I belong to an AMAZING twins club. Every day 20-30 emails pass through my mailbox asking for advice, selling gently used children’s items, etc. The other day a mother emailed the group offering a collection of VHS tapes. Why would anyone want VHS tapes, you ask? Well we recently hooked up my 15 year old VCR for the boys and it still works perfectly! Over the past couple of years, though, I’d gotten rid of all my tapes! So I’ve been on the lookout for kids videos. I emailed her back and said I’d love to buy them.

The boys and I got out of the house this morning and on our way at about 10:30am. I’d told the mom that I’d be there at 11am. On my way I realized I didn’t have enough cash to buy the videos. I had a few other errands to do while we were out, so I decided to do one of them and get some cash back at the store. So we turned toward one of the malls and hit Party City.

30 mins later, still with no cash in hand, we left Party City. The boys had promised to be good if I didn’t put them in a cart but I was still herding them around the store the whole time. Ugh. Absolutely exhausting. Logan found a Thomas coloring book and Lex wanted a Hot Wheels coloring book so I got them those. I also found those paint with water books? No paints required, just a wet brush. I didn’t even know they made those anymore! So I got two of those. As soon as we reached the car, Logan wanted the Hot Wheels book and not the Thomas book and Lex wasn’t ready to share. *Sigh* So they fought and screamed about it all the way to the next store.

We arrive at the next store, still looking for a firetruck cake pan. We found the pan immediately, but Logan was VERY upset that we weren’t getting a race car pan instead. So he whined and cried about it all over the store. Just as he started settling down we happened to come across an aisle that had Thomas trains. WHY on earth does a craft store have Thomas trains?!?!? So now Logan was REALLY crying because I wouldn’t get him one. We finally left the store with our purchases but NO cash. *sigh*

The bank is right next door so we drove over there. There were no parking spaces out front and I refused to take the kids out of the car AGAIN just to get cash. So we drive to another bank that I knew had a drive through ATM. Paid the $2 randsom for cash and got on our way.

We got back on the freeway then, and headed toward the twin mom’s house. I start zoning out on the freeway and realize I’m practically home and forgot to get off the freeway earlier. I have to go up to the next offramp, go over the overpass and get back on the freeway going back the other way.

Finally I’m headed the right direction. I follow the directions I wrote down from yahoo to the twins’ house.  As I’m driving along I think it’s odd that Yahoo would take me so far down this one street - thought it would have told me to go to a different offramp if I really had to go that far. So I turned around and headed back up the road. After I got back where I started I realized i was wrong - again. Turned around - AGAIN - and headed back.

I FINALLY found the house and went up to the door. I knocked. I rang the bell. I rang the bell again. NO ONE IS HOME. Yes, you heard it right, after ALL that, I didn’t even get to pick up the videos. The MAIN reason we even left the house this morning.

So I finally headed for home to feed my two tired, cranky boys and get them down for a nap. Looking forward to doing this all again another day to pick up these videos. Ugh!!

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