The Morning After

I managed to convince the girls at 10:00 that it was time to turn off the TV and go to sleep, and I'm sure it was the authoritative way that I said it that caused them to comply. Never heard a peep out of them until 7:00 when they started waking up. What happened to sleeping in on the weekends?

Anyway, they immediately started playing in her room. After several minutes I went to survey the further damage and discovered them putting stickers all over their bellies. I didn't question why they were doing this because it was keeping them occupied. (It also kept me occupied an hour or so later when I was picking up all those belly stickers from one end of the house to the other after they decided they didn't want them stuck to their bellies anymore.) While they were doing the stickers I started picking up the million little Barbie shoes and accessories, and other than the sticker business her room looked pretty good. I cooked them pancakes and they ate and watched cartoons and then painted their finger and toe nails. Then they decided it was time for another Barbie session. ARGGG. Why did I even bother to pick it up in the first place?

Managed to get them all packed up and headed to the bowling alley before too much more damage could be done. I'm one of those bowlers that if I get above 90 I'm having a good game, but I have to brag a little -- I demolished my competitors today!!!!!! Okay, I realize it was probably because I was playing against 6 year olds, and probably the bumpers helped me a LITTLE bit, but my final score was 117. Damn I'm good! The girls had a great time for about 45 minutes and then they grew a little bored having to wait for their turn to get there, and they were getting a little hungry. So we ordered hamburgers and hot dogs there and ate and then played a couple of more frames.

Since I still had some time before I had to deliver the girls to their respective homes, and since I had still not gotten Lindsay a pack to school outfit, I made the silly decision to take them to a "girly" place at the outlet mall. I fully explained to them on the ride over that we were only going to get Lindsay an outfit and if they saw something that they liked they would have to get their moms to take them to get it. (quit laughing) We arrived and they pretty much ran through the store exclaiming: "This is cute!" "I want this!" "I love this!" "I HAVE to have this!" And here I am trying to do some serious shopping for at least one BTS outfit, trying to keep my eyes on all three of them so some psycho doesn't snatch them, and following behind them trying to fold up and hang up the clothes that they're plowing through. They all fell in love w/ these cute monkey t-shirts, but they were 2 for $9 so I agreed that they could each pick out one. And then they discovered the little nook of cheap and not-so-cheap toys and decided they'd rather have that crap rather than a useful and less expensive t-shirt. And, of course, they had to spend at least 20 minutes picking out said crap. All in all I did manage to get out of there with 2 new BTS outfits for LEJ, all 3 girls, and 3 pieces of crappy toys that surprisingly cost less than the 3 t-shirts would have.

We delivered both girls back to their houses and came home. I popped the top of a cold one and picked up all the Barbie stuff again, finished straightening up her room, and now doing the first of at least 20 loads of clothes. I know you're jealous of my life, but you'll get over it.