Shopping, Shopping, and MORE shopping!

Last night, I took Deidra to dinner at Applebee's and then we went to Wal-mart to get her school supplies. $59 later, we left with just 2 things we couldn't find that we found that they were out of...manilla paper and construction paper. I'll have to see if I can go to Office Max or Depot whatever it is and see if they have them. She goes on Thursday to drop off her school supplies and meet her teacher.

Then...Man, oh, man have we been running around today. We got up and out the door about 10 and we just got back now (just about 5 pm). We ran to Arlington to go to Babies 'R Us to buy yet another crib mattress (we now are the owners of 3)and more mattress protectors. Then, we went to lunch at Q'Doba (you wouldn't believe the stares that we got because we had 5 kids with us...I just smile as they look and make comments). The girls all polished off their cheese quesadillas and tortilla chips. Then, we came home to drop off the mattress and then we went up to Wal-mart to do some clothes shopping for Little E, Baby T, and Baby J and Deidra found a couple shirts and a pair of jeans that she wanted for school. Then, we ran to JC Penney's and picked up a few more shirts for her. We just got home and I sent Andy back out as we forgot to go to Home Depot to get blinds for the girls' room when we were out.

My New Dress for Date Night with the Hubby

Hubby and I won free dinner at a Mexican restaurant and a free night stay at the Mariott hotel in Fort Worth at our foster parent appreciation banquet. We're also going to try to make it a goal to start going out once a month and getting some real "us" time in. I saw this dress on my favorite store online and I was so surprised to see that I won. I think it's cute!

Tired of being frumpy...

I found an online seller on ebay a few months ago that I just love their clothes. I try snagging their clothes when they list them at 99 cents starting bids. I got a shirt to wear to our Anniversary dinner last year and everybody talked about how nice I looked in that shirt.

Well, I just bought a new shirt from them and wore it yesterday. It's a little more low-cut than what I'm used to wearing, but it wasn't too bad. I'll just show you the shirt. :-)



I put it on and the girls immediately told me how cute I looked and Deidra wanted to know why I was so fancy. The thing is that I always used to dress up when I was thin....now that I've gained so much weight I dress in the same old stuff all the time and I realized I was tired of looking frumpy. Anyway, we were out and about yesterday and Andy says "you are showing some cleavage in that shirt." We get home and I find out that he hasn't been able to keep his eyes off of me all day long. Hmmm...this plan of mine must be working....time to get rid of the frumpy look and get back to being more fashionable. It felt great to get a compliment from my hubby...especially when he doesn't give them all that often.

Everytime I lose 10 lbs, I'll be rewarding myself with a new piece of clothing.