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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

This Day

When I read this blog post the other day I had mixed feelings about how I felt about it. I mean I should seize every moment with my children. I will be back to corporate America when Bug is in pre-school. I only have so much time to be a stay at home mom. I only have so much time to have them little. I should seize every moment I can. But then there are days like today where I get it, I get her. We can't seize every moment. Sometimes nap time can't come quick enough. Sometimes you do want to slap the idiots at Wal-Mart. I get it.

Wednesdays. They are always a welcome respite. Wednesdays are play group. A time to get together with my fellow sorority friends that are also sahms and talk about the trials and tribs of being a parent along with reminiscing about our college selves. We alternate hosting and today was my day to host but with us being gone unexpectedly to Nebraska and my house being a mess and Big A having a full morning of conference calls I had to host outside the house. We decided to meet up at a local "super dead" mall and let the kids have the run of the indoor play area. That was great. Then we moved onto Target for a snack bar lunch and we were going to do a little looking around. Well, Bug pooped her outfit and I was out of wipes. Thanks to Miss Priss's mom I was able to change the diaper but not the clothes so we had to go home and change. This made Little Lady mad so she was having a post-play group breakdown in the parking lot. Got home got changed no problem. A little boob for Bug and we were back out the door. Wal-mart shopping was a breeze till Bug decided that she could absolutely not stand another minute in her car seat and of course I was in line behind a guy with a million things so we weren't going anywhere too quickly. Dig through diaper bag, find wallet, pay - all with one arm- no big deal. Can't find the keys. Of course, bottom of the diaper bag, where else would they be. Then, totally remembered I had no wipes, zero, so I couldn't just come back later. I had to leave the cart with the greeter, get Little Lady out of her seat in the cart and run and get wipes. Got them, got through the line, again, no big deal. Little Lady back in her seat in the cart, Bug on my hip - I got this. Empty parking spot next to my jeep - perfect. I could open doors, strategically park the cart to unload it, load kids, take my time. HA! A PT Loser, I mean a PT Cruiser, drove through the open spot almost clipping my cart that still had Little Lady sitting in it, a Toyota Highlander pulled up and put his blinker on and just sat there. I was livid I could count at least 6 other open spots not to mention one right one the other side of MY open spot! So he sat there as I loaded my car, got an arching little baby strapped in her seat, and I finally moved to get Little Lady in the other side. If you are going to be stupid enough to sit there with a bunch of other spots open then I'm not going to move any faster. I got in my car, shut the door, leaned my head against the seat and thought I can't wait for nap time. And, I got it. Somedays, I can't seize. Somedays, I need nap time.