A Decent night's sleep! What's that?

A night of uninterrupted sleep. That is my dream. I've been doing the baby thing for the last 23 years and it's getting a bit old. I'd love to finally be able to get a full night's sleep every night. Sigh. It looks as if the dream will stay just that for a while longer.

Charlie, at age 3, has quite an imagination. Here is a little conversation that we had a couple of weeks ago at 4 a.m.

I had gotten up to get James a bottle. and had just crawled back into my own warm bed, closing my tired eyes. Then I heard, "There's a snake in my room."  I chuckled quietly so as not to disturb Curtis.  In a minute I heard it again, but a little bit louder. This time Curtis laughed with me. He crawled out of bed and went in to the boys' room and wrangled that invisible snake. Thinking he had solved the problem he crawled back into bed, telling me quietly that Charlie had seen the "snake" on the baby's crib.

We were just settling back to sleep when we heard,

"It's still HERE!!"

Curtis went in and talked to him telling him there was no snake and all the reasons why there would not be a snake in his room at night. He was not convinced. Curtis  had to get up and go in to work early to do snow removal so he ended up bringing Charlie in to our bed. He tucked him in, got ready and left.

I told him that it was way too cold for snakes to be out of the ground here, that they'd be frozen. After all Dad had just gone to shovel snow. Told him that there was no way for a frozen snake to get upstairs to his room because the cats would get it anyway.

Thinking the issue was resolved I began to drift off to sleep again, only to hear,

"Now it's in HERE!!"

Yup, uninterrupted sleep is still a dream. But maybe it's overrated.

I've decided to post some of the outfits I put together. Mostly as a visual for myself to see how they look somewhere other than in the mirror. (My mirror has issues with telling the truth). Also as a catalog of possibilities. One thing I really love about my closet now is that all the clothing coordinates and the possibilities are limitless. It's so fun to see what new look I can create. This will help me see if it was a win or not.

Today I went for a very casual look. Since I started DYT I have been trying to be more dressy than just jeans and a T, my standard uniform prior to DYT. But there are days when you just want to be comfy and casual. Today was one of those days.

I layered a light gray tshirt under a gray burnout tshirt from Aeropostale'. The Aero tshirt is a big too large and so it drapes but since I'm T2 I think that's perfect!

I put on my silver oval earrings but still felt a little blah, so I added the dusty blue scarf I made from an old tshirt.(love, love, love these scarves!! Tutorial here) I think it adds just enough interest at the neckline.

I still find myself doing a bit too much contrast. I originally put on a purple/lavendar tshirt scarf, but decided I wanted to go with a more blended, monochromatic look. It's a challenge for me to go monochromatic.

*Please ignore the visible muffin top, I'm working on removing that!

As you can see I've changed my blog title again.

I changed it a couple of years ago to reflect where I was at that point in my life. I had grand plans to write a lot about the things that were important to me, the things that I was passionate about and the things that I was learning about and trying to implement in my life.

Then life happened.

And the writing never happened. Having baby #9 really threw a wrench in my works.

Lately, I've been thinking about this blog and now I think it needs to go back to what it was in the beginning. A record of the events and happenings in our family's life. A family journal of sorts. As I'm a part of that family I can still include the things I'm thinking about and learning about. I just think I'll have more things to post about. After all, there are 10 other people in this family!

At least that's my hope. Onward and forward!

I am what I thought I was.....

Wow. I really meant to be better at updating this blog this year. Guess the year is not over and I still have time to do better.

So after my trip to the DYT Center in Draper, I'm happy to announce that I'm a Type........................................................................................
2!!
I am what I thought I was. And I'm very happy about that!

It was a very interesting experience. I was privileged to meet with Sarah Tuttle, and she spent about 20 minutes with me, helping me decide/see for myself that I am a Type 2. The draping consisted of (with as few specifics as possible to not cause a problem with the DYT co.) placing on me type specific versions of one color. Along with that there was a piece of a patterned cloth that was type specific and a piece of jewelry that was type specific.

Sarah sat me near a north-facing window for true light and in front of a mirror. She looked at me and shared with me what facial features she did see in my face. She said she saw T1 in my upturned nose and higher forehead as well as rounder cheeks. She saw T4 in my straight eyebrows and parallel lines on the sides of my nose. T2- she saw my oval face and softer cheek/jaw and s-curve from brow to around my mouth. Then she put the fabrics for the type that I thought I was on me, then layered the others over that from the type with the features most recognized to the least. So T2 was on the bottom and T3 on the top.

The T3 color and pattern were just completely wrong. Too much movement. They were quickly discarded. T4 was next. Colors weren't too bad, but when the patterned piece was near my face, it was just overpowering me. They were removed and we went to T1. We played around with it for a time. The colors were actually quite good on me. Again it came to the pattern and metal. The piece of fabric was a polka dot and in Sarah's words,"Just looks 'silly'". The animation of it was not good for me. Then we just had the T2 fabrics to look at. Again, the colors are good, and the patterned piece just made my face look smoother and softer and not so blotchy. And it flowed with me.

I was thrilled to get this chance. I was a bit nervous going in, but it was a great time and I'm so glad I took the chance to do it. Sarah was so kind and sweet, making me feel very comfortable and at home. I also took the time to shop while I was there. I think that is something I will do as often as I can. I loved that I didn't even need my style guide. They have all the clothing sorted by type on the racks. So you just head to the the T2 rack and start shopping. I found a pair of much-needed jeans, a jacket and about 4-5 shirts, as well as a pair of earrings.

I'm looking forward to catching a club night this year sometime and I'm also planning to attend the annual event they hold. This year it's the end of September. Can't wait to meet so many women who are living their truth.