I promised myself I would not venture near Target for a month because I always spend too much money there. Alas, a couple of last-minute kid birthday parties came up (does nobody plan ahead anymore? One party was for the next day!), so I headed for Target since it’s close and convenient and easy to find stuff. Yes, I took all 4 kids plus the one I’m cooking in my belly.
FYI: This is the Target where that 18-year-old girl was taken and met her untimely demise, so why I even go there at all is beyond me. But Target is like my own personal heroin, and I can’t seem to stay away.
We grabbed some Bakugan stuff for the boy party and some art stuff for the girl party. Do you ever just want to forego shopping and wrapping altogether and just give each birthday party honoree kid $10 cash? I totally want to do that.
Why do they have bathing suits out in January yet no Crocs in March?
On the way out I pass a cute sleeveless retro dress and I say to the kids, “I could’ve worn that before I acquired my amazing Popeye arms that hold babies so well.”
I managed to find several things I “need” before hitting the checkout. I’m sure you know how that is, unless you are perfect and all Zen and crap. And if that’s the case, you probably don’t have little kids. So there.
Also on the way out, the kids are trailing behind me and I can’t even see them, yet I’m yelling, “Don’t touch that.” You have to keep up that “eyes in the back of the head” thing. I always said my mom had “detective ray ears” … now I know I just have a loud mouth!
This has nothing to do with your post except for the "four kids" part. My grocery store got the little car in front, cart behind carts and my great grand-daughter loves it so much. I noticed that two children could sit in the car and because the cart is really wide there is a two child space up by the pushing part. Now I am certainly able to take four children shopping but my question is how do you tell two kids they get the car and the other two must sit and look at mommie....I am not up to that!
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hahahaha..."all Zen and crap?"...that's hella funny!
ReplyDeleteConfucius say, "Person who stand on toilet, high on pot."...and "Man who lose hotel key, get no nookie (new key)."
That's all I got!
thanks for the comic relief, Paul!
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