A minivan full of people + 100 degree heat + a day full of shopping = children who are cranky and tired but are so wired that they don’t go to bed until 10pm. That was our day yesterday. Aunt Debra and Gordon went with us to go school clothes shopping. We found really great deals at Once Upon a Child (both Houston stores) and came home with an armload of clothes and shoes. Ben even got a new pair of cowboy boots for $3.50 to play outside with. Ben’s prefers to just wear cowboy boots and shorts outside all summer long. Now that he has outside boots he won’t tear up his new good boots so quickly. Got to love Ben!
Aunt Debra took Madie to her section to look for clothes. Mom may not like all of the clothes (Debra reminded me that Madie was not me or a little girl any more) but they were all appropriate and Madie swears that she will wear them. I tried to put the Hannah Montana shirt back on the rack but Madie got upset (she already has three other Hannah shirts). I told her that if she wanted it that she had to pay for it. She came to me this morning with the contents of her piggy bank counted out to give to me. I didn’t even have to prompt her for it. Very good Madie!
We are spending the day cleaning the house, washing clothes, and packing to go to Grandma Grace’s house for four days to hang out with Grandpa Himes so that Grandma and Papa can have some away time for just themselves. We are going to have fun while we are there, so I hope that they have some fun too.
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