Put simply, today was crazy. The overarching theme is that Liam has one eye tooth that is ready to pop. Well, color me whiny, but I’d like to lance the gum just to get it over with for him. The poor kid is miserable.
I knew it was going to be a rough day with him and I had a ton of errands to run, so I decided we’d head out early and get everything done. In order to do this, L went in his jammies. I truly wish I could go to the store in my footie jammies. They are so toasty.
So, we headed out to the car, I get L in and he’s all excited to “go go go” and I get in to start the car and it’s dead. Not just it won’t start, but completely, no-ding, ding, ding, no-lights, no-clock D-E-A-D. I called Aaron and he recalled leaving the key in the ignition after taking out a CD. Oops.
Fortunately we live within two blocks of his parents and his dad came over and jump-started the Jeep with his handy-dandy Mercedes Jump Kit. It was very interesting…the battery was in the trunk of his car. Neither of us knew that until today.
Now the car is running, but it has to run for like 20 minutes before I turn it off. I need to go to Sam’s, which is about 10 minutes from my house. That wasn’t going to be long enough, so I drove to AJ’s parents’ house and ended up going with his mom to Sam’s and Hobby Lobby and leaving L with Grandpa with the car running and a timer set for 15 minutes to remind him to shut it off.
It was the BEST. THING. EVER.
Jeanne and I have not been shopping like that since BL (Before Liam). I ran in to Sam’s to get “just a few things” and she was just making an exchange, but we strutted out of there with a flatbed cart loaded with stuff - gifts for me, Emalee, Ethan, Liam, Liam and Liam. It was a blast. I NEVER get to go into a store and look around for fun. Gotta keep the cart moving or the Lammer tries to stand up on the seat. But guess what? The same thing happened at Hobby Lobby. I went in for food coloring and a big roll of white paper, but I ended up going crazy in the cake/cookie decorating department. I have some serious plans for cookies and gingerbread houses this year - had to stock up.
Yep, I managed to spend about $250 today in less than two hours. Then I picked up Liam and went to Wal-Mart and dropped $200 more.
God, I love power shopping.
Got home, had lunch, L went down for a nap and I looked at the house.
Uh oh.
It took me the entire two hours of nap time to get it to the point of being somewhat livable…and it’s not done yet. I still have to put stuff away tomorrow. That’s what I get for leaving town. Ugh.
Oh well, this made me happy.
The snow was light and fluffy and it came down on and off all afternoon. Liam got to see it when he got up. However, he was more interested in the birds. He keeps signing “bird.” He did it while we were on the way out of Wal-Mart as well. I think I’ve shown him that sign like three times or something. Little sponges, children are.
We watched the snow, ate some dinner, Aaron got home and he played with L so I could bake sugar cookies. I’m decorating them tomorrow (hopefully). Should be entertaining. I enjoy doing fun projects during nap time and in the evening.
Speaking of, on the schedule for tomorrow eve: bringing up the christmas tree and preparing to decorate.
Holy crap, it’s going to be December.
