Last Saturday night, my friends Hollywood Housewife, Greer Inez, Jaime, and bestie-sister Emily threw a little book release party for SLP
It was so much fun to see my little circles of friends bumping into one another and colliding - my family and my high school friends and my college friends and my current hometown friends and my reader friends. All that love, all that community, all that precious, life-giving support, all in one gorgeous, light-filled room. Divine.
I looked high and low at the mall and every Ross and TJMaxx in the metro area, and I could not find a thing that felt right for the party. I ended up wearing this vintage pink party dress that has been hanging in my closet for months with a thrifted denim jacket on top and those hateful Target shoes (that I have finally broken in and don't hate quite so much anymore). Both my dress and jacket were $.99 at The Goodwill. :)
Pictured with me above are Toni (left) and Libby (right), two of my dearest friends in town. In a very real way, the book would not have been written without these two. We did a little preschool co-op three mornings a week last fall which meant that one morning a week, I had their kiddos and two mornings a week, AJ hung out at their houses. That quiet time to work and write was PRICELESS to me. When you are a mom working at home, it takes a village to write a book. That is just the truth of it.
Hopefully this week I'll have more time to take regular outfit photos, but for now, it's Wednesday, and this is what I wore (to my book party!).
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