chillier weather, tiny helpers, excuses to shop! the usual things, i s’pose…

so, i realize that by saying this, all credibility i may have as a serious human being just flies right out the window, but… i still love matching. matching, just like i’m in 2nd grade, wearing pajamas that match my american girl doll [samantha!] and planning to match my friends at school the next day. and what’s funny is that half the time i get maddalena dressed, then go dress myself with the very same getting-dressed vibes, and we’ll end up with basically the same outfit on without me even meaning to! it’s just that i’m in a particular mood, so i dress us both that way, because i probably haven’t had enough coffee. [no. scratch that. i’m trying not to go as heavy on the coffee lately!] so, then, i’ll either be like “no no no no, this is too much!” and i’ll change… but sometimes i just go with it, because umm, i love it. and i always tell steven that he’s next, and we’re gonna go out in public matching one day soon… but that actually happens half the time, too, when we both walk out wearing jeans and a gray v-neck tee. we’re a match made in heaven, yooou just know it!

anyway! this weekend the weather got cooold! and by cold, i mean… like… 60s and 70s and gray skies, but really, it’s only september! and it’s just not supposed to have dropped so much yet here in the south. fortunately for us, maddalena and i had a couple of new little peplum tops in our closets ready and waiting to enter the fall with. and so! we wore them. and we were matching. and iii… loved it. technically, we both wore riding-style leggings, too, but mine are all black and you can’t really tell. so, the judges allowed it.

my top, by the way, was a total ASOS steal that i recently purchased from thredup! and ummm, have we talked about thredup yet? i am obsessed. thredup-sessed, if you will. it’s like the best of ebay and thrifting and internet all wrapped into one, and i think it’s the most genius company ever. plus, they have this app for the iphone that i can just lay in bed and browse on for hours. shopping in bed, so so great! anyway, not too long ago i sent a bunch of my clothes in to thredup [you can send for free in a bag they mail you!]. they accepted a lot of it [they’re picky!], and donated the rest. works for me, works for me! then — and here’s what i feel like is super smart on their part — they let me know the dollar amount that i would receive for my clothes, and the deal there is that you can either use it for store credit immediately, or cash out after two weeks! well, you knooow i used it as store credit, which made my next order that much more ahhh-mazing. and then when it arrived, i was super in love with everything i’d ordered. SUPER. in love. you’d seriously never ever know that someone else bought the items first! sooo, that’s the story of my latest shopping obsesh. and ps! if you want to sign up with my referral, then you get $10 to spend and i get $10 to spend! and then you can give other people your link and get more $10 to spend, so, everybody wins! gosh, i love the internet. i really love the internet. and shopping. and not being cold. [already missing that feeling!]

oh, and while we’re on the topic of things that are really great, here’s the best development ever around our house: maddalena’s mini laundry work has legitimately gone from “helping” with the laundry to actually helping with the laundry, and it is game. changing. she loves being super involved with everything we do and doing things “aaaaall by-e-self!” so, i usually give her some socks or underwear to toss into one room or another, and, you know, at least it gets in the general direction of where it’s going. so, last week, i gave her some of my underthings to take to my bedroom, but when i came in the room a few minutes later, i didn’t see them anywhere! so, i asked her where they were, and she looked at me like i was crazy, because as it turns out, she went ahead and put them away for me. oh, naturally! and i mean, bestttttt thing everrrrr. so, now, i hand her all sorts of things, and she legitimately goes and puts them away for me. in exactly the right drawer. and granted, i’ll go and straighten a little later, but it really is helpful, and she comes back beaming and so proud. can i have 1 million two year olds please? this is amazing!