Posted in Family Life
Wednesdays are our music lesson day. What is supposed to be one hour worth of piano lessons somehow eats up our whole morning! But that's because I figure that once I'm out, I should do this errand and that errand and before you know it, it's noon. So it's not the fault of the music lessons
. On this particular past Wed., I decided that I should probably try to find some flowers for the CC art project we were doing the next day (I'm so organized). I had actually given this some prior thought and even made phone calls earlier in the morning to area florists looking for someone to donate some slightly past peak flowers for a worthy cause (JoRonda, where are you when I need you!). I called lots of places (ok, about 4) and got responses like these "Oh, um, we just threw those out yesterday." And "Well, January is a really slow month for flowers, so we keep our inventory really low." And " we don't have anything like that now, but call back after Valentines day and we'll have lots to get rid of!" Well fine, but that doesn't help me today! So I thought I'd try area grocery stores since most of them have floral sections.
First I went to Shoppers, where most normal people don't even go to buy Food, but I am partial to it because it's CHEAP. I didn't really think they would have slightly past peak flowers that they would just give me, why would they when they want to charge me $1.68 a pound for Definitely past peak Romaine lettuce! But I needed diapers and they have really good dougnuts. Anyway. So there I am with the 5 kids and the shopping cart with the bad wheel that won't let me make left hand turns picking up 'just a few things" (that wound up costing me over $100, how does that HAPPEN?) (and so much for Cheap). I turned a corner (a right hand one...) and saw a nice lady coming toward me who said "Let me guess! You're a day care provider!" I said,"Well, no, I'm a mother!" And she said "Ohhhhhh." And this is not the first time I've gotten that comment, I guess b/c maybe Trinity doesn't look like the rest of us??
So anyway, I got what I needed (and then some, apparently) except for those free flowers, and got in line at the checkout. Here we have the latest pictures of Brittany what's-her-name half dressed with lurid headlines about Mental Illness and What Her Children Saw and whatever else, so I told Eden (who seems to be drawn to lurid headlines) to go sit on the windowsill at the end of the checkout counter while I paid for everything including the 3 doughnuts we split. Daniel apparently felt badly about whatever he imagines that Brittany what's her name's children saw and cries the whole time we're in the checkout line. Someone comes and opens up another lane just for me, presumably to get me out of the store so they can go back to listening to their nice peaceful grocery store music. I decided that Daniel probably wouldnt't let me go begging for cast off flowers at Costco so we went home, I made lunch that nobody would eat it b/c they were all full from the doughnut half that I let them eat at the store. Note to myself, next time use the doughnuts to bribe them to eat their lunch.
post script: I'm sure you're dying to know what I did about my dire flower situation. I went to Wal Mart at 10:30 after Shepherd Group and bought about $15 worth of fake flowers. Sigh.
Posted by Janice
