Well P is gone until later tonight and I have to make this quick because I am in need of some uninterrupted television time that doesn’t involve The Outdoor Channel. The backlog of shows on my DVR right now is shameful. If someone walked in and looked at my DVR they might get the impression that I don’t love T.V. at all. And they would be so wrong.
So I plan to start with Parenthood and end with Flipping Out and perhaps catch up on a little Survivor.
Goals are good.
1. I’m going to tell y’all why I love you so much. Because I wrote a post yesterday about the grocery store being rearranged and you all sympathized with me. But what several of you chose to focus on was the gel I mentioned that makes your eyebrows grow.
You are my people.
The great irony is I spent the first part of my life with eyebrows aplenty. As evidenced by this picture taken my senior year of high school.
That girl was unfamiliar with tweezers. However, she was very familiar with using two full sets of hot rollers in her hair each morning.
But I discovered the art of plucking my eyebrows sometime around the mid-90s (about ten years too late) and apparently I grew a little overzealous. That’s how I ended up at an eyebrow specialist who recommended this eyebrow gel to help my eyebrows fill in a little. It’s called Talika Eyebrow Lipocils.
And while I do have to admit that my eyebrows look healthier than ever, I would never actually purchase this product again because, seriously? However, if you do need eyebrow assistance, it seems to work.
Have I ever mentioned I am a sucker for a beauty product? And that I tend to get caught up in the moment?
2. I feel so awkward mentioning stuff like this but I’m going to tell you anyway because after admitting I purchased eyebrow gel it just seems like it’s okay.
I’m speaking at a brunch at Wayside Chapel in San Antonio on Saturday, October 6 from 9-12. For more information or to register, you can click on their registration page.
Did I mention this is my mother-in-law’s church? No pressure there.
At least my eyebrows will look good.
3. Yesterday I was helping Caroline with her spelling words which is a weekly battle. I know you want to recommend Spelling City right now and I appreciate it, but even that didn’t help us. And it’s hard for me because I’m an excellent speller. I don’t want to brag but I was in the fifth grade spelling bee and only lost because I couldn’t spell “hobgoblin” and that’s kind of a stupid word anyway.
I have to claim my academic accomplishments where I can because I am a person who graduated from college while on scholastic probation. Also, I had to google “types of quadrilaterals” the other day to help Caroline with her homework.
My point is that I can help with spelling. But as we went over the words and she sighed her deep sighs, she finally looked at me and said, “When am I ever going to use this again?”
How about every day for the rest of your life?
She just can’t find out about spellcheck or I’m ruined.
That’s it for today. See y’all tomorrow for Fashion Friday.
There’s going to be another giveaway. It’s complete madness.
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Gorgeous high school picture. Not fair! But not shocking as you are a pretty adult.
My hair stylist still loves the big hair, and if I let her, I would leave her house with huge hair every time. Which is saying something for someone with lots of very thin hair.
Oh the fun of homework. The problem comes when the math they do is no longer the math we did and we really can’t help them.
Love the high school picture! Big hair was so cool.
I am so WITH you. I am a great speller, but my kids!!! I don’t get it. I thought this would be a dominant gene. And I agree about Spelling City, it just confused my daughter more.
But BIG hair and eyebrows are coming back into style – that I CAN help my daughter with!
Oh. My. Hair.
How much did that bundle of gorgeousness weigh?
Enjoy watching Survivor…..one of my best friends, Denise, is on it this year. We are super proud of her! I’ve never watched until this season. Loving it!
The best spelling program I’ve used with consistent results is called Signs for Sounds. It’s easy and won’t cause tantrums or tears. It may seem too simple for her level, but do both levels just to make certain she’s got all the bases covered. Besides going down a notch or two will be so simple for her she’ll probably say “This is too easy.” They always do to which I reply “Good. That’s what I want to hear. Just do it.” Here’s the web site http://www.readnaturally.com/products/signs4sounds.htm It can be reproduced easily and was designed that way.
This will sound silly, but your eyebrow comment prompted me to comment. My eyebrows had also been ‘disappearing’ over the last year or so. (I’ve never had enough to pluck, I’m jealous of yours AND your thick hair!)
Then I read an article “what your eyes say about your health” and one of the top items was ‘You’re missing the outer 1/3 of your eyebrows’… Low thyroid. My doctor had said my levels were low at my last check up, but I’d figured no big deal. After seeing the article, I Googled hypothyroidism, and I had more than half the symptoms! I’d assumed they were all menopause related. Anyway, after barely a month, I feel better than I have in ages, and the eyebrows are growing back!
I didn’t realize how much I’d missed them… Now, I want more. I’ll check out that gel too. So glad i happened upon your blog!
I still have abundant eyebrows and wish they would thin out. So I should just keep plucking and they will stop growing back?
In grammer school I lost a spelling bee because I misspelled “judgment.” I put an “e” in it and have since learned that BOTH spellings are correct. I feel so cheated!
I think your hair weighed more than you did! But I am a sucker for curls, and a friend to the hot rollers. I missed the grocery store post…will have to go check that out.
Here they don’t even teach spelling really. Oh, they get a list of words but they don’t teach the rules all that much. All because of spell check.
And–really, do you use hobgobblin in everyday conversation?
Maybe that’s a word you need to incorporate more since the Spelling Bee people thought it was so important.
A few years ago my 3rd grader was given the word “obstreperous”. Yeah. We want 3rd graders wandering around saying obstreperous.
Thanks for the eyebrow post!! I will have to check the gel out.
C’s comment about spelling cracked me up!!!
A friend’s dad burned footage from our senior year onto video. The kids were watching the video…the lineup of the drill team and cheerleaders…and said, “Wow. Why is everyone’s hair so big? Oh wait…yours isn’t? Were you like a nerd because you didn’t have big hair? BAHAHAHAHA…”
Are you ready for Caroline to become a teenager? It’s so much fun. My self-esteem is like, soaring. Tots. (Pronounced Totes, as in short for totally. Somebody please help me.)
I sympathize with Caroline as I am a naturally poor speller. Voracious reader, which normally equates to at least decent speller but I got the vocabulary without the ability to spell all those words. I really think either you have the spelling gene or you don’t. My mom would sympathize with you as I remember well the tears and tantrums from trying to learn how to spell. NOT FUN! I love how my kids’ school does it now – they do a pattern so they actually don’t have a list. They teach them the pattern and then they should be able to spell any word that follows that pattern. It does seem to work better than memorizing a list every week.
Okay, so just on your tv choices alone, I know we would be friends if we met in real life. But the eyebrow thing solidifies it! Love your blog!
Oh the joys of spelling words. It was a struggle and then a wonderful teacher sent home a spelling game and the angels sang. She made a tic-tac-toe board and filled each box with a fun activity involving the words. You do the activity and you can X the box. The goal is to make a bingo then a blackout. The activities were things like; cover a tray with salt and write the words in the salt, write the words with chalk on the driveway, do a jumping jack for each letter while you spell the word, draw a picture using the spelling words. The activities were so fun that we forgot we were studying the words. She also gave small rewards for the bingo and a larger reward for the blackout. There are some fun ideas here; http://celestedevine.weebly.com/homeworkcalendar.html
Hope this helps.
Beautiful hair. Stunning, actually.
My 1st grader brought home his first spelling list last night. Our conversation went like this:
Me: Spell “of”
Him: of
Me: spell it
Him: of
Me: if I were going to spell it I would say o-f
Him: *melt down crying*
So, looking forward to more of this in the future!
Spelling City doesn’t help my son, either. It’s a nice concept, and yet NO. He’s an auditory learner, not visual, so he can see/write them a hundred thousand times and still not know it. The only thing that works is making him spell them aloud. And that makes ME nauseous. It’s really, really frustrating.
My kids think my curly hair in earlier pictures is hilarious! So glad straight hair is in fashion now as I live a place with high humidity. (If it’s not any more, don’t tell me.)
Both my sisters were champion spelling bee spellers. I don’t have the spelling gene ( truly think there is one) and I think my sisters thought spelling was so easy that I must misspell things on purpose for attention or something. My older sister got two non-spellers that she had to struggle to help. All my kids are great natural spellers. I think there’s poetic justice there. But I don’t have any advice other than it’s not the end of the world. We all have things we have to overcome. I *love* spell check; but it doesn’t catch all the mistakes!
tsk tsk Miss Melanie– why oh why would you feel awkward telling your loyal readers about your speaking schedule? I just wish I was close enough to come.
Oh! I just remembered. My hubby (who the kids inherited the spelling gene from) has the kids purposefully mispronounce difficult words in a way that indicates their spelling.
And it’s true, I can spell “lingerie” because for years, in my head, I pronounced the sign hanging in our local Belk’s more like linguini than something you lounge in.
Then there was the beautiful character in the Dick Tracy comic strip, Bea U. Tiful, who helped me with my spelling of that word. (or was it Brenda Starr? Talk about big hair!)
Not to air my own fragile insecurity here….but I have a half of an eyebrow on one side thanks to an over-talkative WAXING QUEEN!!!
It’s the bane of my old lady face.
I need that gel! (if it works)
Poor C. Words just don’t mean the same to me as numbers!!
OH my goodness, Caroline trips me out. “When am I ever going to use this again?”
Didn’t get a chance to make a comment yesterday on the grocery store post but I am feeling you on that girl. Don’t start moving everything around on me. I like a routine and I don’t want to spend 4 hours looking for a can of green beans. I want to be able to go into that store and walk straight to the item without having to go down every stinkin’ aisle looking for it.
Spellcheck doesn’t catch grammatical errors either, and THAT is a huge pet peeve of mine (as an English teacher).
You probably shouldn’t mention that Einstein couldn’t spell, either
Parenthood! OMG, get out the kleenex, you are going to need them! Love the Bravermans:)
This is intended to make you feel better: My daughter, who took calculus in high school, and received a full scholarship to college, can’t spell worth a lick. What are you going to do?
Wow you had a ton of hair. That is like dream hair to me. Amazing.
Spelling has never been my forte, so I’ve got no suggestions other that make sure you run through them right before she goes for the test. Having them top of mind on the morning always helped my son.
My older son is in 3rd grade now and we fight over his spelling list every week. I was a teacher for 10 years and have a degree in English, so you might think he would trust me when I tell him he spelled a word wrong. Instead, he argues, yells, cries, and spends an hour on 20 words instead of the 20 minutes it should take. He is actually a very good speller, but that seems to make the problem worse because he will continue to argue about how they are spelled. Did I mention that while he is arguing I have the list in my hand? I love headstrong kids!!!
You mean there was another ’93 SCOM major on sco pro?
Thank you for telling us about Parenthood. My husband and I watched three seasons as fast as we could thanks to your recommendation and we loved it. Now I can’t wait for each Tuesday night to enjoy Season 4.
Please let us know if you are ever speaking in the Houston area.
My oldest, an avid reader, did not get good at spelling til high school. I was in despair for a bit thinking I’d FAILED as a homeschool mom, but it turned out she just needed a bit more time. I really think reading is THE best thing for improving spelling. As a (still) homeschooling mom (I must be a nutcase to have stuck with it this long!) I don’t even do spelling tests with my kids any more. If a kid spells a word wrong, they just write it down 10x and move on. So far so good.
Mary, momma to many
I keep asking my 4th grader where her spelling words are. “I don’t have any.” What does that mean? Did she test out of it or something? How does she not have spelling words?
I feel like you’re lucky spelling is the challenge, because the challenge here is math. And that’s almost an everyday homework issue. She just looks at the page, declares she doesn’t get it, and cries. So I try to help her and it ends with us barely speaking with each other.
Quadrilaterals, huh? Caroline must be in 4th grade…. We’re doing the same thing here in WV. I have often said that as long as I could stay one day smarter than Stevie I could homeschool. Well, the homeschool ship has sailed, thanks to the unit on Geometry. In 9th grade, I had a tutor one hour a week and still made a D-. Thankfully I married a smart man who is a math whiz. =)
I just love your stories.
So odd you posted this tonight since I have been researching eyebrow powders all day. I was reading a beauty blog and I guess I have somehow over looked just how important the eyebrows are. I’ve always went in for my monthly wax and other than that thought I the brows were fine. Wrong, so wrong. I did notice after my last wax they looked a little “sparse” on the ends. I’m a sucker for all things from Sephora but, in this case I’m going with the NYX brow powder it’s much cheaper with great reviews. Do not use a brow liner/pencil thing, they are so harsh looking. The powder gives a totally natural filled in look! I’m buying some tomorrow. I’m convinced it’s a 40′s thing, I blame everything on the 40′s.
Ugh, my kids still use that line “When am I ever gonna need this in real life?” I now answer, “You are going to need it to graduate from high school!!” So let’s get busy!!!