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Eyeball Cookies for Halloween

Do you ever find that as a mom you try and do everything absolutely perfect?  You take your kid to Frozen Yogurt as a treat and they look at you and say, "This isn't even fun, mama."  Or you make toast in the morning with bananas and peanut butter and honey, set up like Mickey Mouse' head, get all excited for them to wake up... and they turn to you and say, "I don't like Mickey Mouse anymore, mama."  OKAY... As of yesterday, they were ALL ABOUT that freakin' mouse.  Soooooo, a little bit of your Motherly Pride is chipped away.  With every #FAIL you feel like a failure.  You may even shed a tear or two.  Not saying I have EVER done anything like that in my almost 7 years of mothering, but some of you mothers may have. (I have totally had emotional breakdowns, locked in the bathroom for a good 45 min, btw)  It's okay to cry.  Let it OUT!  It shows that we are still human!  I mean, if on a normal day we are doing laundry, going to work, packing lunches, making dinner, running baths, helping with homework, reading with our little ones, tucking them in bed and checking our email/social media, we can forget that we are only human and not the super hero that we just assume we are.  This is the average life for a mother!  We do it ALL.... Which brings me to my next, hopefully, NON-FAILURE.
Halloween is right around the corner.  Per my daughter's request, I will be attempting to make these Eyeball Cookies.  She got the recipe out of her book, Five Little Monkeys Trick-Or-Treat.  I will be taking them to her Fall Festival on Friday.  Wish me luck.
If any of you other mothers would like to attempt this recipe I will post it below.  I hope I hear how happy your children are after they have one.

XOXO,
Lo Lo

Good Luck Not Ruining Halloween For Your Kid This Year.

HERBAL ESSENCES.... WHAAAAAATTTT????

OH EM GEE!  I have been on the hunt FOREVER for the PERFECT Shampoo and Conditioner for my daughter's hair (black and white).  I have had very little success thus far, trying everything from Mixed Chicks, Shea Moisture, Kinky Curly, Curls, Mane 'N Tail and countless others.  I bought Herbal Essences The Sleeker The Butter Shampoo and Conditioner and used it the first time the other day.  First of all the smell is absolutely amazing.  It smells like Cocoa Butter and Vanilla/Coconut.  My daughter wanted to eat it.  :) Second of all, the shampoo lathered up so nice, and the conditioner made my daughter's hair so smooth and soft, even after rinsing it out.  Usually as soon as the conditioner is rinsed out, her hair feels like straw and is completely tangled.  Last, but not least... when it was time to comb it out, I was able to do so without a struggle.  SIDE NOTE:  She had slept on a wet head from the pool from the night before.  Washing is always a struggle after pool days.  I didn't have to add any leave in conditioners, or serums, like I normally do.  I simply combed through and put her styling product in.  It was Heaven.  The best part, is that my daughter's curls still look pretty after a day and a half.  I'm in love with this product.  It only took 6 years to find. ;)

XOXO,

LO LO

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Feeling Disheartened...

I have been feeling as if my generosity has been going unnoticed.  Not just going unnoticed, but I feel as if I'm held to expectations that I can no longer mentally and physically do.  I am slowly getting burnt out.  I have had a few melt downs and am so very tired lately.  I'm struggling with finances and gaining that steady clientele that every "work for yourself" person needs to survive.  I'm struggling with being a mom and practicing patience with my 6 year old who's only purpose in life, it seems, is to disobey, annoy, and disrespect me.  I am being pulled so many different ways and am giving so much of myself, that I have forgotten to take care of myself.  I was feeling so "woe is me, pity party" that when I got a massage today, I broke down sobbing.  My therapist began to massage my feet at the end of my 90 minute session and it hit something that released 10 tons of emotion onto my face pillow and into the kleenex that I quickly asked for.  She told me to keep crying and not shut it off.  If I felt the urge to cry, cry.  If I needed to cry on the drive home, cry on the drive home.  She said I probably had a lot of stress, tension and emotion harnessed in my feet and crying would release all of it and get the additional toxins out.  When I got home, I was thinking about everything, and I happened to read this passage by Mother Teresa.  It couldn't have come on a better day.  I needed to read this.  I needed to be reminded that God said, "What you do for the least of these, you do unto me."  I'm crying as I type this....

"For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.  It was never between you and them anyway."
 
~Mother Teresa

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