Too cute

I hosted a Matilda Jane trunk show at my house last night. Most likely you’ve never heard of this company – I hadn’t, until a few weeks ago. When I saw their cute, original clothing line and heard they were based in Fort Wayne I was sold. So, last night a bunch of us women ate some delicious appetizers and looked at really cute little girls clothes. Niece London was a perfect model. Ella was done after trying on two things … what can you do? She’s a 2-year-old.

Anyway, here are some cute things:

Ella tried this on and it was ADORABLE. But Ella did not agree. She hated it, and I didn’t really know where she’d wear it, so we skipped on that one.

I wanted one of their “knot dresses” like this but none were left in her size. (It’s the end of their season so they’re selling out ….

So we bought this top. And it can also be worn as a skirt when she gets older. Many of their items have dual purposes.

Ella got this dress from Grandma, but it’s a smaller size and will be more like a shirt on Ella. It has the cutest ruffle across the back of the bottom too.

Anyway, we got another cute little cream-colored ruffly shirt I couldn’t find a photo of.

So the moral of this story is that having a girl + a love of shopping = very dangerous. Sorry Steve!

An eyedoctor followup

I know you’re on the edge of your seat wondering about my glasses … ha ha … so I went back today with my cute, but broken pair of glasses and my recently-fashioned coke bottle goggles they gave me yesterday. And they said “Oh you had an anti-glare, and flat edges instead of a rolled edge and a thinner lens. Do you want those again? That will cost extra.” And I said “Yes, yes and yes! Where do I sign? I’ll give you anything you want!”

But secretly I was thinking “uh, this information would have have been useful YESTERDAY” (to quote a line from Wedding Singer. I mean, why didn’t they ask me if I wanted those services before. My vision is like 300/20 and I am a young woman – don’t they know I want to look good?

But really, they were so nice that I forgive them and all was well. I also picked out a new pair of frames. The ones I had were cute but I think the shape was also contributing to the whole coke bottle effect.

So, anyway, then I’m on my way home and my husband tells me that his HR just informed him that contrary to our previous insurance provider where every doctor was “in network”, our new insurance provider only covers some doctors. Again, information that would have been useful YESTERDAY.

And guess who’s “out of network?” My eye doctor. So i guess those contacts and glasses I just got are going to be more than I thought. Oh well, I’m over it. I’m even over the fact that my husband’s HR completly forgot to tell us that we had new insurance until February – therefore we technically didn’t have any insurance for two months. Do you see a pattern here? People are leaving out very IMPORTANT information.

OK, I’m done venting, the sun is shining today, and hopefully I’ll have new glasses that I like and it’s almost the weekend and it’s going to be nice. And I’m not going to think about “in network” providers and insurance coverage one bit.