What a hectic day

Today was a good day, but hectic. Kaelin and I decided to try the new Color Wonder fingerpaint set we bought last night. I was expecting it to be more of a solid gel (like Carmex) but it is more of a snotty substance. Kaelin kept dipping in and getting huge globs to paint with. But overall it was fun. Daddy has a new piece of "art" to take to work and display. :)

I had to take the car to Discount Tire because the back right tire has been running low. I dropped it off and walked across the street to get us some lunch at McDonald's. The guy from DT came over and told me the tire was trashed because there was a nail in the sidewall of the tire. Dammit! Those are new tires with less than 8000 miles on them. So I forked over $180 for a new tire, after I had already paid $25 to get the tires rotated also. I could have sworn I saw paperwork in the glove box when we bought the car for a warranty at NTB, but it wasn't in there when I looked. It wasn't too bad of a trip though because they had most of the work done by the time we got back from lunch and it only took about 10 minutes to get the new tire on. Kaelin ran around playing peek a boo around the tire displays, giving me mini heart attacks.

I stopped at CVS to get Mike some shampoo since I had Extra Reward Bucks to spend. His shampoo was on sale plus I got $5 more in Extra Bucks. I love when that happens! Kaelin latched on to a pair of red Mickey Mouse sunglasses and wouldn't let go of them. So she now is the proud owner of 1 million and one pairs of sunglasses. Whatever. It kept her from continuing to pull everything off of the shelves. Our trip into Krogers was a bit better. I was able to keep her in the cart for all of about 5 minutes. But atleast I didn't get a huge fit, so that was nice.

I have had BBQ chicken in the oven for the last few hours and it smells so good! I'm going to make fresh corn on the cob to go with it. When I make a menu and a good grocery list I can stick to cooking every night. Then Mike has lunch for work each day and doesn't have to buy anything. But when we run low in groceries, I totally slack on cooking and we eat late each night. I much more prefer to an early, delicious, dinner to take out any day.