Closing tomorrow!

We close on our new house tomorrow! Yea! It is exciting that we are finally getting our house after having our townhouse on the market for 9 months, and then living in an apt for 2 months. It will be great to get our stuff out of the Pods and get all settled in! 

New house walk through

We went to the new house this morning for our final walk through. Since another little boy had been living in the house who owned thomas trains, the first thing Emmett said when he walked in, was "Where the choo choos go?" 

Seeing the house empty made me realize that I really need to paint almost every room. I hate painting. But, it will be so much easier than doing it when the furniture is in and a toddler is running around. I also need to strip the wallpaper in the kitchen and paint. A task I would love to put off, but, again, much easier to do before the appliances and all our junk get in there. 

Destruction

Make a beautiful thomas track with bridges, etc..... approx. 5 min before totally destroyed.  Put all the cars together in the same place....approx 3 min before flung all over the room. Gather all the vegetables and fruits and put in the grocery cart.... approx 2 min before cart turned over and all produce all over the floor. 

Done. Undone. Done. Undone. Done. Undone.  And we are where we started this morning.  

Fall

I love the fall. I think it stems from when it was going back to school time.... getting new clothes and school supplies.  

Now, I look forward to many things about it.... the state fair, Halloween, leaves changing color, Seagrove festival, Thanksgiving, sweater weather. And I think we'll be taking Emmett trick or treating for the first time. We'll get to meet our neighbors in our new neighborhood.

The only thing I don't love about fall is raking leaves. I haven't been a in place where I have had to do that for a long time. This year, though, we'll be moving into our new house just in time for raking.  Yippee!

Fun weekend

Yesterday we all went to Pullen Park and had a great time. Emmett loved taking the Choo Choo around the park, and said "All Aboard" when we got on. He played "get you" with Daddy and Daddy chased him around the park. And he also got to ride on the Carousel and the boats. The weather was perfect and there were lots of families out. 

I just love the fall. The air smells cleaner and it just has a happiness about it. 

Modern customer service!

So how crazy is this? Not long after I wrote my last blog about my difficulties shopping with my 2 year old, I get this email from Lowes Foods:

"Good morning,

We saw the blog you posted about the frustration of shopping with a 2 year old Houdini. We may have the perfect solution for you.

Lowes Foods has a service in many areas called Lowes Foods to Go. The customer places the order on-line (or by calling the number below), a trained personal shopper shops the grocery order, and then the customer simply drives up and we load the groceries. We have many Moms who use the service regularly.

Because we think this is the perfect solution for your situation, we would like to offer a free 30-day certificate. You can shop as often as you'd like with no shopping fee."

Can you believe it? It's amazing that they can find my little blog so quickly. I do think that is a pretty neat way to provide customer service!

Need some zen.

Never has anyone brought out the level of frustration as my 2 year old has. Why does it drive me to madness that he absolutely refuses to sit in a shopping cart for more than 2 minutes? Even if he is very securely buckled in, he finds a way to Houdini his way out of the seatbelt. But, if I let him down, he will only hold my hand for about 20 seconds... then chaos begins. 

I have had to abandon a cart in the middle of Target and the middle of Lowes Foods because he refuses to cooperate with  me. I don't even want to take him to the store anymore. 

I have to try to find a way to not let his stubborness get to me. I have to find a zen moment in the middle of Target that allows me to not get pissed off. This is my challenge.