it's busy season and honey's out of town again. left for work as usual friday morning and won't get back until tuesday night. so today basically felt like a friday again. my days are easy because they consist of three parts. morning: baby and i have an outing... play date, errands, or hanging out together at home. afternoon: naptime. evening: dinner and hanging out as a family. when honey is gone it's normally during the week and mornings are simple during the week because we have story time and friends to hang out with. night time and weekends are a different story because we're on our own. everyone else has husbands and is doing stuff as a family. and we've normally already completed all of our errands and we really don't have many to begin with. so with my honey gone for this many days in a row and over the weekend i was more than a little worried. but i'm happy to report that it's going really well.
last night baby girl was sad when i told her daddy wouldn't be coming home to play with us but we went to a middle school play (two of my young women were in it) and met up with people there so we had a good time. this morning we went to the dollar store and goodwill. i sure love the dollar store but i really do hate our goodwill. it's full of crappy, overpriced junk. today though i got lucky finding the 7th harry potter book in hardback in absolutely pristine condition. since it's a kids book it was only $1. retail is $35 so i was thrilled. it's not really in the budget at that price y'know? now i have the 4th and the 7th in hardback. send a note to my goodwill and tell them i'm looking for 1,2,3,5, and 6. then we went to the park on main street and it made me realize that i should make more of an effort to take baby girl to parks populated with kids. our neighborhood park is empty more often than not and i think half the fun for her is just watching the other children.
2-6 was naptime. baby girl had some cheese and pineapple and we were off shopping. because who wants to sit at home on a saturday night? not me... it still creeps me out being at home at night without my christopher. will i ever grow up? we went to old navy and ross.
i found some awesome maternity jeans at old navy but they were $40 so i didn't get them. don't ask why i tried them on in the first place. probably just to be rude to myself. i found some other good deals but i exercised restraint and didn't buy anything for myself. i just kept repeating my new mantra. just kidding, i don't have a new shopping mantra. but i kept reminding myself that even if something is cheap and a really good deal, i don't need to buy it unless i have a specific need for it. sooo, tonight i've been back and forth fifty times about kicking myself for not buying the stuff i was contemplating and patting myself on the back for not spending money on things i can do without.
while i was going through the maternity section (located right next to the little boys section), baby girl found this awesome thomas shirt... in her size and everything! she was SOOOOOO excited and when i told her it was time to go to the dressing room she kept telling me that she was bringing thomas to try it on. need something to melt your heart and make you giggle? have your two year old tell you how excited she is to go to the dressing room to "try it on."
seriously i wanted to get her this shirt soooo badly. just look at that happy face!
but it was $15 and, as i said, i wasn't feeling spendy. we escaped with a $2 t-shirt for baby girl instead and headed next door to ross.
it's typical when we go to ross for baby girl to pick a toy or item of some sort and carry it with her throughout the store. i like that because it slows her down and keeps her hands a little busy. this time though she picked out a chair (and tossed a hat/mittens combo on there for good measure) and pushed it around the store while we shopped. and because i'm more add than usual when i get inside a ross, we probably made the rounds with that chair a good four times. for probably about an hour. just killin time.
add some heels to the mix...
and we definitely got some comments. i very rarely see black people in parker (it's white suburbia at its finest) but there were several black women at ross (probably because it's in centennial... sliiiightly more diverse) and they were so hilarious and friendly about baby girl and her heels. we all had a good time in the shoe section tonight.
meanwhile, honey is just living it up in south dakota...
life is good but i can't wait til tuesday!
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