Friday Favorites

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And here we are at the second to the last day of June. Seriously this month, heck year is flying by. I feel like we just celebrated Christmas and now we are heading into July. How crazy is that?

I am soooo excited for the 4th of July next week. We have friends coming into town and get a night out sans kids. We have a lot of fun things planned for July.

But I am sooooo glad that this week is over. Not only have I been single mommying it up all week, but there has been just a lot of drama and I am tired. More on that later.

In the meantime, onto my Friday favorites and happenings.

ONE. Does anyone know of a fix to the comments on blogger yet? I am constantly looking and nothing. My blog has taken a serious hit ever since the comments no longer being emailed to me. That is how I always responded to them and made sure I was reading everyone's blogs daily. My daily pageviews has been cut in half since this happened. Ugh. So does anyone have a solution?

TWO. Remember last week how I mentioned my beloved Elf sandals were broken? The zipper just came off and isn't fixable (by me)? Well after emailing Elf, they contacted me back and my shoes are being shipped back to them as we speak. They are reimbursing me for the shipping, fixing the shoes or giving me a new pair if they can't be repaired and then sending them back to me for free. That is amazing customer service.

THREE. So I am a huge fan of Tarte's In Bloom palette. It came with a card that gives you two eye looks and I recreate one of them almost every single day. That means I have went through a lot of my funny girl eye shadow. I LOVE that color. It is soooo pretty. But I am not ready for a new palette as I still have sooooo many other colors. So I went to see if I could just purchase a replacement for the funny girl. Nope. Not that I could find. So I started searching for dupes and I found one that is pretty close and I have been using it all week. So if you need a dupe for Tarte's Funny Girl, get yourself Stila Kitten.

Tarte In Bloom palette

 Stila Kitten Eye Shadow

FOUR. Story time. On Thursday morning, I was woken up at 4:40 am because Avery was restless. I got the girls to go back to sleep, but I couldn't. After getting up and getting ready, I got the girls ready. Sutton said she had a tummy ache, so I took her temperature and it was fine. I figured she ate too much pizza the night before or just had to poop. I gave her some motrin for comfort and kept an eye on her.

We headed to school and had to wait a few minutes before going in. Once they opened several parents and kids came inside. The girls noticed a vent down on the ground and a window "being repaired". They asked what happened and I said they must be doing construction. Then we proceeded into the main door.

And that is when the director told the girls to go straight into their rooms and for me to hang on a second. Then she told me that they were robbed last night. They came in from the roof through the vent and then broke through a window that basically sits on the ground (it leads into the newborn to 1 year old room). Then they went through each room, but didn't really do anything in any room except the front main entrance where we check our kids in at and the office. Both of those were destroyed. Cabinets were open, drawers were open and things were spread everywhere.

All of a sudden all my robbery memories came flooding back in. It was like I was reliving it. And to make matters worse, we are coming up on the 7th anniversary of our house being robbed. Plus we live only a mile-ish away from the girls school.

I told the director about my house being robbed and some similarities. They have the guys on camera and hopefully the police catch them soon.

But in all seriousness...what kind of scum bag robs a children's daycare/preschool? There isn't any medicine that they would want or could use, they don't keep cash on hand and don't have a lot that can be taken.

The things we are worried about is the girls personal information along with ours and our credit card information. So we are keeping an eye on things and waiting for an update from the school on what was taken.

Seriously just a sad time.

FIVE. Ok I finally bit the bullet and bought the bloggers most loved dress. I seriously see this dress everywhere. It seems to fit everyone's body beautifully and when I saw the heathered navy on sale for $33.60, I decided to buy it. If I don't like it, I can send it back because that is the beauty of Nordstrom.

I am hoping it works for my body because I love how you can dress it up for date night, where it to work with a cardigan or wear it with a pair of converse for a casual weekend look.

Have you bought one?

Leith Ruched Dress

I am linking up with April, A Little Bit of Everything, Meet @ the Barre and Cup of Tea.

Have a great weekend!