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New Year's Eve.
Dec. 31st, 2006 12:03 pmBecause 
Annie had alerted me to the weather forecast for today last night, I decided that I needed to get to the commissary as soon as possible this morning, just in case. A.J. was awake, but Jack and Philip were still soundly asleep, so he was my volunteer "helper" for shopping. We bundled up in our heavy jackets, and we drove off to the commissary. Even as we backed out of the garage, tiny little flakes were beginning to fall and stick to the driveway.
But we soldiered on. The commissary wasn't too busy - only about 1/3 of the parking lot was full, in fact. We had a great list (and by great, I mean "long"), and we muscled our way through it, buying tons of "not on the list" items as we went (which A.J. enjoyed then writing onto the list at the end). By the time we were done, we had two shopping carts full, and I was flabbergasted to hear the total was only $188.34! Woohoo for fantastic deals and nitpicky shopping with coupons, right?
I tipped my bagger $7, and then I asked him to stay in the alcove while I brought the van around. (I felt bad having him trudge out in the heavy falling snow if he didn't need to.) A.J. and I got to the van, and I pulled out the snow brush for him to use. Though I'd worn my heavy jacket, I'd forgotten that I'd zipped off the hood last year, and my head was quite wet with snow. A.J. was wearing his brand-new winter coat with hood, so I sat in the heating-up car while he cleaned off all the windows for me. (See? One more reason why it's good to bring a "helper" shopping!)
When we returned home, Jack was awake (as expected). The boys stood in the house, and I handed them each bag from the garage. When I was finally done unloading the car, I took off my wet shoes and left them in the garage as well. It took some work to put all this food away, but we are WELL-stocked now. (We really weren't too bad off before I went shopping, to be honest.) However, even in the midst of all this food, nothing sounds good except for sub sandwiches from Subway, thanks to a cursory glance at my flist a few minutes ago (thanks a lot,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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I've got a sparkling clean house (which I've worked hard on for the past two days, I should add). I've got lots of finger foods, fruit, some cheese and drinks for tonight, if anyone is mighty enough to brave the weather and head out for scrapbooking, but I also have movies and candles if it turns out to just us here at home. :-)
Annie had alerted me to the weather forecast for today last night, I decided that I needed to get to the commissary as soon as possible this morning, just in case. A.J. was awake, but Jack and Philip were still soundly asleep, so he was my volunteer "helper" for shopping. We bundled up in our heavy jackets, and we drove off to the commissary. Even as we backed out of the garage, tiny little flakes were beginning to fall and stick to the driveway.But we soldiered on. The commissary wasn't too busy - only about 1/3 of the parking lot was full, in fact. We had a great list (and by great, I mean "long"), and we muscled our way through it, buying tons of "not on the list" items as we went (which A.J. enjoyed then writing onto the list at the end). By the time we were done, we had two shopping carts full, and I was flabbergasted to hear the total was only $188.34! Woohoo for fantastic deals and nitpicky shopping with coupons, right?
I tipped my bagger $7, and then I asked him to stay in the alcove while I brought the van around. (I felt bad having him trudge out in the heavy falling snow if he didn't need to.) A.J. and I got to the van, and I pulled out the snow brush for him to use. Though I'd worn my heavy jacket, I'd forgotten that I'd zipped off the hood last year, and my head was quite wet with snow. A.J. was wearing his brand-new winter coat with hood, so I sat in the heating-up car while he cleaned off all the windows for me. (See? One more reason why it's good to bring a "helper" shopping!)
When we returned home, Jack was awake (as expected). The boys stood in the house, and I handed them each bag from the garage. When I was finally done unloading the car, I took off my wet shoes and left them in the garage as well. It took some work to put all this food away, but we are WELL-stocked now. (We really weren't too bad off before I went shopping, to be honest.) However, even in the midst of all this food, nothing sounds good except for sub sandwiches from Subway, thanks to a cursory glance at my flist a few minutes ago (thanks a lot,
ascendinginto!).I've got a sparkling clean house (which I've worked hard on for the past two days, I should add). I've got lots of finger foods, fruit, some cheese and drinks for tonight, if anyone is mighty enough to brave the weather and head out for scrapbooking, but I also have movies and candles if it turns out to just us here at home. :-)
