Trust your gut.

Hey there Jeans and Tees and Travel and Cakes Readers, here's to a delightful Monday! How was your weekend? I hope you had a great one, filled with a new adventure or two. I had an awesomely productive weekend and got a ton of stuff done, only 26 days until I'm off to France, I have to get cracking on a lot of things.

The major project this weekend was finding a dress for Kyle's brother's wedding. Well, after searching high and low, trying on dress after dress, I still haven't found one I'm in love with. I'm seriously running out of time, it's 13 days away, nothing like waiting until the last minute.

I may not have found a dress but I did find a lot of other great clothes to take with me to France. I've been buying more blacks, skirts,  boots and flats, I'm going to try and pull off the whole "Parisian Chic" thing. We'll see how that goes!

I also finally set up my Etsy shop this weekend! Now you can purchase some of my quotable creations. I hope you check the site out, maybe something will catch your eye. If there is a quote that you'd like me to make up for you, just send me the desired quote and I'll send you the creation!

My Etsy Shop

But by far the biggest highlight of the weekend came early this morning. My Manfriend sent a deposit to a dog breeder to secure us a little boy puppy from a new litter of English Golden Retrievers! The breeder is in France and the Manfriend has been communicating back and forth with them over the past two weeks. I can't tell you how exited the both of us are to get the little guy, we're huge dog lovers and our new pup will be the perfect companion overseas and when he's old enough he'll be my running buddy. Now I really can't wait to get over to France. I'll reveal the name once we pick him up, but I'm sure a lot of you guys could figure it out knowing the Manfriend and my history.

There are five days to go in the Jeans and Tees and Travel and Cakes First Birthday Giveaway! Check out the link below and comment away, entering yourself the chance to win a Longchamp tote bag which sells for $145. The giveaway ends this Friday, September 30th at 12 noon (est).

First Birthday Giveaway

Good Luck to all of you and you are amazing me with all your comments!

Today's quote comes from the television show, Grey's Anatomy. This show is chock full of amazing quotes and this one caught my attention recently. I am a big believer in trusting and following your heart. Your heart or others may call it your gut, knows what is right for you. So trust it, go with it, follow your heart song, it may take you to places you've only dreamed of.

Enjoy!

No matter how high the stakes, sooner or later you're just gonna have to go with your gut. And maybe, just maybe, that will take you right where you were supposed to be.
-Grey

100 Years. (QOTD.)

Hello Loves, happy Tuesday. Four days off from blogging and I missed you guys! I hope everyone here state side  had an amazing Labor Day Weekend. I can't believe the summer has come to an end, it was a great summer, with many memories made, new chapters beginning, all while surrounded by great people. 

One of my latest Quotable Creations. Tribute to John Lennon.

Today marks my nephew Jack's first day of first grade, which makes me feel very old. I know I'm not "old" but I think of baby Jack-Jack starting first grade and it freaks me out a bit.

This milestone makes me  think of my 19 year old self when Jack was born, I think of where I was in my life, I was no longer a runner, I walked away from that relationship earlier in the year. I was entering my second year at the Fashion Institute of Technology and I had the nickname "Ralph" in class because of my extensive collection of Ralph Lauren sweaters, I also had a really bad habit of buying Nike sneakers. I had no clue what a blog was and I hated to read. Meg also at 19, squirmed at the thought of having children, she thought they were "sticky"and when she heard her sister talking about how her nephew Jack's delivery went, she nearly passed out.

If you told 19 year old Meg, that she'd become a marathoner, 5 times over before she turned 25, she'd probably laugh and roll her eyes. If you told 19 year old Meg, that she would get involved in a relationship that would first take her all over the United States and then the world, she'd laugh and say she didn't even own a passport. If you told her that her Nike collection would end up in her parents attic, she would shake her head and claim that her future kids will have the "sickest" Nike Collection. And if you told her she'd love to write and read like the closet nerd she knew she was, she would object, that wasn't her style. If you told her she would welcome two more nephews into the world, bawling when she entered the hospital room and seeing the most perfect babies, she would protest that she doesn't possess that, maternal extinct.

It's crazy what six short years can do to someone. I can admit now that my early twenties were indeed my years of discovery. I discovered that I could have my own voice, even if it's corny and annoys the shit out of people, it's my own. I learned that I'm a pretty decent runner and that I love that miserable sport, it's what makes me, Meg, it doesn't make up all of me, though.

I'm learning more and more everyday that I love someone so much, it utterly scares the crap out of me. I've learned that it's better to be a risk taker and try new things, even if you fall on your ass. I've learned that I don't need 100 pairs of Nike sneakers to be my "self", I've moved on to Ray Bans, sorry you can't break all bad habits, my kids are going to have the coolest Ray Ban Collection. I have learned that I love to blog and that blogging saved me from many lonely days while I was over in a foreign land, missing home so very much. And lastly I've learned that I do not hate children, I indeed love them and could actually picture myself having one or two down the road, but right now I'd be happier with a puppy. 

I guess what I am saying is life is crazy, you have no clue where it's going to take you or what you are going to discover about yourself, and it took my nephew starting his own little journey, to make me reflect on mine. It hasn't been a bad one, were there ups and downs? Hell yeah, what's life without a couple of events that totally throw you for a loop, but you dust yourself off and go on because you have to, life doesn't wait for you to say, " OK I'm ready now." 

Which brings me to today's quote, which goes hand in hand with life and your journey, and how quickly it goes. The quote comes from the song, 100 Years, by Five For Fighting. I know I say this a lot but this is indeed one of my favorite songs on the planet. Not much to explain about this quote, but know that life moves fast, in a blink of an eye your 75, so live it my beautiful babies. 

Enjoy and happy first day Jack Tucker!

I'm 15 for a moment
Caught in between 10 and 20
And I'm just dreaming
Counting the ways to where you are

I'm 22 for a moment
She feels better than ever
And we're on fire
Making our way back from Mars

15 there's still time for you
Time to buy and time to lose
15, there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live

-Five For Fighting, 100 Years

Jack on His First Day.