Almost Gone...

Anna's first pedicure (Man, she has pretty feet! I wonder where she got them from?). I am not really into the whole nail polish on kids but I figured just this one time for the wedding, it's okay. And I saw a crazy Mom at the park one day with a three-month old with hot pink toenails. And product in her hair! So I am better than that Mom at least. I guess? What do you all think?

We are almost ready to leave! Our packing is coming together nicely. I think I have been mentally making lists for months now so it all just needs to be thrown in the suitcases. That's the easy part. Now I have to obsess over whether or not I actually put the right stuff in the suitcases. The one thing I always forget: baby shampoo. And then the kids are screaming and crying with the hotel grade shampoo running in their eyes. But this time, it is good to go! I have Band-Aids, Tylenol, Advil, Alleve, 3 different types of allergy medicines, tweezers, safety pins, bobby pins, and all kinds of other stuff. Two-thirds of all this just in case stuff I pack we probably won't even use. But I might be able to sleep better tonight feeling like I'm a little more prepared. It's all about the illusion of control.

I like to think of myself as a low-maintenence type of girl, but as I laid all of my necessities out on the bed, I realized otherwise. The picture above is just my stuff, not Dave's, Anna's or Jonathan's. Just to give you a little sense of scale, this garment bag is stretched across the width of a queen size bed. There are probably 8-10 different brushes, 5-6 different hair products, 6 different eye makeup products, 6-7 different tubs of Bare Minerals make-up...

Oh, and looking at the picture I just realized what I am missing: my flat iron and curling iron. I am bringing some of this product because I am going to help my Mom with her makeup and hair. So there! I am not really that bad!