Before I dropped the girls off, I checked different stores to see who had the cheapest tutus and sent an email to Steph, my friend with the info on all the best places of things to buy and where they buy them.
Kissed the girls good-bye and off to K-Mart, they had tutu skirts with a matching top on sale for $7.99. Score! I didn’t bother to ask anyone for help because I’ve learned that’s not why the workers are there. They are there solely to move merchandise from point A to point B.
I found one red outfit in Rowan’s size. SCORE!!! But I couldn’t find any in Layla’s size. How is that possible? I usually find outfits for the baby, but not Rowan’s. I search the racks. I see there are pants with half-a-tutu combos, but I don’t think that would be the right look for the Christmas program. On to the next store.
I arrived at Sears and was disappointed not to find any tutus in red. What in the world? Do they know it’s Christmastime? Pink and white. So blah, it’s Christmas, but I gotta work with what we got. I easily found a pink and white tutu in Rowan’s size, but once again not in Layla’s. Are you serious?! Is this a conspiracy against the size 3T? And really $8.99?!?!?! For this bit of fluff? Are you kidding me?! Bygones. The things that I do for love.
I leave Sears and head to Children’s Place, but I decided to give TJ Maxx’s a try. I have to mentally prep myself to go into this store. SCORE!! I found pink tutus in Rowan’s size, but only a white one in the baby’s. I put them on hold though the cashier does so reluctantly being so close to Christmas at all. I assured her I would be back if I wanted to buy them in less than fifteen minutes.
I run out of TJ, down the escalator, and into Children’s Place. They have black and purple tutus. Yeah, that’s not going to work. On to the dreaded Wal-Mart.
I head directly to the toddler section and bam, pink tutus for only $4.99. To be on the safe side I got four tutus in the girls’ sizes and the size above for Rowan and below for Layla, that way all bases are covered. I was still a little disappointed that they didn’t have red tutus, I figured green was stretching it, but SCORE I found tutus in the girls’ sizes. Then I thought what about tops.
Thanks to Auntie Heather, Layla had a pink leotard with a little tutu and tights, but Rowan had no pink leotard. But there was nothing pink in Wal-Mart land. So I figured Rowan could wear her slightly too small pink shirt that we had two of, if I wanted the girls to be identical.
Over two hours after leaving home, I was finished. And another day that Jory and I didn’t start the day schooling.
And speaking of things not going the way I planned I ran over to Home Depot with Aunt Brenda and Vandy in the car and asked for a seven foot Christmas tree. The employee showed me one and I took it. It wasn’t anything to truly write home about. In fact once we got it home and the branches dropped, it had a total Charlie Brown Christmas tree feel to it. It didn’t help that when I found the tree holder, one of the screws were missing and we had to use scrap pieces of wood the workers left to keep the tree straight.
I picked up the kids and we started decorating it, until we realized the one Christmas box we brought inside the house had mainly glass bulbs in it but we didn’t have one hook in the box. I wasn’t about to go search for them, so it was back to the store in the morning after I dropped the girls off, I guess.
Wait, I’m on vacation, right?
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