Okay, there have been a lot of reasons that I haven't been blogging. One of them is actually pretty stupid. There were two obnoxious widgit graphics that appeared over my text and I didn't know how to get rid of them. I know that I could look online to find out or just experiment with settings, but our internet can be SO slow sometimes (remember dial up speed?) and with the boys constantly distracting me it was just not something that I was doing. Today (I hope) I did it! Yay! Now that that isn't there to bother me, perhaps I will get back to more regular blogging. At least I have been doing monthly updates of what I have been doing with the boys on my blog http://entertainingmykids.blogspot.com/
I want to write a bit about our trip to Etosha last month, but for now I will write about my tripS to the store to buy food. This morning I went to the fruit and vegetable market to buy produce and milk. That was all that I needed. I got the produce. I can generally accept that our produce is trucked in from South Africa and does not always look the way I expect produce to look. I can also usually deal when an item or two is out of stock. Today there was no milk to buy. Correction, there was no milk that had an expiration date any later than today. There was some with yesterday's date and some with today's date. That doesn't really help me for the rest of the week.
This afternoon I decide to head out to the market to buy milk. My husband wants some ramen for work as well. Simple enough. Still, since I am making the trip I might as well buy for the week. They had tortillas in stock (yay!) which I have not seen for three weeks. We are out, so I bought five packages of eight tortillas to put in our freezer. That starts us out at $15 US. I continue, happy that they do have milk AND ramen AND even the kind of yogurt my kids like. The dates on the products are all good. Of course since I am buying so much I figure I should get flour since I am low, chips, etc. etc. Once we get over the magic number of $15 US we need to get a tax receipt so we can be reimbursed for the 15% tax on things here. (Your state tax isn't sounding so bad now, is it?) I load up the cart and decide I should check how much money I brought. I wasn't going to get much and now I have quite a bit. I have about $100 US so I plan accordingly. I end up buying about $70 worth of stuff. The boys have been playing with food in the cart, trying to climb out, making loud noises, grabbing for things on the shelves, etc. etc. I am so frazzled as I check out that I forget to get my tax receipt. Grrrr... I could wait in the looooooooong line at customer service, but I really don't want to be with my screaming demons a moment longer. There goes $10 US down the drain. I know, not a huge sum, but it still makes me mad. There was no good reason not to get that "free" money.
So we get home and the boys are walking so slowly while I am carrying heavy bags. They are fighting to get in the house and I open the door without turning off the alarm first. I have to push past the kids who are hanging on my legs and trying to be the first ones in the house and get over to the control panel to turn it off before the alarm company starts calling. Then Ryan is upset and needs comforting. Justin decides to help put away the food because he knows I am not pleased with them. He puts some in special "tricky" places for me. Lovely. I think I have found everything. I wish I hadn't been busy with Ryan so long.
Good thing I got more than milk and ramen because I am NOT looking forward to my next trip to the store!
