Makeup and Books in February: A Family Tradition

As I sit down to write this article, I'm filled with excitement and nostalgia. Our annual Makeup and Books tradition has become a cherished family ritual that we've been enjoying for years, especially during the month of February. This special day is a chance for my daughter and me to spend quality time together, doing things we both love – makeup and reading.

In recent years, our schedules haven't allowed us to have as many fun activities together, but I'm glad to say that this year has been different. With my daughter finally having some free time after finishing school, I've decided to make the most of it and plan a special day with her. We're going to visit our local grocery store on Thursday or Friday, where we'll pick up all the essentials for our Makeup and Books adventure.

The excitement builds as we start planning our itinerary. My daughter is looking forward to spending time with me, and I'm thrilled to be able to share my passion for makeup with her. We've decided to add a new twist to our tradition this year – ice cream! Who knew that ice cream would become the icing on our cake (or should I say, the sprinkles on our cupcakes)? My daughter is not as fond of sweets as I am, but she's willing to give it a try.

As we prepare for our Makeup and Books adventure, I'm reminded of how important it is to spend quality time with my daughter. At her age, it can be challenging to find activities that we both enjoy, but I believe that makeup and reading are perfect ways to bond. We've been working on this project together, adding stickers and decorations to our books and making them look beautiful. It's become a part of our family tradition, and I love watching my daughter grow and learn new things.

One of the sweetest moments from our previous Makeup and Books adventures was when my daughter started writing her own messages in the margins of our book pages. She'd write "I love you" or "I'm so excited!" next to a favorite quote or scene, making me feel like I was reading a love letter from her heart. It's these moments that make all the hard work worth it – seeing my daughter happy and engaged with me.

As we head into this year's Makeup and Books adventure, I'm feeling grateful for the chance to spend quality time with my daughter. With our busy schedules and multiple commitments, it's not always easy to find free time together, but I know that this day will be special. We'll spend hours laughing, chatting, and enjoying each other's company, surrounded by all things makeup and books.

My week is shaping up to be quite calm, which is a welcome change from the usual chaos. With only three runs planned in the next few days, I'm looking forward to some downtime and relaxation. My daughter will likely spend her time with friends or studying for upcoming exams, but I hope we can squeeze in some quality time together. Who knows? Maybe we'll even watch a movie or two during our ice cream break.

As I conclude this article, I want to express my gratitude for the opportunity to share our Makeup and Books tradition with you. If you're interested in learning more about this project or watching the video where we dive deeper into the world of smash books, stay tuned! In the meantime, I hope you've enjoyed reading about our family's special day and the excitement that comes with it.

The name of the app that helps me work out is called Run Honestly. It provides an 8-week plan that involves walking, running, and sprinting intervals to help with weight loss. As a runner, I appreciate how this app challenges me to push my limits while still being accessible and easy to use. With three runs planned in the next few days, including one back-to-back session on Saturday, I'm feeling motivated and ready to take on the challenge.

As I look back at our previous Makeup and Books adventures, I realize that it's not just about the activities we do together – it's about creating memories and traditions that will last a lifetime. With my daughter by my side, I know that this day will be special, and I'm excited to see what the future holds for us.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone today I want to share with you my planner I do this every single week and I saw some of these videos on YouTube didn't know they existed and I thought they were fabulous because I do this every single day of my life so usually on the weekend I'll start planning for the next upcoming weeks so if you want to watch me plan my week stay tuned if it's not interest to you um don't watch I'm probably going to talk about a lot of you know useless useless things that really only apply to me so if you want to watch keep watching okay so this is a new angle for me um as you know I don't do YouTube it's not like I don't do it for a living I have a job Monday through Friday 8 to 5 so I don't really have all the fancy stuff I'm going to try to find the right angle here okay I hope that you can see this really well it's the best angle that I could come up with you should see what my camera looks like right now and what it's sitting on top of so usually my the way that I do this is anything that I write out I always write out with a pen and then I like to go over it and markers and then I like to add stickers and do all kinds of fun things to make things stand out so I have like a bag of stickers and stuff and then I have you know letters and if you saw my Dollar Tree hauls I have my stickers from the Dollar Tree here and these are my stickers from like the Valentine's Day haul from the Dollar Tree so use my stickers for that and so far what my week looks like on Monday I wrote no school because my daughter does not have school on Tuesday this is um me just saying that I'm going to be at a client's office so I know I'm not going to be working from home this day and Wednesday she actually usually has two things going on see like this is kind of the previous week so like she usually has freshman cheerleading after school and then she has something else she like had a field trip here and you can see like I put like when I get paid and stuff so okay so layouts is she's a cheerleader and layouts is a class that she takes at 7:00 it's an hour long and layouts if you're interested is basically a type of tumbling it's um it kind of looks like a tuck but your legs are straight so she takes that class so she's like level four tumbling right now and then on Thursdays she has a stunt private at 4:30 um a stunt private is where she flies and uh you know they kind of like put her up in the air and so she work she has a private there and then on Sunday she has a competitive cheer practice and her team name is Luna cats and she cheers for Cheer Athletics so they're called the Luna cats and I put the times 5 to 7 so this is a pretty pretty calm week for me cuz usually I have a lot and as the days go on things come up and so I'll I'll add things so once I kind of write everything down in pen then this is where I kind of will decorate it now because she does she is part she does participate in two types of cheerleading one is school and one is competitive two totally different things um I usually pick a color the colors that are related to that so like her school colors are red and blue but her competitive cheer is blue so I do this in Red so that I know it's related to High School cheer and then I do her competitive cheer in blue cuz Cheer Athletics are blue so like I'll take my blue marker and I just like to outline I have been doing this planner like this for way more than 5 six years um it's just what I love to do and I love to color if you watch my other videos you know that about me and I'm just kind of making it a little festive sometimes I do sometimes I don't and then because she has cheer athletics again here this will also be blue originally the reason why I picked her chair to have specific colors is because at one point 2 years ago she was taking classes in multiple gyms so and I didn't want to get mixed up where she was supposed to be because we were so busy and one gym their colors were purple and tri Athletics is blue and so so I would have to make sure that the and so I knew I knew by the color where you know where she was supposed to be so that's Luna cats over there in case you're wondering and if you like cheer um Luna Catz is a senior level three team but she has level four skills and she has level five flying skills or some not all but some of them and I always like to pick different colors um I want certain things to stand out now depending on where you live you're probably wondering why isn't she had a school this week cuz this is May the week of the 25th in Texas school doesn't end until the 1 week of June so her last day is going to be June 5th but they also don't start school till the end of August so yeah I have some stickers with hearts these are old I don't I don't know where I got these but and I don't normally have like a really set thing that I do especially if I don't have a busy week or else this would look really crazy like do you see this this was this was the week of Valentine's Valentine's Day the week of Valentine's Day yeah so I kind of went kind of cuckoo here and then this was kind of jam-packed because it was NC week and like this was a week where we were going to a competition in galliston so yeah and then like this is what her day would look like when she had to cheer for school I would like say who they were what school they were going up against and and like right here would be like when I would we would have PE Pizza stuff like that these would be like weekends with competitions so right now competitions she just tried out so cheer there's no off seon but competitions don't start until like October where am I oh here we go I can also write certain things down like when I want to go to the grocery store so Monday she has no school Wednesday she doesn't have high school chair practice and I'll be there on Tuesday I'm trying to figure out what sometimes I'll most of my bills are like some of my bills are on auto pay and the ones that aren't um just in case I forget I'll write like when I have to pay a certain bill so just getting some stickers here and some of you are wondering what I actually do for a living cuz I do not do YouTube for a living I don't make any money um I it's a long it's kind of hard to describe what I do but basically work with software so computer stuff designing software for mortgages so that is what I do so if there's a specific day that I like want to go to the grocery store I definitely like to plan around this is just how I am because I'm a homebody and I really don't like I don't like to like Jet Set around town you know doing a ton of stuff so if I'm going to go to the grocery store I want to be on a realistic day where I kind of don't have anything so like layouts layouts won't in until 8: and I definitely don't want go to the grocery store on a Wednesday so I'm probably going to go to the grocery store here now I do plan my menu out I used to waste a lot of money just going to the grocery store and and filling up the fridge that's a really horrible way to go to the grocery store I don't know how many times I've thrown away meat and fruit because I simply didn't eat it you know sometimes things come up or you're too tired to cook and I was wasting so much fun doing that um I don't do that anymore I plan a very specific menu and I keep certain days in mind and I've gotten used to my tolerance level for cooking so I know like on a Wednesday I'm not going to want to cook because my daughter won't eat before she goes to cheer she refuses to eat so she's going to be super hungry after 8:00 and I'm not going to go home and cook a meal at 8:00 so sometimes this is when maybe I'll go home and put in a pizza or I'll stop like a Chick-fil-A so but my dinner menus aren't on this planner I can definitely share with you another YouTube video on specifics on How I Do It um I actually just write out my menu on a piece of paper it's easier for me so but each day I have a set thing and when I go to the grocery store I buy for that specific dinner so like for the week I'll plan to alternate two different types of breakfast for my daughter for that week she can either have like cereal or she can have waffles and then the next week um I'll do something like cereal and um she loves these hamegg croissants I make and I'll buy the croissants for those so I definitely buy depending on what my menu is going to be and I stick to it it's definitely proven to be way more successful so like if I if there's somebody having a birthday I would use some stickers here I know my daughter has a birthday party to go to but it's not this week so I'm going to go to the grocery store here my daughter's a cheerleader obviously right cuz I've been talking about it but I did not grow up as a cheerleader at all I grew up as a soccer player so it's definitely different um but once you become a cheer Mom it just I it's crazy but I swear I think that I talk more in Cher lingo than I do like just normal English I don't know how many times I'm like talking to my mom on the phone and I'm like Micah went and she threw her standing back and then blah blah blah blah and my mom's like yeah I really don't understand anything you're were saying one time I told my mom I was like okay it's a sumersault but backwards and she's like oh so funny how the word somersault is so out of date but you know whatever okay so when I see my week look like this and it kind of like okay it's it's it's looking like a chill week that gives me an idea to plan maybe additional things that's what I love about my planner because it gives me a visual insight to what my week is going to look like and normally I would probably add something like we'll get pizza this week but I think we're going to skip pizza because we've been having pizza a lot and but you know what we'll do we do this thing it's our daughter mother daughter thing she's 14 years old so I'm really trying to find you know things to do with her we do this thing called makeup and books uh we do it once a month and we go to Target where we just get a bunch of makeup and then we go to half priced books which is in the same little shopping center and she'll get a couple of books and I'll get a couple of books and because we love makeup and we love books so we have that in common and I created and we just simply call it makeup and books and let me see when the last time we did it because we have been so busy with the move when was the last time that I did makeup and books I don't even remember here's one makeup and books in January was that our last one no here's another one makeup and books in February I think that had to have been our last one I don't think we've ever done it since because in March I was looking for a house and in March we had so much cheer because March is when everyone comes down to Dallas for NCA week to try to get a bid to Summit if you don't know Cherry then you probably don't have any clue on what I'm talking about so yeah it's been a while since we've done makeup in books so I think this will be a really good time and we actually started adding ice cream to the end of it so makeup books and ice cream but to be fair I'm the only one who likes it because she actually does not have a sweet tooth which is crazy because I could probably just live off of sweets I I'm surprised I'm not diabetic right now knock onone wood but um I I could wake up when when I don't know what I want to eat or what I have a craving for sweets will be like the one thing that can cure that okay so she has no school here but she'll probably be hanging out with her friends so I'm not going to put it here I'm probably going to go to grocery store so I'm not going to do it here she has late class here so we're looking at it Thursday or Friday so I'm just going to put it on this Thursday so just to give you a little bit more detail while I kind of glitter this up you know they get to this age where you kind of don't know how to spend quality time with them and I just said you know let's go get some makeups and then or some makeup and then we'll we can also go to Half Price Books and and get some get some books and I realized let's make this a thing and we did so I'm just going to take some sticker letters here and I'm just going to put and what's cute about this book is ever so often in my book couple Pages here couple Pages there I'll write I love Micah which is my daughter's name and the next thing I know I'll just be working and I'll look over at my planner like where I've like written I love Micah and then I'll see that my daughter somewhere has snuck in and wrote I love you too which I thought was really sweet I'd have to find that but I know that's in here she knows that I definitely live for this thing so sometimes she'll she'll come look at it too you know she comes she looks at it she sees what I'm going to do she sees what she has to do so it's definitely part of our family and of course I love sweets and I'm still trying to use up some of my valentine Wednesday stickers um I try not to use stickers that have like a 2d feel to them because when I'm writing they make my pages bumpy or whatever so okay so so far this is what my week looks like it's very calm and I'm loving it already so I know that maybe like I'll spend this day doing whatever I want to do um movies cleaning the house you know online I sit at my computer a lot so and oh I also work out so I don't work out sorry this not the same thing I'm a runner so I run and I have an app that makes me work out in certain intervals intervals where you walk run and Sprint and it's like an 8-week plan it's I forget what the name of the app is and it's I think it's called run honestly and it also helps with a lot of weight loss because sometimes just running at the same speed for miles upon miles really doesn't do anything which is what I was doing not that I really need to lose weight but just trying to get in shape and like lose some weight around you know my stomach or where I store most of my fat my thighs but anyway so it's three it's three runs in one in one week so I can definitely plan when I want to run those and I'll probably do one here I'll probably do one on Friday I'll put that as run number two and then I'll do another backto back and do run number three on Saturday which sounds like a plan to me so usually my weeks are a lot funner than this but it's just one of those weeks where you don't have much going on so so thanks for watching this video if you want to see more let me know and I know some of you have requested for me to do my slam book I posted that in the uh Dollar Tree haul it's actually called a Smash book I called it a slam book but it's called a smash book and I'm going to do that video for you so stay tuned and I'll see you guys later byehey everyone today I want to share with you my planner I do this every single week and I saw some of these videos on YouTube didn't know they existed and I thought they were fabulous because I do this every single day of my life so usually on the weekend I'll start planning for the next upcoming weeks so if you want to watch me plan my week stay tuned if it's not interest to you um don't watch I'm probably going to talk about a lot of you know useless useless things that really only apply to me so if you want to watch keep watching okay so this is a new angle for me um as you know I don't do YouTube it's not like I don't do it for a living I have a job Monday through Friday 8 to 5 so I don't really have all the fancy stuff I'm going to try to find the right angle here okay I hope that you can see this really well it's the best angle that I could come up with you should see what my camera looks like right now and what it's sitting on top of so usually my the way that I do this is anything that I write out I always write out with a pen and then I like to go over it and markers and then I like to add stickers and do all kinds of fun things to make things stand out so I have like a bag of stickers and stuff and then I have you know letters and if you saw my Dollar Tree hauls I have my stickers from the Dollar Tree here and these are my stickers from like the Valentine's Day haul from the Dollar Tree so use my stickers for that and so far what my week looks like on Monday I wrote no school because my daughter does not have school on Tuesday this is um me just saying that I'm going to be at a client's office so I know I'm not going to be working from home this day and Wednesday she actually usually has two things going on see like this is kind of the previous week so like she usually has freshman cheerleading after school and then she has something else she like had a field trip here and you can see like I put like when I get paid and stuff so okay so layouts is she's a cheerleader and layouts is a class that she takes at 7:00 it's an hour long and layouts if you're interested is basically a type of tumbling it's um it kind of looks like a tuck but your legs are straight so she takes that class so she's like level four tumbling right now and then on Thursdays she has a stunt private at 4:30 um a stunt private is where she flies and uh you know they kind of like put her up in the air and so she work she has a private there and then on Sunday she has a competitive cheer practice and her team name is Luna cats and she cheers for Cheer Athletics so they're called the Luna cats and I put the times 5 to 7 so this is a pretty pretty calm week for me cuz usually I have a lot and as the days go on things come up and so I'll I'll add things so once I kind of write everything down in pen then this is where I kind of will decorate it now because she does she is part she does participate in two types of cheerleading one is school and one is competitive two totally different things um I usually pick a color the colors that are related to that so like her school colors are red and blue but her competitive cheer is blue so I do this in Red so that I know it's related to High School cheer and then I do her competitive cheer in blue cuz Cheer Athletics are blue so like I'll take my blue marker and I just like to outline I have been doing this planner like this for way more than 5 six years um it's just what I love to do and I love to color if you watch my other videos you know that about me and I'm just kind of making it a little festive sometimes I do sometimes I don't and then because she has cheer athletics again here this will also be blue originally the reason why I picked her chair to have specific colors is because at one point 2 years ago she was taking classes in multiple gyms so and I didn't want to get mixed up where she was supposed to be because we were so busy and one gym their colors were purple and tri Athletics is blue and so so I would have to make sure that the and so I knew I knew by the color where you know where she was supposed to be so that's Luna cats over there in case you're wondering and if you like cheer um Luna Catz is a senior level three team but she has level four skills and she has level five flying skills or some not all but some of them and I always like to pick different colors um I want certain things to stand out now depending on where you live you're probably wondering why isn't she had a school this week cuz this is May the week of the 25th in Texas school doesn't end until the 1 week of June so her last day is going to be June 5th but they also don't start school till the end of August so yeah I have some stickers with hearts these are old I don't I don't know where I got these but and I don't normally have like a really set thing that I do especially if I don't have a busy week or else this would look really crazy like do you see this this was this was the week of Valentine's Valentine's Day the week of Valentine's Day yeah so I kind of went kind of cuckoo here and then this was kind of jam-packed because it was NC week and like this was a week where we were going to a competition in galliston so yeah and then like this is what her day would look like when she had to cheer for school I would like say who they were what school they were going up against and and like right here would be like when I would we would have PE Pizza stuff like that these would be like weekends with competitions so right now competitions she just tried out so cheer there's no off seon but competitions don't start until like October where am I oh here we go I can also write certain things down like when I want to go to the grocery store so Monday she has no school Wednesday she doesn't have high school chair practice and I'll be there on Tuesday I'm trying to figure out what sometimes I'll most of my bills are like some of my bills are on auto pay and the ones that aren't um just in case I forget I'll write like when I have to pay a certain bill so just getting some stickers here and some of you are wondering what I actually do for a living cuz I do not do YouTube for a living I don't make any money um I it's a long it's kind of hard to describe what I do but basically work with software so computer stuff designing software for mortgages so that is what I do so if there's a specific day that I like want to go to the grocery store I definitely like to plan around this is just how I am because I'm a homebody and I really don't like I don't like to like Jet Set around town you know doing a ton of stuff so if I'm going to go to the grocery store I want to be on a realistic day where I kind of don't have anything so like layouts layouts won't in until 8: and I definitely don't want go to the grocery store on a Wednesday so I'm probably going to go to the grocery store here now I do plan my menu out I used to waste a lot of money just going to the grocery store and and filling up the fridge that's a really horrible way to go to the grocery store I don't know how many times I've thrown away meat and fruit because I simply didn't eat it you know sometimes things come up or you're too tired to cook and I was wasting so much fun doing that um I don't do that anymore I plan a very specific menu and I keep certain days in mind and I've gotten used to my tolerance level for cooking so I know like on a Wednesday I'm not going to want to cook because my daughter won't eat before she goes to cheer she refuses to eat so she's going to be super hungry after 8:00 and I'm not going to go home and cook a meal at 8:00 so sometimes this is when maybe I'll go home and put in a pizza or I'll stop like a Chick-fil-A so but my dinner menus aren't on this planner I can definitely share with you another YouTube video on specifics on How I Do It um I actually just write out my menu on a piece of paper it's easier for me so but each day I have a set thing and when I go to the grocery store I buy for that specific dinner so like for the week I'll plan to alternate two different types of breakfast for my daughter for that week she can either have like cereal or she can have waffles and then the next week um I'll do something like cereal and um she loves these hamegg croissants I make and I'll buy the croissants for those so I definitely buy depending on what my menu is going to be and I stick to it it's definitely proven to be way more successful so like if I if there's somebody having a birthday I would use some stickers here I know my daughter has a birthday party to go to but it's not this week so I'm going to go to the grocery store here my daughter's a cheerleader obviously right cuz I've been talking about it but I did not grow up as a cheerleader at all I grew up as a soccer player so it's definitely different um but once you become a cheer Mom it just I it's crazy but I swear I think that I talk more in Cher lingo than I do like just normal English I don't know how many times I'm like talking to my mom on the phone and I'm like Micah went and she threw her standing back and then blah blah blah blah and my mom's like yeah I really don't understand anything you're were saying one time I told my mom I was like okay it's a sumersault but backwards and she's like oh so funny how the word somersault is so out of date but you know whatever okay so when I see my week look like this and it kind of like okay it's it's it's looking like a chill week that gives me an idea to plan maybe additional things that's what I love about my planner because it gives me a visual insight to what my week is going to look like and normally I would probably add something like we'll get pizza this week but I think we're going to skip pizza because we've been having pizza a lot and but you know what we'll do we do this thing it's our daughter mother daughter thing she's 14 years old so I'm really trying to find you know things to do with her we do this thing called makeup and books uh we do it once a month and we go to Target where we just get a bunch of makeup and then we go to half priced books which is in the same little shopping center and she'll get a couple of books and I'll get a couple of books and because we love makeup and we love books so we have that in common and I created and we just simply call it makeup and books and let me see when the last time we did it because we have been so busy with the move when was the last time that I did makeup and books I don't even remember here's one makeup and books in January was that our last one no here's another one makeup and books in February I think that had to have been our last one I don't think we've ever done it since because in March I was looking for a house and in March we had so much cheer because March is when everyone comes down to Dallas for NCA week to try to get a bid to Summit if you don't know Cherry then you probably don't have any clue on what I'm talking about so yeah it's been a while since we've done makeup in books so I think this will be a really good time and we actually started adding ice cream to the end of it so makeup books and ice cream but to be fair I'm the only one who likes it because she actually does not have a sweet tooth which is crazy because I could probably just live off of sweets I I'm surprised I'm not diabetic right now knock onone wood but um I I could wake up when when I don't know what I want to eat or what I have a craving for sweets will be like the one thing that can cure that okay so she has no school here but she'll probably be hanging out with her friends so I'm not going to put it here I'm probably going to go to grocery store so I'm not going to do it here she has late class here so we're looking at it Thursday or Friday so I'm just going to put it on this Thursday so just to give you a little bit more detail while I kind of glitter this up you know they get to this age where you kind of don't know how to spend quality time with them and I just said you know let's go get some makeups and then or some makeup and then we'll we can also go to Half Price Books and and get some get some books and I realized let's make this a thing and we did so I'm just going to take some sticker letters here and I'm just going to put and what's cute about this book is ever so often in my book couple Pages here couple Pages there I'll write I love Micah which is my daughter's name and the next thing I know I'll just be working and I'll look over at my planner like where I've like written I love Micah and then I'll see that my daughter somewhere has snuck in and wrote I love you too which I thought was really sweet I'd have to find that but I know that's in here she knows that I definitely live for this thing so sometimes she'll she'll come look at it too you know she comes she looks at it she sees what I'm going to do she sees what she has to do so it's definitely part of our family and of course I love sweets and I'm still trying to use up some of my valentine Wednesday stickers um I try not to use stickers that have like a 2d feel to them because when I'm writing they make my pages bumpy or whatever so okay so so far this is what my week looks like it's very calm and I'm loving it already so I know that maybe like I'll spend this day doing whatever I want to do um movies cleaning the house you know online I sit at my computer a lot so and oh I also work out so I don't work out sorry this not the same thing I'm a runner so I run and I have an app that makes me work out in certain intervals intervals where you walk run and Sprint and it's like an 8-week plan it's I forget what the name of the app is and it's I think it's called run honestly and it also helps with a lot of weight loss because sometimes just running at the same speed for miles upon miles really doesn't do anything which is what I was doing not that I really need to lose weight but just trying to get in shape and like lose some weight around you know my stomach or where I store most of my fat my thighs but anyway so it's three it's three runs in one in one week so I can definitely plan when I want to run those and I'll probably do one here I'll probably do one on Friday I'll put that as run number two and then I'll do another backto back and do run number three on Saturday which sounds like a plan to me so usually my weeks are a lot funner than this but it's just one of those weeks where you don't have much going on so so thanks for watching this video if you want to see more let me know and I know some of you have requested for me to do my slam book I posted that in the uh Dollar Tree haul it's actually called a Smash book I called it a slam book but it's called a smash book and I'm going to do that video for you so stay tuned and I'll see you guys later bye\n"