The A-Team

Sorry this is VERY late in getting posted…but life has just gotten in the way of blogging!

We had a wonderful St. Patty’s day with great food and Aaron took the day completely off from work! We were out for WAY TOO LONG without naps for any of us but we all managed to deal with it pretty well!

We were all decked out in our green and had LOTS of errands to run that day. It started with a shot for Abraham (never fun) but he did really well. Then we stopped back home to pick up all the stuff I have collected to take to Half Price Books. We then headed off to EAT! Claddaugh Irish Pub was waiting for us:) I was very excited! We try to save this place as a special outing especially on St. Patty’s Day. It was GREAT! Abraham wasn’t in the greatest mood but our server brought him a balloon and life was grand. We enjoyed far too much food but I brought part of mine home.

We then started the shopping extravaganza. We do not shop very often and these were things that NEEDED to get done. I needed maternity clothes; Aaron needed running shoes and running shorts; Abraham needed to be fitted with his shoes. Turns out Abraham grew an ENTIRE SHOE SIZE in less than 6 weeks! Yikes! That was financially painful but like we have said before, we would rather put money into good shoes and NOT have to pay for a doctor visit or worse in the long run. So Abraham got 2 new pairs of shoes (we bought an extra pair a half size bigger for this summer). After shoe shopping for him, we went shoe andshort shopping for Daddy. I knew Kohl’s was having a sale later in the week and if he liked anything, I would just pick it up later. Turns out nothing worked out for him. I, on the other hand, found a cute Easter shirt! I was so excited:) We then made off for Avon to drop off all the stuff at Half Price Books. While we waited for them to go through everything, I found several great books on clearance for Abraham. Aaron also had a fantastic score of finding our Camry’s super duper manual for only $4! Totally awesome. HPB ended up giving us $99 for all the stuff we brought in! I was SO excited!!! Since we were right there in Avon, we stopped at Bed Bath and Beyond and I got a hamper for Abraham’s new room (absolutely perfect color match). I happened to be right next door to Michael’s and ran in to find letters to put on the dresser (I already have Abraham’s letters). No luck. Looks like I will be painting Abel’s letters. We left Avon and headed back for Plainfield because with that wonderful score of cash from HPB, I would be able to get some maternity clothes. It was getting late and we ALL needed a nap, but we made it work. I tried on a few items at Motherhood Maternity and ended up getting a couple pairs of shorts (longer ones to last all season even post pregnancy) and 2 T-shirts. I was very happy to get this stuff because I really needed it! I was running out of options of things to wear and it really doesn’t have much to do with being pregnant, I just have no summer wear! I lost so much weight last summer that I got rid of quite a bit of clothing and needed to replace it. Well, I guess maternity styles will work for now!

Anyway, we had been out so late that we ended up grabbing dinner for Abraham at Chick-fil-A (Aaron and I were still full from lunch) and we hurried home to get the dogs fed as well. It was near 7 pm! Like I said, LONG DAY but we all had fun together as a family:)