Running Errands

So we've decided to start a garden in the back yard. Can we do a small garden with maybe one row of plants? Oh nooooo...Ash has cut out a 20 foot by like 10 foot patch out of our yard, 3 or 4 rows, and yesterday we got like 15 different garden vege's and fruit.

That leads into mu blog entry, our trip yesterday. Let me list it for you:

• Dad tries to get older gets to go with us and pick out garden items
• Older kids clarify the lameness of hanging out with parents and going to store with said parents
• Dad wrangles little boys back into clothes (for the fifty-millionth time)
• Dad draws patience out of some inner depth
• Dad fights through commute traffic
• Dad and boys pick up mom from work
• Little boys ask where we’re going over and over and over….
• Go to Ash’s work and pick up check
• Tantrum from little boys in car because they can’t go into Weeney’s (actually called Sweeney’s but Holy Terror has trouble with his S’s)
• Go to bank
• Tantrum from little boys in car because they can’t help dad give money to the bank
• Park and enter restaurant for a nice Mexican dinner
• Mom takes Holy Terror to Restroom
• Dad sits with Super-Wy and orders food
• Mom and Holy Terror joins table, wishes she brought rope to keep Holy Terror in his seat
• Holy Terror causes first spill of the meal
• Mom takes Holy Terror to Restroom AGAIN
• Super-Wy “cooks” the chips in his glass of water
• Super-Wy causes second spill of meal
• Boys don’t eat their food head back to car with boys asking where we’re going over and over and over…
• Head to Wal-Mart for garden supplies and a birthday gift for friends daughter
• Mom and dad split up for tactical efficiency
• Super-Wy talks incessantly always beginning EVERY sentence with “mom” sometimes “Mom, mom”
• Mom and Super-Wy get gift and wrapping supplies, head to fish area to wait to Dad and Holy Terror
• Dad arrives late due to fact Holy Terror had to go to the restroom AGAIN
• Get supplies and head out to car
• Tantrum by Holy Terror because he didn’t get to put ANYTHING in the back of the vehicle
• Head to Home Depot to get garden fencing
• Holy Terror throws fit because we won’t allow him to go to the bathroom AGAIN
• Super-Wy proceeds to howl all the way through the store like an animal to hear the massive echo and volume of his voice in the large warehouse store, thoroughly enjoying himself
• Dads nerves fray and electricity shoots from his head, stops talking at this point and takes on a caveman like gait
• Dad looses mind at checkout line due to lack of checkers
• Dad goes in to pick up pizza for older kids
• Holy Terror throws tantrum because he can’t go “help” dad get pizza
• Somehow manage to get home without having a full nervious breakdown

That’s about the standard for running errands…but the garden’s looking great and only minimal amount of manure was thrown on Super-Wy by his own shovel.

Aww, the joys of parenting.