this past weekend we had the Not Your Grandma's Craft Fair and it went quite well! I think everyone enjoyed it very much.
Leland and Jax tried on some of the photo props and were their silly selves.
Friday night i stayed up to finish the quilt for Miss Caroline that i have just been procrastinating on and it turned out so sweet i want to keep it! I'm still not enough of a detail person for it to be perfect, but i love the color/pattern combination.(all material that i had)
Sunday i got to catch up with some friends at a purse party. My lovely mother-in-law came with and though we weren't there to buy she treated me to my first ever grown up purse. I haven't bought a purse since i was about 16 or 17 and worked at a hair studio and had a discount on their accessories. (i have bought a few Old Navy clearance totes over the years of course)
So! it was quite exciting and i love it. i'm expecting it to last forever....
as i was taking pictures i noticed THIS!
seams coming apart on the bottom already!!!
grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. hopefully it won't fall apart. i still love it, but this is why i don't spend oodles of money on handbags... or anything.
Took a (supposed to be) quick trip to the store with the kids yesterday afternoon while Joel cut the grass. We were running in for a few things. Fresh veggies and fruit, some more rhubarb because i need to make a crisp/crumble.
it. was. torture.
(i'm going to go on about nothing for a few minutes so feel free to tune out, but tune back in for the cute pics at the end of my rant)
currently the middle seats are out of our van (which we just got back after having it in the shop for over 3 weeks) so we have to buckle the kids all the way in the back. which is slightly annoying, but not that big of a deal.
we get to the store (after stopping at the bank) and i parked right by the carts so that i could put the kids in quickly and just head in, locked and loaded. Leland requested the car cart so i decided to be a good sport and agree. so we walked in and went to get it.... it was stuck behind about 10 carts in every direction. normal carts, handicap carts, tiny carts... so we start moving the carts, strategically, because there are other people trying to get carts, people trying to walk by, and only so much room. finally get it out and put the kids in, go to put the seat belt on.... it won't reach. there is a good 6 inch gap that will not be closed. this is the one with the low side and Emory was already about to jump out. so we look for the other one, hoping it has seatbelts. It's even further locked by carts. so we start the game again, finally reach it and get in. seat belt works (kind of), ready to go and Leland says, 'BUT MOM! there are no steering wheels!! ' seriously?! so janky that the steering wheels were torn off. grrrrrrrrr. i told him to pretend. (i then whiped the entire thing down with anti-bacterial wipes because it was pretty nasty) so we shop quickly and get in line. as soon as the cart is where it's so tight that i can't get down to reach the kids Emory wiggles out of her seat belt and stands up... so of course Leland grabs her as tight as he can and she starts shrieking as loud as SHE can. and i can't reach either of them. fun stuff. finally get to where i can reach her, pull her out and hold her while i pay.
take the kids back out to the nasty sticky heat, unload them into the van (the seats in the very back are significantly more annoying at this point) unload the groceries, put the gargantuan cart away, turn the key--- MOOOOOOOOOM! Leland realizes he left his Buzz Lightyear flashlight in the cart and we must get it. i hope out and look in the little car.... it's not there. which means it is in the OTHER car cart. the first one. so i unload the kids, lock the van, and walk the kids back into the store, images of chasing down another family doing their shopping in order to claim the flashlight in their cart, dancing in my head.
luckily, it was still in the carts area. not so luckily it was locked in (AGAIN!) by a billion (yes, billion!) carts. we pull and tug and re-organize so that Leland can squeeze in and look for the flashlight. Victory! it was there (i wasn't holding my breath) and we made our way back out to the van. *sigh*
why must there be shopping trips like this?
when we got back to the house i took a few pictures of the kids in the yard to remind myself that they are super cute and it's not their fault that sometimes motherhood is exhausting. it worked.
4 comments:
i love our boys. they are so cute together (and apart from each other).
and you are a super nice mom - getting the special cart and letting leland bring in a toy. i'm a meany.
oh man just reading that grocery story made me exhausted! haha you're a trooper!
oh my goodness. that trip to the store sounded like a nightmare. I would have given up and put them in a regular cart! haha i love my quilt and i can't wait for it's arrival.
Elise, you are a wonderful, self-sacrificing, loving mother. So far this week for me feels like your shopping trip and you are helping to remind me that it isn't sweet Addie's fault! Hope your next shopping trip is full of first-in-line car shopping carts with working seat belts!
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