Worth Making Two Trips For September 20, 2008
Posted by Emily in : Little Man Dallin, Princess Hannah, Saba, Thoughts , 3commentsI realized I had forgotten my wallet while standing in line at Walmart. I’d like to say this has never happened to me before, but it has. I’m always transferring purses for practicality reasons (one bag for both kids, a different bag if I’m just taking one kid, and a purse if I go somewhere alone. I wish I was swapping them out for stylish reasons, but that was in my previous life) and during the throw-a-diaper-and-keys-into-my-purse-swap, I missed one very important item. My wallet.
I desperately needed to buy some things today (or maybe I was just desperate to get out of the house) and you can imagine how thrilled I was to find out at the register that I had no money to pay for the goods which I had wasted good time on scouring the store to find. Hannah was equally upset because she wanted to take her new Dora big girl panties, and Thomas the Train toothpaste home right away. She didn’t understand why I didn’t have money, and really, I couldn’t believe my oversight either. I remembered to pack Hannah her purse, put stuff in it (it doesn’t matter what is in her purse, it just needs to have stuff in it ) find her doll, find her doll’s hat, and pack her a drink.
I remembered these things because they were important to her. I wish someone would pack the important things in my bag for me!
What a waste of time.
Unfortunately, I still needed the stuff! So I drove back down to Walmart, picked up the exact items I needed, (it was faster the second time around) and came home with this lovely item:
Buying an eye mask was the most important item on my list. It works just as expected.
Many of you might remember this picture I posted on my website a couple of years ago. This is Hannah, sporting an eye mask of her own. We put this on her for practicality reasons as well, (many people thought we were just trying to be funny . . . stage a photo or something . . . but we used this eye mask a lot.) because the sun was SO DANG BRIGHT when we lived on Saba (the tiny island down in the Caribbean where we lived for 2 1/2 years)
Do you notice one little teeny, tiny, difference between the photos? Okay, maybe the sleeping arrangements? Hannah likes to sleep on her back, in her own bed. Dallin likes to sleep on my body, and in my bed.
It was worth driving to Walmart twice in one hour to buy this eye mask.
