I seem to get anxiety over certain types of situations regularly. The day after Thanksgiving sales KILL me. Over the past week we scoured the ads looking for the best deals and steals to come up with the perfect shopping list. Laney and Taylor needed a tv and we needed random gifts and a printer (this was decided once we saw the amazingly inexpensive ones plus we haven't had one for over a year now). We decided upon Walmart for our first move. I hadn't been able to sleep the two nights prior to Thanksgiving due to the stress caused by thinking about when we'd go stake out the line- to which of the three Walmarts we'd actually go- and then to the wondering if we'd even be getting the items we wanted. I think it's because in Utah the crazies start lining up BEFORE thanksgiving and miss the holiday altogether. After dinner Thursday I couldn't even think straight due to the anxiety. I told Kent if he went and checked out the line I'd clean up dinner. Off he went. Walmart was open but the place was
I feel TERRIBLE about the walmart employee that was trampled to death in NY. The stores really need to come up with a better system- especially for those that have lines waiting outside.
Kent and I spent the rest of the day doing minor shopping- and then getting out all of our Christmas stuff. Most still all needs to be set up- but we did get the tree put together (kent had to tape on a few of the branches). As soon as I started unwrapping ornaments Zeb picked one up- yelled "Ball!"- and chucked it across the room. It shattered all over the floor. This may be a long holiday season with the rugrat.
My two favorite purchases of the day- and two of the things I look forward to most about the Holiday season- are these beauties. Kent got them both for me and I am so happy. Something about Christmas Crunch and a 5 lb box of clementines makes me so happy to have the holidays here. I think the crunch reminds me of my dad and the clementines my mom.
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Last night we had another fun adventure. We went to the tree lighting/Santa arriving event at Fallen Timbers Mall where they handed out twenty dollar giftcards to the first two hundred people! 40 dollars- and we only waited in line 25 minutes!!! Zeb had the roughest day yesterday (lack of sleep, his buddy hank leaving, etc) and so we took the bink with us to prevent the screaming banshee baby. Unfortunately it worked like a charm. Dang bink. It's going to be totally gone by january though- he better prepare himself (or maybe we had better prepare ourselves).
7 comments:
Christmas gets so much more fun as your kids get older! Andrew, also, chucked some of our ornaments across the room, but (thank heavens) I got plastic ones this year (for that very reason!!)
And good job on the shopping! I refuse to shop on Black Friday. IMO, there is no such thing as a sale worth getting up at 3 am for. (Or staying up all night for)! Glad you had fun!
capn crunch is the grossest cereal i have ever put in my mouth!
How come I can never find Christmas Crunch here in Utah?!? It makes me so DARN mad!
I have absolutely NO IDEA why I continue to do the Black Friday shopping year after year after year. I DID get 8 pairs of $4.00 jammies this year. woohoo (cheered very sarcastically). haha. Mariss loves it - and I'm always glad I went after the fact.
Did you get your printer?
Zeb is a SUPER fun age for Christmas! I'm so glad we get to see him!
Oh. I just re-read that you got everything you needed ... so, I guess ya'll got your printer. Are you saving it for Christmas? :)
PS - taping the Christmas tree together? hahahahahahahahahahaha. That's awesome.
you guys are amazing! We're still loving the GPS from last year. ahhhh...the trashland is the best black friday walmart ever. We should have had you guys get us a TV too!
I am so irritated, I haven't been able to find Christmas Crunch yet! I got in mid Nov. last year!! It's not Christmas without the Crunch!!
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