Fashion Friday

SO….. Kim and I have been talking for months now about the fact that we feel frumpy (which is never fun) and that we are dressing the part too! It is very hard to want to get “all gussied up” (grandma… where did you come from? lol) when you are running around after a toddler, changing diapers, cleaning up messes, playing on the floor and at the park.

When Cody was first born, I still looked totally prego and was nursing so the last thing I wanted was to think about putting on my heels, fixin’ my hair and picking out just the right top! I was thinking more along the lines of “which color sweatpants did I wear yesterday so I don’t wear them again today”! Now that I am finished nursing, have had some time to get into some kind of a routine, and now that Cody is a little bit older and more independent,  I have actually started thinking about my old self. The girl who loved fashion, putting on makeup and doing her hair. I wanted her back!

I hadn’t bought anything for myself since Cody was born. I am a SAHM so we don’t have a lot of money, but to be totally honest, even if we had some extra cash, I didn’t have the energy to go try on clothes and come to the realization that my body doesn’t look the same anymore. THEN, a friend rescued me!!! Tiff drug me out, had me try on clothes, pushed me to get things that I use to wear, NOT just t-shirts and it really lit a fire under my butt! It was just what I needed! It felt so good to find clothes that were cute and trendy and best of all, coming to accept this body I now have. I am not saying that I won’t keep trying to get/stay in shape, but you can’t wait until you are that “perfect size” so you can buy yourself something nice. So ever since then I have been putting extra effort into what I wear and it has really made a difference in the way that I feel! Then Kim was getting pumped up too so we went shopping together and got her some super cute stuff! All in all, we both have been trying to put together (what we think are) cute outfits and it really has made us feel better about ourselves! I am not going to say that this is an every day thing, but we are trying :)

This brings me to the whole “Fashion Friday” thing. I got the idea from What I Wore Today, which really gives me inspiration to try different things together and get out of my comfort zone a little. I wanted to do something similar on our blog, but on a much smaller scale! We thought that Fridays could become our “fashion friday” and we could talk about things we have done to “fashionize” ourselves which will put the pressure on us to keep up with the promise we made to ourselves and maybe inspire you to take care of you! Although we are completely exhausted and running around like crazy, putting on a cute outfit, doing the hair and accessorizing really does make you feel good inside and that makes it all worth it!

So, I took a pic of Kim in one of her new outfits (jeans and shoes from Love Culture my new fav place) from our play date this week. Let us know what you think! We would love for you to send us your pics of you in a cute outfit so we could post it and inspire others to do the same! Don’t forget about that gal that you once were before the spit up, diapers, school plays, soccer games, dinner makin’ mama that we all now are!!!

Need some more inspiration? Check out our Inspire Me page for uplifting stories from other mamas. We would love to hear your story and add it to our site! Take care!

Here is Kim with her super cute dark denim jeggings with her new calf height boot (flats so she can still chase after her busy little boy Luke). Pair it with an oversized sweater and tight undershirt and you have an adorable, comfy outfit!