My Single Mom Life

One of the sucky things about being a single parent is you like hardly ever get gifts at Christmas, unless you buy them yourself.
My parents always send me some money, my sis usually gets me something, and a friend sometimes surprises me with a gift, but single parents usually get the stale end of the candy cane most of the time.

So we buy our own gifts, and when the boys were little, I used to sign the tag from them so they felt like they gave me a gift.
It made them very happy to watch me open a gift from them, like they somehow were responsible for getting it for me.
It made them smile and be happy, so it's one of those fond memories I have of the holidays with them. They thought it was magic that mommy got a gift from them when they had no money and didn't pick it out.
They were always excited to see what they got me. *laugh*
They would find the present under the tree and race it over to me and say "Mommy hurry open it, it's from us!"
Adorable.

As I said, my parents sent me a little bit of money for myself for xmas, but I spent it on the teens.
I combined everyone's money and mine together to get the boys the gift that Walmart.com is holding hostage. They will eventually get that whenever the hell my order gets found and shipped, and 2 more video games.

But last night I sold an ad here on my site for a nice small bit of change, and decided to treat myself to some pretty-up things because I'm a total make-up whore.
I love make-up, and Avon is starting to sell mineral make-up for way way less than those big mineral make-up companies.
A friend of mine who uses Avon, told me that their mineral make-up is actually better than Bare Escentuals, and for far less money.
I went to my Avon reps website* and logged in, clicked shop by brochure, chose the me-spree catalog, and bought myself the following.

They were having a $5 each buy 2 get 1 free sale on their line of Mark haircare, and their curly hair products are awesome, so I snatched up the following; Salon straight anti-frizz, Curl Goddess defining gel, and Curl Goddess curling mist.
A foundation brush for $5.99, and oh yeah, from the Outlet catalog, I bought a Footworks foot file for .79 cents.
Then I picked up an all over color stick for $2.99 in rosy shimmer, it's for eyeshadow, eyeliner and lips, all at once. Perfectly coordinated looks in one item. Cool.
Then I got two big color eye pencils in eggplant and classic mocha for just $3.99 each, and for $7.99, I got their Personal Match smooth mineral makeup, and for just $3.99, a Personal Match concealer stick.
Shipping was only $3 with the offer code of SHIP3.
My total was $42.73. Not bad at all.
It will ship tomorrow, and I'll have it by Saturday.

*Yes my Avon rep is a man, he is the grandfather of Kelle, one of my friends.
He and his wife sell Avon to make ends meet.
Ordering on line is easy, and they ship it anywhere right from the Avon warehouse by ground shipping.
No personal Avon rep has to deliver it to you. It's all done through the mail now.
I love that!
I always felt kinda weird having some lady come over and show me stuff while I flipped through a catalog, or wrote down my order. I prefer to shop anytime on line in my comfy clothes ya know?