shopping with kids

Today, my hubby and I thought we would take the kids shopping. It was awful, no point in sugar coatin it. The idea was to grab a quick bite to eat (options for something close to healthy at a fast food place are pretty limited), then we were going to search for a new couch. Im picky (that was the understatement of the century) and new that it would be an all day thing. I pretty much thought we were all on the same page when we left the house. But in normal Bowman style our plans NEVER work.

First I have to back track to lead up to the events of today. Yesterday my niece was sick, poor thing couldnt hold food down and was in bed all day. Not our normal River. So needless to say the girls were separated yesterday. This morning Chels woke up and couldnt find her phone, she searched everywhere, come to find out, it was at the bottom of little miss Rivers puke bucket (sorry if that was to much info) so chels wanted to meet up with us to go buy a new 1......Omygosh you woulda thought these kids hadnt seen eachother in years! Once the crew was reunited they bounced around every store like they had secret stashes of chocolate in there cute little purses.

You've seen it, the 1 crazy family in the store that lets everyone know they are there. That was us right smack dab in the middle of the fanciest furniture place I have ever seen, we thought it was an outlet store with couches in our price range, NOT. These couches were the kind that you dont sit on, they were decorations. My kids didnt think so, they plopped down on just about every one of them. Even though I knew it was dangerous for my girls to be around anything in that price range, I still wanted to walk around and look at all the stuff. Just for a few minutes I wanted to imagine what life would be like with furniture with Xtreme caution tape around it.

Usually my girls are good when we are out, but not today. About 2 hours into our little outing I couldnt help but just stop and cry in the car, I was so irritated. I have always been the kinda person that, if I want something done, I need it done today. Patience is not 1 of my strong points. After giving up on the idea of finding a couch it was time to pick up a few groceries. Taking 4 kids to walmart is always interesting but surprisingly it went ok, I even remembered to get milk, its very rare that I leave a store with what I actually went in to get. 

Tonights my husbands first night workin 3rd shift in awhile and the girls decided its time to party down and see how long they can stay up, but there plan will back fire. They will be waking up bright and early with there own special list of chores for the day. Mama laws in town.