May 16, 2008

• Friday Late Edition

  Here is how my Friday turned out.  I could have written this all tomorrow, but things are quiet around the house and this might be my best opportunity!

  We picked up and JanaLyn & Stephanie and got Stephanie to work by 11am.  We left there to go to a Super Target that I don’t usually go in because I’m not in that area of town.  I didn’t buy enough skirt hangers the other day and they have the style of the ones I like the most.  We all went to the bathroom when we first got there so THAT problem would be solved – yeah! of course! – just like always!

  We browsed around the store.  I bought some gift wrap paper I thought was pretty (I collect THAT kind of paper, too!) and one gift bag with pearls for the handles instead of the usual paper handles on a gift bag.  I looked in the linen department and found a stack of white kitchen wash cloths (maybe a dozen???) for $2.99.  I use only white in the kitchen because they can be bleached and sterilized.  When the stains don’t come out, they become dust rags, etc.  I looked in children’s shoes and found nothing (looking for flip flops without the thingy that goes between the big toe) and then looked in the toddler clothing section.  Of course, that’s when two children had to go to the restroom AGAIN.  Rissy took whoever had the problem (I think Luci).  They were gone for what seemed like a very long time.  When they finally reappeared,  Rissy said they had to ask directions  (Rissy’s my self-sufficient one) back to the toddler clothing section, since this is a very large Target and she isn’t familiar with its lay out.  Anyway, I found some shorts and tops for JanaLyn for $4/piece.  It was a little past noon when we left there.

  We drove directly to McDonald’s (my most very favorite place in the whole wide world it eat  !!!) and we did our $10.70 lunch that’s become standard fare if we all go to McD’s to eat.  The rule: You don’t get to play until you finish your lunch.  Guess who talked the entire time and still had 3 nuggets and a handful of fries when the other 3 were ready to play???

  
  No, she wasn’t thrilled that she was the last one at the table!

  My three stuffed themselves into a tube slide and posed for me before turning wild on me!  The “bubble chldren” are mainly mine, but not all of them.  I’m pretty sure we don’t own any boys!
  

  Next, they all  disappeared into the big slide.
  

  It seemed an eternity while I waited for SOMEONE to appear.  Where did they go???  Were they swallowed up by the monster size toy????
  

  Aha!  I believe I see something resembling a child . . .
  
  But, that’s only one pair of dirty socks!  Where are the others???

  THERE they are!!!!
  

  Plus one more bringing up the rear !!!
  

  Once again, we (not MY children, but my granddaughter) broke the McDonald’s sock law!!!
  

  I got one last picture (WITH their shoes on!!!!) before it was time to leave for the girls’ therapy appointment.
  

  Our therapist was running early (yay!!!) and so she saw Annamarie, then Luci, then me.   Her parting words to me were “You are doing such an excellent job,” which rang like music in my ears – because that’s not at all how I feel.

  From there is was time to go to Lowe’s to buy a new toilet seat and lid for the girls’ bathroom toilet.  I don’t know what it is about this house (and I assure you I’ve weighed the same amount for about 15 years) but the master bath toilet seat has broken (literally cracked) 3 or 4 times and when I was in the girls’ bathroom this morning THEIRS cracked.  It’s embarrassing!  So we got some samples of paint chips to see what colors we might want to paint the bedrooms, then made another bathroom stop (do these bathroom stops wear y’all out as much as they do me???!!!) and bought the toilet seat.  I was really
  exhausted from correcting JanaLyn all day.  She isn’t used to “our”
  rules and at one point when she was told not to touch anything (after coming from the batrhoom trip at Lowes) and to hold
  Rissy’s hand, she used her other hand to poke holes in all
  the cellophane packaging we passed.  Instinctively I smacked the back
  of her hand.  I can’t believe I did that, but I was full-up of JanaLyn
  and her smart mouth talk.  I just don’t tolerate sassiness.  I told her if she didn’t obey I would spank her when we got to the car.  Her only comment was, “Granny, are going to tell my mom and dad that I didn’t mind you today?”  I DID tell Stephanie later and she said she can’t figure out what’s up with her lately, either.

  We had a half hour to kill before picking up Stephanie.  Lowe’s was in the same parking lot area as Bath & Body Works and so . . . Yep!  you got it! . . . we went to PetSmart (which is also in the same parking lot) for 30 minutes.  Didn’t see anything I wanted to buy this time (big surprise!!!) and we picked up Stephanie at 4pm.

  From there we all went to grocery shop at Wal-Mart.  I always go between 2:30 & 4:00 when most people have left to pick up school children and no one who works is off work yet.  Trust me, arriving at 4:30pm is a BAD (VERY BAD) time to shop on a Friday.  Plus, we checked out at 5:45 and there were only 3 check out lines open.  WHAT WERE THEY THINKING??????

  We took Stephanie, JanaLyn, and their groceries home and the 3 girls and I headed to our own home.

  When we pulled into the driveway this is what we saw
  

  So, all of you peony guessers were right!  We bought this house in fall of 2004 and I don’t remember this bush being there, maybe the hot summer sun had shrunk it down to nothingness.  So, Lori K, I have no idea how old it is.  I buried my nose in it and detected a faint, sweet smell.  It is a small bush and has maybe a half dozen blooms on it.  One good rain will turn them all brown and rotten looking.  That’s what’s happened in the past.

  We hauled in the groceries and I had made the executive decision to just make hotdogs and eat chips for dinner.  I could barely manage thinking about doing that much.  I went to the garage to put away a bunch of the groceries.  

  Rissy, being the cook and “helper child” she has always been, took over the kitchen and when I came in from putting the frozen foods in the freezer and the chips and cereals on their shelves, etc., this is what I found . . .
  

  She turned 7yo on Feb. 27th and this is the exact kind of helper she was last year (when she was only 6yo) when I was so ill.  Tonight, she told me to go sit down and she’d call me when she needed me to reach the paper plates (which are stored too high for her to reach).  She called me, after a while, and I found relish, ketchup, & mustard setting out on the counter, along with some Fritos and Cheetos.  Bless her heart – that’s all I can say.  She’s just an angel to me!

  So here I sit, still tired and thinking I should get into my nighgown early.  Jesse said he’d pick up something to eat for himself and not to worry about fixing a plate for him.  Bed and TV or a book I’ve been reading (forever) sound very appealing right now!

  All that’s left for me to do is fill the coffee pot for in the morning and cover the bird’s cage.  Hmmmmmm . . . I just may do that!

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