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Weekend Wrap Up

I think it goes without saying that I am totally heartbroken, disgusted, and fearful regarding the shooting and the senseless murders of all those who lost their lives in Newtown, CT. The entire weekend I was in my feelings about how much control we really don’t have when it comes to the safety of our children when they are out of our sight. Hell, the reality is we really have little control at all. Someone can break into our homes or ambush us in the mall or theater or ram into our car at a stoplight. This has really shown me that every moment spent with our loved ones is so precious and should be treated as such because we truly never know.

I’ve cried about this, I’ve pondered, I’ve hugged my children and my husband a little tighter this past weekend. My conclusion is that the only real defense I have for keeping my family and loved ones safe is to pray and believe that God will protect them daily.

As far as my weekend shenanigans go, I stayed pretty low key this weekend.

Friday evening, I volunteered my time with the Pajama Program and when my obligation there was completed I skipped over to a party sponsored by Just Fab that was hosted by Danielle, Eboni and Trina.

top: Dee Dee, Dominique, Danielle bottom: Yours Truly, Breck

Saturday I spent the majority of the day under my covers thinking about those poor babies and their families. My husband was so kind as to take the children out with him while he ran some errands. I napped and when he came back solo because the children wanted to stay with my inlaws we went out to dinner and off to Walmart to finish up our Christmas shopping…what an impromptu date night.

Two bikes and a Doc McStuffins Doctor bag…How romantic!!

The “sickies” have been passed around so much around here I’ve lost count. So let’s just say my son was out of school two days last week and now the baby is sick again. Sunday I was busy trying to nurse her back to health. I did manage to get out and do some grocery shopping and visit Ulta for some Christmas gifts.

That’s all folks. How was your weekend…considering?

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Christmas• Holidays• Weekend

Weekend WrapUp

Hey!!

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.

This weekend was slightly busy but in a good, non stressful kind of way. A few weeks ago a couple of my girlfriends from college and I thought it would be a good idea to do a gift exchange and cookie party for our children. On Friday evening, we all gathered at the hostess’ house and helped the children make cookies, and ornaments. We then ate pizza and exchanged gifts. The entire time we were doing our festive activities I just kept thinking how did we go from passing out and holding each other up in the club to baking and making Christmas crafts with a whole bunch of kids…I know. God is able.

Saturday we took it easy and around 4 o’clock we drug ourselves out of the house to do some grocery shopping and get our Christmas tree. Get home, put the groceries up, and the children are so excited to decorate the tree. After searching high and low for the ornaments for at least 20 minutes I conveniently remembered that I threw them all away last year with the intent to buy all new ones. Please don’t judge me. To appease those babies I let them recklessly string lights on the tree until I can get to Walmart today to get some new ornaments. I said don’t judge!!!

Sunday was a busy day. The first stop was to a local tweet up with Motions haircare. The event was hosted by Danielle of The Style and Beauty Doctor and Lexi of Lexi With the Curls. We went around discussing our natural hair journeys, and exchanged tips on how to style our hair for the holidays. I got some great tips and some great products. More detailed post to come later in the week.

Left from the tweetup and headed over to Ammazza a new pizzeria here in Atlanta. There is a group of mothers here that go by Georgia Social Media Moms and the event here was our first Christmas Party. Everyone was welcome to bring their families but I went solo..~~.cause I needed a minute to myself~~. The pizza was amazing, and the atmosphere was equally magnificent. I will definitely be headed back there with the family in tow. Unfortunately my camera and phone were dying by the time I got there so I don’t have many photos but the ambiance was amazing. If you are in Atlanta check them out.

For Sunday’s festivities I wore:

Shirt: Thrifted Jeans: Thrifted Belt: Thrifted Shoes: Target Clearance $5.98!!!!!

Overall an awesome weekend. How was yours? Are your Christmas decorations up? Is your Christmas shopping done, almost done or are you still waiting on the spirit of Christmas present to move you?

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Pajama Program Jammy Jam

This past Saturday I co-hosted a charity event along with Sojourner, Tiffini, Raisa and Bunnie to benefit the Georgia Chapter of the Pajama Program. The Pajama Program is a national organization that collects and distributes pajamas and books to children in need that are often housed in shelters and foster homes.

The event was held at KIPP Strive Academy here in Atlanta. We had a bounce house, face painting and games for the children. We collected a total of 77 pair of pajamas which means that 77 children will sleep warm and that makes me sooooo happy!

Tiffini was the face painter for the day

Adjua of PJ Tuttles doing glitter tattoos

A huge thank you to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and their Strong4Life campaign for sending over gift bags

Young Masterminds of Atlanta was there. Awesome summer camp resource

P.J. Tuttles was also a sponsor. Great party décor for little girls of color

Hostesses and Sponsors

Of course some of the ever supportive Atlanta bloggers came through to show their support. ALWAYS appreciated

The lovely Tia and her babies

Efie was in the house.

Even Mama Bernetta came through!!

Another blogger named Kita was also there but she refused to be photographed *issues a major side eye*

The event was great. Glad to be able to have helped so many children get something that we often take for granted. Stay tuned for the next event 😉

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#NaturallyGlam at Glamour Girls Day Spa

From my weekend wrap up post I mentioned that we attended an event on Sunday hosted by Trina. The event was held at Glamour Girls Day Spa in Kennesaw, GA.

Mad for the simple fact she was denied two cupcakes

While the babies played and did their beauty thing the mommies were getting educated on 4 Naturals hair products and techniques to use on adult and children’s natural hair. I learned some very valuable tips and I am looking forward to trying this line of products.

Natural hair twist out demonstration being performed on Adrienne from Me, My Hair and the City

I keep telling y’all Addison’s hair is so dry and I am still so desperate to find something that works other than coconut oil. I will keep you posted on how these products worked out.

The spa was so cute and dainty. Perfect for little ladies. I’m a little shady that we didn’t have anything like this when we were growing up. The best we could get was our Mamas painting our toes and nails…Oh well.

At least they had a great time!

Have you taken your baby to one of these new fangled baby spas?!!

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