The Hackworths

My bad.  Again.  Moving on.

So, here in the land of Iwakuni we have limited American shopping options.  And when I say limited, I mean we have The Exchange.  The Exchange hates me.  I want some tiki torches, so of course, there are none at The Exchange.  I proceed to my default second option, Target.com.  It can never be as good as stepping in to a brick and mortar Target and getting smacked in the face by the smell of popcorn and seeing all of that shiny, pretty red, but you take what you can get.

So, I find some tiki torches online.  I like them.  I put them in my virtual shopping cart.  I go to check out, but no.  There will be no shipping of the tiki torches to APO/FPO addresses.  WHAT?!  So, frantically, I check Amazon, Lowe’s, and Home Depot only to be shot down again and again.

I thought about taking my neighbors’, but it’s an awfully small base and I’m sure I’d get caught.  I could ask The Exchange if they’ll be getting any more tiki torches this summer, but I’d have to talk to 95 people before one of them would finally give me the wrong answer, so I’m stuck checking in every few days to see if some miracle has occurred and they actually have something people want to buy.  Besides Roxy purses, because they usually have an awesome collection of those.  Until I see them anyway…

This baby can come any time now. Thanks to my mother in law and father in law, we now have the stroller and carseat for the little man. I also bought the coolest carrier thingy ever last week. 6 weeks to go!

• Stroller
• Carseat
• Carrier

I didn’t use actual pictures of the actual stroller and carseat because my house is dirty.

The girls and I got up bright and early for our yard sale adventures. We weren’t doing very well until we hit the 5th one. Here we hit the jackpot. I don’t know how I get so lucky when I go to these things. I’m so glad that everyone just had boys because it seems like there are no girl clothes. I’d be totally lost if we were having another girl. Anyway, I spent a total of $36 at the yard sales today. Here’s what we got:

• 15 Pairs of Footed Jammies
• 6 Onesies
• 5 Blankets
• 4 Gowns
• 4 Hats (Match Onesies or Gowns)
• 2 Shirts
• 1 Bib
• 1 Pair of Pants
• 1 Pair of Booties
• 1 Pair of Shoes
• 1 Pair of Hand Mittens (Rattles Built In)

All in all, I think I did pretty darn good. Several of the footed jammies still had tags on them along with the hand mitten rattles and one pair of the booties. I had way too much fun and I wish I had more money to spend because the lady had lots more!

I had to make a late night trip to Wal-Mart last night. I wasn’t paying attention and needed to get some diapers for Lou. Funny how the baby section is right next to the DVD’s. We ended up buying the new Spongebob DVD that came out earlier this week. At least there weren’t any of the $5 DVD’s worthy of purchasing.