CHEAP THRILLS

We had a low key weekend.

Starting on Friday – spur of the moment I decided to take Bea to get her hair cut. It’s bugging me and I just wanted a professional to clean it up a little. So I took her to a special kids haircut place. It looked like a toy store when we walked in. They had miniature cars and boats that kids could sit in while getting their hair cut. And you could pick a movie to watch while getting your coif. It should have felt like a happy wonderland to Bea. But it didn’t, she clung to my neck with a death grip and would not stop crying. I tried walking around with her, showing her all the toys and balloons for about 10 or 15 minutes but it didn’t help. So we ended up leaving with no haircut. OK, so maybe this part of the weekend was not really a thrill but at least it was cheap. I just gave the poor woman a little tip for wasting her time.

Saturday morning I went to a rummage sale at a big church near our house. Look at all the loot I got for four dollars. An airtane (that’s airplane to you), some little Pyrex storage jars, a metal serving dish and a cool little Danish dish. Even if I hadn’t found anything it was very entertaining to walk around the rabbit warren of basement rooms in the church and see the over-eager people rummaging. Plus, it’s always thrilling when I get to go out and do some shopping all by myself. Then later on Saturday we did some Christmas shopping at an outlet place in Wisconsin – wow there were lots of sales. That was thrilling. Sunday, I was sick in the morning but my super-hero husband took such good care of me that it was almost a thrill to stay in bed… almost. I was feeling better by the evening and so it was time to carve pumpkins. Bea started crying in horror when I cut open the first pumpkin and she glimpsed her first pumpkin guts. She perked up later and enjoyed watching me make a mess. I really wanted a family photo with the pumpkins – so we went outside and just as Brian was setting up the camera it started snowing. We decided this one photo was good enough and dashed back inside. After dinner I lit one of the pumpkins and we turned off all the lights. Bea and I sat down to gaze at the glowing pumpkin and she promptly tucked her head under my chin and fell asleep. Sigh.