What's in your (Mommy) Purse?

Chances are good that, if you are a mommy, the contents of your purse have changed since the birth of your child. Granted, it has been a while since I started this post, but let's get to it!

The Mommy

Things I carry now...

• Wallet, keys
• Cell phone, extra battery power, bluetooth headset, earbuds
• Extra "fun" lenses for my cell camera and selfie light that a friend got me
• Happy Life planner (personal size) for planning out my dinners, weeks, volunteer time, honey-do, & work schedule
• Martha Stewart Discbound Jotlet notepad (because I love anything with the discs)
• 5 function pen (each color has a purpose), multifunction pen with stylus top, multicolor pen for color coding events in the calendar (no, 3 is not enough and yes, I like color).
• Glasses (because I'm old now)
• Polarized sunglasses (no teacher should be without them for yard duty)
• Small hand towel for each child and myself. They hate the loud "green" hand dryers
• Surprisingly, (at least to me) I am still carrying a change of clothes and wipes for the monkey. At nearly 6 years out, I thought we'd be over this...
• Personal Bag (my life saver often times!)
• lint remover
• Juice Beauty Tinted lip balm with SPF 8
• Tide stain stick (mostly for me, but it helps with the elf)
• gloves (for cpr)
• glass nail file
• Purse hanger
• oil blotter sheets
• Nutri Nail cuticle butter stick
• Juice Beauty Hydrating Mist
• Forever 21 Love Struck roll on fragrance
• Pacifica Island Vanilla roll on and spray
• Pacifica Underarm Deodorant Wipes
• Alba Botanica Clear travel stick deodorant 
• Pill box with earrings
• Pill box with bobby pins & hair pins
• Mini bottle hand lotion
•  Tony Moly Panda's Dream So Cool Eye Stick
• Softlips spf 20 vanilla lip balm

There you have it! I feel more like myself again after almost 6 years since the first one. We still bring an activity bag that has certainly changed over the years. The elf will be 4 at the end of May and is fully potty trained, even at night. the Monkey... Well, we're working on it.

The Kiddos

As for the activity bag, I generally try to keep it low tech. We have given our old phones to our kids so they can use them for educational apps or the camera; other than that, just the change of clothes and wipes.

On Tuesday nights, we usually go out to our church small group meeting and we've been taking a tub of Duplo blocks for the 3-5 year olds to play with, along with the old standby paper and coloring tools.