This morning Brady went out and played an early round of golf with my dad. It was a $5 course to be paid on the honor system 🙂 I love small towns. He was back home around 11am, and since Dekker was still sleeping, we made croissants and watched an episode of How I Met Your Mother. Deks woke up around noon, so I got to duck into his room and give him a quick kiss before I hit the road for my part of the day!
I shopped!!! I had only four places to go and I had big plans to enjoy myself 🙂 I brought lists and plans and got all cute before I left so I could feel like a human and everything! Makeup on, new music on my phone, cold water bottle in the car, and lists. Sooo ready!
I started at Bath and Body Works. This weekend the deal was “Buy 2 get 2 FREE!” I had a gift card going into it, so I headed there first and just started picking things to my hearts content. Lucky for me, Jerilee was working and helped me as something of a “personal shopper.” Yes, I am kidding. But I’m also somewhat brainless these days and couldn’t get my head around the “buy 2” part of the rule. I thought it was just “buy 1 get 1 free” but not so much. It was confusing to me. So she helped, and added up all my totals so I could make my shopping trip worth while. After gift cards and the sale, I spent $21 out of pocket and got sooo much stuff!
Thats nine soaps, two lotions, and five candles. And only two of these items aren’t pumpkiny. Kitchen Lemon soap, and Meyer Lemon lotion. Yum!
I hauled my bags out to the car before continuing through the mall to Target. I really wanted to buy everything we need still for baby girls arrival, and I figured Target would be a good place to start. And I did ok actually! Didn’t get everything I wanted, but I found her a blanket for cuddling, some socks, tights on uber-sale, and some long sleeved diaper shirts.
Not going to lie. This blanket was probably my favorite purchase of the day. Its sooo soft and the animals are adorable. I wish you could see the fox better in this photo but I haven’t pulled everything apart yet.
I was pretty annoyed at myself at Target though. I was fading fast!!! And it was only my second place! I reminisced with Brady later in the day about how, towards the end of my pregnancy with Dekker, I was super annoyed at being treated like an invalid, and how I didn’t take people’s concern and care as what it was. Instead I was frustrated that people would think I couldn’t do things! But this time around, it seems I have a few more limitations 🙁 Just a hard realization for me, even though its perfectly just. Hard truth.
I pressed on, however, to Walmart. I needed to look for a few things that I couldn’t find at Target, plus there were a few grocery things on my list that I figured I could pick up there without having to hit a grocery store yet. Fun surprise for me was that Jerilee got off work early! So…
Spontaneous company!!! Ya, we’re freaks.
I actually had really good luck at Walmart, and got everything except one item there. I only splurged and got a couple of things that weren’t on the list, and didn’t break the bank, which is always a plus.
From there, Jerilee and I went our separate ways. To Costco for me!
All I needed at Costco were three things – bread, toilet paper, and these great sucker-inner tank tops called “Fat Free Dressing.” Witty, right? I thought having a couple on hand would be really smart for after baby comes. Jelly belly can, and still use all the help it can get! The tank tops were $20, which is actually more than I tend to spend on shirts, haha! So I only bought one. If it rocks, I’ll just go back quickly after baby is born. Or send someone else, haha! I got bread too, but they didn’t have our toilet paper. So that will have to wait for another day I suppose. But I still did awesome, in my opinion!
I came home completely wiped out and horribly sore. I wore my support belt all day long and still came out hobbling 🙁 It makes me sad but I suppose I should be thankful that my body is getting sooo ready to give me my baby girl. It helped that I came home to PROGRESS!
We bought this beautiful crib from a garage sale. It was a light wood color but all the furniture in Dekker’s room is white, so we wanted to paint it to match the scheme of things. By “we,” I mean I wanted it painted, and I didn’t want to paint it. I was very upfront about that when we found it. I told Brady that we needed to find a white one because I knew I wasn’t going to have the gumption to paint it, and he assured me he would. And he did! At least he got a good start on it. First coat. I have no doubt it’ll be finished this week, and hopefully even in the room so Dekker can get used to the new layout before we actually throw a baby in there too!
Hmmm…on that note, I wonder if its too early to put in the other car seat. I’m pretty sure we had it in at this point with Dekker, but maybe thats overkill? What did you guys do?