Gotta love the change of seasons
Well, here it is the day after the day after Thanksgiving.
I had a nice pleasant Holiday with only one stop to make just one mile from here, instead of at least two, one being 35 miles each way. My parents did us a favor and volunteered to stay in Hawaii for an extra week to save on airfare. How nice of them! I didn't have to drive for 45 minutes each way to spend an hour or two shoving as much as I could into my mouth before packing up the family, driving 45 min and then settle ourselves in another house to shove food in our mouths again!
Instead, we had a leisurely morning sleeping in until nearly 8!! Those of you with small children will know what I feat this is! We held off the children that were near fainting from not eating until nearly 10 and had bacon and french toast. Poor dears had to live off from warmed chocolate milk until then. Then we got each child bathed - how dare us? AFTER BREAKFAST? What kind of free for all are we running here? Then let them wear their Christmas outfits since the boy is growing at a world record pace and will never be able to squeeze into it ever again. Then they got to watch the parade in the Living room, or kitchen or our bed room since we put it on in all three rooms. The poor deprived children do not have a TV in their shared room. I made the last pie - a chocolate one! And then packed everyone up for our trek "Over the mile and around the corner" to Grandmother's house. We had a lovely meal with my dear husband's family before coming home and tucking the exhausted children into their warm beds. Meanies that we were we only let them stay up an hour later than usual. I told you there were depraved children living with horrid parents.
Friday came and no line standing for me. I refuse. We slept until nearly 8 once again and everyone had their favorite cereal for breakfast. My Dear Husband has to go to work for a few hours, and around 10, I bundled up the children to make the 2 stops on my list. I drop the 5 YO off at my ILs since she doesn't have school and they NEVER get to see her anymore (Never mind that we were just there for 7 hours). The younger 2 and I head out. I stop to buy the Wedding gift that we saw advertised, and even got up front parking. The blessing keep coming when there is just one left and we got it. THEN the lovely sales clerk happily tells me there was a misprint in the flyer. The gift we wanted is actually $10 CHEAPER! I buy the gift, and a stocking stuffer for my dear Husband, and Happy Sales Clerk lets me use my coupon for an additional 20% off BOTH items.
Since I had great parking and cooperating children, I head over to the craft store across the parking lot. I get a stack of paper I had been eyeing but thought $10 was too expensive. They let me use their competitors coupon and I get 60% off from it, add some wired ribbon to it to wrap the gift with later and I get out of there spending far less than I saved over at the other store!
Then I pile the kids into their assigned seat and head to the thrift store. Now I know that thrift store shopping is not for everyone, but do you really believe that the "new" things you pay full retail for were not tried on by a few dozen people before you bought it? Anyway, I spend an hour looking around a bit and settle on 10 items. A Laura Ashley Skirt, another one form the Gap, a Third from Casual Corner, a pair of pants for Talbots, another pair from Express, a sweater from the limited, another from Liz Claiborn, a shirt from Kathy Ireland, another from Learner NY, and finally a blouse from Ann Taylor. Total spent: $14.78. I happily pay for my new "in between sizes, but I don't have to look like a slob" wardrobe and head back home.
I make lunch for the 3 YO and myself, wrap the gift, made a card and then settle in for some computer time while I feed the boy. MY wonderful Dear Husband makes it home in time to head out once again, and I goof off the rest of the afternoon. DH makes it home again just as it starts to snow a bit. He helps me neaten the house a bit and then head out the door about an hour and a half later. Well, try to. 5 YO gets home just as baby sitter arrives and Dear Husband is forced to snow blow to get us out. Um, 6 inches?!?! Where did this come from?
Its a slow go, but we make it to the wedding a bit late. SO did everyone else. It is about an hour later than planned by the time the judge arrives, then the small simple ceremony goes off without any further problems. It even stops snowing after just 10 inches fall. We have a lovely time and make it home shortly after midnight. Pay the sitter what I used to make in a week, and she cleans up the empty food containers that used to be ours and allows my DH to drive her home, chatting happily about how all the kids were in bed and sleeping about an hour after we left, so she mostly just watched TV, a few of our DVD's and ate our food.
That brings us to today. Our nice neighbor from 4 doors down snow blowed our driveway from the sidewalk to the door, so that made it a bit easier for my DH to get out to go to work today, but not before helping get all the kids dressed warm enough to hike to Siberia if we needed to. I strap the boy in his car seat, add a few blankets and we all head out for some snow time.
The girls play happily in the snow while I work on clearing the end of our driveway, the drain in the curb in front of our house, and the front stoop. After an hour the girls are bored and I am sore, so we head in for some hot cocoa. I watch TV and I make it and the girls are singing CHRISTMAS songs (At elast I know the words to these ones!). As we do so I am stopped in my tracks when I see that after the record snow fall yesterday, it will be a high of 60 on Monday. Boy and I happy I just spent all the time and energy shoveling!
Alright, my cocoa is no longer hot, the boy is done nursing and the girls are RRREEAAAALLLLLYYYYYY hungry. Poor dears. Its been nearly 3 hours since they had anything to eat, and the hot cocoa with marshmallows aparenly didn't count for anything. I'd better go make lunch before someone calls child services on me.
I had a nice pleasant Holiday with only one stop to make just one mile from here, instead of at least two, one being 35 miles each way. My parents did us a favor and volunteered to stay in Hawaii for an extra week to save on airfare. How nice of them! I didn't have to drive for 45 minutes each way to spend an hour or two shoving as much as I could into my mouth before packing up the family, driving 45 min and then settle ourselves in another house to shove food in our mouths again!
Instead, we had a leisurely morning sleeping in until nearly 8!! Those of you with small children will know what I feat this is! We held off the children that were near fainting from not eating until nearly 10 and had bacon and french toast. Poor dears had to live off from warmed chocolate milk until then. Then we got each child bathed - how dare us? AFTER BREAKFAST? What kind of free for all are we running here? Then let them wear their Christmas outfits since the boy is growing at a world record pace and will never be able to squeeze into it ever again. Then they got to watch the parade in the Living room, or kitchen or our bed room since we put it on in all three rooms. The poor deprived children do not have a TV in their shared room. I made the last pie - a chocolate one! And then packed everyone up for our trek "Over the mile and around the corner" to Grandmother's house. We had a lovely meal with my dear husband's family before coming home and tucking the exhausted children into their warm beds. Meanies that we were we only let them stay up an hour later than usual. I told you there were depraved children living with horrid parents.
Friday came and no line standing for me. I refuse. We slept until nearly 8 once again and everyone had their favorite cereal for breakfast. My Dear Husband has to go to work for a few hours, and around 10, I bundled up the children to make the 2 stops on my list. I drop the 5 YO off at my ILs since she doesn't have school and they NEVER get to see her anymore (Never mind that we were just there for 7 hours). The younger 2 and I head out. I stop to buy the Wedding gift that we saw advertised, and even got up front parking. The blessing keep coming when there is just one left and we got it. THEN the lovely sales clerk happily tells me there was a misprint in the flyer. The gift we wanted is actually $10 CHEAPER! I buy the gift, and a stocking stuffer for my dear Husband, and Happy Sales Clerk lets me use my coupon for an additional 20% off BOTH items.
Since I had great parking and cooperating children, I head over to the craft store across the parking lot. I get a stack of paper I had been eyeing but thought $10 was too expensive. They let me use their competitors coupon and I get 60% off from it, add some wired ribbon to it to wrap the gift with later and I get out of there spending far less than I saved over at the other store!
Then I pile the kids into their assigned seat and head to the thrift store. Now I know that thrift store shopping is not for everyone, but do you really believe that the "new" things you pay full retail for were not tried on by a few dozen people before you bought it? Anyway, I spend an hour looking around a bit and settle on 10 items. A Laura Ashley Skirt, another one form the Gap, a Third from Casual Corner, a pair of pants for Talbots, another pair from Express, a sweater from the limited, another from Liz Claiborn, a shirt from Kathy Ireland, another from Learner NY, and finally a blouse from Ann Taylor. Total spent: $14.78. I happily pay for my new "in between sizes, but I don't have to look like a slob" wardrobe and head back home.
I make lunch for the 3 YO and myself, wrap the gift, made a card and then settle in for some computer time while I feed the boy. MY wonderful Dear Husband makes it home in time to head out once again, and I goof off the rest of the afternoon. DH makes it home again just as it starts to snow a bit. He helps me neaten the house a bit and then head out the door about an hour and a half later. Well, try to. 5 YO gets home just as baby sitter arrives and Dear Husband is forced to snow blow to get us out. Um, 6 inches?!?! Where did this come from?
Its a slow go, but we make it to the wedding a bit late. SO did everyone else. It is about an hour later than planned by the time the judge arrives, then the small simple ceremony goes off without any further problems. It even stops snowing after just 10 inches fall. We have a lovely time and make it home shortly after midnight. Pay the sitter what I used to make in a week, and she cleans up the empty food containers that used to be ours and allows my DH to drive her home, chatting happily about how all the kids were in bed and sleeping about an hour after we left, so she mostly just watched TV, a few of our DVD's and ate our food.
That brings us to today. Our nice neighbor from 4 doors down snow blowed our driveway from the sidewalk to the door, so that made it a bit easier for my DH to get out to go to work today, but not before helping get all the kids dressed warm enough to hike to Siberia if we needed to. I strap the boy in his car seat, add a few blankets and we all head out for some snow time.
The girls play happily in the snow while I work on clearing the end of our driveway, the drain in the curb in front of our house, and the front stoop. After an hour the girls are bored and I am sore, so we head in for some hot cocoa. I watch TV and I make it and the girls are singing CHRISTMAS songs (At elast I know the words to these ones!). As we do so I am stopped in my tracks when I see that after the record snow fall yesterday, it will be a high of 60 on Monday. Boy and I happy I just spent all the time and energy shoveling!
Alright, my cocoa is no longer hot, the boy is done nursing and the girls are RRREEAAAALLLLLYYYYYY hungry. Poor dears. Its been nearly 3 hours since they had anything to eat, and the hot cocoa with marshmallows aparenly didn't count for anything. I'd better go make lunch before someone calls child services on me.
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