Are the boys gonna kill me?

There are a lot of advantages to being the only girl in the house.

• I get to be the Princess of the house! No other gal takes the "Special Girl" place in these boys hearts right now but me. Yes, I know it's not always going to be this way, but for now, I'm lovin' it!

•  I get to spend any "makeup/pedicure/manicure/hair salon" portion of the budget solely on Moi!

• I'm the only one who gets to use the "It's that time of the month...go easy on me!" excuse for emotional outbursts, hormonal issues, or just plain crabbiness.

•  I don't ever have to fight with anyone over sharing my clothes or shoes (and that's a good thing because I have a few pairs of Lilly's that I wouldn't let me best friend borrow). Just kidding. Not really.

However, with the good, always come some bad.

• I literally wanted to wear a Haz-Mat suit around the house this morning after both bathrooms were "initiated" and there was a burping/farting contest going on in the kitchen. Ew, gross.

• I don't have anyone interested in going shopping with me on the weekends (I guess that's probably a good thing, it definitely saves me $$) which makes me sad when I think back to how much I used to look forward to my weekly Saturday shopping excursions with my own mom.

• No one in this house wants to wear anything preppy, or cute, or pink, or monogrammed. Well... the little guy can't quite communicate this yet, so he gets stuck in a lot of monogrammed clothes, but I'm sure the day is soon coming when he'll protest as loudly as the others.

Which brings me to the point of this post...

I've been strongly scolded asked nicely by Brian to please stop putting Parker in John-Johns. And I get teased by most men when I dress the boys in matching outfits. Fortunately for them, finding matching clothes in sizes 3T and boys 10 is getting really, really hard.

But don't worry...a woman on a mission is never deterred by a challenge.

See what I found today?

Come on... that's just too cute!

We're ready for the beach!

 So even though there are times when I'm sad that I don't have a little girl to dress up, take shopping, and share all the girlie things with in life, I've got plenty of friends with girls who are happy to let me shop for them! 

And I am pretty sneaky when it comes to slipping in a couple matching items here and there for my boys. Now, if only I could convince them to wear a pink Polo every now and then! :)