My husband surprised me by forcing my daughter and I out of the house and using some of his birthday money to get our nails done. My daughter loved this, as she always does. She calls it “mommy-daughter time”, even though in my head we weren’t anywhere near each other for the duration of getting our nails done. So why do I say “forced”?

I’m cheap. Flat out. I don’t like spending money to have someone else do my nails when I could do it better myself and not spend the cash. I hate having my hair cut. My hair is beautiful and straight, just to get like a quarter inch cut off costs at least $20. That just makes me shake my head. I’ve had my hair highlighted once, that was for my wedding, and it’ll never happen again. I spent like $200 for highlights that you could just barely see.

My point being that you don’t have to have all these things done to be beautiful. I go back to my last post about little girls wearing to much makeup and the moms bringing them up like this. I want my daughter to know you can be beautiful without hours trying to make yourself that way.

Let me clarify, I don’t consider myself homely or unstylish. I actually think I’m one hell of a catch:-) But to spend money on things that I can do myself for a much cheaper price, those things must be forced upon this Mommie.