Today was a pretty good day, considering we’ve been sick since Tuesday! Monkey Do woke up with a temperature of 97.6, and Monkey See woke up with 99.8. Still high, but not unbearable. Daddy took the girls out for breakfast… well.. out to get it… They went to a local donut shop and picked out a bunch of donuts to bring home.. It was a super special treat for them.. and me too! I got to get up, shower and get ready to go out without two little girls running around me and all over my room while I try to get dressed. It was so nice. 

Once breakfast was done, we all got our shoes on and got ready to run a few errands… We went to Walmart first to buy some planters, soil, and seeds. Then we headed to IKEA to grab a few things I’ve been dying to get. We got a new shoe drawer for the plethora of shoes we have in the hallway. We also got some more paper for their easels, and more train tracks for their train table. I think there were a few other things I got, but I can’t even remember right now… LOL… I kinda got lost in there… it’s not difficult. LOL. The girls were telling us they were hungry, so we grabbed a quick bite to eat before we left. 

After IKEA, we headed out to Costco to do our normal grocery shopping… This was the first shopping trip that we didn’t get a big box of diapers!!! I’m so excited! No more spending $40 per payday just on diapers! This is going to be so awesome! I did however stock up on wipes (I had a coupon)… Diapers or not, any mommy knows how valuable wipes are for just about anything you do or anywhere you go. They did pretty well when we first got there, but by the time it was time to get in line, they were super fussy… I knew they weren’t feeling too well, and it was definitely nap time for them. I think we all were getting fussy. The lines were all soooo long… Of course what else is to be expected when you’re there at 130pm? We hurried out of there and drove straight home. 

The rest of the day went like any other. Monkey See and Monkey Do took their nap, and Daddy and I cleaned up the kitchen. We got everything together for the girls so we could plant our seeds when they woke up from nap. We were definitely excited about showing the girls how to grow their own flowers. Hopefully they do better than me, considering I kill just about any flower I have ever owned… Yeah.. no green thumb here.. Mine got lost somewhere along the way. 

We planted our seeds, and watered everything… Now we wait… 

The girls are sleeping now.. as well as they can. Poor Monkey See keeps coughing herself asleep. I just don’t know what else to do. There’s a cool mist humidifier running, and the mattress is still propped up. I gave her some medicine to hopefully dry out her congestion. I’ve had to run in there a few times to give her a drink of water so she wouldn’t choke on her own dry throat. I just pray that she can get some solid sleep without a coughing fit.

As much as I don’t want to miss it, I’m not going to go to yoga tomorrow. I want to go, and I hate not going, but I think we all need some more recuperating time. Especially them. So if any of my fellow Yoga gals check this out.. I PROMISE I’ll be back on Wednesday!!! 

So, on Tuesday.. I bought the girls 2 new pairs of sunglasses. They had picked out some super cute Hello Kitty sunglasses at Target. They were the last two there in that particular style that they just HAD to have. They were 5.99ea.. no big deal. Better than the almost $15 each we almost spent at the grocery store for some cute “grown up” sunglasses. *phew* glad I caught that price. Can you imagine if they broke those on the way out of the store??

Anyway.. so fast forward to yesterday. We went back to Target. Why do I torture myself like this? Because Ratatouille was back in stock! They had it on ad this Sunday for $10! Yes $10! The girls have been begging to see it, so of course I want to get it. This time I decide the girls can handle walking with me AS LONG AS they hold my hands, and not try to run off. We had the crazy idea that we’d go in, grab the movie, and go home.. No.. It never works that way. I had the stars in my eyes, and we walked around the entire store. We ended up in the party supplies, and grabbed a few items for a friend’s party that I was hosting on Monday.

We go to the check out, to pay for everything, and as we get ready to walk out, I tell the girls to put on their sunglasses. They both look at me confused and bewildered. They tell me almost in unison “I don’t have my sunglasses, Mommy”.. I was surprised… I know I saw them on their head just a second ago.. or so I thought… I plopped them both in a basket and walked around the store, trying to re-trace our steps through the entire store. I think I asked every associate that was on shift that day if they had seen the girls’ glasses. Luckily, we did find one pair in the electronics section, but never found the other pair.

Before we left, we walked over to the sunglasses section and of course, they didn’t have any more of that pair… and they just HAD to have that design.. They didn’t like the other ones…  So… I called the new Target in the next city over… sure enough.. they had it. I asked them to hold one pair, and off I drove. We got there, and they were there on hold at the front. We bought them, and the girls were soooooo happy. We went home, and they had their sunglasses.

Well, this morning, we went to Costco to get our grocery shopping done.. not even 10 minutes into our shopping, one of the girls has lost yet another pair of sunglasses. Ok.. note to self: put their sunglasses in your purse when you go into a store.

Now the dilemma…  Do I go back to Target store #2 and look for yet another pair? or do I just let them use whatever glasses they have, and hope they don’t fight over the 3 different pairs of sunglasses that they have?

This has nothing to do with my girls… sorta..

I’m just flustered with all that is commercialized Christmas now. The ads boast the best prices for the best gifts, because you know, Christmas is all about how many gifts you can get now. UGH. Anyway. It’s not like I can really go shopping to all of these places. I take the girls with me, and if I want to have much control over them touching things, I have to put them in the stroller…. Oh, and did I mention the double stroller won’t even fit through the door to some of these stores? and if it does, it sure as heck isn’t going to fit down the aisles, or in between any of the clothing racks. The stores are so packed with stuff, you’d be lucky to get out alive if the place caught on fire!

The latest advertisement on tv for Walmart boasts their “site to store” shipping, where shipping is free if you order on the website, and you choose the store they ship it to so you can pick it up. Well, that’s all well and good, but don’t expect to get it in time for Christmas. I purchase a small item, a stove guard to keep my girls from getting burned, during off peak times, and it took a MONTH.. no I’m not kidding.. it took 4 weeks to get to the store. So I saved $8 by getting it from Walmart, but I could’ve had it faster if I would’ve just gone to Goore’s in the first place. Why oh why didn’t I do that? I wanted to test out their service. I even emailed them to inquire as to why it took so long, and I never did get an answer. Disappointing to say the least.

And then there’s the fear of being killed while shopping at the mall. With the latest mall shooting (God bless those people and their family who were senselessly killed), it’s gotten too scary to even go to the mall. Not that I can fit my stroller through the stores at the mall.

All these commercials.. Blah.. Yeah, so we’re getting sucked into the buying frenzy, but we’re doing it online for the most part. We’ve purchased from Apple.com, and Sams Club online, even Costco.com… It makes things so much easier. If it wasn’t for some of the last minute gifts that I’m sure we’re going to have to get, I probably wouldn’t have to go to a store at all!