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Dollar Store Drama

I use to frequent dollar stores and such back during my college years. I could never have enough post-its, gel pens and cheap unnecessary trinkets. Then of course when I got married and moved to NC, there was maybe 1 dollar store 20 minutes or so down the road and that was when my dollar store shopping days started to disappear. Even now, living in FL I just don't see many. Maybe it's just me not looking, but whatever. Now that I am here in VA, I find myself counting the dollar stores on both hands in just a 15 minute trip down the road. So today I went to one not more than 5 minutes from my moms house. I was surprised at how crowded it was! I thought there were some pretty cool Christmas-y things in there and lots of things to make cute goodie bags for children. I thought hmmm maybe I can pick up a few stocking stuffers here. Honestly when I think about Christmas, my children are so young that I think the unwrapping is more of the gift than the actual gift. So thinking of that I invested a lovely $2 on some Minnie Mouse and Dora wrapping paper. Both sure to please my two lil' girls. Then I picked up 4 small books. My girls adore reading and being read to. Of course neither of my girls can read yet but they sure have fun making up stories to go along with pictures. So $9 later and a bag full of odd and ends I left and headed for home pleased with my short little trip. The trip would have been totally non-eventful if it weren't for some late teenage girl falling in front of the store. I believe she tripped on the curb, not sure since I didn't see it. But whoa the shrieks coming from those by the window were unreal. Screaming, yelling and then someone even banging...loudly on the window...oy it was nonsense. Then the girl draws even more unwanted attention by coming in the store crying and yelling, "this has just been the worst week ever!"  We all know how completely nosey I can be so I peeked around the corner to catch a glimpse of her and what happens? She walks right by me and stands next to me, as I pretend to look at some silly Christmas stamp kit. This would have been fine but the entire time she's crying and saying to an older lady with her, "oh I just can't shop".  Okay than leave. I just don't get some things. Funny thing was, 10 minutes later as I was checking out, she was two people in front of me and talking animatedly to the young male cashier. Some people seriously intrigue me in so many different ways.

Well the ending to a book I'm reading is calling my name so I must go. Yeah it's Breaking Dawn, you got me! What do you expect? I just watched my lovely Eclipse DVD the other night, after finishing the Eclipse book earlier that day. It was inevitable that I was going to have to re-read Breaking Dawn. I love re-reading books, I always learn something I didn't catch the first time. Looking forward to a new book though after this one. Any good suggestions? I'm open to anything. I'm on page 513 right now so if my eyes don't fail me, I'll finish it before I go to sleep. We'll see.

Sweet sleep everyone and no dollar store drama. ;-)

That time of year.

We've been pretty lucky in terms of colds.  I believe our last set of colds was back in early October. Especially considering the fact that we have travelled up North where it's colder and have been around more people and doing a lot more. Yesterday NataLee began to get the sniffles and over night it just became worse. Poor baby is sneezing a lot and has red eyes that tear constantly. Hopefully this is a short lived cold and doesn't make it's way around the house here. Praying for health and happiness for my own family as well as my family and friends. Time to go disinfect rooms if the lil' one will let me put her down.

way past due...

I'm so past due here. I have so much to blog about but never any time to sit and type it out. That is why you often find tiny blog updates here.  I send those short blogs via my blackberry. I'm vowing to myself to make time to blog as part of my new year 2011 goals. Really I need to do this for myself. Taking time out for me is something I need to get better at. Seriously, I am slowly realizing a mommy that has taken time to unwind for herself = happier kids and hubby.