Just another day.

Where did I go wrong?? For some reason Kataeya is so anti-shopping that I think she has decided to make every experience at any store as unpleasant as possible. She's smart that Kataeya! She doesn't only "pretend" not to hear me but she does things to rile up Haley so that the only thing coming out of Haley's mouth is loud, annoying and uncontrollable. Little girls are supposed to like shopping aren't they?? She's so girly in every other way I guess I just assumed she would like going to the store.


Each morning when I drop her off at school she turns and says, "Remember Mommy, run all of your errands before you pick me up!"

So yesterday I was busy putting the house back in order from our trip to San Diego over the weekend that I didn't have time to run my errands while she was at school. When I picked her up I had to break it to her that we were going to run to JoAnn's Fabrics really quick! I even tried to pep her up by telling her that we were going to buy fabric so I could make them dresses for our trip to Fiji. She still wasn't having it. An hour and a half later I'm walking out with a pouting 4 year old and Haley who is screaming at the top of her lungs because I told her no when she asked to hold a sewing machine on her lap.


What could have been fifteen minutes turned into an hour and a half of me telling Kataeya to, "Come back!" and "Put that down!" and "Didn't I just tell you not to touch that?!" Also filled with Haley wanting to hold every ribbon in the ribbon aisle then either throwing it on the floor or unraveling it, with me giving in each time to keep her high pitched screaming to a minimum.


Some would have just left... but oh no not me! I was the lady in the store with the kids that you think Geez Lady, get ahold of your kids! I must have threatened Kataeya twenty times that I was never going to take them to the store ever again. At the time I thought I was the big bad bully but that's exactly what she was hoping for!

Well here are the fruits of yesterday's labor.