A Successful Outing!

Today, with much apprehension, I ventured out with all four of my children, AGAIN!

After the getting tossed out of the movie theater incident a few weeks ago, I was very reluctant to try another outing, but necessity took over, and I had to try.

You see, school starts Monday for my eldest, and he neglected to inform me until last night that his backpack just will not last another year.

Oh, and by the way, did you know he needs real shirts? He has plenty of t-shirts, mind you, but suddenly he finds himself in need of the real, button down variety.

So, we set out in search of just these missing things, triplets in tow.

While Bregon was feeding my trio lunch for me, and getting them dressed for the outing, I ventured into the garage with the idea that I would clean up the new stroller that we had been given.

You see, it looks as if the babies might be happier in it as it keeps them more separated than the usual variety we had been using.

I somehow got the dust and leaves off of it, and managed to get it clean enough to try and put the babies in it (it had been in storage for quite some time!)

Then, we realized that the bicycle pump wasn't working when we tried airing up the tires!

We loaded the van, and headed over to my Dad's with hopes of borrowing his air pump, and try as we might, nobody could get that front tire aired up!

But, undaunted, we headed out to the mall anyways, with hopes of getting at least some of what we needed before the tire gave out.

We were pleasantly surprised once we got there, too. The babies did have an initial problem with being able to kick each other, but a quick switch of places fixed that!

We were able to shop and buy what we needed for once. We had some fussing, but nothing earth shattering or terribly awful that would cause us to forget what we were out for!

We even were able to stop by the cookie shop and get cookies for everyone as a snack without any fuss!

The babies were soo very good, we pushed our luck, and headed off to the grocery store to try and get some pizza for dinner.

We made it through the super market without any trouble, too! Nobody screamed, in fact they were giggly and cute and happy.

The babies now know where pizza, banana's and cookies come from, and that the cashiers and employees magically seem to know who they are and what their names are!

It was great today, actually. Everybody we met was nice and said friendly and nice things to us (for those of you who follow my blogs you will remember that we run into all sorts of un-nice things out and about!)

My kids were happy, and for once, just once, we actually were able to get everything we went out to buy, and remembered what it was we were supposed to be doing for the entire trip!

Tomorrow, we head to a friend of mine's shop for a back-to-school haircut. I'm sure there will be a story to tell there!