take my baby advice
i have had many people give me baby advice. my two favorites are that before you have your babies, make sure you go to every movie that you want to see, take that vacation to that special place you want to visit, read for pleasure, go eat at your favorite restaurant. etc. you get the idea, your life will never be the same again so enjoy yourself. and my other favorite one is that is that at this age your babies are yours. meaning, all yours. soon, they will go to kindergarten and that is the beginning of them slowly going away. they will continue to go, and go away. in other words, they will grow up and not want to be around you as much. so appreciate and take pleasure in this time that you have with them because you will never have it back. ok, that struck a strong cord with me. well, i have valuable baby advice myself: never take your children to ikea. that place is way too big and packed with shoppers. i wish someone had told me that before we went there last weekend. we all drove 2 hours from here to the big city to shop at ikea. we had 2 hours of mildly chaotic shopping time. not bad considering their ages. in the last half hour, they started to get out of control. we could have been killed by the dirty looks we were getting if we hadn’t gotten out of their in time. we were running down the aisle looking for the nearest exit (there wasn’t one) and dodging shoppers. me with the moon in my cart wailing as he tried to throw himself out of it and tall dark and handsome right behind me with the sun screaming “mama” at the top of her lungs in his cart. at the long, slow, checkout line (where things got a little calmer), my dear husband looked at my sad face and said “it’s okay, i’m off on friday anyway, you can come back by yourself.” i was singing praises to the heavens above! so this morning, i left my three treasures watching the sesame street dvd and hit the road to the big city.
this was right before the separation anxiety tantrums they threw
i got stuck in bumper to bumper traffic and enjoyed it
i had enough quiet time to think about how much i do miss the city
i went to a jewelery store
a music store
and had a warm lunch for one. i relished the peace and quiet as much as i did the the food
and yes!! i spent three hours shopping like a mad woman at ikea! it was so very nice! when i arrived home ten hours and three calls on my mobile (to ask how far i was from home) later, i wished i had my camera out instead of all the products i was lugging to take a photo of how happy they were to see me. they made me forget how much fun i had had out in the big city.
