through out all ends of the retail world, haha just kidding, although at the time it did feel like it! Keep this in mind for what I am about to share with you!

I get home from Academy and try my swimsuit on for my husband, to my surprise, he loves it!

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Fast forward to a few days later. We were going over the plans for the next day and I had mentioned taking our kids to the pool to go swimming. His remark was, ” Your wearing your hot little swimsuit to the pool?”
I don’t know why it tickled me so but it did. AT LAST, after 10 years, He finally compliments my swim appearal on his on, with out any baiting on my part! SUCCESS!

The moral of this story is to chill out about your swimsuit! Don’t over think it, and put too much pressure on finding the perfect swimsuit. When we give up the pressures of perfection, there is beauty in what happens when we just let things be, accept our mom bodies, love them, and adapt to them as we need fit.

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It is noting fancy, but it is something that makes me feel good when I am in it. With the added bonus of knowing that if I move a certain way or bend over, I don’t lose everything I got! My kids are finally at the age where we can play and engage each other in a wide variety of water activities. I am all set to just have fun, and not focus on if my suit is in place!

 

xOxO

-Leigh Leigh

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