Mary Kay Makeover Monday

I thought I would highlight a product from Mary Kay every Monday. It will help me learn more about the products I sell and maybe spread the word to my readers.

Pictured above is our Mary Kay Time Wise Microdermabrasion Set. From personal experience, this is a great product. Leaves your skin feeling instantly feeling smooth and soft. The Mary Kay Company has tested their products and found that after using the Time Wise Microdermabrasion Set for just one week: 85% Saw an improvement in skin texture, 73% Saw a reduction in fine lines, and 71% Saw pores that looked smaller.

Characteristics

• Clinically tested for skin irritancy and allergy
• Fragrance-free
• Oil-free
• Non-comedogenic
  

How It Works

Step 1: Refine is an advanced exfoliator that immediately energizes the skin to reveal a more radiant, healthy-looking surface. This creamy, white lotion with exfoliating crystals:
Feeds and nourishes the skin from below through increased microcirculation. This brings oxygen to the top of the skin to stimulate circulation creating a healthy, more radiant glow.
Reduces the appearance of pores by effectively removing the dead skin cells that naturally form inside and around the outer edge of every pore.

Step 2: Replenish is immediately absorbed into the skin to instantly smooth and soften. This lightweight, opalescent lavender serum: Feeds and nourishes the skin from above with an exclusive Mary Kay triple tea complex. Aids the rejuvenation process, and protects against environmental pollutants. Soothes the skin, and helps to bring it back in balance.
Prepares the skin for the next step in skin care.

If you are interested in this product or another one of our products from Mary Kay go to my website www.marykay.com/jenshand. You can see all the products that we have to offer and learn about what each one does. I even have a virtual makeover thing on there so you can see what colors will look like on you before you purchase them.

We are offering a free promotional deal right now. If you purchase $40 or more of Mary Kay product we are offering a trial size of our Microdermabrasion Set, which includes, the Miracle Set. The Miracle set is a 3 in 1 cleanser, moisturizer, and Day and Night Solution.

Let me know if this is something that interests you. I will be highlighting a Mary Kay product each Monday.

Blog Malfunction

Thought I would right a quick little blurb about how I thought I lost my blog. I was trying to change my blog background and totally lost, or so I thought, EVERYTHING! I have been writing this blog for over a year now and I thought it was gone. I totally freaked out and had to walk away from the computer for a while.

So,when I get back to the computer, thinking maybe, just maybe it wasn't as bad as I thought. Well, it still was bad and I didn't know how to fix it. After searching around blogger for help I found what I was looking for. I found how to undo what needed to be done. It worked! However, I had to tweak and tweak different things to make it how I wanted it to appear. It definitely was a challenge, but I think if I were to try it again it would be much easier.

I am still trying to figure out the header part. I would like to add a picture but haven't figured that out. So, if you know any blogger secrets, share with me so I can get my blog looking how I would like it to be. Anyway, that is my stress of the day.

Back to the Boonies

So, I guess I should break the news that we are moving. I am not happy about this at all. I normally would be happy about moving into a bigger, nicer home, but I will be moving away from my friends, my kids friends, our church, and the city that I have grown to love.

I grew up in a extremely small town in southern California called Blythe. Growing up our source of fun was riding quads in the desert, going to the river, raising animals for 4-H (I always had fun), and just having fun with friends. In my small town we had a K-Mart, a couple of grocery stores, a movie theater, (which was in business when I was younger then went out and them came back in when I was out of high school), one high school, one middle school, three elementary schools, one hospital (that totally sucked), a variety of churches and hands down the best Mexican food around. The graduating class at the HS was a couple hundred students. The closest mall was 135 miles from our town and the nearest airport was 150 miles away. This town was primarily an agriculture town and it still is but there are two state prisons out in the desert so a lot of correctional officers live there. The hottest summer I remember the temperature got to 137. This temperature was unofficial because it was our personal thermometer at home. Even if it wasn't accurate (which I am pretty sure it was) it was still stinking hot. This town is small and I enjoyed growing up there, but would not like to live there. My parents and grand parents still live there and I will always hold Blythe near and dear to my heart because it is always home for me.

When I went away to college, I thought I moved up in the world because I had a mall down the road and two Walmarts and all sorts of extra curricular activities that I was not used to. I was very home sick for the small town feel of home and Mexican food which is so different here in Texas. But I grew to love the bigger city. Sure I didn't know how to drive in much traffic and got lost quite often, but loved it because of how different it was from where I grew up.

My college town was just a stepping stone to the big metroplex I am in today. So, after college I move to the big city because that is where the jobs were. Yeah, the jobs were here and I got one, but that is a going off somewhere I don't want to blog about right now. So, we stayed here in the metroplex and started our family. The big city took a while to get used to and not having my family close by was super hard. But then I made friends and found my niche in my community and church. The driving part of the big city, well, still takes a GPS for me to get around. But I definitely know how to drive and handle a lot of cars on the road. Who would have thought a small town girl would find her way around this huge city and love it. But I do.

I love all the places that I can take my kids for cheap or free entertainment. There are so many opportunities here for my family. Good schools, good church, good entertainment, and good friends. It took me a while to make friends and get in the groove of being out here, but I did and now we are moving. Just when I like it and am used to it and have found little secret cool places to take the kids and how cool our recreation center is that my kids are finally old enough to go to and that the zoo is half price on Wednesdays, we have to move. I am not ready, I don't want to go.

Sure, I have played with the idea of moving out in the country and get back to the small town feel of what my life used to be. I am all up for moving a little further out but not from civilization all together. My husband applied for a job in a small town two hours southwest of the metroplex. This town is home of the Indians and a Peach and Melon festival. It has one grocery store and the nearest Walmart is 30 miles away. The population of this town is just under 5000 people. There is no fast food, no parks (there was one but it was poorly taken care of and I wouldn't want to take my kids there), no public pools, just not much of anything that I am accustom to. The housing is not what I am used to so, I hope that we can build a home. This town is smaller and more remote than what I grew up in. I feel like I am back tracking in life and am starting all over. I just don't want to do this. I am comfortable where I am.

This has all kind of hit me at once, so I will have to expand on this subject later when stuff has soaked in and my life has some sort of direction.

Birthday Blog

My birthday was yesterday. It was pretty uneventful. Just like every other birthday when you get older. Rebecca asked me why I didn't have a cake or get presents. I told her that when you get old, you don't always have a party or get presents or have a cake. She was confused. I probably scared her for life and she won't want to ever grow up. But, that is the way it goes.

I did however, get some presents. They just weren't very exciting, at least to a 4 year old. I got 4 different gift cards. Money is always good for me.

I also thought I was going to be free and clear of any ailments on my birthday. I was wrong. I always have some sort of issue on my birthday and I have ever since I was a kid. I remember having strep throat on at least two birthdays and the chicken pox on another and have just been randomly sick on several others. Well, this year I got conjunctivitis of the eye, which is known as pink eye. I looked real attractive on my birthday. I actually was diagnosed the day before my birthday, so it didn't look as bad as it did the first day. It was swollen and I couldn't open my eye completely. The second day, my birthday, my eye looked normal but was really red. I was still able to go out and have fun on my birthday.

My husband took me out for my birthday dinner. We went to Pappadeaux's, which is a Cajun restaurant. It was really good. It was nice to get out without the kids too. My mother-in-law watched the girls for us. My mother-in-law moved in with us and I am glad to have the extra help with the girls. I will write more on her big move from California to Texas.

My husband got some news on my birthday. He got a job offer for a job that he really wants. He has to decide if he wants to take it or not by Monday. I don't want to go. We would have to pick up and move out in the middle of no where. I have just started to feel comfortable with where we are at. I like it here. I like our church, our friends, our house, the area we live in, the big city. My husband wants to move us two hours from here, out in the middle of no where. Are you kidding me? I grew up in a little town out in the middle of no where and loved moving out here where you were close to everything and there is so much to do. Apparently, this small town that my husband wants to move our family has a Walmart. Woo hoo! I know it is hard to be sarcastic when blogging, but that was totally a sarcastic woo hoo. We are going out to the little town today to take a look. This job would pay my husband quite a bit more, benefits are better, cost of living is probably cheaper and my mother-in-law would move out there with us. I don't know, we are just going to have go see it. I will post on our decision on Monday, since that is when I will know if I have to move to the boonies.

Interview with Rebecca

I asked my 4 year old daughter some questions and here is what Rebecca had to say. These are her words and some of them are quite funny. I will try to get Annie to answer these questions in a day or so. It will be interesting to see what a 2 year old thinks of her mom.

1. What is something mom always says to you?
Don't touch!

2. What makes mom happy?
When I clean up.

3. What makes mom sad?
When I don't clean up.

4. How does your mom make you laugh?
By tickling me!

5. What was your mom like as a child?
A baby.

6. How old is your mom?
I don't know.

7. How tall is your mom?
Big.

8. What is her favorite thing to do?
Get on the computer desk.

9. What does your mom do when you're not around?
Listen.

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
Fancy clothes, famous.

11. What is your mom really good at?
Making bows.

12. What is your mom not very good at?
I don't know.

13. What does your mom do for her job?
Fix things.

14. What is your mom's favorite food?
Strawberries.

15. What makes you proud of your mom?
Being married to daddy.

16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?
Tom and Jerry.

17. What do you and your mom do together?
Play games.

18. How are you and your mom the same?
You're tall and I'm small.

19. How are you and your mom different?
I'm small.

20. How do you know your mom loves you?
Takes care of me.

21. What does your mom like most about your dad?
You got married.

22. Where is your mom's favorite place to go?
The park.