Shopping trip and other things

Posted on Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 12:32

Well my sister and I did end up going shopping on Thursday. I tried to blog about it that night and after I had typed it all out in a long blog, I hit some mysterious button and deleted the whole thing! Well I was so disgusted with myself that I just gave up and turned off the computer for the night. Since then I have been very busy making up for lost time of not being home for those 2 days that I have not blogged. So here goes...

We ended up going to La Grande which is only 40 miles away and not very big, but it does have a Wal-Mart and that was enough. We both would have liked to go to Boise, but we got a bit of a late start and with my sister having milking chores to do that night we did not have enough time to make the 4 hour round trip and get our shopping done. My sister has 2 goats and a cow that has to be milked. By the way, many of you friends of mine are also friends of my sister. Her name is Alaina, and she is the blessed and terrific mother of 13 children and her husbands name is Roy. She also has a blog and if you have read it much you will know who she is. Her blogs are always so full of the crazy wonderful chaos of raising 13 kids (10 are still at home). She is hilarious and I keep telling her she needs to write a book. I call her the wise woman, and whenever I need advice on ANYTHING, kids, farming, canning, sewing or marriage, I can aways call her. We had a great time, we ate lunch, laughed and were laughed at. But that is what happens when a mom of 13 that lives 90 miles from the closest Wal-Mart gets to go out with out the kids to shop there. We ended up with 4 carts. You should have seen us fitting it all in the car in the parking lot, but with the well done efficiency of a mother of many she managed to get it all in there with me only taking stunned directions.

The next day I went to visit my mom and dad, and we went shopping and out for ice cream. I bought a new apron that I plan to take apart and make a pattern from. It was a bit expensive but it was so cute and I can make many from it now. On the way home I stopped and got 2 dozen eggs and some cream to make butter from my sister, and her friend Wendy.

So that was my two days away from home, now back to work.