My meeting last night with my friend went well! It was so nice to meet up and chit chat. It was also nice to do a bit of shopping all by myself before she arrived. I used up a gift certificate and bought a couple other little things. I was pretty good for the most part. I can't believe how crowded the mall is at 7 pm! It's crazy! I finally was able to see the Tyson's kid play area in person. I heard it was really great, but have never been able to get the gumption to drive there with Maddy. It's decent. I can see stopping if we happened to need to do some shopping there. But nothing I'm going to drive there for. If I'm going to drive that far, I'll just take her to Clemy park!
However, I had a diet soda while I was there and was awake from 12-4 this morning. Maddy woke up at 5 and man did I have a headache from being awake so long. Fortunately, somehow I was able to get her to fall back asleep and I was able to get another hour and a half in. Then Matt was also nice enough to let me spend some time waking up in bed before needing to jump out and get Maddy. I had a huge cup of coffee and two doses of Advil thus far today. I'd love to be taking a nap right now, but because of the coffee, there's just no way.
I'm really coming along on the birthday party things. I have two crafts and a few games planned out. I don't care if we do any or all of them. But it's better to have too much to do and leave things out than to not have enough and scramble for ideas. I did buy another goody bag toy last night at Target before the mall. I also bought a really cute brown square patchwork hobo bag! Ever since seeing the Lucky Brand patchwork purse I've been wanting one like it. But I didn't like the Lucky Brand one, it was too big and only had a magnetic snap at the top. Plus, it wouldn't keep it's shape and was $160! But the brown purse I found at target was $25 and definitely fulfilled my want for a square patchwork purse. I like this one better than the one I resisted at Stein Mart, too. It's bigger, made better and is $10 cheaper!
I don't know what's gotten into me lately though. I've been into purses and shoes. ?!? I don't get it. I never was before. Hopefully that will wear off soon. I have enough vices to contend with (let's not talk about holiday makeup sets right now... we won't even go there).
Ok, well, I'm going to go and work on some more party stuff before Maddy wakes up. Have a good one all! Have a nice week!