Braving the stores to go Christmas shopping for Munchkin tonight… here goes nothing!
The plan is to plow through Toys R Us and then hit Walmart for the rest of the list.. and hurry home without incident. I’ve got my MIL coming over to watch Munchkin while we brave the wilds of the shopping centers. Hopefully most folks are in church right now and the crowds will be a little less crazy. I hope.
Edited to add (monday 12/11 @ 830am): Surprisingly Toys R Us wasn’t very crowded IN the actual store - though the place looked like it was two days not two weeks to Christmas. It was picked over pretty well.. but we did manage to score some more pirate Megablok sets and a few GI Joe toys. The worst part was waiting in line.. they had TWO lines open in the whole shop and about 20 people with full carts in each line. Target got most of our holiday spending this year.. we wiped out the miniature GI Joe Sigma 6 stuff in less than 10 minutes and were on our way to the Power Ranger aisle. Most of what we went out for (we had a mental list) was still available AND was on sale.. so we scored pretty well!
I got up this morning and for some reason cannot find my watch ANYWHERE in the house. I keep it next to my silver bracelet that I always wear.. and that is on my arm right now. Clearly I picked up the watch and deposited it somewhere else in the house in my sleepwalking daze. I also found out that my electric kettle is dead. I have to scrounge up some money today to buy another one because I cannot live with out boiling water made in about 60 seconds. I had to make my tea in the microwave this morning.. it was a sad sad day.
RIP Electric Kettle October 2005 - December 2006