On Thursday I went to my parent's house in Spartanburg because Mom and I were going to have a girl's day on Friday. I got to spend Thurs night with both of my parents while my little bro was at lax practice and debutante ball dance lessons. Yes, my southern little brother has been asked to escort a deb. He learned the waltz which he was surprised to learn that I remembered how to do from my cotillion days. Thanks mom!
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| Boy does look good in a Tux. And don't worry, Amy was not his prom date! Just a proud sister. |
On Friday I went to an Uptown Sertoma lunch with Mama G. It was adorable! Turns out, my mom is still a sorority girl, just 25 years older. The meeting started with a prayer, ended with a chant and a clap, they had to pay a quarter for talking during the speaker, and there are different committees to be on, many of which Mom is in charge of. I was having serious AXO chapter flashbacks and thought it was funny that we never grow out of it.
If you aren't familiar with Sertoma, it is essentially a service group that puts together different community service projects mostly for hearing health advocacy. I really enjoyed the meeting and it opened my eyes to the different ways that I can continue to give back to my community after graduating college. Cheesy, I know, but I think it would be fun to find a group similar to this. Maybe I'll make Mom proud and finally join junior league. Anyone want to join with me?
Speaking of making mom proud, homegirl just loves to brag on her oldest baby! She stood up in the meeting to announce my new job, her friends came over to ask if I was the one in graduate school, yada yada yada. That lady talks about us a lot. I'm glad I've given her things to be proud of and to pay a dollar to announce at her community service club meetings (she talks about you too, Amy. Don't feel left out).
Because of how proud she is of me, she took me shopping after our meeting because she wanted her baby to look stylish on her first day of work. As well as her 2nd, 3rd, 4th day, etc. So we did some serious damage on Fri. Luckily, all of the president's day sales had already started so we got awesome deals!
I wish I could find pictures of what I bought online but we went to some outlets so they aren't on the current websites. Lame! Maybe I'll do some outfit of the day posts? We'll see.
We ended our shopping day at Bare Escentuals. I wear all bare minerals makeup so I love this store! I ended up getting a little makeover which was fun. I also walked out of there with some more foundation, a new set of eyeshadow, and a lot of buxom lip glosses which are my favorite. They have tons of great colors and they also plump your lips. They're amazing!
Before heading back to Columbia, Mom and I stopped by the country club to have dinner and see Dad. We had duck confit with mushroom risotto and its was soooooooo good! OMG, I'd move back to sburg just to have that on a weekly basis. Yum!
I loved getting to hang out with my mom all day Friday (and not just because she bought me things, though it was nice of her to do so). She's such a smart, beautiful, amazing person and I'm sad I don't live even closer to her. I'm lucky to have a mom who I have a lot in common with and I know how much she likes to have her daughters to hang out with. I'm one lucky girl! To honor my mama, here are some throwback pics of us...
Do me a favor and tell your mama (or dad, or grandma, whoever is important to you) that you love them!
