Whew - take a breath

After yesterday and this morning I need to sit and take a breather!

Yesterday's agenda:
8 - 9:40 - Y
10 - home to change Makena and myself into different clothing and out the door
10:15 - Gymnastics
11:15 - home for lunch
12 - off to Rosedale for more returns. I returned "the Christmas dress" and that had all kinds of drama with it.  She had tears rolling and everything.  I felt so bad for her
2:30 - kids home to nap. I washed the kitchen floor, reposted my expired craigslist postings, and did random picking up
4 - short notice craigslist sale.  Who can turn down easy money?
5 - home for supper
6 - bedtime routine
7 - Mw to bed and play with Mk
7:30 - Mk to bed time for me to start my other chores (laundry, dishes, blah blah blah)
9:45 - bed for me!

Today we started with the Y of course, and then we rushed home for me to shower and change and off to dance we went.  While Mk was at dance I tried to get Mw's hair cut.  The wait was too long so we had to pass. Instead I headed to the diaper store (All Things Diapers) and got some more detergent for the dipes.  Wednesdays are "coffee mornings" there so Mw was able to crawl around and I got some mommy chat time in.  There were only 2 other moms there today, but one was Karla, and it's been FOREVER since I've seen her!  It was nice to chat, even though it was a very short time since I had to buy my detergent and pack back up to go get Mk from dance.

In a little while I have another CL sale and then we'll head back home for nap times. During that time I hope to get some packing done.  We're headed up north (yes, again) for the weekend.  This time we have a wedding.  It's bad timing for Jared's exam, but he's been planning for it and been studying accordingly.  The big exam day is quickly approaching. In fact it's one week away.  Then we will have Jared back!  It always hard at first when he's around again.  It takes time for me to adjust to not having to do everything and to not have everything done my way.

Anyway, I don't have too much planned for the weekend for myself, just the groom's dinner and the wedding. Jared, however, has a full Friday and Saturday planned since he's in the wedding.  I'm glad he'll get to do fun things like golf and hang with our college friends.

Well, the kids are done eating and I have to get them clean and ready to head out to our CL sale.  Don't worry, I always meet in a VERY public place that I know has cameras.  It's usually inside of a Target.  I also make sure that I'm not being followed.  However, some of those moms are super creepy.  Like yesterday's. Oh gosh, I'll write about that later  ....

Okay, it's later:
I had a sale for all of my swaddle blankets.  I figured they would sell soon since it's getting chilly out. Anyway, I met the parents and both of them inside of Target and they have "meth user" teeth and just look like total dirt balls.  I felt SO bad for the baby.  At least they were buying her some nice things, but STILL, the parents were clearly users. Dirty nasty users. My heart breaks for children that are born into that kind of situation. It's not their fault, however there is always that nurture (or lack thereof) over nature aspect when getting raised. It won't be their fault when they act out in school because they're staving for attention. No, I don't know for SURE if they were actual users and maybe they are excellent parents.  I truly hope so and I keep telling myself those kinds of things whenever I see parents like that. It helps me sleep at night. Anyway, they bought the swaddlers and everybody went on their marry way.  I DID check my mirrors a lot on that drive home.  It's they ones that are kind of sketchy that I worry the most about.  The moms with 3 kids in tow and clearly being smart with their money are the ones that I don't  worry too much about!