Monday Mania

Grocery shopping for the week is done. Whew. 2 1/2 hours in one store with a tired baby girl, a hungry and  menstruating momma, and finally a check out clerk who was an angel in disguise! I get so nervous and worked up when it is my time to head to the check-out line. You know it. We all hate to be behind that person in line who is taking for.ev.er with the coupons and crap. I can only imagine what people are saying in their neighborhoods (their minds) about me. Really. It doesn't matter. We all wait our turn. I pep talk my self through it and I come out on the other side just fine. Okay, so I have hugely sweaty pits and my heart is racing but I have crossed that finish line once again. Today's cart was piled just about as high as O's head as she sat perched upon her cart cover, feet dangling and fingers busily shoveling happy snacks in to her pie hole. It is finished. For this week at least. I did have a slew of coupons and a ton of things that needed to be price-matched. I have a pretty good system worked out - my cra.zy mind is good for some things!

Upon arriving home - I carried my 26lb sack 'o potatoes to her crib and lay her down to continue her beauty sleep. I swear she gets more beautiful each day.
She typically falls to sleep after grocery shopping, as soon as I pull out of the parking spot.
She teeters between 1 and 2 naps a day still, in this 15th month (+9 in the womb) of life for her.
Who knew riding around in the cart and munching for a few hours could tucker one out so much?
She slept and I blessed the kitchen, cleaned out the fridge and tidied up a bit after unloading and putting away more bags of "stuff" than should be allowed.

Thank you Lord for your providence for our family this week.

We did manage to pick up one item that was not food related. 

O is obsessed with jewelry.
She loves to wear my bracelets, necklaces, rosaries, etc.
We found some plastic, flower-shaped and brightly colored bracelets just for her.
8 of them.
All on one arm.
All over the floor.
Split between both arms.
All over the floor again.
Clanking them together.
One on each arm.
 It was a busy time for both of us, but what enjoyment $0.97 worth of plastic gave us!

These are a few of our favorite things from today. O can't stop eating her gf pretzels.
The Sharkies are all natural and gf gummy snacks. I cut them in half, but she likes to swallow them just that way. I am working with her on chewing (ok, gumming) them. She has 3 1/2 teeth but they are all up front yet.
The teensy rubber duck was her best friend this morning - she chewed all over it and carried it just about everywhere. The nurse at her well visit gave it to her right  before he stuck the needle in her leg for one immunization. YIKES! It hurts me to watch her get that.
I'm grateful my doctor is patient and understanding with me as I exercise my right to be informed and decisive about immunizations for my child. It's a touchy subject.

 Laughing are you? Go ahead, you have probably experienced this too. I saw her start spinning the roll and was trying to get ready for work, so I let her finish. Her delight was much more worth it than my stopping her. The oohs and ahhhs and giggles were priceless and I got my makeup on without her grabbing at all my stuff on the counter while I do it.

Muffin tops. 

I like the food ones that actually come off the top of a muffin. 

I don't so much care for the one in my mid-section these days. 

Things I hope to do soon, ok- within a month most likely . . . 

-figure out how to take the date off the pictures, I feel like a dork showing the pics with it

-figure out how to change/enhance the pics I post

-send out thank you cards to my sisters-in-law who brought O gifts a few weeks ago

-that one thing that I keep remembering to do when I don't have the opportunity to do it and now I can't remember what the hell that stinkin thing is

-sit for an undisturbed few hours and learn how to use my new tablet and it's features

-order a new product for curly hair, Moisture Block, it's supposed to be amazing

-purchase some fun, new summer shoes

-sleep

-pray

-pick up the prescription that is waiting for me at Walgreens - for like 5 days now

-use the fresh basil I have in the fridge to make pesto - better get on that, fresh doesn't stay forever

Things I wish . . . 

*I could remember the things that earlier today I wanted to remember to put in this here blog - damn

*some people were easier to talk to

*that decisions were easier to make - especially decorating ones, meal planning ones

*that my husband was next to me when I sleep

*we could take all the $1' s from the various lotteries and do something remarkable with all that moola - feed the hungry - help the poor - shelter the homeless - give to those that need it

*that I had a washboard or a 6-pack instead of a muffin top

*that swimsuit season wasn't just around the corner - would it look too strange if I wore a full body wetsuit with a few pairs of spanks under it to the pool with O? C'mon, don't tell me no one else has wondered this!

*the person who is homeless for the first time tonight can have some peace and not lose hope