Our Thanksgiving was...fine? Or it would have been, had any of us been in a good mood. Which none of us were. Our day started with Ingrid getting up early and instantly being whiny and crying over everything. It did not go uphill from there. Since she doesn't nap anymore, if she's tired at 7:30am, she's just gonna be even more tired at 3pm.
The idea was that we would stay home, be cozy, eat lots of food, and relax. The reality was that I was exhausted and begging for naps, Ingrid was throwing tantrums every five seconds, and Brendan was crabby because he just wanted to have a day off and watch football.
We did manage to have a nice afternoon, with lots of good food and pumpkin pie that came out perfectly because I used canned stuff instead of trying to be fancy and cooking a real pumpkin like I did last year. We were sufficiently stuffed, I got a good nap in, we tried to go for a walk in the rain to look at holiday lights that are already up in the neighborhood. But none of us were feeling it. Something was off...
Oh well, it's done. And today was better. I am not one for Black Friday, like EVER, I hate the idea of crowds and all that buying stuff no one needs. You never really get that good of a deal anyway, and you have to fight people over it, or wait in line for hours, or whatever. Just not my cup of tea. BUT...Joann Fabric was having a sale on flannel and fleece, both of which I use a lot of in my sewing, for so cheap that I couldn't pass it up. I woke up early anyway and decided to check it out.
How naive of me to think I could just zip in and out! Who really goes nuts at a fabric store on Black Friday? Aren't they all at Target buying $2 Barbies or something? Ha, how mistaken I was. I got there around 6:30am and the place was packed. I looked through the fabric, luckily I had a list to remind myself of what I needed, then I got in line for the cutting table.
Fast forward TWO HOURS. It was finally my freakin' turn. Two effing hours for fabric, I must be crazy. I did get some really good stuff and the bottom of my reciept said I saved $109, but really, two hours to wait for cutting fabric. Never again, I don't care if they're giving away flannel! I am just thankful I didn't try to lug Ingrid with me, oh my god.
When I got home I washed and dried and ironed all of the fabric I had gotten, all with a little help from my wee helper. She loves doing laundry with me for some reason, it's awesome. She played by herself a lot today, which was a nice change of pace. Brendan and I got to do what we wanted to do. It was what we wanted Thanksgiving to be, at least it only came one day late. And now it's back to reality and hoping to hear something from Brendan's job interviews!!
4 comments:
LOL! Two HOURS for fabric! That's diehard devotion right there. I've never EVER gone shopping on Black Friday...frankly, I'm quite willing to pay normal price just to be able to count on getting in and out of the store ALIVE!
At least you saved $109! AND had a chill rest of the day!
yes i too think black friday is a joke!!!!
I often find that the days that are supposed to be 'special', and we have a huge build up for, turn out to be the worst. We have such high expectations, that frankly nothing short of a miracle would impress us. And aftr all, in the life of a child every day is 'just another day'.
Glad you had a better day today, and there is always next Thanksgiving....
There must be a LOT of crafters in your area! I went this morning, and it wasn't crowded at 9am (thank goodness, I had all three kids with me), and was only moderately busy when we left at 11. BUT it may have been crazy yesterday, because I noticed that the remnants were absolutely stuffed with fleece!
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