time to catch up! ... with a poo story!

well, it's friday night and here i am... catching up on the ol' blog. but hey, someone's got to do it, eh?

we've done some fun things this past month ... a trip to the zoo, walks around town, spending time at nana's (aka dame's mom) ... and now that i've run out of space on my camera's memory card i'm doing some fall cleaning and posting a bunch of pics for you all to see. :)

but before i go on, i wanted to share my day with the kids this past wednesday...

i got off work and headed over to my mom's to pick up the kiddos, spent an hour with her and then headed out to go home. but on my way home i wanted to stop by the gas station to fill up and also the grocery store to grab a couple things...

i got to the gas station and, after waiting a while to get to the pump, realized that i didn't remember my pin number for my debit card. SO... i went home, got the kids out of the car, got my pin number, loaded the kids back up, and then headed to the store.

well, we got to the store and started shopping. noel was in the kid seat and maddie was in the basket. half way through my list, after tossing a roll of paper towels in the basket at mad, she pointed out that there was poo on the paper towel wrapping. yeah, poo.

so after some investigating, i found out that there was poo on the paper towels, her right hand, and the side of the cart. it looked like someone stepped in poo and wiped their shoe on the side of the cart. maddie must have touched it and wiped it on the paper towels. so i told her not to touch a thing while i quickly headed up to customer service and the bathroom.

after carefully inspecting the other items in my cart and moving them to a "clean cart," i flagged an employee and let them know about the poo. they apologized and i told them that it was no big deal --not their fault at all. i was just going to wash maddie's hands really well in the bathroom and continue my shopping. well, after getting her hands poo free, mad turned to head out of the bathroom and it was then that i saw the poo smeared all over her pants, back, and shirt. ends up, she was the one responsible for the poo. i took her by the hand, with noel on my hip, and marched right out of the store to go home and clean her up...

...but first, on the way home, i stopped at the gas station again to fill up my

tank that was beyond empty. this time i knew my pin but my card was still denied. i think this was when i started to get frustrated. i headed home, cleaned maddie, and then went back to the store.

my "clean cart" was exactly where i left it and i finished my shopping --yay! and on my way home (again) i stopped by a different gas station where my card was approved... double yay!

i finally got home three hours after leaving my mom's with a full tank of gas and less than $20 worth of groceries...

...poo free groceries & kids. ;)