history was never my best subject, until tonight

so we've all heard the phrase those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, right?

well, thankfully i learned from my past because this mistake did not occur again!

the scene of the crime: target

the offense: passing up a ridiculously cute, cheap pair of hot pink converse shoes.

the offender: me

yep... that's right. on monday i went to target. i had my kids with me. and my soon to be 5-year-old niece. i had time to kill before i was supposed to drop her off at my mother-in-law's house, so to target we went. i had to get ryan's medicine refilled, so as we waited for the prescription we wandered around target, each member of our posse hanging on to the cart, and touching nothing. we meandered through electronics, housewares, toys, and finally arrived at the shoes. there, before my eyes, was a whole aisle of clearanced shoes. i carefully looked them over, waiting for a pair to jump into my cart and demand that i buy them.

and then i saw them.

converse. hot pink. 75% off.

i flipped over the price tag. $4.98

$4.98!!!!

i looked at the size. girl's 2.

ugh... i wear anything from a woman's 7.5 to a 9, depending on the shoe, unlike my sister who can fit into both women's and girl's shoes. i searched through the shoes anyway, just hoping there might be a pair that would fit. and then i found them. girl's size 5.5.

i tried them on. they fit! but for some reason i was deliberating if i should buy them, when suddenly samantha piped up and said, "MOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!" (no, not oo as in moon, but a long, drawn out, said-with-an-attitude 'MOM') "WHY are you trying THOSE sneakers on?! you're NOT even a TEENAGER anymore!!!"

i took them off, put them back on the shelf, got ry's prescription, walked out the door, and drove away. (you know, after putting the kids in the car...)

* * *

back at home i tweeted my offense. i knew ashley would yell at me, but i didn't think everyone would! i guess it was evident that i WAS out of my mind.

it didn't take much to convince me that i needed to go back and buy the shoes, so the next morning we ventured out to target again. i grabbed a cart and headed straight for the shoes. after a minute of thinking they were gone, i saw them. i snatched them up and stuck them in my cart. and all wrongs were made right...

yes, ryan is kissing my shoes. i may or may not have thought of doing the same thing...

moral of the story? and i have the bestest friends! even when i mess up, they're right there to set me straight. that is, after they threaten to not be my friend, and don't want to look at me for 3 months!

oh, and don't pass up a cute five dollar pair of shoes!

wordless wednesday — target style

not me! monday

welcome to not me! monday! this blog carnival was created by mckmama. you can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

last monday my tooth broke. like the whole side of it cracked and was pulling away from my filling. so because i know that i won't be able to get into the dentist anytime soon (and because we don't have dental insurance and i don't feel like paying for a crown or a bridge—it's a tooth that's had a root canal.), i did NOT super glue my tooth. nope. not me! i did NOT get my handy dandy trusty headlight, my home dental kit (you know, the mirror and the pick thingy), and the super glue and i did NOT pull my tooth away from the filling and then squirt a bunch of super glue down in the crevice and push my tooth back into place. no... i definitely didn't do that! because if i did, i surely would've made a drawing or something. (sorry guys, i really did plan on making a visual aid, but i didn't have time today.)

after driving around to 4 local targets looking for a specific item, and calling my sister in minnesota to look for it, i did NOT convince my husband that we needed to go to a target 20 miles away. it was NOT an item that cost $2.50. i did NOT finally find it there, making the 40 mile round trip excursion a success. please don't ask how much gas we wasted...

on thursday i did NOT re-super glue my tooth.

on friday i decided to finally put away the groceries that had NOT been sitting on the floor in bags for about a week. and while i was over by the panty* i was NOT attacked by a swarm of fruit flies. ok, so i wasn't really attacked... anyway, in the bottom of my pantry i noticed that a walmart bag full of apples had a bunch of condensation on the inside. so i went to touch the bag just to find out that they were all rotten! (the bag was sitting on a couple other bags of potatoes and apples that were sitting on a couple 12 packs of soda.) so i got a trash bag to put it in, and when i pulled it out i realized the whole bag was pretty much liquid. it got all over the floor and all over me and it smelled like apple wine! a wonderful reminder of why i don't like wine... i cleaned out the rest of the stuff—the rotten apple juice had seeped down through the other bags, and through the packs of pop all the way down to the floor. needless to say, everything went to the trash. man, what is it with me and fermented fruit?!

*thanks for pointing out the typo, heather. no, people, i really do not keep groceries in my panties...

tonight i did NOT cook dinner. we did NOT eat at the kitchen table (third time in a week! *gasp!*). i did NOT put away the food after we were done eating. i did NOT wash the dishes. by hand. i did NOT then dry said dishes and put most of them away. my mom will NOT fall out of her chair when she reads this!

on thursday morning i did NOT stupidly cause a small fire in my kitchen. you'd think i'd learn from a mistake like that, right?! wrong. all day yesterday and most of today my stove did NOT look like this:



really, who would put the newspaper on the stove after they started a fire three days ago?! certainly NOT ME!!

the fire department is NOT on speed dial...


happy monday!

not me! monday

happy not me! monday y'all.


after our mountain of halloween candy that was purchased last year (that we gave most away and didn't even eat), we did NOT go to 3 different targets looking for cheap clearance candy this past week. and even though we didn't really find any candy to buy, ben and i did NOT find costumes for each other for 75% off. so if you saw that couple in target with the desert dancer and french maid outfit in their cart it was NOT us.

ahem.

moving on...


i took ryan to a thrift store the other day and did NOT find the complete game of "lucky ducks" for him. as ry held it while we looked around the store, the game did NOT turn on while inside the box. there was NOT loud quacking coming from our cart. and when i opened the box to turn it off, i couldn't figure out how to turn it off. so i did NOT close the box, continue to walk around the store with a loudly quacking game, pay for it, and walk out to the car and stick it in the trunk. ryan did NOT show me how to turn it off later...


while sitting in the drive-thru yesterday, i did NOT roll down my window and attempt to dump water out of an old taco bell cup. however i did NOT stop to think about the fact that the wind was blowing in right at me. you see where this is going, don't you?! ...i did NOT toss the water out the window only to have some of it come back in on me. ben did NOT have a good laugh.


i am NOT on pins and needles today waiting to hear updates on stellan. please pray for him and mckmama (founder of not me! monday) as they face a very risky surgery today. get all of mckmama's twitter updates here, or visit mckmama.com.

happy monday!

not me! monday

happy not me! monday. not only can we admit our imperfections without guilt, but this month there's also a chance to WIN! check out mckmama's blog to play along or for some hillarious reading material!

this week...

i did NOT take ryan to scary target the night before his EEG. i did NOT buy him $50 worth of toys to play with. and i certainly did NOT make him leave them in the boxes so that we can take them back...!

i did NOT clean the majority of my house on thursday (and it looked great!!), just to have my husband bring stuff home from the auction on friday. there is NOT a little path through my living room again.

in an effort to get out the door to make to church in time, i did NOT totally dump half of my mug of chai on my pop tart. and because breakfast is the most important meal of the day, i did NOT still eat it. and although i would never recommend a soggy pop tart, i am NOT trying to figure out how to make chai flavored pop tarts. because YUMM!!!

today i did NOT check the mail about four times and was NOT surprised to find nothing. on my fifth attempt to check the mail i did NOT remember that it is a holiday today. my retired mailman father is NOT laughing as he is reading this!!

i did NOT almost forget to call about ryan's EEG results today. the nurse told me that dr. h wasn't in today, so if she didn't call me this afternoon that she'd call me next week. hmmm.. (i wonder if she thinks it's friday?!) so our results are NOT that we have to wait for the results! i'll let you know when and what i find out!

ryan did NOT accidentally hit the enter button and post this before i was done. i am NOT scrambling to fix it before any of you see it!

happy columbus day monday!

scary target

remember how ryan doesn't like going to target? and that he cries and cries when we go by the scaries, or in other words, halloween stuff? well that little bugger is so smart that he figured out a way to avoid it—have a seizure.

last night after i dropped samantha and her friend off at church for awana, i decided to head over to target to grab a couple non-essential items. ryan and i got as far as the greeting cards. i was looking through the cards for a couple minutes and finally successfully picked one out.

*side note: i should SO make greeting cards. i'm sure i could come up with some better stuff than what was there. and even if i couldn't come up with anything, did you know that there was a blank cheap looking card there for over $3?! ridiculous...

anyway, i picked out the card, turned around to put it in the cart and ryan was seizing. his back was arched, his head was tilted way back with his eyes rolled back, and his arms were twitching. i grabbed my phone to check the time, tried to snap him out of it, then decided to jet outta there.
there was some humor to this, too, because i had to decide if i'd push him out in the cart or just grab him and run. i didn't want to carry my suitcase of a purse, and i had a mcdonalds bag in the cart too. so i ditched the card that i was intending to purchase and headed for the doors. but when i got to the door i realized that the envelope was still in there. i was looking around trying to figure out what to do with it and where to put it, and i finally just put it in another cart that was by the door. looking back i should've just shoplifted the envelope and then bought the card today.

anyway, i pushed him in the cart out to the car, called ben (who, thank God, reminded me that children's mercy urgent care was about 5 blocks away), and drove over there all the while watching ryan in the rear view mirror to make sure he was doing all right and to see if he was still seizing. by the time i got there, his seizure had stopped (it lasted about 2.5 minutes) and he had thrown up on himself. i ran into the clinic and they brought him back to a room right away because, as i later found out, the nurse said he was a little blue when i brought him in.


i laid him on the bed and as they took all his vitals (his temp was 99.5—they said this was not a febrile seizure like we suspected his first one to be.) he started responding to me a little bit. i was telling the nurse who was triaging him about his history and his recent MRI, and then i stopped mid-sentence. ryan started shaking, like he was shivering all over, and he wouldn't respond to me or make eye contact anymore. they called the doctor in. that seizure lasted a minute. he came back fairly quick after that seizure and from then on he was fine the rest of the night.


the doctor that was there called the neurologist that was on call that night. he prescribed keppra, and antiepileptic drug, for ryan to start on (if a person has 2 non-febrile seizures, they're pretty much considered epileptic). we also got a drug called diastat to carry with us, which will stop longer seizures FAST if needed.


we were discharged about an hour and a half after we had gotten there and man was ryan happy to go home! after i put him to bed i was all out of sorts. i was confused at what i should do with his meds, overwhelmed by all the "stuff" i needed to educate myself on, overloaded with questions in my head, tired, and totally chocolate deficient. thankfully i was able to go to bed with my mind at ease a little bit. i feel so incredibly blessed by my two friends (who have epileptic children of their own) who were able to encourage me and answer some of my questions. thank you nicole and cheryl!

this morning i took ryan to his first therapy session, which went great! i am going to save that for another post though. you're welcome. and then we went back to the scene of the crime so i could get that card that i picked out at target last night. and as nerve-wracking as that was, you have to get right back on the horse after you fall off, right?! thankfully, ryan didn't have any seizures, and he didn't even cry when we walked by the scaries!

this afternoon i was busy on the phone talking with dr. h, ryan's neurologist at children's mercy hospital here in kansas city and lynn, dr. h's nurse. i got a LOT of information and some questions answered. dr. h told me that she wasn't surprised to hear that ryan had more seizures. she said that with the findings on his MRI, you would expect seizures and she was actually surprised that he had only had one before. we will start ryan on his medication to hopefully prevent him from having any more seizures right now, and we have an EEG tentatively scheduled for late november, although lynn said that it will most likely be bumped up to october or early november.

after all my phone calls today my mouth hurt from talking (not the first time that has happened! haha!) and my head hurt from listening. i had an i-need-to-cry headache. i took a spoon and ate a couple bites right out of the chocolate french silk ice cream carton. i gave samantha a crash course in what to do in case of a seizure. and i cried. samantha asked me what was wrong and i told her i was sad about ryan. and the wise 6-year-old that she is answered me with "mom, he'll be fine. he was fine the first time he had a seizure. and besides, we'll all be healed someday. from Jesus." ohhh, what a blessing she is!

thank you all for your prayers and concerns and encouragement that you offered last night—it means so much to all of us! and also, if you made it to the end of this post, congratulations! i will try not to be as talkative (or would that be typative?) next time!

not me! monday

good morning and welcome to not me! monday!! hop on over to mckmama's blog for some more hillarious not me! monday confessions (but right after you read mine, of course!)


i did NOT blog about treating our house for fleas, and then blog a few days later about how i don't clean my house. i did NOT realize that this would make us sound like sloppy, messy, white trashy people. and while i can assure you that we're not, i will admit that we're simply NOT a little disorganized! (and our house doesn't look that bad anymore...!)'

samantha did NOT finally start school last tuesday only to have wednesday off because her friend came over. we are only a few weeks behind now and i did NOT just order the rest of her curriculum on saturday...!

while ben and samantha were gone all day saturday, i did NOT decide to go to target with ryan. and when we were walking towards the entrance ryan did NOT start saying "scary, scary." (all because we went to target a couple weeks ago and ryan bawled his head off because he was terrified when we walked past the halloween aisles.) after we made it through the store with only a few tears and $50 spent, i did NOT decide to go to another target for a repeat performance. hello, my name is erin, and i am NOT addicted to target!

i did NOT take a pregnancy test last monday after thinking that there was a slight huge possibility i might be pregnant. it was NOT negative. (although really, it was negative!) and as the week went on and on i did NOT get more and more nervous that the test was wrong. i did NOT resolve that i would take yet another test this morning, until finally last night my aunt flo did NOT show up eight days late! i did NOT breathe a sigh of relief and silently say thank you Jesus! because even though we do NOT want to have more kids, we're not quite ready to pursue that venture right now—sorry auntie di and gramma! (oh, and sorry dad if that was a little too much information!!)

on friday, i did NOT whack my head on the washing machine whilst bending over to pick up ryan. it still does NOT hurt. yesterday ben did NOT throw out his neck while he was clearing his throat. and this morning, i did NOT wake up to a thud when samantha fell off of her ladder. i am NOT wondering when and how ryan will hurt himself. might as well make this a family affair, right?!


happy monday, y'all. have a blessed day!

i champion cheap shoes. and target clearance.

call me frugal, call me penny-pinching, call me an uncommon woman, but i like me some cheap shoes. so of course a few months ago i found it hard to breath when i bought my $60 tennis shoes. and they were on sale. and i even had a $10 off coupon--i only paid $40 for my shoes and it was heart-wrenching to me!! don't get me wrong here. i LOVE spending money. just not on shoes. so my $40 shoes stay inside the house. they are for treadmill use only. never have i worn them outside.

so i had a dilemma: we are going camping for a week. and we take lots of walks while camping. and i don't like taking lots of walks in flippy-flops. so with our trip quickly approaching i needed to find a cheap pair of walking shoes for outdoor use and today it was my goal to find some inexpensive ones. i had already looked at *cough* walmart, but didn't remotely like any of the ones there. so next up was payless. i browsed through the aisle holding my shoe size and didn't really find a price i liked. yes, $24.99 was way too much to spend on camping shoes. i figured i would have to return to walmart and buy the $13 butt-ugly, probably-hurt-like-crap, and will-fall-apart-in-no-time tennis shoes.

but right at that moment the angels sang and a bright light burst forth from a box on the bottom shelf. could it be true?? was i really seeing a $10 sticker on the box?!? i enthusiasically tried on the shoes. they fit great and felt even better! and here's the kicker: they're pink!!

i left the store splendidly happy that i got a $35 pair of shoes for $10!! thank you God!

(now do you get my pun on the title?! hehe!)

then i headed next door to target, where i got another cheap pair of flippy-flops, clearance shoes for samantha, and best of all a cute clearance bra and panties. and no, i won't post a picture of that. you're welcome, dad!

so this is my thankful thursday: good deals and money saved--so that i can go spend it on something else!

what are you thankful for today?

not me! monday

happy not me! monday. this blog carnival was created by mckmama. head on over to her blog to join in on the fun and read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week!

but first, time to own up to the stupid things i did not do this week!

while getting dressed one morning (in the dark as to not wake up ben), i did not grab a new stick of deodorant by accident. i did not then proceed to take off the cap and apply as usual. and because it was brand new, it did not still have the plastic protective cover on it, thus totally scraping my arm pit up and then down again. i did not hold in my "ouch!" scream and instead let out a little whimper.

i do not brush my teeth in the shower just so that i can stay in there longer. so there's no way i would have
a) grabbed my toothpaste and toothbrush,
b) opened the toothpaste
c) been on the verge of squeezing it out onto my toothbrush
d) then realized i actually grabbed my razor and not my toothbrush.
that would not have been a fun one to explain.

it surely wasn't me who skipped a day of school with samantha to go pick up my phantom of the opera tickets. no... i do not cancel a whole day of school when it's convenient for me!

my husband is the most caring, thoughtful, and honest person. so i know it wasn't him who told samantha "mommies who stay at home sleep all day." and he did not say that after taking a nap himself... then 4 hours later when i said something about it he did not say, "well it's true. except for you, hun. but it is true, is it not?!"

i did not take a picture of my toilet to post on my blog. and when i uploaded it to the computer i did not realize how dirty it was, go clean it, then take another picture. nope... i'm such a good housekeeper that my toilets are never dirty.

i do not have a hereditary love for ice cream, so i definitely have not gone without ice cream for the past 2 weeks. (mom... please pick yourself off of the floor now.)

i did not rejoice in others' misfortunes this week. twice. while shopping at target, an obnoxious 12-14 year old girl did not fly past me wearing those tennis shoes that have the little wheel in the back. those shoes do not drive me nuts, so when she got 10 feet in front of me and totally wiped out i did not smile and say "yes!!" (i do not feel like i'm old after complaining about obnoxious teenagers...)
and yesterday morning as i was waiting in the car, a teenaged boy did not happen to skateboard by on the sidewalk in front where i was parked. as he glanced over at me he did not absolutely lose his concentration and trip all over the place. i did not look away to conceal my laughter!! it totally did not make my day!

what have you not done lately?

10/52 photo challenge

oh the things that make my life easier! the challenge for this week was knowing where to stop! the list could go on and on...

i bet y'all thought i was gonna post a picture like this, huh...

well, i've decided to go the more uncommon route. while we all benefit from dishwashers, electricity, washing machines, running water, cars, etc., here are a few things that indeed make my life easier!


indoor toilets. believe me, for the amount of times i go to the bathroom any average day (or night, for that matter) an indoor toilet certainly makes my life easier! and not just any indoor toilet. more specifically, a western style toilet as opposed to a squat toilet i once saw in an indian movie. i can guarantee that would be disastrous with me.

my laptop, sheba. ok, i guess most everyone benefits from computers and email. but i just cringe at the thought of having to write a letter to communicate with my friends and family. oh, and i don't know how i'd blog without her...



wet wipes. kids. need i say more for you to realize how they make my life easier? and i'm not just talking about diaper changes.

keyless entry. have you ever carried a 25 pound wiggling toddler, a purse, diaper bag, 4 heavy grocery sacs, while holding your 5-year-old's hand and all at the same time fumbled with your keys (that you can't see) to get the car door unlocked? well i haven't! because i have this wonderful little button on my keychain that unlocks the doors for me. now if i only had remote start...

showers. raise your hand if you take a bath every day. every other day? once a week? anyone? no one? yep... that's what i thought. the shower is something i take for granted. and i shouldn't because boy, it's a whole lot easier than taking a bath. although it would be nice to soak in the bath once a week... but that's out because remember, i have kids.

my alarm clock. my internal clock is so off that i'd be in big trouble if i didn't have my alarm to wake me!

night lights. 2, 3, 4, sometimes 5 or even 7. that's how many times i get up at night thanks to the children or my bladder. i wonder how many injuries i'd have if i didn't have night lights all over the house. and i'm sure ben wouldn't like it if i turned the big light on at 3am!

one-stop shopping. really, 'nough said.

ben. now i'm not trying to be sappy by saying that ben makes my life easier, because he really does. except for the times when, well, he doesn't!


what makes your life easier?!

5/52 photo challenge

it's time for photo of the week! this week's category is sports. thank goodness it can be anything related - equipment, teams, players, etc. i don't know why this category wasn't left for summertime, but i guess that's what makes it a challenge!

i was going to take a picture of samantha this morning at her sparks-o-rama awana olympic practice, but i read the information sheet wrong and practice doesn't start until next saturday. hmmmmm....

so then i had to get creative! i don't play sports, and goodness knows i'll have plenty of pictures of ben playing softball here pretty soon, so i didn't want to take a picture of a bat and ball.

so i decided to go shopping at target and try to get some inspiration. after moseying through the toy department i came to the sporting goods. and there lined up in a big long row were all the bikes. i thought that would be a good picture. after all, that was probably my favorite thing to do growing up. but then it dawned on me. i do have a sport....

SHOPPING!!!

well, target clearance shopping, that is!

my equipment... (the cart)


...and two of the best team players!

would you like to save 10% on your purchase today by signing up for a target red card?

this is one of the things i hate the most about target. well, besides the fact that they have 20 check out lanes and only 2 open. sometimes only one. even with long lines. i digress...

but i hate it when they ask you all the time if you'd like to apply for a credit card. no, we already have one thank you, one that was maxed, one that the apr was about 22.9%, one that we PAID OFF about 5 months ago. no, i really don't want to save $20 on my purchase when i'll be paying $10 a month in interest. no thank you, we really don't want another target red card.

i don't ususally get into that kind of conversation when they ask the simple question, but that is what rambles through my mind. (although after we paid it off we were asked if we'd like a credit card and i told the lady, "nope, we had one that we just paid off and we definitely don't want to go down that road again!" i hope i wasn't too rude to her.)

so black friday morning i was at target when the doors opened (actually before they opened and got to stand in line), easily made my way through the store, snagged the items i wanted and was headed for the checkout in no time. they even had seven lanes open. i don't think i've ever seen that many open at one time. (yes, i stopped to count.) i chose the express lane and was greeted by a nice lady that was probably in her 60s. i'll call her marge. as we were chatting she mentioned that she was nervous because she was from a different store and that the computers were a little different and she wasn't used to them.

as she was finishing scanning all my items i swiped my debit card and signed for my purchases thinking i would shortly be on my way to the next store.

nope.

marge looked at me and asked, "would you like to save 10% on your purchase today by signing up for a target red card?"
me - "no thank you."
marge - "ok." she said, smiling. then she hit a button looked at the screen for a minute and said "ohhhhh....... oh no....... uh oh.... OH NOOO......"
she started pushing some different buttons and then found a credit card application, scanned something on it, asked for my driver's license and scanned it, asked me what my address was, then handed me the application brochure, looked at me with appologetic eyes and said, "just throw it away."

uggghhhhhh. so apparently she had pushed the yes i'd like a credit card button on accident and had to go through the whole process. meanwhile the lines were backing up behind me. i didn't dare look, but i could see the impatient people out of the corner of my eye.

then marge asked me to sign something on the credit card thingy. (what's that called anyway?) but there was nothing to sign. it stated that i had already completed my transaction. so marge was stuck. she was pushing buttons on the computer, flipped her light so that she could get some help, and just kind of looked around unknowingly. poor marge. finally the lady from the cafeteria - let's call her pat - came over to help.

**side note - why is the cafeteria opened at 6:15 on black friday morning? are they having a popcorn special that people don't want to miss out on?**

so pat and marge discussed what was happening and pat asked me for my i.d. again. so i gave it to her and she went through the whole process of scanning, swiping, and asking again.
pat looked at my license and asked me, "is your first name erin?"
me - "yes."
pat - "is your last name k***?"
me - "yes...?" can you seriously not see it on my license?
pat - "is your address blah blah blah?"
me - "yes......."

she finally got done with all that and asked me to sign on the credit card thingy again. "it says my transaction is complete. i already swiped my card and signed it," i said. so pat started pushing a bunch of buttons and got stuck again!!!

finally i looked at pat and said "is there no way you can get out of this because i don't want the credit card."
pat - "oh, you don't?"
me - "no!" (laughingly, not rude.)
she pushed some more buttons and after a couple more minutes my receipt finally printed out - my ticket to leave the store! after the 15 minute fiasco i quickly took the receipt, did not even dare to glance at the line behind me, and swiftly got out of the store!

and to think i went back there today...!

not me! monday ...and a contest

it's monday again! here is what we (yes, i'm being brutally honest for ben too) did NOT do this week!

a couple days after halloween we did not go to target and ben did not buy a mound of candy that was on sale.

after target we did not go to walmart and he did not beg me let him get another bag of candy because "please???? it's my favorite..."

then last wednesday we did not go to target again and notice that the remaning candy was on sale even more and once again ben could not pass up such a deal. (no, really, he couldn't pass it up!)

then friday night we definately didn't go to target AGAIN (yeah, we love target. and these were all different targets by the way) and we he certainly didn't buy even more candy.

tonight i did not look at the mound of target bags filled with candy wondering how many pounds of candy we had and i did not add it all up. i definately was not shocked at the amount i had calculated and then i did not find another target bag full of candy. ahhhh!

after telling ben how many pounds of candy we have he did not say "cool! lets eat it all tonight!"

so can you guess how many pounds of candy we have? click on comments to leave your guess. whoever is closest gets a bag of candy! hey---i have to get rid of it somehow! (and no, ben my love, you cannot guess the correct answer to get another bag of candy!)

play along! what did you not do?