The peace plant for your eye make up remover

As a teenager I started using vasoline to remove my eye make up. It was soft on my skin but once I hit twenty something I was told it's terrible for clogged pores, which I get. I went from one thing to the other. Until a couple of weeks ago when I bought and then returned a great product. Why was it so great, because it was made primarily of olive oil. This is also why I returned it. IT IS MADE OF OLIVE OIL, and purified water-which all of us own. I am now pleasantly as peace with using this amazing natural plant for the rest of my life anytime I want to -paint my face- for a night out or just feeling girly. I have sensitive skin so I recommend using a high quality organic olive oil for internal and external use. One more thing, I am generous with my amount because whatever I don't use I rub into my hands. Olive oil is what I am hearting, heart it too.

To be or not to be....

With this title I could mean a lot of things although this time I am discussing the Act of Nudity. Their is such a simplistic, beautiful thing about it. Many have works of art of just the human body. I've grown up with friends who had families that were incredibly comfortable with being half naked or sometimes more. I've been very confident with my body yet I wasn't raised in a house where we were encouraged to be naked. I mean I was one of two girls, raised in the south by my parents whom are both republicans, so obviously that was a big impact. But now having my own children and living where you're in swim suits all day and come home to a house where your a.c. unit is the breeze through your windows, you tend to stay in the bare minimum.

As some of you know potty training a 2 year old can be a period of your life where you distain laundry, at least I do. Most people don't love doing laundry but I cringe when I find yet another wet pair of panties in the house. Little probably wears 3 pairs a day. The girls love wearing bikinis all day long or less than. I also have a seven year old son who doesn't see the point of wearing a shirt when he is not at school. I have no fears about them seeing each other naked, they all know about their same and different body parts which we don't make up names for. They should have no shame of how they were made, a vagina is a vagina in this house. Just keeping a balance and respect of their own bodies as well as others can be challenging raising opposite sex children.

What my interest is, is how much nakedness can one family have that is healthy? Yesterday the girls planned to take a shower but I was cleaning dishes and so they went to play in their room...yes, naked. It was hilarious to see them "cooking" at their play kitchen for the dolls, in the nude. And I even thought, " My sister and I never played like this." But realizing it was fine, nothing offensive to me about the situation simply different. I do let all the kids go to the bathroom outside even though Little still tries to stand while peeing and my sister thinks the whole thing is a bad habit. What do you think, how much nakedness is too much? How much is just right?

" We're getting old... "

 (The Boy on the left, at school hunting for eggs)

 I had a sister date on Saturday night. We went to Target for two long hours only to bring home things for the kids. It was great to take our time, we talked in lengthy discussion about each item we were curious about. My sister and I even talked about how we like to keep talking about something long after we should, while talking about it for too long. It only takes little things for us to have a good time together. She is becoming such a close friend to me, in a completely different way than before. It's one thing to be close because you have known each other for so long it's another when you both want to be close. We have hit that point in our now adult sister relationship. I think she can agree it is good for the both of us.We both were cramping after eating the food in the fancy "food court" at Target. I said it was my umbilical hernia which I have known about for years. During my pregnancy with our youngest I went to an amazing Indian doctor for a simple congested cough. He noticed right away I had a hernia on my very pregnant belly and gave me 5 more years until I'd need to do anything about it. Well it's been 3, and I need to do something soon. More about that later.

 Monday was great, my husband took his girls on a Lunch date to town (Haleiwa) not  to be mistaken for town town (Honolulu). We ran some errands, had a relaxing lunch, then Little fell asleep on the way home. A perfect morning for a date.

Last night we went out for our regular Tuesday night date. This particular Tuesday it was a chilly 68 degrees but we were accompanied by our friends, they had a Groupon to Bonzai and that meant a crazy amount of sushi for us. He had three surf lessons that day so he was insanely hungry and service was unusually long. We were given a free appetizer and dessert. The tempura was the overall favorite though everything was good. (Above from January we all went to the Birthing Stones for an afternoon trip that is about 25 minutes from the house)