So it’s Monday. Again. The bright side is that it’s the last day of August. Don’t let the door hit you in the rear on your way out, August. I’m onto to bigger and better (and cooler) things.
Still, as happy as I am to see August end, I wouldn’t have minded another day or two of weekend. It was a busy one around here and busy weekends always seem to be over way too soon.
Kile got paid on Friday night and since he gets paid once a month (the joys of being a state employee), we do the bulk of our shopping for the month when he gets paid. Unfortunately, this stresses Kile out since he doesn’t like to spend money, no matter how necessary, and when he gets stressed he gets crabby. And when he gets crabby, it rubs off on me. Still, I did a pretty good job of deflecting his crabbiness all weekend. And if I had remembered to take my thyroid pills yesterday, I probably would have been able to deflect it yesterday as well.
Alas, I did not take my pill and alas, I did not deflect. By the end of the day, I was tired and I just absorbed it. And when I absorb a bad mood off of someone… well it ain’t pretty. And it’s not fun. But the upshot is that I took my pill FIRST THING this morning. I wasn’t interested in having another down day today. It’s a Monday and I need all the help I can get!
ANYHOW… Saturday was our monthly B.O.O.S.T. (Big Ol’ Obnoxious Shopping Trip) at Walmart. We actually went to Kohl’s first to look for shoes for Harry. That child’s feet are growing at alarming rates. He’s almost out of kid sizes! We weren’t able to find anything though and as Kile was crabby, we decided it was best to just move on. We had lunch at Chili’s before heading over to Walmart and that was nice. We don’t eat out at sit down restaurants that much anymore.
The grocery shopping went pretty well and I think we remembered almost everything on our list. Which is impressive because we had a LOT of stuff on our list. We chinzed on our shopping last month because of the trip to Florida, so we were pretty much out of pretty much everything. It was not a small trip and it was not cheap. But at least now we have everything we need for the month, for the most part. Perhaps maybe now lunchtime won’t be a source of stress around here! It’s hard to find food to give the little ones when you have just graham crackers and granola bars. Even moreso when one of your wee ones is as picky as Liam is.
Believe it or not, this all took up the better part of the day on Saturday. We were wiped out come Saturday night!
Sunday brought more shopping through. We headed over to Legends to do some more shopping for shoes. On the way, Kile stopped at In n’ Out and we grabbed some burgers and fries to go. We ate at one of the picnic tables at Legends which was really a fabulous idea. Or it would have been fabulous if it hadn’t been so windy. Until Subway opens up over there, there just aren’t a lot of options for quick, cheap dining. That would be my only complaint about it. Otherwise, Legends is awesome.
We finally found Harry some shoes at the Sketchers store there. We also got the little ones some croc-style shoes that were on a fantastic sale. After that we checked out the Carter’s outlet store. We were hoping to find some clothes for Liam since we never seem to have enough clothes for the poor kid these days. But we did get him and Evie their Christmas jammies. So one present down, many to go!
But our shopping was not done there! We headed over to Michael’s where I had some specific things to look for: a container for my cloth diaper laundry detergent, some knitting notions, and a scrapbook for our Disney vacation memorabilia. Sam’s Club was next and we had some very specific things to get there. Including chips and snacks for Harry’s lunches, frozen stuff for the deep freeze, etc and so forth. Luckily, we thought ahead and had a cooler in the back of the van. We packed the frozen stuff in there before heading over to Whole Foods.
Yep, we weren’t done yet. We ALWAYS have to go to Whole Foods! We got some fruit, some cheese, some laundry stuff for me… and we got a pizza for dinner! Which meant: it was time to go home. At last.
The pizza was awesome. But of course it was! And it was the perfect dinner because were all beyond tired.
Like I said, last night was kind of hard emotionally for me and I entirely blame the lack of thyroid medication yesterday. I really do need to stay on top of taking those pills. At the very least.
And now I feel like I need another weekend to recover from my weekend. OY.
So what did you do this weekend? Did you spend as much money as we did? Because I’m starting to see why Kile was so crabby about it. UGH.
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Well, since I’m not sure how much money you spent, I would say you spent more just because you did that BOOST and went to Sam’s.. But we did our hardest to help the economy! We did some grocery shopping, Paul did some “man cave” shopping so he could get the garage the way he wants it, and Paul had 2 social functions on Saturday (I got to go to one of them) so he had to buy some stuff to take along with him. September is a big birthday month in this house (5 of them!) so we’ll be spending mucho dinero this week on gifts and the shipping of said gifts. Um…. you got any ideas what I can send Cristian for his birthday? He’s gonna be 12! What do 12 year old boys want??? HELP!!
Okay… scratch that. Did my math wrong. Crisitian is only going to be 11. But still, what do 11 year old boys want???
No.. didn’t spend much money. But our new month starts mid-month. So we’re still in the midst of one. Not that we’ll have much of a BOOST then either. It’s always ‘do as little as you can but try to be practical and best price’ ALL the time. Which gets me crabby. It gets old. And it will never end.. and that gets old.
But anyway. We had dinner with a friend. Hubby went fishing with a buddy. Met a nice family for dinner. And generally stuck around the house. Good times
I have the same problem