Ahh.
I have been a little concerned that I’ve been getting depressed. Like, seriously. But I think what I really needed was to just get out of the house!
The children were doing better healthwise today, even Elivette (who wanted to snurse all night, and if I pulled her off the breast she complained. Loudly. And often.)
I’ve been wanting to drive to a town about an hour away and check out the new Costco. Today, as I was downing my third cup of coffee and being blearily grumpy about having been awake since the wee hours of the morning, Kevin asked me if I wanted to go.
I couldn’t get those children ready fast enough.
We spent quite a bit of time browsing and exclaiming and discussing and corralling and it was so fun to see the chiddlers race down the aisles; Denton with his tiny little legs trailing far behind giggling all the while, Brielle in her ruby red sparkly slippers clattering with every step.
We ended up getting a membership, probably just so I could buy organic cream. And butter.
I wasn’t ready to go home yet. We made a stop in West Branch, Iowa at the Herbert Hoover Museum. I knew nothing about him and had kind of believed the hyperbole of “Hoovervilles” and “Hoover blankets”. Today I learned differently! What a great man–literally brought himself up from nothing and made millions. He was the first person broadcast on television. Ever. He was one of the first students at Stanford. He saved millions and millions of people from starvation. Poor Bert–in the presidential office 6 months, the stock market crashed. And he was blamed.
It’s my opinion that the Great Depression was not ended by any of FDR’s policies, but by America’s involvement in WWII. Anyway, I digress.
We found a kitschy second hand store and found Cadrian some nice winter boots for next year. And we lost one.
We got a milkshake at an ice cream shop named “The Pink Pony”. (Guess which six year old was over the moon about that.)
We got back home in time to check out the Kuk Sool class we are considering for Brielle. And to visit Once Upon a Child to get some insulated pants and jeans for people with holes in theirs and leopard print baby outfits because babies need leopard print.
It was just a normal day…regular stuff…but it was so awesome to be laughing with my children, and my husband. It was so nice to be out and about.
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I had to sit down at Costco to nurse Elivette. Brielle suggested we sit on a couch facing the big TV.
“Or we could sit there.”
“That’s not facing the TV.”
“No, but we could sit and look at the jewelry.”
“You want to sit and look at jewelry?”
“I’m just that kind of a crazy kid.”
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You know you are a rockstar mama when you can change a two year old who started out in bundies but ends up with diarrhea, in a gas station, without losing your cool, and the child still has pants at the end of the deal.
And when the baby poos to her toes–neatly executing her first ever blowout at the museum–and ends up clean and clothed at the end of the deal.
And when the baby pukes all over the museum’s carpeted floor, and you nonchalantly clean that up too.
Laughing.
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I really love to laugh. Brielle told me once that she thinks I spend half my life laughing. I’m really glad that is the perspective she has of me.
Ahhhh…