mustache necklace and a splat ball

the new movie theater opened up in town. not like we are a little po donk town without a movie theather, but this is like a fancy smancy theater. IMAX, 3-D, big neon lights, the whole shebang. Last week they had 2 dollar movies playing to make money for charity.

I thought it was would fun to take jenna and megs to see the Grinch so wednesday night rolls around I pick them up and off we go. I was so excited; such a christmas-y thing to do. Well. everyone else and their mother thought that too.

all the movies were sold out for the next three hours.

plan b?

umm. there was no plan B. we were going to go see a cute christmas movie and then go get icecream after. what do you mean it was sold out?!

the only logical thing to do next was to go to the mall. not to see a movie, but to just hang out. haha.

well. after some target icees we were ready to shop.

justice (jen's favorite store= tween/sparkle/grandma NIGHTMARE) was having a buy one get two free jewelry sale, so Jen got to pick out a necklace.

She decided on a color changing mustache necklace and a matching mustache bracelet. Yes, like a silver chain with a 3 inch long MUSTACHE hanging from it.

she was SO excited. she actually yelled OH MY GOSH. THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER. MY MOM OR GRANDMA WOULD NEVER LET ME GET SOMETHING LIKE THIS!

how could i say no to that?

so off we went to the little kiosk in the middle of the mall where megan picked out a splat ball. ya know, one of those squishy water filled balls that you throw on the ground.

i had megs on one side of me bounching the ball and jenna bopping up and down asking me if her mustache charm was yellow. I had no idea why she kept asking me that, until she informed me that yellow meant, "jumpy". duhhh, Lindsay. what was I thinking.

So not what I thought of my precious little Christmas moving outing with the little girls. my poor grammy cringed when I told her about the necklace I let her get, and unfortunately, the splat ball exploded yesterday. in the house :) sorry, auntie ;)

today i about had a mental breakdown. I had been downtown shopping TWICE in like an hour, in the last five days I have probably been at the mall 7 times and STILL had some people (drew included) that needed Christmas presents. after two lattes, a near parallel parking job collision and the horrid fact that I actually sighed loudly at an elderly lady who was taking forever to park her car, I finally got it.

this doesn't matter. it does. not. matter. target is not going to miraculously come up with the perfect stocking stuffer that will make my husband love me even more. baby Ford is not going to care which of the two puzzles I decided to get him. finding the ribbon that matches the chevron wrapping paper is not going to make me a better person.

what matters is that I was spending the entire day cranky, shoving my way through crowds and thinking that the starbucks barista needed to be fired when he asked if "skinny latte" meant sugar free syrup. yes. it does, by the way.

so i set my target basket down in the laundry soap aisle (sorry target employees!! :( ) and got into the car. I went home, kissed my hubby and went to play with the little girls.

megs said, "why did you go to the mall AGAIN?"

good question, megs. I don't know why. 

"well good, cuz we can have a sprinkle explosion instead"~jenna

and sprinkle explosion we did :)