I think I'm being infiltrated

After a group of us girls, and two guys, one being my husband, all ended up at the same place last Saturday morning, and we got to laughing at how most of us girls looked. Rolled out of bed, baseball cap on, ponytails, husband's giant shirts on, and no makeup.

That's how I look everyday. I just don't have much time to fancy up each morning. Okay, I'll be honest. Whether or not I get a shower is not totally up to me, so makeup and hair do's is the least of my worries. Stinking so much that I can't go to Publix is more like it.

I have two sweet friends, who shall remain nameless, who shower, dress in real clothes, and do a complete hair and makeup everyday. We've joked about it a little over the years, and that was the subject of my group of friends joking the other morning. That they care and I don't, is what it boils down to!!!! And we all laughed about that.

So on the way home, I asked Allen, again, if he cared that I didn't gussy up more often. He laughed, and said, "Nope."

That's man speak for, "We've talked about this numerous times, and every time you've asked me, my answer has been this, and the same. I don't care if you dress up or not. You're just fine, rather beautiful in my manly opinion, with or with out hair and make up. If you want to get dressed up - fine. If you don't want to, that's fine too. I do notice when you get dressed up, and I tell you how nice you look. I also tell you that you're cute even when you're not dressed up. So really, I'll patiently tell you again that it really doesn't matter to me what you decided to do as long as it makes you happy. Okay, sweetie??"

Or "Nope." They mean the same thing.

BUT, the last two mornings, knowing I wasn't going to set foot in the van to go anyway, I showered, dried my hair WITH PRODUCT, put on jeans instead of yoga pants, and makeup. Well, no foundation or eyeliner, but everything else.

Are they rubbing off on me? Am I succumbing to peer pressure? Was it a dear friends "your hair looks so different in the snow pictures. What's different?" Um, I brushed it? Do I normally look THAT bad????

Oh, I'm so poking fun at myself. I really don't care at all. It's nice to put makeup if I have time, but if I don't, that's okay. I haven't even colored the gray hairs that are ALL over my head. Treading lightly there. It may get covered up this week.

So whether you make up every day or not, I think that the lesson that Laney and I learned this week is most precious. 1 Samuel 16:7 - But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." I love that verse.

Oh, and this is completely off topic, or not, and totally random and silly. But the fact that I have brown eyes came up in conversation this week in a conversation with some friends. I, in fact, have hazel eyes. Or according to the harried DMV employee who was typing in my information when I was 16 years old-they are green. (Although I will say my license says I weigh 113 pounds, and that is just about as true...) I do love my eyes, only because my grandmother has the same eyes, and she just to love that we matched. We laugh and giggle about it when I was Laney's age. Allen's eyes are similar, as are the kids' eyes. So not that it matters, but if you are going to win $1,000,000 by knowing what color my eyes are, it's "hazel." :)