Bad day

I told myself that I wouldn't use this blog to complain all the time. But I just have to share what my weekend has been like.......
The plans for the weekend were to go stay the night with my sister, do some shopping Saturday morning, go to my niece's party, come home and relax. Then, Sunday go to church and then have mine and Sara's annual "non-football" superbowl party.
Right now it is 4:00 Sunday afternoon and the only thing that has gone as planned is staying the night at my sisters. (and the superbowl party is getting ready to start). So Friday it started out great. I was actually pulling out of the driveway to head to my sisters and I had Lilly check the mail. I seen that we got our state taxes back and it was still early enough to get the check in the bank so it would be posted for Friday. (which is when I decided I would be doing some shopping Saturday morning). So I take the check to the bank and deposit it. Then start my way up to the city. On my way I decided I would stop by a resale shop to try and sell some baby items that Bella has outgrown. So I unload this bassinet and 3 kids only for them to tell me they won't buy it because they only buy bassinet that vibrate and play music. So I load all the kids and the bassinet back up and continue my trip. I get to my sisters and the rest of the night is good.
Saturday morning the frustration starts. We get all the kids ready to go shopping. I have my niece's cake all ready for the party (oh I forgot to add that when I was making her cake Friday it fell apart). I look outside and see that it has snowed a few inches (when it was only suppose to flurry). Then I get a call that the party has been moved to next weekend. So me and my sister load up the kids and head to my dad's to drop the cake off to put in the freezer. We stay and chat for a little while. I was planning on looking for a double stroller while out shopping. I was told that Sam's Club had a really nice one on clearance. My dad watches the kids while me and my sister go get the stroller. We get there and it's a nice stroller, my sister talks the manager into lowering the price. So we get a $130 stroller, which was on clearance for $80, for $70! Great deal!!!! Right???.....Yeah I thought so too.......UNTIL we get to the mall. (after picking up the kids from my dad's) We get my two youngest in this stoller after driving around the snow filled parking lot trying to find a spot to park. We get inside the first store and I quickly find out this stroller is a piece of CRAP!!!! The stupid thing does not turn. It was so heavy and hard to steer. I was almost in tears cause I was so disappointed. So we make our way to a store in the mall that has baby strollers to see what I can find there. I find a few but they are all at least twice as much as what I just paid for this one. So I try to call my husband to see what he thinks I should do. Cause I no doubt need a double stroller. He doesn't answer, again and again and again and again.....then the baby starts crying cause she's hungry and the two older ones have to go potty. So we make our way to the bathrooms with this STUPID stroller. Everyone does what they need to do and we are off to another store.....still trying to call my husband and still with no answer. We get to the next store which had some cute valentine outfits for the baby but not in her size of course. So the next store, there is NO WAY at all that I will be able to take this "wonderful" stroller in there. So I sit on a bench (still trying to get ahold of my husband) while my sister takes her son and my daughter in the store. (oh did I mention this whole time since making the bathroom stop, I've been trying to push this stroller AND feed the baby her bottle? that needed to be added) So I'm sitting on the bench burping the baby still trying to get ahold of my husband and I look down at my 3 year old in the stroller and see that she has no shoes on her feet. So we make our way back to the store with the strollers and THANKFULLY they were still there where she kicked them off. By this time I had gotten ahold of my husband and he says to get the stoller I want. (at this time I realize my phone battery is dying and I didn't bring my charger) So I call babies r us to see if they have the stroller I want and they do (finally some good news). We get back out to the van and it's almost dark. I was hoping to leave before dark to head home in case the roads start to freeze over. I went to pick up the new stroller....not really thinking about where I was going to put it in the van that already had a stoller, 4 kids, and 2 adults in it. We finally get it in the van and head back to my sisters house. On the way there I decide we need to stay the night again cause it was pretty dark and I didn't want to take any chances on the road. We would have to leave early in the morning though because sunday my son was doing the offering at church and I wanted to be there! So we stop by walgreens to pick up some pepsi (and at this point it takes everything in me NOT to buy something a little stronger lol). I go to pay for the pepsi and .....my card doesn't work :( I finally get it worked out. So then we finally get back to my sister's. She does her homework while I watch Grey's Anatomy. And then we go to bed. I think it was almost 1am by the time we got to bed. Then my 3 year old decides she wants to wake up every 30 minutes crying for no reason.......or so I thought it was for no reason.....at about 5:30am I wake up to her puking all over my sisters blankets and new carpet. So the decision was made to stay home from church :( I finally get home and things calmed down but I totally need a hot quiet bath tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~Peace begins when expectation ends.~

Time marches on

So last night I was looking at some old magazines. OLD OLD magazines. Like from the 1940's and 1960's. As I was reading and looking at the advertisements and pictures, I was thinking about how great it would have been to have lived back then. A time when everything was simple (and cheap!). There was one article titled "Santa's Gift Ideas for Car Users". This article was in the 1967's December issue of Woman's Day. It amazed me that these simple things they were listing were so.......well, simple. Like a light for the glove compartment, a tire pressure gauge, a hook to hang your purse on, "litter containers" (trash can). These things that we think of (or don't even think of at all) as small, were actually big things to people back then. I mean how great would it be to have such a simple, uncomplicated life. I guess it's easy for me to look back and say that life was so simple. But let me explain what I mean by "simple". I don't mean that these people didn't have any worries or cares. I mean one of the magazines was from WWII. It was talking about how people needed to ration certain things and how some items would be made different due to the shortage of materials. This time period was not short on worries or cares. But could you imagine if the government told us today to start rationing meat or to stop using our computers/cell phones/etc. People would think they couldn't survive. Even I can't go a day without, at some point, thinking "I need to put this as my status on Facebook" or "I need to look this up on the internet". The whole world is at our fingertips. We can find any info we want just by sitting down at our desks or even just by picking up our phones. So by simple I mean not so "high tech", not so materialistic, not so worried about yourself but instead taking care of your neighbors and even others you don't know.
Now I realize it wasn't perfect back then. But I believe it was so much better than today. I believe you could count on people, people actually cared. People could be trusted more. Today, there's not a whole lot of people you can trust.
One other thing I found so interesting (but not so "deep" lol) was how different people look back then. So conservative, so simple (there's that word again), so put together. Then I see some advertisements about dogs for sale. Dogs look exactly the same 70 years ago as they do today :) I probably knew that already but it was funny to notice the difference in appearance of the people, furniture, clothes and other things and then turn the page and see the dogs and  think "wow". I don't know, maybe I'm just weird.

~Everyday I'm learning more about who I am. I am seeing myself and others in a new light ~