Sister! Sister! Sister!
(No. Not one for Madeleine. Ga! Get over that already! MY sister. Mine.)
My sister is coming tonight to visit for a few days. YAE! She lands at midnight tonight which is not so yae! But do you know what this means? This means I get to go grocery shopping! I know I’ve posted about it before but I can’t for the life of me find it to link to it. The anxiety that comes with leaving the house alone with this child! It has come down to running to the grocery store for maybe five things tops at a time. I haven’t actually done a real grocery trip in at least two months, if not longer. She can survive maybe ten minutes but then she’s bored and done with it. (Leaving her home? Haha. You are funny, funny people.) I finally got around to using her shopping cart seat cover a couple of weeks ago and that bought me maybe an extra three minutes. But isn’t it cute?? Okay, really loud and obnoxious. But it serves its purpose!
Anyway, so woohoo! We’re going grocery shopping this weekend. Which I am sure makes my sister so very thrilled. Traveling two thousand miles, while seven months pregnant, to go grocery shopping. I can see her doing cartwheels right now. (Actually what I see is her rolling her eyes thinking, “You are the biggest dork.” But we don’t need to go into that.) To make up for it though, I am taking her baby stuff shopping. Of course we’ll hit the normal chain places (Babies R Us because hey – my baby needs stuff too and remember that whole thing about not shopping alone with her??) but there are so many awesome baby boutiques out here that I just love. My very favorite boutique lately is Cradle & Crayon. We’ve bought and been given so many things for Madeleine from there so of course I have to take my sister. But just to get out of the house, put the baby in her stroller and not have to panic that she is going to completely meltdown while I'm in the middle of something - oh the excitement is killing me.
Aside from shopping, this will be her best visit ever because we don’t have one thing planned. At all. Usually when we are in the same state together we’re so booked that there isn’t time to breathe. But this time we’ll just hang out, plan her baby shower that I’m giving her next month, and pawn the baby off on her so I can get some things done spend quality time with her favorite little niece. Oh – and try to keep her and my husband from becoming best friends. Oh. Wait. They’d have to not absolutely hate each other and actually speak to each other for that to ever happen.