Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Jan 15, 2012, 2:00 am
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Walgreens. All opinions are 100% mine. As of December 31st anyone using Express Script can no longer get their prescriptions filled at Walgreens and have it covered.  As a military spouse and someone covered under Tricare I was really disappoin...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Oct 16, 2011, 10:17 am
I am currently enjoying my last Sunday alone. It’s been almost 3 months of alone time and I am finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s been a trip. If you want to read my whining please do. If you’d prefer not to, click here. I thought deployments were hard but this was ...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Oct 8, 2011, 10:15 am
We’re finally settled in Maryland. I tend to be super motivated when we move so I had everything unpacked and put away within the week after our stuff arrived. And it took our stuff way longer than I had imagined. It took me 4 hours to drive here but it took the movers 4 days to decide to deliv...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Sep 10, 2011, 3:10 pm
We finally have a place to live. It really didn’t take that long. After my last blog posting bitching about it, it all came together. We have an almost brand new home, on base. It should be a pretty nice time for the next few years. We have one more week pretty much and then we’ll head to M...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Aug 11, 2011, 12:09 pm
I’ve felt obligated to blog lately but I really don’t have my heart in it. I don’t know where my heart is lately to be honest. I’m stressed out, irritated most of the time and snippy. Super snippy. I think much of it has to do with the fact that I’m alone again for almost 3 months this...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Jul 14, 2011, 7:09 pm
Say that three times fast! Back in October I had the idea that I would do something crazy in honor of turning 30. And then I chickened out. But when the idea came to me again and friends offered to come, I finally went ahead and did it. So what is it? Well it’s a single point piercing that I ...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Jul 11, 2011, 11:55 pm
I’m sitting here, it’s late and of course no one is in bed yet. Thank you summer vacation and a surprise 4 day weekend for the hubby. We’re all bumming around like we’ve got nothing to do. And honestly, we don’t. It’s kind of nice. But at the same time it just lends me more time for...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Jun 23, 2011, 8:06 pm
I swear, I’m totally over being an adult. It really seems like every time I turn around I have something that needs to be paid or a new expense that I wasn’t expecting. In the coming months I really need to save some cash because when we do finally get housing at our next base I’ll need to h...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - May 16, 2011, 10:02 pm
My baby is 7 today. It seems like just yesterday I brought her home from the hospital. *sniffs* Now she’s a mouthy little thing with a mind of her own. She’s no longer sitting in the baby seat when I grocery shop, she’s helping me check out! Scanning items with the self check out barcode ...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Apr 7, 2011, 8:34 pm
. I realized today that I have a problem. I obviously buy way too many groceries. Though with the possible shut down of the government looming and the fact that we wouldn’t get paid if it happened – this is a great problem to have. At least we wouldn’t need many groceries!
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Apr 3, 2011, 10:46 pm
We’re going out to the botanical garden tomorrow and I have big plans to photograph the kids and hopefully come out with a nice photo for family. Only I’m kind of not really expecting much since I didn’t have time to go out and find them each a new outfit tonight. I know they have clothes. ...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Apr 2, 2011, 8:38 am
I’m now an independent Scentsy consultant. If you would like to check it out you can visit my site at ericacamacho.scentsy.com. I have loved Scentsy for years and finally decided to try and get some other people to love it as well. That is never a hard job because once they get a whiff, they’...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Mar 18, 2011, 11:00 am
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Pier 1 for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. When we got the news that we’re moving eventually – late summer or fall – my first reaction wasn’t to get all upset about it.  Instead I secretly got a little excited.  Or really excit...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Mar 17, 2011, 9:29 am
I recently gave my Android phone and Sprint service the boot and I have not looked back. It’s been almost two weeks of absolute bliss in iPhone land. No more froze phone, data locking, service issues or anything that I had thought I would just have to live with. The price I had to pay to get out...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Mar 14, 2011, 11:00 am
This post brought to you by PBM Products. All opinions are 100% mine. When my kids were babies I discovered that using an “off brand” formula could save me so much money and I totally took advantage of that.  Babies are so expensive as it is, why make having one any more expensive than you n...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Feb 28, 2011, 10:00 am
This post brought to you by Express. All opinions are 100% mine.   The days are steadily getting sunnier and warmer.  That means one thing … spring is coming!  And the summer will be right behind it with women’s swimwear and beach days (or pool days if you’re not lucky enough to liv...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Jan 28, 2011, 4:59 pm
We recently found out we’ll be moving again towards the end of summer, beginning of fall. After 6+ years in Virginia I am kind of ready for it. Though the initial shock threw me for a loop. You just kind of expect to be able to stay in an area for awhile, especially when it has the largest Nava...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Jan 22, 2011, 11:04 am
Before my husband came home from deployment I made a point to have a few extra treats lying around that may make his time at home more relaxing. You know, I wanted to be the super great wife and all. One of those “treats” was a massage candle from Edenfantasys.com, an adult shop. Though don�...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Jan 11, 2011, 8:53 pm
For the last few days I have been woke by an awful alarm clock at 5:30am on the dot and the alarm goes off until 6:30am. It’s not mine so I can’t control it. Living in an apartment kinds of stinks sometimes. I had assumed it was the woman next door as it was pretty loud. Who else could it b...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Jan 9, 2011, 7:28 pm
I’m trying to update the old blog a little in hopes that I will eventually start to blog more. I’ll have to finish this later though since I am trying to do this on my laptop and I don’t have all of the programs that I need on here. I’ll be back!
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Jan 5, 2011, 6:39 pm
It’s been a long time since I last blogged. Probably because I had that whole LIFE thing going on and the fact that I think less and less about documenting it. I kind of get into living it instead. So what’s been going on? The biggest excitement is that my hubby came home. After 7 months ...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Dec 13, 2010, 9:37 am
Friday morning the girl child woke up with one of her eyes glued shut. I immediately cringed because I knew what that probably meant. Pink Eye. GRRR. I made her an appointment that same day and sure enough the doc agreed. It was pink eye. Thankfully we got some grea eye drops that have almost ...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Dec 4, 2010, 8:11 pm
Last month I was offered a chance to review the Clic-It diaper bag system. At first I thought .. eh, I don’t really have “babies”. So maybe I wouldn’t get any use out of it? But let’s face it, even moms without small babies carry around essentials. At least I do! I almost always have ...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Nov 22, 2010, 5:44 pm
I have not seen one deal yet that makes me want to run out on “black friday” and fight people for it. That’s probably better anyway since I can’t really do that with no one to watch the kids. But Cyber Monday? That is more my style. I am kind of excited to see if there’s anything at al...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Nov 10, 2010, 11:43 am
Why is it that when you have time to travel you don’t have the money and when you have the money you won’t have the time? I am so frustrated. I would love to take the kids to Disney someday and we’ll have the money next year but when we do we’ll be out of leave/time to do that. So any amo...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Nov 3, 2010, 8:03 am
While I had costumes already purchased for the kids I kind of went off that path once I found out that our community was having a costume contest and the prizes were actually pretty sweet. I ended up scouring the internet for ideas, especially CHEAP ideas since I had already bought the regular cost...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Nov 1, 2010, 11:00 am
This post brought to you by Pier 1 Imports. All opinions are 100% mine. I am ecstatic that we are getting closer to the official holiday season!  Once November 1st hits I am all about planning for Christmas.  I know, Thanksgiving is supposed to be smooshed in there somewhere but I ...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Nov 1, 2010, 1:10 am
This post brought to you by MyTies. All opinions are 100% mine. I recently came across MyTies.com and was immediately interested in the idea.  What is it?  It’s a social network that is easily kept as private as you would like and is run from an app on your iphone. ...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Oct 29, 2010, 8:30 pm
Between gift cards that I had been saving and online coupons I scored through email and hunting last week I managed to get quite a few goodies for the kids and I. For once, most of it was for me! It has been forever since I really added more than a shirt or two to my “wardrobe”. I bou...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Oct 29, 2010, 7:58 am
I am deep in thoughts of what I will get the heathens for Christmas. If you ask my son what he wants Santa to bring he will immediately tell you that he wants a power wheels car. But I will tell you that it will never happen. Upstairs apartment, no storage = no power wheels. I feel bad but I do ...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Oct 27, 2010, 1:22 pm
I thought I would save all kinds of money during this deployment but so far that is not the case. Instead I feel like I am just spending more. On anything and everything from clothes for the kids, to treats for the dog, makeup and even treatment for acne .. which never works for me anyway. I t...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Oct 25, 2010, 10:00 pm
This post brought to you by Carmex®. All opinions are 100% mine. I was recently given the opportunity to try the newest products from Carmex, Carmex® Healing Lotion and Carmex® Healing Cream, and I have to say I was/am impressed.  When I hear Carmex I immediately think of lips s...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Oct 20, 2010, 5:42 pm
The kids are being screechy little people tonight and I seriously think I will be putting them to bed at 6pm instead of 7pm. Honestly? I have had enough and I would rather be zit popping right about now instead of listening to the chaos. GRRRR. I don’t know what my deal is. I’ve bee...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Oct 19, 2010, 8:00 pm
This post brought to you by PBM Products. All opinions are 100% mine. When my first baby was born I was wooed into buying the expensive name brand formula in the hospital.  They gave me all kinds of samples in a very nice, but brand stamped, diaper bag.  How could I refuse?  Being ...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Oct 17, 2010, 9:47 pm
I have had such an exhausting but fun weekend with the kids and our friends. I swear, I would never need fat burning supplements if I had weekends like this all of the time. I’m too busy and entertained to even think about eating much. Yay! But I am now looking forward to the week’s...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Oct 17, 2010, 8:15 am
Where has October went? It seems like we just started the month and in no time we’ll be throwing on halloween costumes and then quickly welcoming November. I can’t say I am complaining though. The sooner the next couple of months pass the better. The light at the end of the deploymen...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Oct 15, 2010, 1:39 pm
I’m starting to think my Sleep Number bed is just getting to be too pricey. A couple of years ago I had to replace the mattress topper at the tune of $650. My own fault for not having a waterproof mattress cover so I sucked it up. Today I had to order a new pump for my glorified air mattres...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Oct 12, 2010, 5:30 pm
Well the one pumpkin that I bought for carving has already rotted. I’m just a little annoyed and kind of surprised. It’s only been a week! I’m thinking maybe I should have brought it indoors instead of leaving it on our front ‘porch’? The mix of hot and cold weather...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Oct 11, 2010, 1:55 pm
Your lover will love you even more if you get them a pinata
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Oct 4, 2010, 9:01 am
Walgreens has EOS Lip Balm free this week. Well, after you receive Register Rewards. Pay $3 get a $3 RR back to use later. So I stopped in early this morning to grab one before the crazies bought them all up. I have read blog reviews about it and it always got shining praise and while I generall...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Oct 4, 2010, 12:14 am
My dog better start looking up term life insurance quotes because I am about ready to kill him. grrr.. ugh .. wahhh. It’s been raining all day long so of course he refuses to do much when he’s out there. So what does he do when he comes inside? What he was supposed to do out there! ...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Oct 3, 2010, 10:38 am
I love nothing more than to get up in the morning, be pestered for breakfast, make that breakfast and then end up throwing most of it away because they are suddenly not hungry. I wish I had that kind of stomach. Hungry one minute, not the next. I wouldn’t need any slimming pills. I think t...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Oct 2, 2010, 8:53 pm
So far this weekend has been BUSY. We started out last night with a trip out to hang out with friends that ended up with everyone here. Who knew you had to kind of plan ahead when it comes to bowling at the alleys on base? Sheesh! Then today I got up bright and early intending on taking the ki...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Sep 30, 2010, 2:59 pm
It’s no lie. Every time payday comes around I am giddy for .. oh, about a day. ha! After that the money has been dispersed to where it needs to be and I am no longer so happy. But tomorrow I will be happy again. Then it’ll be time to spend, spend, spend. I swear, I spend more on ...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Sep 29, 2010, 8:45 pm
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of BH Cosmetics. All opinions are 100% mine. While I am ridiculously loyal to my favorite brand of foundation, I am always up for trying any new eyeshadow that catches my attention. There are so many out there that I love, especially the highly pigm...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Sep 29, 2010, 2:16 pm
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Liz Claiborne New York Outlets. All opinions are 100% mine. I wouldn’t consider myself a fashionista by any means but I am super into “fall fashion” .. meaning, clothes that hide things! Ha! Sweaters, jeans, ankle boots, jacket...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Sep 28, 2010, 2:01 pm
Here I am loving this kid free time every day and now I have one home sick. It figures! It was just about time to take me off of my high. The boy has the .. uh .. issues coming out both ends. So I have been dealing with a lot of mess and clean up. I’m sick of it. I was almost to the poin...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Sep 27, 2010, 3:56 pm
Back when I was in my phase of wanting cool, modern furniture and hip accessories I always shopped at Ikea. At one point almost everything in our apartment was Ikea! Then came babies and I bought their furniture from Ikea as well. I have kind of moved on since then mainly because the stuff doesn&...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Sep 26, 2010, 4:47 pm
About a week and a half ago we received a wonderful box in the mail that contained two new toys that center around the imaginative character that is Olivia! Being that Olivia is much loved in our household you can imagine the excitement that came with opening this box. Inside we found the ‘O...
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Erica C. posted an article on beautiful-mess - Sep 23, 2010, 8:00 am
I finally hit the internal limit on my phone the other day. I guess between all of the apps I downloaded I have pretty much clogged the darn thing. I’m going to spend some time today running through them all and getting rid of the ones I don’t really use. While having one of those nea...
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