She’s Keeping Me From Leaving The House Looking Like I’m Homeless

Nikki is still very much a fashionista. She puts tons of thoughts into what she wears and she rarely leaves the house anymore without some sort of accessory to accentuate her outfit. Maybe a fedora, maybe a scarf, maybe a purse, often all three!

We went out to go shopping the other morning as a family and I was just wearing a t-shirt, jeans and my converse. Then, of course, my daughter walks down all decked out and looking AWESOME. I looked at her and thought, Crap. I can’t go out looking like a slob if she looks like she just walked of a CW TV show. So I went and changed and put a bit more effort into my outfit. My hair and face still looked awful (bun, no makeup) but my outfit was at least cute.

And you know what happened? We were stopped, interviewed, and photographed for the newspaper. They were doing coverage of local shoppers and we ended up being on of the families they photographed for the paper. It was a COLOR photo. In the FIRST section of the paper.

So…you know…thank you, Nikki. For motivating me to try to look a little nicer when I step out in public. One of these days I’ll make that decision on my own without your influence, but until then, thanks.



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9 Responses to “She’s Keeping Me From Leaving The House Looking Like I’m Homeless”
  1. Swistle says:

    That is SUCH a great PHOTO of you guys!!

  2. Fraulein N says:

    Aw, you’re famous! You guys look very stylish.

  3. duchessbelle says:

    That’s awesome! Well done to the zoot girls :)

  4. Elaine C. says:

    Oh that’s too cute!

  5. Pat says:

    You all look so cute in the paper!! Great photo!

  6. EmilysHollow says:

    So, so cute. I’m afraid to think what she’d say about how I dress 98.5894% of the time.

  7. Wacky Mommy says:

    i’m just sayin’ — you never know when someone is going to want to take your picture ;) Merry Holidays, Kim, from our house to yours.

  8. Heather says:

    Of course they wanted you in the paper – you are one adorable and smokin’ hot family ;)

  9. Monica says:

    You all look great. And I love that ring you have on in the picture of you and Nikki. You’ve always had great taste in jewelry!

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Hi. I’m Kim.

This is my blog that I've been writing on since January, 2004. I call myself Zoot as it's a derivative of an old childhood nickname. I used to write about my struggles to have children, but eventually I succeeded and now, I write a lot about those kids. I don't use my kid's exact names simply because if someone Googles their very unique names in the future, I don't want them stumbling upon my entries about boobsweat. I mean, would you hire someone whose Mom writes openly about such topics? NO. YOU WOULD NOT.

I love taking pictures and carry my camera (almost) everywhere I go. This means you'll see a lot of photos on this site. I also periodically post recipes I like as I've been slowly (but surely) learning to cook and I like to share my discoveries. Finally? I'm an annoying pop culture fanatic so I'll periodically ramble about Hunger Games or the latest Parks and Recreation.

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