Super Shopper Saturday

Last Saturday, we took the girls out to spend their Christmas gift cards (presents from Grandma Lauer – Thanks!)  I was not really looking forward to shopping with either one of the girls, but Steve forced me to go with him.

Shopping with Hannah is usually very stressful, because she wants what she wants no matter how much it costs, or how awful it looks. We usually end up fighting over whatever she decides to buy. So on this day I was determined not to say a word about anything she picked out.

Shopping with Elizabeth is usually very exasperating because she can not make a decision about anything. She walks around the store talking about how much she loves everything, but is unable to pick out exactly what she wants. This usually leads to me picking out her clothes for her, and then having her not like them later. So I decided that she was going to have to pick out, try on and make her own decision about what she wanted to buy.

I don’t know if it was because I went into the whole thing with a different attitude, or what, but the whole shopping experience wasn’t so bad. Hannah was a great bargain shopper and got almost twice as many items as Libby did. That is fine with me, because it took Libby twice as long as Hannah to pick out half as many things.

Surprisingly enough, Steve was a great help and made sure that Libby picked out the right sizes and found matching leggings for her. Really, it’s only because he forgot his Kindle at home and so he didn’t have anything else to do.

After we shopped, we hit The Olive Garden for lunch. I do love it there, how can you go wrong with soup, salad, and breadsticks? During lunch the girls were talking about how they wanted to get their hair cut shorter. So on the way home, we dropped into Great Clips and they got new hair do’s.

Poor Hannah, she suffers from what we like to call “The Fun’s All Over Syndrome.” She has such a melt down when it’s time to go home. I told the girls that we would take pictures of them doing a fashion show with their new clothes on, By the time that we got home she didn’t even want to change into her new clothes, but I still made her. We only got a couple of good pictures. I think we need a new camera – lately none of my pics have turned out.