The Bright Side

In an attempt to make today's shopping trip with 3 kids (two are crazy boys) I'm going to look at the positive side of the shopping trip. I may or may not be sarcastic. You decide...

I'm grateful:

• for road construction. It's nice that someone is willing to work in 90+ degrees to make new roads. It's also nice that they decided to start the road construction right where I need to turn onto the  major street outside my neighborhood and that they stopped the line of cars beginning with the car in front of me instead of the car behind me.
• for whoever sings about wanting to kiss a girl. It was the first tolerable song I heard on the radio. We're talking multiple channels. Too bad it was on the way home from all the shopping so I spent the other parts of the trip channel surfing.
• that Walmart had another LARGE pile of 20 cent notebooks hidden at the back of the store. I thought I was going to have to take the 4 I found in the school supply section right inside the door, two black, one dirty yellow, and one yellow that needed the wire at the bottom bent back in. (We left the scrunched up green one for others.)
• for Sun Chips. When my children decided the samples in the deli and bakery wouldn't be enough lunch I didn't feel too horrible for buying them chips in the checkout lane because Sun Chips have 30% less fat... (Feel free to nominate me for Mom of the Year.)
• for Target's clearance shelf I ran into by mistake. This matched with my coupon got me very cheap Hershey's syrup that will pair nicely with the bucket of vanilla ice cream I already have.
• for Alex's healthy ankle that didn't break when I ran him over with the cart at Walmart.
• for UPS. It's always nice to find a package inside your screen door when you come home.
• that my garage door and the back door of the van separated nicely when Mary tried to close the garage door prematurely.

Let's hope for more school supply sales next week so we can repeat this all over again.