Shopping Trauma

This is a true story that I am just now able to tell.  I hope you enjoy it.

Last weekend Mark volunteered to watch the kids so I could go away for 2 nights.  Yep, you read that right.  Two days and two nights ALL BY MYSELF.  Now, this is quite certainly a rare event and cause for celebration.

Having heard great ravings over a particular clothing store, I drove all the way to an upscale mall in Maple Grove (on the outside of the Twin Cities) to check it out.  Being from the land of prairie, crops, and large families, entering the Cities and shopping malls is much like culture shock.  Well, I was enjoying myself window shopping and admiring the gorgeous ladies with high heels, leather coats, dyed hair, and fancy nails (none of which are practicle in my life).  I got up the courage to enter one of the shops and try on a couple things all the while trying to blend in.  

So, I take off my jeans (no, this will not be TMI for you) and start folding them so they are out of the way in the dressing room.  I look down at the bottom of my pants leg....and what do I see????  I could have died right then and there.  I had chicken poop on my leg.  Not just a little.  Not in a hidden spot.  The well-groomed ladies next to me laughing and having fun in their dressing room did not have chicken poop on their clothes.  Guaranteed.

My only saving grace is that I am sure the city folk did not know what chicken poop looked like.  

Life gets crazy, doesn't it?

Mark & I should be resting up for tonight.  We are just too old to be on the go with all these little people.  Mark will be spending the evening taking Jonah, Eli & two friends to pizza and bowling.  I am spending the evening babysitting Simon and hosting Anna & 3 of her friends for her monthly Girl Game night.  Sarah is spending the evening with some friends and going to eat pizza.  If the evening goes well, one of us will be taking the 8yo & older crowd to a haunted house when the other festivities have ended. 

Today - October 27, 2012

The girls were playing Barbies in Sarah's bed.  Anna sleeps in the top bunk.

Sigh.  She needs a haircut.

Jonah was reading in his bed.  It's officially his bed, but Eli sleeps in it every night too.

I found Simon standing on the desk and playing with the printer.  Apparently he likes pushing buttons on the sly.

Eli was flying paper airplanes.

SNOW - It's October!

We woke up to SNOW this week.  Snow in October.  Does that seem right to you?  

Simon was intrigued by the snow.  Looking out the window, he said, "Daddy car dirty."  Here are a few pictures of him testing it out.  Before he walked on it, he asked, "In it?"  He wasn't sure if he should step on it or not.  Then he spent quite some time poking the snow with his finger.

Eli has a new hat and sunglasses, and he thinks they should be worn together like this.

Simon likes to eat cereal with Mark in the morning, but he takes forever only eating one or two pieces at a time.  Here Anna is his booster chair as he finishes the bowl.

Long time, no blog.  Jonah has found a new passion.  Can you guess what it is?