No one ever said we're perfect

This post is mainly to make a point...to my friend, Jean...who said the other day" your family always seems so perfect on your blog"
Well #1 of course I'm going to post the "good" stuff...I think of it as a SHOWCASE!
But in an attempt to be REAL I'm going to describe the events of today and then you judge for yourself.

This morning with no school on the horizon we decided to take in a Movie. With a family of 7 you learn quickly that any showing before noon is priced at $5. So we promised the kids last night we would go see Tangled before noon.

I also subscribed to the Whataburger 12 days of Christmas emails. Today when I woke up the coupon in my inbox was for a free Whataburger. Yipee! There's a Whataburger in the parking lot of the movie theater. FREE LUNCH!

So after a leisurely wake up and breakfast, I asked David, "Will you please go get the boys haircuts while I get ready?" I had taken them yesterday but it was too crowded and only 2 barbers. So he heads out with the boys. At which point Kaylee starts to get dressed and noticed a buttom missing on her shirt.

I thought good timing...I just read an article that said, Does your teenager know how to do various things...one of which was sew on a button. So, I said "let's have a lesson here and sew this button on"....Insert Waterworks and Crying...with something blubbering out about "HOW THIS IS MY WEEK OFF FROM LEARNING, I DON"T WANT TO SEW ON A BUTTON" Not sure where that came from, but we sewed the button on together.

At which point the boys came back home because the barber shop was just as full as yesterday and we'll try again later

So we get in the car to go to Whataburger and a movie. As we're headed there I realize, "Hey is today the 22 or 23?" It is indeed the 22nd and the coupons for the free sandwiches, They're good for the 23rd only....OK Plan B ....the movie theater has hotdogs for $1 we'll just eat there. But we realize we'll have to pay 42.50 for drinks. So we make a quick stop at Wal-Mart so I can buy drinks. I bought a 6pk of mini rootbeers and one large one for David. They're small and they will fit in my purse. Next stop movie.

As we unload in the parking lot, Trent decides to go over Ty's car seat instead of around. Which meant as he caught himself going down, Ty shut his door because no one else ever gets out his door too....yes, Fingers slammed in the door. No Blood, Able to wiggle, Let's go in....

As we wait inline to purchase our tickets I realize Tangled is only showing in 3D which means the tickets are 9.50 not 5.00. This has just increased our total bill from $35 to almost $70....um, NO THANKS! (btw I had checked the movie times on-line and it did not say 3D showing)

We get out of line, explain to the kids that we could own 4 DVDs at the price of viewing this one showing...Perhaps we can try again tomorrow at the Mall Theater...at which point I almost had a coronary thinking of what traffic will be like on the 23rd at THE MALL!!!!

David asks do you need to go anywhere else?" Yes, I need to go to Sams. So we head to Sams in hopes of little traffic and hoping the pizza and pretzels will be hot. Things work out well, except that we had to cram 6 people around one of those little table for 4 and I had to sit backwards next to a complete stranger in the attempt to be part of the conversation. (YES, I took in the rootbeers and we drank them there)

Next stop was Wal-Mart, Zane needed to pick up a few gifts for his siblings. That went quickly and while we were in there we found little recorders(flutes) for $1 each. I had mentioned to Zane that I wished we could all learn one song on an instrument and play it for Christmas. So we bought everyone a recorder.

Once we got home &everyone in the house started playing their "WHISTLE" I apparently had not thought through the fact that no one has any training. I sent everyone outside to Learn to play a song. Hopefully Zane can come up with something and he can do the teaching on this one. I don't know if my nerves can handle it.

It seems as if everyone has calmed down a little but it's only 4pm so I'm a little apprehensive about how the rest of the evening will turn out.

Perfect? No, I don't think so,....I never claimed to be either