So, I changed the look of my blog. I don't know why I started with that statement considering the reaction of those who normally read my blog would be, "No, Really?!?!?!? You don't say. I didn't notice the drastic change from BRIGHT FREAKING YELLOW to black, pink and grey. Thank you Captain Obvious!" and those who, for some reason, are reading this blog for the first time today, or may run across this post in the future will probably have the response of, "Ummmm....okay. So what? I didn't know what it looked like before, so it doesn't matter to me that it was changed."

Anyways, a good deal of time was spent finding the perfect icon graphics for the top of the page. (If you're reading this thinking, "Icon graphics? What on earth are you talking about?" you're probably reading this post pretty far in the future considering I don't change my layout very often.) Each icon was hand selected by moi to share a little bit about me! So, feel free to read them, think about them, overanalyze them...whatever. Yes, that's an order.

Oh, the cuppycake graphic doesn't have anything to do with me...I just thought cuppycake was cute and I plan on calling at least one person "cuppycake" in the future, and I plan on it being totally unexpected and make them go, "WHAT?!!?!?! Cuppycake? Katie...you're strange." Why yes, thank you, I am...glad you noticed :)

Would you like to know how boring of a life I lead? No? Too bad. Tonight, my fun filled, ever so adventure filled life is going to include being all by myself (well, if you don't count the five trillion little kids I have), eating brie and salami. I thought I'd treat myself since it was such a...ummm...special?...night. Of course, this is only after the ever so fun task of rewashing a ton of dishes, washing of toilets, sinks, etc., and running of water from every faucet, appliance, etc. to empty my pipes and hot water tank of the lovely e. coli contaminated water. We've been under a water boil order since yesterday because e. coli was found in the public water system....nice. So, everything I've washed since at least Friday was washed in fecal tainted water. Gross. The kids did, however, get a kick out of washing their hands and brushing their teeth with bottled water. Little things impress kids.

Sera does the cutest thing lately. When you go to take a picture of her, she makes this silly face. I guess she thinks it's a smile or something. Apparently she takes after me and can't force a smile that looks real. The kids figured out that all you have to do is use your fingers to pretend you're holding a camera and say, "say cheese!" and she makes the face as well. I'll have to upload a picture when I get a chance. I haven't been able to capture it just perfectly yet because my camera takes a second to focus before it actually takes the picture, and she doesn't hold the face for very long, so by the time my camera actually takes the picture, she's smiling a normal smile. One of these days I will get it on camera and it will be worth the effort because it's just the funniest thing.

We went and did some back to school shopping today. I hate shopping for clothes for my girls. I hate the fact that they market such trampy clothing to little girls. I hate the fact that, due to that marketing, my seven year old thinks that pants with "cutie" on the bum and strappy little shirts are so cute and JUST what she needs to wear to school! I also hate the fact that, after spending hundreds of dollars on clothing, Caitlin isn't fond of much of it because it isn't the trampy whorish clothing she wanted to buy. You know what I think I hate the most though? I hate that so many other kid's parents allow their children to wear such clothing. If Caitlin didn't have friends who dressed in that stuff, she wouldn't feel like she HAD to have it and wouldn't feel like she was going to be so uncool because her mom insisted she had to buy cute, modest clothing. She used to not care what anyone else thought of her. She used to be really into trying to start her own trend, or just wearing whatever she wanted because she liked it. Whatever happened to that independant, strong willed little girl? Why did she have to go the way of the average girl who wants to be just like everyone else? I had hoped that I could put into the minds of my girls that it's perfectly acceptable, and in fact, rather cool, to be your own person...to wear what you want to wear, not what everyone else thinks is cool, to wear your hair however you wanted to wear it and not worry aobut what other people said to you because as long as you liked it and were happy, it doesn't matter what everyone else things. Caitlin has become very much the conformist though, which saddens me a bit.

We did, however, end up with a lot of cute Roxy clothes (I love Roxy!) and some really cute O'Neil capris for Caitlin. We found some decent jeans at Old Navy and I'm going to buy the girls some Baby Legs because they want to have something that makes it so they can wear t-shirts, but stil have something covering their arms that they can take off if they get hot. I'll bet they'll be the only kids at school with those...I'm hoping it will be something that other kids think is cool, rather than lame, or that if other kids do think they're lame, my girls are strong enough to think, "Whatever, I think they're cool, so I'm going to wear them."