Day 178: Emergency Re-Stocking

I'm still miserably sick and should have spent the whole day in bed.  Instead, I woke up at 4:30 am (from my hacking, wheezing cough) and have been busy all day -- despite a fever this morning.  The Husband took The Daughter to school this morning then came back later in the morning and took The Son to his classes for me.  But he couldn't give me the afternoon off because today is the one day of the week that both kids have to be picked up at exactly the same time in completely opposite parts of the city.  So I fetched her and he fetched him.  The Daughter had to make a stop at the library and then we stopped for some very, very necessary groceries -- the cupboards were bare!  We couldn't do a full stock-up shopping because one, I felt way to sick to think straight and, two, The Tank was still so completely stuffed full of stuff from my mom's that any groceries we bought would have to ride up front with us -- and The Daughter's school bag, and her dozen library books, and my purse, and our trash from yesterday's all-day drive.

I've got to say, it's so nice to be home.  Not only did I miss The Husband and The Son, not to mention my comfortable bed, but I'm so glad to be back in the land of reasonable grocery prices again!

Kroger -- $36.74

• 2 cartons Horizon chocolate milk -- $3.19/ea. (saved $0.50/ea.)
• Quaker granola bits -- $2.51
• Kroger pretzels -- $1.49
• Tostito chips -- $2.75
• Lay's BBQ chips -- $2.50 (saved $0.18)
• Mariani dried Mango slices -- $2.59
• Kellogg's Cracklin' Oat Bran cereal -- $4.34
• Dole Orange/Peach/Mango juice -- $3.34 (saved $0.35)
• Orowheat 7-grain bread -- $2.50 (saved $1.69)
• Hillshire Farm sliced turkey -- $3.99
• Sunsilk shampoo -- $3.29

Vitamin Cottage -- $13.02

• Applegate sliced Roasted Turkey breast -- $4.15
• Santa Cruz applesauce -- $3.85
• 2 tins of Crown Prince smoked oysters -- $2.35/ea.

Tomorrow I become the mother of a 16-yo!  It's a little weird.  I tucked in my 15-yo tonight and then went back into her room with a photo album of all the 8x10's we've had taken over the years -- sometimes of all four of us, sometimes of just our two kids, and sometimes including Nephew #1.

It was fun to sit and look at the photos and laugh together and gush over how adorable she was as a baby.  How in the world could it possibly have been 16 years ago tonight that I was in absolute agony, about 1/2-way through a protracted and miserable induced labor?  I remember that rush of emotion as she finally crowned and then slipped into this world.  I remember thinking, "okay, that's done -- perfection has been achieved."  I couldn't imagine why anyone would continue to have children since I'd just given birth to the most amazing and most perfect little baby girl.

I can't wait to see her face tomorrow when her brother and I get up at 6:30 am so she can open her gifts before she goes to school.  She's assuming that she won't see either of us tomorrow until about 8pm when we all meet up for a late dinner after the son's orchestra practice.  It's a shame that we won't have any at-home time to really celebrate her birthday tomorrow but she's in school all day and just as she's getting home, The Son and I are leaving for our Wednesday afternoon/evening marathon of cello lesson, rush-hour commute, and orchestra rehearsal.  At least basketball season is finally over so there aren't any games or practices to further complicate our schedule.

She never reads this blog -- maybe because she doesn't know I keep it    -- but Happy Birthday, Sweet Potato Sugar Pie!

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