My Mom Is...
This post is for my mom on Mother's Day.
My mom is beautiful, and I mean gorgeous! The kind of beautiful that never ages, never fades, yet always shines.
My mom is intelligent. Drew makes fun of me for starting ALL of my sentences with "my mom said..."
My mom is a quiet servant. I say quiet because she never makes mention of the kind things she is so often doing for others other than it coming up in casual conversation: "Well I have to let you go, there are some ladies coming over to have a dinner at our house to honor one of the ladies in their group." "Dad and I are just coming back from building a ramp for someone that needed it who is in a wheelchair."
My mom is funny. Her sense of humor always astounds me, makes her fun to be around, and what would I do without all of those cut-out comics that she gives me anytime they correlate with my life?!
My mom is fashionable. Did you know she and a friend once came to DFW for the sole reason of coming to a fashion show? Yeah...that's MY mom!
My mom is calming. Yes she is calm too--but what I mean is that she always has the right words to say to calm my spirit. I can be having the roughest of days and I know to just call her and tell her what's going on and within minutes I will be feeling tons better due to stellar advice she has given or just the way that she listens and is sympathetic to my situation.
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Lastly, my mom is better than your mom.
Happy Mother's Day!
Hi, my name is Tara and I am a flip flop fanatic! (This is where you say, "Hi, Tara!"). I didn't know I was an addict until recently. You know those ads all of the stores always send you in your email inbox that you constantly have to weed through and delete? Yeah, I don't--I fall for them almost everytime and get excited about whatever various sale they are promoting and click to go to the website and shop. This past week's incident happened to be a J. Crew ad...for flip flops. These aren't your ordinary flip flops though...these are the cutest flip flops ever! Embelished flip-flops that look oh so chic and classy. Can you call flip-flops classy? Oh well, I just did. So the pictures above show the selection that I knew I would just die if I had to live without them. What did I do? Ordered them online of course! I kind of forgot about them in the hustle and bustle of the weekend but when I heard the doorbell ring and saw the UPS man standing there with a package today, I REMEMBERED! I was SO excited!! This was probably the highlight of my day. I forgot to mention the purchase to Drew, so I apologized, quickly opened my package, and made it all right with a flip flop fashion show!! I put on each pair and pranced into the living room to show Drew. He wins husband of the year award because he even gave commentary like they do in real fashion shows, "this pair is adorned with jewels and is the perfect pair of shoes for the summer." Now, I am already counting down the days left in the school year before I have a well-needed summer break (12 days!), but this just got me giddy about summertime!! 
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We are back! After a long and busy weekend...we are back home and not going to do a THING during the week to recover from the weekend. Here is how our weekend went:
James, my cousin, entertained us with his hilarious faces!
Sister-in-law & Brother 
