too many hours of shopping

tonight i didn't get my kids to bed until between 11 and 11:30.  we didn't even get home from shopping until close to 10:30.  have i mentioned lately how much i hate being home alone (especially at night, especially during the winter when it gets dark at 5:30) when my honey is out of town?!  i dread it all day long when i know he's going to be gone.

this morning we went to the library with friends and then to target with those same friends.  i got a bunch of clothes for abigail (and a thing or two for brady) and didn't get home til after 2.  brady only took a 45 minute nap and after 30 minutes of waiting for him to go back to sleep i realized that was a lost cause and woke abigail up from her nap.  and by 5 or so we were off.  gone when it's still daylight... just how i like to do it.  we dropped off [HOPEFULLY!] the very very very last of the yw stuff to the new president and i am FREEEEEEEEE.  we stopped by a girl's house to maybe go out for frozen yogurt but apparently she's sick so we'll have to do that another time.  i took the kids shopping instead.  i'm sure my honey loves that i spend all of his money every time he leaves town.  he's going somewhere next month for 3 nights and 4 days so i decided that would be the perfect time (for other reasons as well) to go to utah.  even buying plane tickets for myself and abigail (hallelujah that brady's still free for another year), i'm pretty sure this will be "cheaper" than staying in town and shopping every night because i don't want to be home without my honey.  i mean, we got an amazing deal on airfare and everything and my parents will be in utah and i'll get to see my friend's play so it just makes sense, but really, it's a small price to pay to avoid this i'mafraidofthedarkwheni'mhomealone feeling.

anyways, we went to old navy and ross.  i got soooo much stuff at old navy for super cheap.  two new swim suits for brady at $.97 each and two new swim shirts at $.97 each as well.  i could have gotten abigail a cute ruffled white and navy polka dot swimsuit for $.97 a piece but.... those two pieces didn't add up to be a modest swimsuit so we left that little bikini behind... although i did let abigail wear it while she had a dance party in the dressing room.  i got good stuff for all three of us.  but on that note, should you see any of us wearing something that seems a little out there or the sizing seems a bit off... well, remind yourself that it's probably because i got it for cheap.  don't hate.  ross was disappointing this visit (our last visit there was pretty incredible though... you win some you lose some) but we still managed to find a few things there too.  of course.  this is really the first time that i've had to buy clothes for abigail... more than just the occasional "she needs a pair of jeans" sort of thing to fill in the gaps in her hand me down wardrobe.  and even though brady has an incredible selection of clothes right now (thanks to generous friends and my wonderful sister), i have to think ahead to next summer (and future seasons) so he won't have to run around nakey when the weather warms up.  two main thoughts about all of this... kid clothes add up fast (they cost just the same as normal adult sized clothing!) and ohmygoodnessthisissomuchfun!  i was not at all excited about shopping for boy clothes because i thought girl stuff was so much cuter.  well that's definitely true for little baby stuff but not at all true for toddler stuff.  i am loving shopping for boy stuff.  like really loooooooving it.

and now hopefully i'm sufficiently tired to go to sleep.