I have successfully baked with my kids. I swear. But today I was reminded that kids are, in fact, distracting. I was planning to bake a dessert that had a few different layers. I made the first part but, instead of separating it into two parts like I was supposed to, I lay it all down into the pan. But before I noticed that, I lay down another layer. I realized right then that I hadn’t separated the first layer out, and was pretty bummed out. I was ready to throw it out and start fresh when Brady talked me off my ledge and I figured I could salvage it after all. That is, until I discovered that Brady had misread me the last instruction and we had skipped the most important layer to the dessert. Sigh. So we did in fact give up on that dish and start fresh. I neglected the crew for the next thirty-ish minutes and put it all together in order. Thankfully, the second attempt came out beautifully. We still baked the first one, and if it has any yummy factor, we’ll freeze it and eat it, but if its just gone, I’m pretty over it.
The two older kids went down for their nap as usual, and Rowan, who had slept most of the day already, napped as well. While the house was quiet, we talked about an idea thats been budding for a while. A camera. We really want a camera. We’ve so regularly used our phone camera, but the quality isn’t awesome and there is so little space on our phones. We bought a really nice camera before we got married, and while the pictures still turn out fairly nice, the video quality sucks. It has a couple of vertical lines running down, and the sound quality is no good. We weren’t sure if just the screen and speakers on the camera weren’t great, so we imported a video onto our laptop and it was still just as bad. The static was impossible to ignore. So, just for fun, we decided to venture into the city in the evening and see what we could find. Our ideal camera is way too expensive, so we went out to see if there was anything comparable to it. And of course, we wanted to hold and play with the camera that was completely out of our reach, because it was so nice!
The kids woke up a bit earlier than usual, which confirmed the city trip, and we made it in to Costco a half hour before closing. We stood by those stupid camera, pondering and hoping to ask questions for a solid 15-20 minutes while two employees stood maybe 20 ft away talking. In the end, it was irrelevant because they didn’t have our fancy pants camera and that was sort of where we wanted to start. Oh well. We bought milk and left.Then on to Best Buy. To be honest, I’ve yet to have a good experience at Best Buy, but we just wanted to look anyway. If anyone would have this camera, it would be Best Buy right? Nope. Once again, the service was kind of terrible, and they had nothing. We finally asked someone and he literally just went on their website and told us what the website said, that there was one in stock online. Awesome, thanks guys. So we left without any information, yet again, with our kids who were looking for entertainment and not finding any. We tried Walmart next, because we try Walmart for everything. They had some decent cameras actually, but nothing we hadn’t seen anywhere else. Nothing we really felt like spending time on. Our last ditch effort was London Drugs where we FINALLY got to handle the camera we’d been looking for all evening. We shouldn’t have done it. We just about bought that thing on the spot. And guys, we do NOT need to be spending so much money on a camera on a whim. It would have been incredibly impulsive. Fun, but not smart, likely. We discussed it more on the way home, and have come up with a game plan to work towards that beautiful camera, and meanwhile, buy something nice but much cheaper.
We got home after the kids bedtime, as it tends to happen, but hopefully everyone will be asleep soon. Though Rowans awake for pretty much the first time all day so I’m not sure his timing could be worse. We’ll see what happens. As a side note and a thank you, I want to inform those of you who don’t know that Brady and I finally put up an ad for our house today! We went back and forth on whether or not to use a realtor for quite some time, and we may get there, but we are opting to list privately for maybe a month-ish, and see if we can end up selling locally on our own. I want to thank all of the lovely people on Facebook who have shared our ad on their pages!! It makes our family feel supported and rooted for 🙂 Please keep sharing, if you feel so inclined. We received our second call today, from someone asking for more information. It feels a bit surreal, but I just hope it turns into something! Thanks again, guys!
Time for a bath and some Tims. Roll Up did bad things to us this season. We drink more coffee while Roll Up is on, and now I want coffee waaay more than I used to! Shame on us.