I realized last night, when I found myself getting crabbier and crabbier at even the cutest things Maddy does that I had been with her straight for 11 days (minus 1 hour). I realized then, I needed a break!! So this morning was my morning to sleep in and after I was up, Matt and Maddy got ready to go out and went out to Lowes and Home Depot. Josh also went along and they were able to switch over the car from the tire place (we have all 4 new tires now) to the place that did our alignment a couple of months ago. It was off and we had a warranty from them so we had them fix it again. While they were gone I planned our menu for this week which is going to be big and all the groceries I would need to go with it. Also, I took a nice LOOOOONG hot shower. Then I sat......in silence...... and sat........ and sat........ You'd think I would be bored, but i wasn't! I did do a little cleaning up, too, but not much.
After they got back I went out to the mall to do some retail therapy. Oooohh...it was so nice. It was great just doing my own thing at my own pace. I went to Sears and picked up two pregnancy shirts on pretty good sale. Then I went to Motherhood where I bought another pregnancy shirt on sale and a pair of maternity jeans. They weren't on sale, but they were cute and they are as of right now the only jeans I own that are pregnancy so I know I'll get a lot of use out of them. I went over to MAC where I had a gift certificate from Matt and bought two new eyeliners--one in bronze and one in black that has a hint of blue to it. They really are pretty. Bought a new Too Faced Palette at Sephora that I found to be even better than the MAC Holiday stuff that also included lips/cheeks for 2/3 the cost. Plus, I love Too Faced. I bought a couple hairbands too, but nothing too special there. I did tell Maddy I'd bring her home a special treat so I bought her a fireman's outfit at Build a Bear Workshop for her teddy bear she chose at Camden's birthday party. I told her it's for Halloween. She seems to like it a lot. I stopped for a pretzel and pina colada smoothie as well. YUM.
It was a nice time out, at my own pace doing what I wanted to do. On the way home I went in and settled up on the car and got the key back. Matt, Maddy and I went back out later to get it and also to buy a new cat litter box. We aren't fond of the one we have for the cats right now so we wanted to replace it. On the way home we stopped at a Chinese Buffet for dinner. It was quite good and they only charged us for Matt and I which I thought was very generous so we gave them a really decent tip.
It was so nice having time alone today--both in the house and outside of it. Doing a bit of fun shopping doesn't hurt either! :)
Ok, off to hang out with Matt. I know he was going to try his hand a virgin Pina Colada for me. I want to see how it turned out!
Have a great week! Tomorrow and Wednesday we have class (we've missed a lot of it) and I have some major cleaning I need to get done, too! Adios!