Get Me To The Sale On Time!

Last night, it dawned on me that Thursday is the first day of the Growing Pains Consignment Sale!

I had almost forgotten the sale completely, but luckily, I ran across my flyer with the information on it (actually I accidentally knocked if off of the top of the computer monitor while baby swapping the non-sleeping babies last night!)

Okay, so I needed to be there for 10 a.m. which was when the doors open. If I get everyone up by 8, I thought that I could certainly make it there on time with everyone pretty happy, too.

Never make plans while 2 of the babies are around. They tend to plot and plan against any plans that Mummy is making!

Both Vivienne and Kai managed to arrange it to where, when taken upstairs to the nursery, they woke up Kian who did NOT want to go back to sleep.

Lucky me, he was quite content to hang out upstairs in his crib and play with his toys and talk and sing to his siblings, but he did this for about two or three hours!

We went ahead and went to sleep, or at least went through the motions of it, anyways. I just couldn't go to sleep knowing that Kian was awake.

I mean, he has never had the notion or the inclination to try and escape his crib, but there is always a potential first time for EVERYTHING and being that the nursery is UPSTAIRS I didn't want to take any chances.

This meant that I tried to sleep with one ear tuned into the monitor. Of course I didn't go to sleep until I was certain that he did.

I actually stayed up about an hour afterwards because I wanted to make certain that he wasn't just being quiet and playing 'possum!

Needless to say, we all overslept this morning which meant that at 9, I sprang up out of bed like a madwoman and hit the ground running!

The babies were still all playing in bed and not unhappy YET, so I had time to start working on getting my hair do-able, wash my face, and grab my make-up bag and head for the kitchen to make blueberry waffles!

I had the fore-thought to lay out the babies clothes for the day while waiting for them to fall asleep, so all I had to do was grab three diapers and the wipes and put them on the back of the sofa while waiting for the toaster oven to ding it's ready ring!

I quickly tossed some butter on the waffles (not burned for once) and pulled out the feeding chairs and placed everyones juice cups next to them on the floor.

I managed to get everyone diapered, dressed for the day, and into their chairs for breakfast and happily watching Dora somehow!

They even let me put on a bit of make-up and finish sticking my hair up (literally with a stick through my pony-tail to hold it in place!)

I let myself check the time once only to find out that I was on time! I could slow down and pack the juice bag & this even allowed me to remember the teddy grahams for just in case!

We were all loaded into the car, stroller, juice bag, diapers, and I even remembered to grab a screwdriver in case I found something that needed dismantling!

We were on the road and it was barely 9:30! I had time to leisurely head over towards the Jimmie Davis Bridge and marvel over how it could possibly be that I had managed to sleep late and STILL get out of the house with time to spare and STILL make it to the sale on time.

After all, I am the lady who can leave the house an hour early and end up fifteen minutes late- how could this be? I am not supposed to be on time!

I had just had that thought when I discovered that there was a reason nobody was in the right-hand lane on 70th street at Youree drive.

It would appear that someone managed to hit a person who had the misfortune to be pulling what appeared to be some sort of larger camping trailer (of the near motor home variety!)

Okay, I could do this. It was now 9:42 a.m. and I had to figure out how to get over into the other lane so that I could turn onto Youree and make a detour through the shopping center across from Target.

There were 3 of us who had to figure this one out. The car in front of me decided to just cut off the poor soul who was in the left hand lane and just cut over and gunned it. That just wasn't me.

So, I decided to suck it up and just turn from the lane I was already in when I knew the other lane had the arrow.

IT WORKED!!!!! And there was no interrupted traffic or honking bonanza and everyone was happy and we ALL got where we were going without any problem! And, most importantly, officer friendly looked the other way while I did it!

I was STILL somehow on time and getting there! I made it to the sale without anymore excitement.

There was a small line at the door and of course EVERYONE turned to stare at me unload my little cargo! As it would turn out, the opening people were running late and I got to actually stand in line and talk to people!

As luck would have it, I met another Mummy who has triplets. She also has two little boys and a little girl just like I do! The best part is, the babies are just a few months older than my babies!

The sale was awesome. I managed to find EXACTLY what I was looking for to complete my baby Christmas shopping spree.

We all had a good giggle because the ladies working the sale remembered my purchases at LAST years sale and how I had to work to get everything packed into my tiny car!

They thought it was funny that I had remembered my screw driver just in case I had to dismantle something to get everything to fit into the trunk!

I know they had to think I am a bit off my rocker as I had started my purchase pile in the corner with some very large and bulky choices! I really do want to thank the ladies for all of their help with everything, too!

I came away with a rocking-spring-horse, a sit and spin that makes noise and lights up, a Dora & Diego pillow set, a new arm chair with tigger on it (we love furniture,) an area rug for the nursery, a new baby monitor set with 2 receiver sets for people with huge houses like me, 2 smocked dressies for the Beautiful Baby Vivienne, an extra set of reversible Christmas overalls for the boys, and the phone number of our new triplet play-date friends!

I also got to meet one of our Red River Mom's that I had been talking to on the forums and I was so very happy to finally meet her!

All in all, it was a beautiful morning and very industrious shopping excursion! And, I learned something as well.

I never would have managed to make it to the sale on time while I was living in the old house. I know it isn't the location as the new house is only a couple of blocks away from the old one.

I really think that it was because that house was soo very small and full of all of our baby stuffs and soo many people that it made it very difficult to do much of anything, much less think enough ahead to be able to properly plan my day and set things out to get ready for the next day.

I really think that having a much bigger house with room to breathe and stop and think without being distracted from worrying about bumping into something or tripping over someone or something has really helped me be more organized.

I am still in awe of actually getting up late, yet making it somewhere with all three babies in tow on time and in one piece. It's amazing what can be done if you have room enough to think!