The last several days have been unpleasant, to say the least. The kids are acting like they’ve been possessed by the devil himself; even my sweet little Nate. It doesn’t help that I have a to-do list a mile long in preparation for the girls’ birthday party on Sunday.
Today on my list of things to do? Go find the girls a new outfit for the party. We’ve recently had some issues in the clothes department…mainly, Lexi has become quite possessive of most of the girls’ clothes. And if Maddie wants to wear something that she has deemed as her own, she pitches a hissy fit. This has been happening daily. So on advice from my twin mommy friends, I decided that I’d let them pick out their OWN outfit (with some nudging from me, of course).
Right after voting this morning, we headed out to Target since that’s where I saw some dresses that I liked.
We got to Target and wouldn’t you know it, the dresses that I was hoping to nudge them towards were out in the size we needed. Crap on a cracker. No biggie – I had a backup plan.
Yeah, not a great backup plan. I’ve NEVER been able to find anything good at Sears and today was no exception. Crap on a cracker times 2.
The girls had already started their antics. Touching everything they can from within the cart, trying to climb out of the cart, wanting to switch places in the cart and just general not listening. What in world possessed ME to go to another town an hour away? I must’ve been possessed by the devil for a short period because off we went.
So our first stop in the different town, one of my favorites.
I was all excited when I found a couple of sweaters that both the girls and I loved – Lexi had picked a pink one, Maddie a blue/yellow one. Normal price $22.50 (way beyond my budget) but they were on a rack with a $10 off advertisement on it. SCORE ONE FOR ME!!! So we headed to the checkout. When I glanced down at the total as the cashier was ringing things up, the total said $75 and change. UH WTF? I inquired about the sign and she said nope, that’s just on outer wear. *grumble, grumble* No thanks then. So we’re off once again.
Against my better judgement, we head back to….
Again, not sure why. I came away with nothing there for the second time.
After the girls convinced me that they would wither away into nothingness if they didn’t eat lunch, I took them to Burger King.
On a final whim, we headed to the Target (different one from earlier). SCORE!! They had the original dresses that I liked at the other store in the size we needed!! The dresses were in a couple of different colors so I kind of thought they’d choose different ones. Nope, they chose the same exact dresses.
And now they’ve been running around like punks all afternoon. STILL not listening and wrecking havoc on everything..
Thank God we’re almost at bedtime!!
