It's My Turn

And yes, I do mean MY turn, to get to treat my sweet girl to a day of doing things she loves, just the two of us!  It always seems like various members of our family are indulging in this favorite past time, but I never seem to get a turn.  So, it was finally my turn today to get to soak up our time together, just me and her :)  Here is how our day went...

As soon as she woke up...

I asked her if she would like to go see Winnie the Pooh, and she was super excited!  She and I both got ready, and in no time, we were leaving...(Lily didn't go with us :))

and saying bye to these two...

We left our house early enough to run by Papa and Kay Kay's first.  I left one of my important computer cords at their house yesterday, and needed it to get something printed by Sunday.  While at their house, I emailed the document I needed to the UPS Store.  Yes, you need these details for something that happened later in the day!  My parents weren't home, which we knew they wouldn't  be, so we helped ourselves to the Skittles that were just so conveniently laying on the coffee table :)  It was like they knew we were coming :)

     Ok, so 30 minutes later, I've got the *very important* document emailed that I need for church tomorrow, and we are back on the road and headed to our movie.  The whole way going, I'm trying to explain to her that we aren't going to see the real characters on a stage, just a movie playing on a screen.  I told her we would just need to make sure we tell Daddy when we get home that we're ready to go back to Disney World :)  Yes, it's only been 8 months!

We've got our popcorn and fruit punch!

After the movie, she thought we needed some ice cream, and because it was her day, I went with it :)

The junk food ends here!  Promise!  Next, I thought she may have fun picking out a new book for us to read, so we made a stop by Books A Million, where we apparently stayed 3 minutes too long...  I forgot to snap a picture in there, so here she is with her books when we got home...

Ok, so I'm thinking we've had our fun, and it's about time to be heading back home to take a nap.  But wait... first I've got to run in and get my 3 prints from the UPS Store, which happens to be my most favorite place to print from, as far as quality for the price goes.  And here my friends, is where it is sometimes  a bit painful to be a perfectionist :(  I get Kenadie unbuckled and I'm pulling the store door open, but it's not wanting to open--kinda seems locked if you ask me.  The good thing about this store is that they have 2 doors.  So, I'm thinking they must just want everyone to use the other door, I mean... I see a little girl about Kenadie's age in there and another woman...  What do ya know???  The other door didn't open either, and I am a bit perplexed, it's only 2:03... About the time I'm trying to open the 2nd door, the woman who apparently works there is shaking her head no.  I'm STILL confused???  Then I have the bright idea to read their store hours.  I see that they close at 2:00 on Saturdays, and I look down at my watch to see that it's 2:03!!!  Are you kidding me???  I'm 3 minutes late for something I REALLY need and I REALLY only like their quality for what I'm doing!  So, what does a girl do in this moment of despair... she calls her husband to cry, but instead holds back the tears when she hears her soon to be 6 month old crying on the other end of the phone, and plays the role of a mature big girl!  I'm for sure that this probably seems severely trivial to anyone who may be reading this, but when you know that 3 short little minutes cost you quality and you are a person who is crazy about quality, that just leads to an adult meltdown if you're me :)  Kudos to Kenadie for sympathetically telling me "I'm so sorry Mommy that that store was closed."  I picked my little tears up off the sidewalk and went to print place plan b, where the girl was severely drab and unfriendly, and I didn't even get half the quality as store #1!  Oh well... lesson learned, UPS Store closes at 2:00 on Saturdays.  I WILL NEVER forget this!  And one more thing, before you think I've totally lost my mind... it was the measly 3 minutes that got me the most.  I could have taken this FAR better if I had been an hour or so too late.   

My sweet girl and I had too much fun today to let that little episode ruin the day!  I look forward to the next time we get to have another day like today!