Today was all about Mary. Mary is Holly's BFF. Has been since 7th grade. In fact Holly's guy is Mary's guy BFF too. And they have friends forever. Mary is having a baby girl next month. Holly gave her a shower today. And of course I helped, as did Cara and few other people. Because of the awful weather yesterday I still needed to go get her a gift before the shower today. So I rushed this morning to get my chicken salad and spinach dip made. And of course, as always happens whenever I have to hurry because I have to be somewhere at a certain time and have to get a lot of stuff done, my phone rang all morning with my girls needing things or just wanting to know if I have left yet. They haven"t figured out yet that the more they call and ask if I have left, the longer it takes me to leave because I have to stop what I am doing to answer the freaking phone. Hello?
Anyway got everything made and loaded in the car. I also had the stuff for two punches and a couple other things. We headed to the church to unload before running to Babies R Us and Party City. We had a little less than an hour till the shower started. The church is 2 minutes away from my house and the stores are like 15, unless you are following a cop. The cop adds a good 5 to 8 minutes to your travel time. Had to follow a cop about halfway today. Finally we turned when he went straight. (Mind you I am not advocating speeding here, though I have been known to have had to pay a few tickets in my time.) Cara, Gabrielle and I ran in Babies R Us and Cara grabbed me a gift card and the cutest little dress jumped right out at Gabs and I. So I got the dress and the gift card and a card and a really cute bag. Cara got her a cute little outfits and socks and we checked and jumped back in the car to go across the parking lot (really 2 lots and an entrance road) to Party City. Grabbed to serving trays and the balloon bouquet and my phone starts ringing, "Can you get a ladle?". The girl checking me tells us where they are. While someone was grabbing that phone rings again and it Shauna. "Can you some straws for Riley?" Got those and finally finished checking out and was only 10 minutes late getting back. After that everything was smooth sailing.
All the food was great! She got some really nice gifts. Everyone seemed to have a nice time. And now we are home, but Roger is going to take me to eat dinner. So that's it for now.
- JoanneG
- Roger and I started our family at age 20. We had four great daughters. Now they are having babies of their own. So far the count is 2 boys and 2 girls. Two of the mom's are single mom's and they both work retail. Those 3 spend a LOT of time at our house. We are enjoying the second time around a lot more. I guess cause I have figured out that grandchildren are your revenge on your kids. You can feed them a 1 pound bag of M & M's at 9:00 p.m. and send them home. You sleep fine that night. It's great!
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