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OOTD – Black & White

I have been wanting to wear these white pants for several weeks now but the weather hasn’t been warm or sunny enough.  

Today is the day, and in my head I hear the woman in the commercial saying, “don’t wear white after Labor Day – who are you? – my grandmother?”  The actress, Lisa Raye wears white everyday so here I am in my white pants before Memorial Day.

Top – Walmart// Pants – Goodwill// Shoes – Charlotte Russe// Bracelet – Mizoutlet.com// Ring and earrings – my jewelry box// Clutch Purse – my design

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OOTD – Black & White

I have been wanting to wear these white pants for several weeks now but the weather hasn’t been warm or sunny enough.  

Today is the day, and in my head I hear the woman in the commercial saying, “don’t wear white after Labor Day – who are you? – my grandmother?”  The actress, Lisa Raye wears white everyday so here I am in my white pants before Memorial Day.

Top – Walmart// Pants – Goodwill// Shoes – Charlotte Russe// Bracelet – Mizoutlet.com// Ring and earrings – my jewelry box// Clutch Purse – my design

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Mother's Day Will Be Bittersweet

REPOSTING FROM 2012

Mother’s Day will be bittersweet

  • today at 50, I’ve been a mother for almost 20 years
  • my grandmother was 50 when I was born, she took me & my sis under her wing at the age of 57 and lived to be 98
  • Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
  • the parent of a 3 month preemie weighed a mere 2.5 lbs, not sure if he would live or die
  • my God is Awesome
  • i look in the mirror and see my mother
  • bore but did not raise me
  • died before I really got to know her
  • feared I would have to care for her in her old age
  • grandmother said in order to live a long life you have to treat everybody right and pray
  • Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
  • not a friend but a fierce protector and provider
  • mother never saw her grandsons
  • a mother of 2 black males – RIP Trayvon
  • in the store – keep your hands out of your pockets or they think you are stealing
  • don’t lower your eyes
  • know your history – never forget where you came from
  • work hard
  • no fear
  • believe and achieve
  • no drinking drugs or wild and crazy women
  • pray
  • bless your food
  • be grateful
  • study hard
  • eat your food
  • don’t eat too much candy
  • Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
  • don’t curse, fight, drink or do drugs
  • wash and dry your clothes, sew cook and clean – I am raising some woman’s husband
  • slow down you are driving too fast
  • look in your rear view mirror
  • keep your eyes straight ahead
  • at 98 I held her hand as she transitioned, my guardian angel, my protector, teacher, minister and enforcer
  • Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
  • you got an “F”!
  • stop crying
  • open up
  • you’ll feel better
  • didn’t i tell you
  • now why did you do that?
  • wait for your brother
  • are you listening to me?
  • what did you say!
  • I love you
  • here, try this
  • be nice
  • save your money
  • get a job
  • go outside and play
  • you have to work hard
  • leave him alone
  • say cheese
  • come here
  • sit down
  • are you crazy
  • what did you do?
  • buried my father
  • never knew my paternal grandparents
  • i had a brother
  • my lil sis is gone
  • i’ll never be an aunt
  • Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
  • don’t spit that out
  • i said,let’s go
  • stop it
  • Gloria was killed
  • do your homework
  • turn off that tv
  • dinner!
  • have a good day
  • God bless you
  • how was school today?
  • change your clothes
  • clean your room
  • Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
  • get up!
  • make your bed
  • breakfast!
  • take out the trash
  • stop it!
  • working hard until he graduates from college
  • remembering the fear of his first day on the bus, bigger fear, first day driving alone
  • emergency room visits
  • months and months in the hospital
  • surgeries, feeding tubes, iv’s, central lines, rsv, nicu, picu
  • what did i do to deserve this
  • God why?
  • teach me how to swim
  • can’t breast feed
  • crying all the time
  • will this ever end?
  • fell off the bike
  • pregnant again…fear
  • water broke…uh oh
  • never got a maternity leave
  • slow down
  • barium swallows, mri’s
  • mcdonald’s ball pit
  • Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
  • pediasure, pedylyte, nebulizer, syringe, pulse ox, nurses
  • pick that up
  • put that back
  • don’t play with that
  • leave it alone
  • boy don’t make me come and get you
  • i’m an orphan-no mother
  • Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
  • ieps, department of disabilities, nurses and kids, special ed classes, mainstreaming
  • go sit down!
  • come here
  • where you goin?
  • i’ll put the ashes in the coffin with mama
  • Mother’s Day will be bittersweet

    My mother in high school

    My grandmother~mother~father~friend

    My sister ~ RIP

    My preemie

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Mother’s Day Will Be Bittersweet

REPOSTING FROM 2012

Mother’s Day will be bittersweet

  • today at 50, I’ve been a mother for almost 20 years
  • my grandmother was 50 when I was born, she took me & my sis under her wing at the age of 57 and lived to be 98
  • Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
  • the parent of a 3 month preemie weighed a mere 2.5 lbs, not sure if he would live or die
  • my God is Awesome
  • i look in the mirror and see my mother
  • bore but did not raise me
  • died before I really got to know her
  • feared I would have to care for her in her old age
  • grandmother said in order to live a long life you have to treat everybody right and pray
  • Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
  • not a friend but a fierce protector and provider
  • mother never saw her grandsons
  • a mother of 2 black males – RIP Trayvon
  • in the store – keep your hands out of your pockets or they think you are stealing
  • don’t lower your eyes
  • know your history – never forget where you came from
  • work hard
  • no fear
  • believe and achieve
  • no drinking drugs or wild and crazy women
  • pray
  • bless your food
  • be grateful
  • study hard
  • eat your food
  • don’t eat too much candy
  • Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
  • don’t curse, fight, drink or do drugs
  • wash and dry your clothes, sew cook and clean – I am raising some woman’s husband
  • slow down you are driving too fast
  • look in your rear view mirror
  • keep your eyes straight ahead
  • at 98 I held her hand as she transitioned, my guardian angel, my protector, teacher, minister and enforcer
  • Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
  • you got an “F”!
  • stop crying
  • open up
  • you’ll feel better
  • didn’t i tell you
  • now why did you do that?
  • wait for your brother
  • are you listening to me?
  • what did you say!
  • I love you
  • here, try this
  • be nice
  • save your money
  • get a job
  • go outside and play
  • you have to work hard
  • leave him alone
  • say cheese
  • come here
  • sit down
  • are you crazy
  • what did you do?
  • buried my father
  • never knew my paternal grandparents
  • i had a brother
  • my lil sis is gone
  • i’ll never be an aunt
  • Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
  • don’t spit that out
  • i said,let’s go
  • stop it
  • Gloria was killed
  • do your homework
  • turn off that tv
  • dinner!
  • have a good day
  • God bless you
  • how was school today?
  • change your clothes
  • clean your room
  • Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
  • get up!
  • make your bed
  • breakfast!
  • take out the trash
  • stop it!
  • working hard until he graduates from college
  • remembering the fear of his first day on the bus, bigger fear, first day driving alone
  • emergency room visits
  • months and months in the hospital
  • surgeries, feeding tubes, iv’s, central lines, rsv, nicu, picu
  • what did i do to deserve this
  • God why?
  • teach me how to swim
  • can’t breast feed
  • crying all the time
  • will this ever end?
  • fell off the bike
  • pregnant again…fear
  • water broke…uh oh
  • never got a maternity leave
  • slow down
  • barium swallows, mri’s
  • mcdonald’s ball pit
  • Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
  • pediasure, pedylyte, nebulizer, syringe, pulse ox, nurses
  • pick that up
  • put that back
  • don’t play with that
  • leave it alone
  • boy don’t make me come and get you
  • i’m an orphan-no mother
  • Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
  • ieps, department of disabilities, nurses and kids, special ed classes, mainstreaming
  • go sit down!
  • come here
  • where you goin?
  • i’ll put the ashes in the coffin with mama
  • Mother’s Day will be bittersweet

    My mother in high school

    My grandmother~mother~father~friend

    My sister ~ RIP

    My preemie

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Mother's Day VIP Sale @ Goodwill

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After lunch with my sons on Mother’s Day, we stopped at Goodwill in Middletown.

2 pairs of Lee walking shorts – $3.75 each

Pair of  new, with tags White Stag walking shorts – $3.75

Malik found a pair of Dockers Mens Slacks for $1.88 and a Sean Jean Polo for $3.75

California Krush sleeveless dress – $5.00

A pair of white flats that will become another DIY project.

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Mother’s Day VIP Sale @ Goodwill

Image

After lunch with my sons on Mother’s Day, we stopped at Goodwill in Middletown.

2 pairs of Lee walking shorts – $3.75 each

Pair of  new, with tags White Stag walking shorts – $3.75

Malik found a pair of Dockers Mens Slacks for $1.88 and a Sean Jean Polo for $3.75

California Krush sleeveless dress – $5.00

A pair of white flats that will become another DIY project.

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XOXO Sunglasses Giveaway – I WON

Last week I entered an XOXO Sunglasses Giveaway sponsored by @PennyChic  and

I WON ~I WON~ I WON!

“I’m dancin and emphasizin…dancin and emphasizin” (in my Melanie voice from @TheGameBET)

Stylin and Profilin

Had to try them on when I got home

They were packaged to arrive safely – thank you @PennyChic

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Pretty in Pink – Avon's Cosmetic Bags

Here are some of the latest Cosmetic Bags from Avon – I love the color pink.    To place an order or if you have a question please log onto my website at http://www.youravon.com/ablake48

Animal Instincts Cosmetic Bag Set

Animal Instincts Cosmetic Bag Set

padded and large enough to hold an eReader or Tablet

plastic “train bag”

plenty of storage room

This purse is a perfect size to carry to church or out to brunch

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Pretty in Pink – Avon’s Cosmetic Bags

Here are some of the latest Cosmetic Bags from Avon – I love the color pink.    To place an order or if you have a question please log onto my website at http://www.youravon.com/ablake48

Animal Instincts Cosmetic Bag Set

Animal Instincts Cosmetic Bag Set

padded and large enough to hold an eReader or Tablet

plastic “train bag”

plenty of storage room

This purse is a perfect size to carry to church or out to brunch

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Class of 2014 Ring Ceremony

Ring Ceremony for the Class of 2014 at Appoquinimink High School

5/9/12  


Last evening was the Ring Ceremony, a high school tradition that started in….aah well I really don’t know when it started because in 1977 I got my ring in the mail!  Anywho, months ago when al-Malik and his father ordered his ring it fit, last night, not so much.  He has been working out like a maniac hoping to make next year’s Varsity Football team so everything including his fingers has bulked up.  It will need to be resized as did Tayair’s who’s finger size also increased, thank goodness Josten’s provides a lifetime of free adjustments.

The Ring Ceremony includes having 13 classmates turn your ring around once towards the thumb and then a close family member  turns it towards the pinkie, towards the heart to seal in good fortune.  Malik didn’t do this because the ring was too small and his finger would have swollen up like a sausage!

This is the last High School ring that we have to purchase and hopefully neither his nor his brother’s will end up in the Atlantic Ocean like mine did – that’s a story for another day but at least I still have my college ring which won’t even fit my pinkie!!

After receiving ring

After receiving ring

His 1st major piece of jewelry

Newly ringed

Turning of the ring

Too tight for his ring finger

Rushing to drive us home…

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