Harrods | Poppy's Style

I’ve no idea how it got to the week before Thanksgiving. All of a sudden I am panicking about the children being home for a week and needing to organize activities, food, and of course prepare for Thanksgiving Day itself. Since being in the US Thanksgiving has become our favorite holiday. You get to eat, drink and be merry without any of the material aspects of Christmas. We love it.

With a 6 year old and 4 year old I find a week at home for the four of us requires planning in order to avoid the cries of ‘I’m bored’ – and that’s just from me. For the first time we’ve bought tickets for Cirque du Soleil. We went for the cheap seats in case the children can’t sit still through the whole show. I’m really looking forward to it so let’s hope it’s good! MM and I are planning an itinerary of all sorts of trips and adventures for the week, heading North, South, East and West from Atlanta, and avoiding any kind of retail outlet. Thanksgiving Day will consist of the usual – watching the Macy’s parade, some football and then a fabulous meal of roast turkey with all the trimmings and some good wine. No Atlanta half marathon for me this year due to injury, lack of training and laziness – but I’m quite looking forward not having to be up at the crack of dawn.

I mentioned MM and I went to Atlantic Station on Friday – an outdoor mall in midtown. It has a huge H&M and I nipped in to get the kids some hat and glove sets, which unfortunately they didn’t have. Not wanting to waste a trip I had a quick peak at the Grey Concept that was just arriving. To be honest I was disappointed with the choice available – they told me they were expecting more – but I did manage to grab the grey long skirt in my size for $18. I rarely wear long skirts – I had a Diesel one back in the 90’s that I bought from Harrods – a complete splurge back then – but I lived in it. This H&M one is great for the price – perfect color, fits well, has good stretch so it’s not restrictive. It’s a little thin but with grey tights underneath it works well. Keeping with the grey theme I’m wearing my AllSaints grey Godiva cardigan bought in the sale back in June from the Trafford Center. The white top is Zara and the scarf is my animal print favorite from H&M. I have a couple of pairs of boots that would have worked but I opted for comfort and chose the Frye Jenna studded in grey – love these.