Season Premier

You know how the season finale of a show is always a cliff hanger, and you have to wait 5 months to find out what happens. I figured that what's my last post was like, which would make this one the season premier, right? Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating that a bit. :)

Well, here's how my Saturday went, GA lost, my daughter's team won, and I went to the wrong game. Lesson learned. Ugh! Anyway, the good news is because her team won, we move to round two of playoffs, and I'll get to watch her play again tomorrow! 

Monday, was a whole new tale...M has a homecoming dance on 10/26. So yesterday, we set out to find a dress. Let me paint this picture for you. Me, my 15 year old 5'10" hormonal charming daughter, my strict and modest amazing husband, my dear sweet mother who hasn't had to deal with homecoming in 15 years, my sister's mother-in-law (who happens to be my mom's best friend) and never had daughters, and my 5 year old nephew (who turned out to be great entertainment). What could go wrong!?!  Well, believe it or not the first dress she tried on was perfect! Absolutely beautiful, made for M! But...(you knew there was a but!) it was a long maxi dress, and apparently there is an unwritten rule that you CANNOT (listen to me...CAN NOT) wear a long dress to homecoming. It's basically a cardinal sin. So after 6 more dresses that made M a dead runner for the lead in Pretty Women, we moved to the next store. 2 hours and 20 dresses later, I accidentally picked up a dress I didn't check the price on (I blame the fact that they do not sell alcohol at our mall, which I was obviously in need of at this point.) Well, wouldn't you know it fit perfect?! Great! Well, now we have a problem. M has a $160 budget and this dress is $120, which means she only has $40 for shoes & jewelry. So we put on a big girl panties and our running shoes and march over to DSW to look for a deal. (Meanwhile the clock is ticking and she has volleyball practice in 2 hours, no pressure.) Well, no such luck. Now we have 1 hour, no dress, no shoes, no leads, and one very, very emotional teenager.

We head back to the store to purchase the overpriced dress, but make M do one more walk-thru to make sure she didn't see anything else. Despite her insistence that she had tried on everything, we enter the dressing room with 12 new dresses (guess those just magically appeared in the last hour), and finally found the one!!! Coming in a $60 we had plenty of money for shoes, which came in a $65, with $35 left for jewelry. Oh thank God this day is over (and that I have a bottle of Skinny Girl Margarita in the fridge)!!

I also somehow managed to stay under my calorie count all weekend. If you consider that it involved 2 birthday parties and a college football game, and the previously described day from hell adventure that is no small miracle! I even splurged yesterday & had Starbucks for breakfast, which included a grande skinny vanilla latte (120 calories) and 1 petite vanilla scone (120 calories) = 240 calorie breakfast

Well, this next week should be packed full of adventure, which means this season should be hell great! Seriously, my next 7 days include: Pink Party (breast cancer awareness celebration) which I have to pick up the info/literature for, pick up decorations for, set up & decorate, and speak at, volleyball practice (4 days) and volleyball game, Truth Be Told Art Party, 80th Birthday celebration for my Papa which I have to cook & set up for, Church & Connections Class which I have yet to prepare the lesson for, and somehow get out late letters for the HOA, and approve and send out the minutes from our last meeting. This on top of working 40 hours and being wife & mom. Nope, I don't get in the middle of too much at all.