Travelers

With the gas prices being what they are and our budget being what it is, the girls and I tend to stick close to home during the week. This week though we have been on an adventure everyday! Chris each night loaded the van with things, the first night was for the Salvation Army, and last night it was things for the dump.

This morning when we got up I was telling them what was in store for the day, I know they don't understand, it just helps formulate my day. So today when I was going over the adventure we were going to take, I told Lily we had to go to the dump. She didn't understand at all what I was talking about. So I told her that we were going to see a 'BIG TRASH CAN!' She got that and was really excited! Then as I was trying to get Gus back in the house Lily was in tears because she thought I meant the big trash can on the back patio. :-)

I got everybody dressed and off we went, thankfully it wasn't busy. I back in tell them I will be right in the back. Lily is looking very nervous. When it is something new (esp a place or thing that is loud) we always make sure we go over it thoroughly with her. I just told her to look at all the big buses (trucks)and I went to the back of the van and started throwing everything. I had forgotten how therapeutic that sound REALLY is! I finished up got back in and start to leave. I started telling Lily to say good-bye to the big trash can. She starts crying! She wanted to get out and really see it... yeah not gonna happen.

So I distract her by asking her to look for school buses, this works. I drive over the BJ's to get Charlotte formula. I am so glad that they have finally started selling her type there. She's a little sensitive (just like her Momma ;-) so she is on Simalac Sensitive. Now we can the Jumbo size and get a little more then a wek out of it.

The neatest thing at BJ's is the cart! I <3 class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">seater on the front basket. I love that the girls can sit next to each other and they are right in front of me. Lily also thought it was pretty cool to sit next to her Rdette! As we were strolling along Lily lifted her hand over Charlotte to put her arm around her, and she starts cuddling her. Now, I say she was cuddling b/c Charlotte had her entire self just about turned around. I told Chris if I didn't know better it looked like she was saying.."fine, ok, you cuddle..I am gonna score a free sample!"

After that we hit one more store.. took out a small loan to put gas in the van and headed home.

Tomorrow we were going to take Gus to the Rabies clinic, but we cannot locate his collar (he and Willie/Bean used to take turns throwing each other around the yard by the collar, so we have just removed them), instead we are going to hit up the food store and stock up for the week.

Thankfully we have only had positive food shopping experiences after the great milk outing! LOL