Skin Care

Aloha Friday # 33

Recently I went to a skin care party held by a friend of mine. She showed us all these really nice but really expensive exfoliation products, skin rejuvenation products and cleansing products. Very nice stuff but also very, very expensive products, I am not talking $50 but in the $100+ dollar range for very tiny bottles of stuff. By nature I am a very cheap person and this type of stuff is so out of my league.

As she is going through her sales pitch she keeps pointing out how many people are resorting to plastic surgery and how these are better alternatives. This seems like the wrong sales pitch for me because I have never considered plastic surgery of any type. I am fine with my skin and my looks. I am not a vain person, I except what God has given me as it is.

At the end of the session she had everyone do a UV light test to show the damage to our skins from the sun etc. Of course I have sun damage, I am 34 years old and rarely, if ever do I where sun screen. Plus I have noticed sun spots starting to appear around my nose that didn’t use to be their. OK so the UV light showed me I really do need to start wearing sun screen.

Here is where it got fun when my friend starts in on her individual sale after evaluating my skin. First question, what type of skin care products do you use? Uh… Dove soap. Now I would like to say this, I have extremely oily skin and the Dove soap came recommended from a dermatologist. For years I tried many different skin cleansers and always broke out. I stopped using these facial cleansers, switched to soap and guess what, I have very clear skin with the exception of my once a month pimple. Sorry nothing is stopping that one. The only time I didn’t have that once a month pimple was when I was not having a period during pregnancy and breastfeeding. My skin glowed then. One of the plusses of pregnancy and nursing I guess.

Anyway, my friend totally appalled at my skin care choices tried to convince me that I need to get through a cleansing phase in order to properly clean out my skin and then I will stop breaking outs from using those products. Explain to me why I would buy expensive cleansers so that I can break out when I can buy a $2 bar of soap that I use in the shower and it keeps my skin clear. I didn’t get it.

So my question(s) for you today are:
What type of skin care regiment do you do for your skin?
Do you cleans, tone, lotions, sunscreen, etc.?
Do you buy expensive stuff or do you keep it simple?
Have you tried a skin rejuvenator?

Sorry for so many questions, I am just curious to know if I am the only one that really doesn’t do much for my skin. I am considering trying a rejuvenator but I really am not sure I need it or if it is worth it. Oh and I am going to find something that provides regular sun screen care for my face as well. I can’t keep letting the sun do its damage.

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THEY KEEP ME LAUGHING

SITTING IN THE DARK
We have a bathroom downstairs off of the kitchen that has no windows in it. Luke is notorious for going in to use the bathroom leaving the door open and not turning on the light. Thomas being the little stinker that he is will drop everything when he hears that bathroom door open. He does this because he thinks it is hysterical to go close the door on his brother leaving him sitting in the dark. You here Luke screaming from the bathroom and Thomas is running from the kitchen with biggest grin on his face. It totally cracks me up!!! I think Thomas does this because he knows he will get a huge reaction of Luke. The funny thing is Luke will close Thomas in the dark bathroom and Thomas could care less.


A LITTLE DANCE
Thomas enjoys watching the Mickey Mouse club house on Disney. The other day we are watching and they always sing the same song at the end of every show. As the song comes on Thomas puts both his arms into the air. I look at him trying to figure out what he is doing. Then during the song all the characters put their arms into the air and shake their hands like a little dance move. Thomas just got ready for this a little soon. I laughed because it was cute. The next time it was on and he was watching I waited to see if he would do it again and sure enough as soon as the song starts up goes his little arms. It is so stinking cute!


BABA, MAMA
Driving along in the car, Thomas is in the back seat saying“baba, baba, baba” (aka bottle), I am totally ignoring his request for a bottle because we are in the car. He stops in the middle of his baba chanting and say’s really loud, “MAMA”. I say "yes Thomas" and he says really loud “BABA”. I guess he needed me to answer him. Pretty demanding for such a little guy. LOL....

FIRST DAY – WW

Can you believe 9 months ago Luke began his journey into Kindergarten.

Look how excited he was to start school.
We are now down to our last couple days of school before he is no longer a kindergartener and he will be moving on to first grade.

Would someone please put a hold on time, this kid of mine is growing up way to fast.




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SHARP OBJECTS ARE NOT TOYS

I have been MIA the last several days. Didn’t do anything special over the holiday weekend we were just really busy and we had lots of family time. Before our holiday weekend began my son (Luke) decided to play with this….


Yes, that is my tomato slicer and yes it has a very sharp blade on it.

He decided to run his finger down it and sliced right through the middle of his thumb nail and into the finger underneath. There was a lot of screaming, and a lot of blood going every where.

Then there is my poor husband who passes out from his own blood if he has any type of serious cut with heavy bleeding. He has never had issue with anyone else’s blood until today. He comes in to help me clean up the cut and as he is helping he is getting light headed and feels like passing out. At that point I just kicked him out because one injured person is enough to deal with I don’t need a second one.

Poor Eric didn’t know if his feeling faint was because this was his son who was hurt or not.

We took Luke to the doctors because luckily we have this amazing pediatrician’s office that open almost all the time and when they are not open there is always a doctor on call. This happened around 7 PM and they had walk in hours at this time similar to an urgent care so we took him not sure if he would need a tetanus shot or stitches. By the time we got there the bleeding finally settled down. No stitches and no shot required either. YEAH!!


This was a picture of the nail and finger two days after the cut occurred. (Sorry if this is a little gross) I know when I break my finger nail to short it hurts so bad. This I couldn’t imagine.

The first day after it happened he socked through double band-aids 4-times that day. It is healing and the nail is still barely holding on. Saturday he goes back to the doctor where the doctor will probably be removing the ripped part of the finger nail. He just wanted to give it time to heal under the nail before removing the nail. Luke freaks out on band-aid changes and no one can touch that nail.