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.

Yep, it’s that time of year again, folks.  That time when bloggers tear their hair out, trying to come up with something to post every single day for the entire month of November.   I (foolishly?) felt confident, because I’ve been posting every day without fail for the last couple of months.  PIece of cake, right?

Well here we stand, on Day 1 of NaBloPoMo (which stands, in case you’re wondering, for National Blog Posting Month) and it’s after 4 in the afternoon and I haven’t posted a darned thing.  FOR SHAME.

It’s been a busy morning and afternoon, which is my excuse.  We didn’t do our grocery shopping yesterday, instead chosing to go to Whole Foods and Sam’s Club instead.  So that meant we had to do grocery shopping today.  But first, we needed to go to Kohl’s because they were having an EVIL sale, complete with Early Bird specials if you shopped before 1pm.  So we picked up some (matching) (aww!) outfits for the kids to wear tomorrow when we get their pictures taken (Sears Portrait Studio: Take 2!  I’ll let you know how it goes).  I think it’s safe to say that by the time we hit Walmart, we were already pooped.

And apparently, not only is November 1st the Official Start to the Holiday Season (complete with holiday decorations and MUSIC) (OMG, I’m not even kidding), but apparently it’s doubling as Black Friday too.  If the Early BIrd sale at Kohl’s didn’t tip me off, then the oodles of people clogging the aisles at Walmart sure did.  WHAT THE HECK, PEOPLE??  Let’s at least get the election out of the way and eat a couple pounds of Halloween candy before we get into the Christmas stuff, OKAY?  Holy crap.

Our collective faith in humanity was not bolstered by this particular shopping trip.

Though there were those nice people in the line next to us at checkout who felt bad for us and one of them even went to get us an extra cart when it became apparent that our bagged groceries weren’t going to fit in the cart we had.  (I have mentioned that our monthly shopping trips are Out of Control, haven’t I?)  So this meant that we had THREE carts we pushed out to the car: one containing Evie in her carseat in the basket and Liam in the seat and two baskets with bagged groceries, pushed by Kile and Harry.  WHEW.

So I think you can forgive me for not posting earlier.  And if you can’t… well…  I don’t know what to tell ya.  Except maybe to get used to it because that’s how things roll around here.

Peace out!