The Day After

OK, let's face it...school shopping for three kids at one time is no picnic. First let me say that all three kids were very well behaved during the ride up there, the extra stop in Mannheim, and the ride home. They even had to wait for a late lunch until after we finished shopping at kaiserslautern. Sierra and Madison LOVED picking out shoes and clothes and even trying them on. They are so MY girls. Little Michael hated the trying on part and made it seem like we were torturing him-especially when we made him try on multiple styles of jeans in the same size. Try explaining to a boy that different styles/designers fit differently. He just didn't get it or didn't want to get it. He made it through OK though.

Now for the bad part. I woke up Saturday morning feeling like someone was twisting a knife in my stomach and a mild fever. I mean I felt horrible! Michael told me that I could stay home and he would take the kids; however, I just didn't think it was right for him to take all three with him and do all that shopping. Let's be clear on just how much he HATES shopping...I mean hates it. So I went. I also know that school starts on the 25th so we really can't put it off any longer.

I slept nearly all the way there and arrived there feeling worse than when we left the house. Then we made our way through a couple of hours shopping and took the kids to lunch at around two pm. We got most of the clothing for the girls and some for Michael at the first stop. We left and Michael decided to stop in Mannheim "on the way" home. I told him that was fine. I slept all the way there and had a higher fever when we arrived. Although we got everything we needed there, I still had to use the basket as a walker and felt like I had been gut punched. We finished up there and drove home about $1,000 poorer, mom feeling sick, tired kids, and dad holding it all together. I swear he gets the "Great Dad" award for yesterday. I slept all the way home, woke up when he needed me to hand him my ID right before the gate, helped carry in the stuff, took a NyQuil/Theraflu Bedtime cocktail that he gave me and slept from about 7pm last night until 9am this morning without interruption. I love him for helping me do that and the kids for being quiet enough while they bathed and got ready for bed.