Why I am going to shop at midnight from now on...

I have gotten into a good routine with our week and Fridays are grocery store day.   For the last few weeks, I have been off schedule and we ended up going today.   I have been sending the husband to work without lunch or coffee, poor guy and he hasn't said a thing!  So today we go...I have armed with treats and a talk about being good boy, blah, blah- I say blah blah bc that is what Sam heard as I gave him that pep talk.  So the store goes like this...... We get there and he throws fit #1 to sit in the back of the cart.  I figure we can discuss moving to the front after we get into the store.  That was also mistake #1....

We start in the back of the store.  3 isles into or trip, he stands up and won't sit in the back.  I threaten with a warning, haha, that is what goes on in Sam's mind.  I remind him a sucker is at stake if he can't be a good boy.  At that point he yells, so I pop him- yes I spank people!  Then he yells and it is a piercing yell that echoed through the store.  As I say to myself I am one of THOSE moms who has the loud obnixious kid.  So I call Jarrett so he can share in our kids behavior- which makes me more mad bc he says " what am I gonna do about it?"  GRRRR!

Are you seeing where I am going with this?  People were staring, and staring and he was yelling and yelling!  Where is that sweet boy who people complemented?  Where was he????  So basically this went on a few more times.  Check out was extra fun...I had to steer the cart with him under 1 arm to the car....yelling all the way.  So when we got to the car, it was my turn to yell, and he went wee, wee, weeeeee (really loud) all the way home!!!!  

I need a drink.

Easter, like a little late

Easter this year was great.  Beautiful weather and it is just more fun with kids!  Sam was into his basket.  He got playdough, 2 toothbrushes, and an elephant. I was proud of my bargain shopping and got all his stuff for about 10 dollars :)  We went to church and our church is growing so fast that we held Easter at the new Clover Hill High School.  It was an awesome service and then the family came over in the afternoon to grill out and celebrate Easter and the husbands birthday which was the day before.  The family did an Easter egg hunt and then we ended up playing a game of dollar store softball with Sam's $1 store bat.....we had a great time!  Love when things work out right!

Flashback

I haven't put a flashback picture up in a while and since I have been neglecting the blog lately, I will do a quick flashback (in between watching the new Grey's Anatomy).

How about last Halloween when the husband dressed up as a Gecko?  Haha, nah, that's not my flashback, I kid, I kid! :)

This is better.  My little man was about 7 or 8 months old and loved taking a big boy bath with no ring or little tub.  He still is a bathing champ and when days are rough, we take a bath to adjust our attitude! :)