After driving to Payson to return the borrowed flute (gave him a thank you note with $20 in Toys R Us gift cards, by the way), and before the afternoon showing of Shrek the third, I realized we had an hour to kill.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I was feeling a tiny bit guilty that I haven’t really bought my kids any school clothes.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Nope.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 So, I hatched up a plan where I give them an allotment of money to spend on whatever they’d like to buy at the children’s clothing store.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I thought $20 was both reasonable and generous.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 They are just kids, after all, and they still have a lot of clothes they can wear.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 If they didn’t find things to buy, or didn’t use their full $20, they could get the balance–divided in 1\/2–in cash.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 So, if they only spent $10 of their $20, they would get $5 back.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Unfair and a bit arbitrary, you say?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Well, it’s my plan, and my money–so there.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I explained this to the kids on the way to the store, and Cole, always hard up for money, said, “Can I just take my 10 bucks right now?”\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I told him to look around.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe he’d find something he liked.<\/p>\n
In typical Natalie fashion, she wanted to know exactly how much she could get, and was there any money left to buy more stuff?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 A headband or two to go with her cute new outfit of a shirt and skirt, perhaps?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 She actually went over by 50 cents.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 She’ll have to pay me back.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Jenna wasn’t all that interested, nor could she make up her mind.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 She did find two cute shirts and a headband, and I think she gets $2 back in cash.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Megan found some cute cargo pants that we can cinch in real tight to fit her skinny frame for a year or two, and a green stiped shirt to go with them.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 $19 for her, so she’ll get 50 cents back.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Cole found a shirt for $6, and he’s happy to get $7 back (he needs money to buy the Ryan Shupe CD that we got autographed).\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 John doesn’t care about, nor does he need any new clothes right now.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Besides, he had been asleep in the car, so he was too busy hanging on me and whining and fussing to notice that we were even in a clothing store.<\/p>\n
There you have it, folks.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Back to school shopping in one hour or less.<\/p>\n
Oh, and Shrek the third was funny but too long.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 And I really appreciate Jenna’s waiting to throw up until after the movie and the drive home.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 That shows great self control, don’t you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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