First of all, I promise the following story is not exaggerated by any means and is in fact a true retelling of the events that occurred. In addition, I am being very chatty and this is a very long post, so decide if you have time to read it before you start. LOL
I decided to make my first trip out with Jrew all by myself today. I actually had a plan and was excited about our endeavors. Yesterday, I was able to sneak out alone and purchase a few things from Marshalls. However, upon examination of my receipt last night, I realized I had been charged too much for one of my items. I made a plan to return to the store today to get my money back and thought we might stop by the park since the weather was nice.
THE PLAN: Baby eats at 3 and it's 1:30 with my friend just having left from visiting with me and Jrew. So, here is the order of events:
1) Leave now and drive to Marshalls which is a few miles down the road.
2) Get money back and drive right back home in time for Jrew to eat at 3:00.
3) Once Jrew is happy and full, go to local park which is near our neighborhood for a short stroll.
4) Return home with happy baby and happy mamma.
ACTUAL EVENTS:
1) Pack Jrew into carseat to leave. Immediately upon the snap of the carseat belts, Jrew decides to make a "poopy" diaper.
2) Return to baby room to change diaper and pack Jrew up all over again.
3) Leave for store, driving very carefully and watching for every stop sign, train crossing, etc...
4) Get almost to store when important lady returns important phone call about Jrew's tongue-tie situation (another story for another day). Ask the lady to please allow me to return the call when I'm parked. The lady says she will call me back in 5 minutes since her phone number will not ring back.
5) Arrive to store shortly and wait in car for the lady to return phone call since I don't want to be one of those people who talk on the cell phone while trying to buy/return something at a store.
6) After 10 minutes, realize it is now 2:35 and eating time is getting too close for comfort.
7) Decide to bite the bullet and take baby inside the store. But wait - the shopping cart for Marshalls is way too small for baby's carseat and the back door on driver side is broken and will not open. WHAT!!!
8) Decide to take baby inside in stroller. Use other side to get Jrew - Pack baby Jrew up in stroller and "stroll" right into the store.
9) Get in line and wait for forever because there is only one cashier working the counter until another employee finally opens up another register.
10) Still waiting for slow cashiers, notice the cashier lady on #3 is picking her nose while she is checking someone out. Notice that she turns her head to really get that sucker out since apparently it was really bugging her.
11) Laugh with man standing in line behind her and jokingly say "I hope you get her." Advise him to tear off his price tags and give them to the cashier for checking out.
12) Realize that it is now your turn and Cashier #3 is waiting on you. :)
13) Gross... okay, show price tags, receipt, explain... get money back... okay let's get out of here.
14) It is now almost 3:00 - make sure Jrew has a pacifier and get him loaded back up.
15) Driving home, realize the car is immediate need of gas (0 miles to empty) while Jrew decides to start screaming with hunger.
16) Get gas - comfort screaming baby with pacifier - get home - and feed baby!
17) Story not over folks - sorry - so then I packed Jrew up in carseat to take our short trip to the park remember.
18) Immediately upon snapping the straps in the carseat around Jrew's shoulders, Jrew decides to poop again. BUT this time, he REALLY made a diaper. UGH.
19) Change Jrew's diaper AND yes, his clothes too.
20) Pack him back up and take him to the beautiful park in the beautiful weather God has blessed us with today.
21) Return home by 5:30 so Jrew is happy and mommy is in time for next feeding.
Here are pictures of our trip to the park. Enjoy!
As you can see below, Jrew really enjoyed the park.
I think it was his favorite part of the day!
