Sunday, August 19, 2012

Big Days, Little Days

Yesterday felt big. We hit the road at about 11:00 in the morning and headed to town, where we made the usual stop at the library then we hit Kohl's for back-to-school shoes.

Olivia has lived in sandals this summer, which is great and all but it also means she's decided socks are evil. I took socks with us anyway because I wanted to try on shoes that will need socks this year.

Aylssa's worn flipflops all summer. She complained at the beginning of the summer that the shoes I bought her in April were rubbing her feet.

We ended up having to buy size 6 1/2 shoes for Alyssa. Yes, that means no longer shopping in girls' section. We've moved into the women's shoes. She's nine! Yikes.

After finally convincing Olivia to try on a pair or lovely Sketchers that are predominately gray with pink accents, we were ready to hit the clothing department. I feel lucky that my girls wear clothes that are the same sizes as their ages. Makes shopping so much easier.

O is totally into tutus thi year. Lucky for her, there are a lot of shirts with tutus attached. She's in Hello Kitty heaven.

And Alyssa's love of horses is rewarded by a plethora of t-shirts with horses printed on them. All were happy as we left the store $200 poorer.

By this point in the day, Olivia declared she was starving to death. Seriously, that's what she said.

So we headed to DQ for lunch.

After lunch...we tackled school supply shopping. There were only four things on O's list for kinderkids. Alyssa's list for fourth grade, though? It had twenty-one items.

Two hours later, we emerged from WalMart. It felt like a big, big task had been accomplished.

Today? I've been doing the little things. Folding laundry, vacuuming the carpets. The fish bowl needed to be cleaned and breakfast was cooked and eaten. Lunch followed ridiculously soon after breakfast.

Sometimes, though, getting a lot of little things done can feel as good as getting one big thing crossed off the list.

School starts Tuesday.

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