Getting ready

One of my New Years resolutions was to get ready every day first thing in the morning. Simple right? Not really. How my day typically works is that I wake up just before the first baby is dropped off any my house for dayhome {when I say just, I mean about two minutes before....I don't like to waste valuable sleep time!}. This of course means I answer the door looking like I just got out of bed. Pajamas, really messy hair, no makeup....you get the picture. My hope is to have a shower later in the morning but after all the drop offs, breakfast and cleaning up after breakfast, I tend to put it off until nap time. This means that if we go out, I am sporting the ever so impressive 'au natural' look.
Now I am not one who always has to look made up but what bothers me is when I run into people I know looking like a train wreck. The sad thing is that it usually is someone that hasn't seen more for like a dozen years and of course looks perfect. To be polite they say how good I look and I know they are completely lying. I try and brush it off by saying "oh I just ran out of the house today" {which I did but they probably don't believe that}. I'm usually kicking myself thinking why didn't I put on that lovely new guess top I just bought? Then I start to worry that if I don't see them again for another dozen years this current image of me will be what pops into their head whenever they think of me. Then I make a note in my mind of the time and the place and go back there every week all made up, trying to bump into them. Well ok I am lying about the last bit but you get the picture.
So I am writing this to remind myself that I have to find a good balance between these two Amy's:

Also this is a warning that if you see the back of my head disappearing behind a stand of soup cans at the grocery store, ignore me. That is obviously a day I decided not to follow my resolution ;) xxx