Night Owls!

How many people with four children and a full time job and a wake up call of 6:00 a.m. would admit to the world that they went to sleep at 4:00 a.m.? How many people with four children and no drug habit or insomnia or newborn would admit that they went to bed at 3:00? Only crazy people. And only crazy people would go to bed at those times, right? I mean, I started baking cookies at around 1:00 a.m last night (or this morning). And what's crazier is that Hollis was up with me. So I guess she is cray-cray too.

Now granted, it was poker night. I was baking for the guys. Richard's faithful crew of buds come to our house the third Monday of every month. They also have a rotating Saturday night game. Somehow, perhaps because some of his friends are feeling the pinch of the recession, the Monday night game has been ending progressively later and later. When I met Richard the game ended around midnight or 1:00, although he denies it. The last few months it has ended at 3:00 a.m. Consistently. And this a work night we're talking about!

As for me, I got a second wind after my mom and I watched the season finale of DAMAGES. We finished it around 1:00. Then I needed to make lunches for the kids. Hollis, the bad habit baby, woke up and hadn't seen her dad all day, so she sat around the poker table with the guys. This led to a request for cookies, which led to baking, and then it was bath time. Then bed. Bad habits are hard to break.

Outfit:

I had to go to an Earth Day party at Charlie's class. I had a 70's floral dress that was given to me in mind for this, but I realized that it was not nursing friendly. I was in a time crunch after having popped eight batches of popcorn and needing to head out to get Leo, so I started with the idea of "Earth Day" and went from there.

Shirt: The green shirt on the bottom layer is so old I don't remember where I got it from.

White lace shirt: Vintage. Seen in: Casual Friday.

Sweater: Clothing swap. Express.

Skirt: This is that dress I wore a few weeks ago in Mad Monday! that I dislike. I am going to give it to my fabulous Aunt Diane so that she can turn it into something lovely for Hollis. Aunt Diane sewed me many a dress when I was growing up. She was my idol!  I turned the dress backward and tucked the arms down and then zipped it up and tied it at the waist. I like it much more as a skirt!

Shoes: Mossimo. I love these shoes! They are very comfortable.

Belt: The sweater came with a skinny patent leather belt, but I couldn't find it. I grabbed this one from a different skirt.