If you’re anything like me, you love an excuse to dress up. If I could twirl around in pretty dresses all night, I would.

The truth is, as a mom with little ones, my Friday nights are instead spent on the couch in a track suit. But it’s the holiday season - a month of parties and a time to get all fancified. Unfortunately, bedazzling said track suit isn’t cutting it as holiday glam. At least not until I’m 80.

If you don’t have a daughter under the age of 13, you might not be familiar with Skechers Twinkle Toes. If not, let me fill you in.

Often the one thing holding our daughters back from achieving their dreams is poor self-esteem.

Our kids’ clothes drawers are full of variety, from the play clothes we let them wear in the sandbox to the outfits that make us cross our fingers and pray oh-please-don’t-spill-spaghetti-on-that.

When reality star Kendra Wilkinson showed off her newborn son in magazines last December, I thought, cute baby, but OMG, check out her nails! They were perfectly manicured! And dark! I can’t remember the last time I wore dark red polish.

As moms, we happily trade vanity for motherhood. We give up manicures so we can spend that extra half an hour playing with our little ones – or catch up on a week’s worth of laundry.

But sometimes, darn it, we just want to look pretty.