What I Wore to Thanksgiving Dinner Link-Up

Here we are in all of our thrifted, gifted, eBayed, and clearance racked glory. The shoot with Mr. Geri A. Tric and Helga went about as well as I'd imagined it would ...

nothing frameable or Christmas card worthy which is pretty standard like always. I enlisted the help of the self timer to try and get a decent of overbearing mother complete with "oh, you're not due till January?!" belly with her sweet cubs ...

until our brand new (young and hip and pretty and young) neighbor pulled into her driveway that we were photobombing ... during that second and last photo. Yes. I was about as mortified as I should've been ("oh, just teaching my children a little lesson in vanity") and she just sort of awkwardly smiled, nodded, and speedwalked into the safety of her new abode where her weirdo neighbors couldn't try to make her acquaintance or attempt to force a kindred spirit type of friendship of which I had been sort of hopeful.

Anything for the blog, I suppose.

Hopefully you had a loved/liked one snapping your photos and weren't caught in a similar situashe.

the fundown:
dress - Forever XXI
blazer - Anne Klein (that's right) from my phone answering/fax sorting days
shoes - Minnetonka
scarf - Express from Emily

the funnerdown:
kids' shirts/sweater: Kangaroo Kids
pants: gifts from the grands
shoes: eBay (extra Wide for Bash)
do you care: of course 

And as a little bonus ... for any scrooges in the making ... the kids and I have found that this song (from the radio, nothing cool or unique or original here - ever) kicks stubborn cases of the grumps rather quickly and efficiently. Hope it works for you too.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. Thank you so much for reading and being the nicest readers on all of the internet. I can't wait to see you in all of your nicely clothed glory. Don't have a blog? I think today would be the perfect day to start one ... I'm handing you your first post idea on a platter. A silver platter.

And now we're off like a herd of turtles to our first of three scheduled trips to the hospital cafeteria and maybe to see Simone if we're lucky little ducks.