Only 11 more years

Until Ellie gets her driver's liscence. That what she told me. She already has a plan. She's going to go to the store for me while I'm at work.

She'll buy:

milk
bread
eggs
peanut butter
ice cream
chocolate

Guess she knows what we buy!

Normal

I'm sitting on the couch listening to Shannon tuck in her babies and singing "twink, twink leetle star, how i wonder what you are, up above the stars twink twink little star"

I don't think you can really appreciate typical or normal development until you witnessed development that veers off course or stalls all together.

Seriously, looking back, how could I have not known when Lauren was 2 1/2 and had a vocuabulary of 20 words with no word combination, that there was someting wrong? I spent my entire working career evaluating children. How did I not know? I guess the answer is simple, I didn't want to know. I couldn't face it in my own child.

The more important questions is when am I going to get over it?

Grocery shopping with girly girls

I had to to do the monthly shopping trip. I usually shop on Saturdays (in celebration that I don't have to work). This Saturday I had three little tagalongs. Bob had to work and unless I wanted to shop at 4 in the morning. The girls were coming.

I was blown away with how good they were. (Shocking surprise!! They are not always good at the store) Shannon had a major melt down when we were walking into the store but it was soon alleviate by a chocolate doughnut. Once again, a sample saved the day.

We shopped for over 2 hours and we finally had to stop because we had run out of room in the cart. I was busting out with every coupon I had and the orinial total was $256. We paid $223. And to think some people say that coupons don't do anything.