Hey! So hi there. I’ve been a bad blogger, I know. I really would like to do a post about our trip to Prescott this past weekend, and I’ll get to it at some point! But right now I want to tell you how brilliant I am!
So for her 4th birthday which is um, oh just over a month away now, (STOP THAT!), LG is getting a big girl bed. Not just any big girl bed, but the canopy bed I myself got on MY 4th birthday. Yes, we still have (most) of it. We’re going to repaint it and most of the canopy frame is missing, so Mike will be making a new canopy frame, but still…my bed from when I was a little girl. I think that’s kind of pretty awesome. I even dug out pictures from when I got my bed! (I will share those at some point I promise!)
Anyway, I found an adorable bedding set at Wal-Mart and went over there this afternoon to get it. Of course, they didn’t have the quilt set. They only had the comforter set which is still cute, but not as cute as the quilt. Also more expensive. Also includes bedskirt which we didn’t really need. So, I stood there in a quandary for a few minutes. Do I just get it and not use the bedskirt? Do I go to another Wal-hell and see if they have it there? Do I order it online? Decisions, decisions. Oh, I should add at this point that neither of these sets include a canopy. I found a canopy pattern on ebay and I was going to find some complimentary fabric and make a canopy for her - really how hard can a canopy be? I think not that hard. So, back to me standing in Wal-Mart trying to figure out what to do about the bedding. I’m standing there, trying to decide when it hits me. Bedskirts are the same size as the bed, right? So, why couldn’t we just make the bedskirt into the canopy??? We might have to take it apart and rework it, but still - it’s easier than finding fabric and making it from scratch! So, that sealed it. I got the bedding, a throw pillow and a sheet set. I got a waterproof mattress cover (nighttime potty training will be upon us before we know it) and a new “big girl” pillow. (They had really smooshy ones for $2.50 - can’t beat that.) It wasn’t cheap, but it’s Wal-Mart, so it wasn’t horrible either. And I also don’t have to go get fabric, etc. to make the canopy. Yay me!
Of course all my brilliance inside Wal-hell was nearly overshadowed by the fact that when I went outside, I could. not. find. my car. I was starting to get a little panicky to be honest. Did someone steal it? Why on earth would they want to steal my car? Some nice lady must have recognized the look on my face, because she asked me if I was looking for my car and recommended the beeper, which I was about to use, but then as I was walking away from her (which if nothing else, it felt good to commiserate with someone and not feel totally stupid and alone wandering around), I thought I spied it. In the other half of the parking lot. The half of the parking lot I had not been wandering around for the past (what felt like forever) several minutes. And yes indeed, it was my car. Parked on the side of parking lots I never park on. Sheesh. I have always hated Wal-Mart. I hate it even more now.
I’m curious, though. Do you have a specific side of parking lots you park in so that you always have a general idea of where you left your car? Or are you not as scatterbrained as I am and just park wherever because you always remember where you left it?