The Queen's Rambles

I didn’t have to wait long for my Kohl’s coupon. Big surprise there, eh? Anyway, I was off to the races. . .errrrr. . . the housewares display as soon as I dropped Erik off at preschool.

I had decided to take the advice of Jennifer, a commenter, and get Fiesta Ware even though it is not my first inclination. I go for sparkly. But Fiesta Ware makes a lot of sense and I liked the idea of easily mixing and matching pieces over the years.

Unfortunately they did not have plates available for sale by themselves. They only came in packs with a whole serving place (five items). I wanted eight plates and eight salad plates. I didn’t need an extra eight mugs, bowls and whatever else was in the pack. And I sure as hell couldn’t afford to buy eight full sets, 30% off coupon or not.

I thought my plans were foiled. I couldn’t find anything else I liked at Kohl’s, either. My options were red hot peppers, plain white squares (I love squares but they don’t fit well in the microwave), or red and black bears. Where was the blue? I need my blue!

I headed over to Target, but was distracted by TJMaxx. I never go in there, but I thought they were supposed to have housewares. Indeed they did. Lots of rooster plates.

I tried to escape the store without spending money, but a display of clearance priced girly Christmas clothes. My new baby is now the proud owner for four $2 Christmas outfits.

I ended up getting my new dishes at Target, a set I have been eyeing for awhile. Normally it would not really be my style, but it matches our room really well and has several colors that could go with different color schemes. I was very tempted to get dark blue and white, but they didn’t seem as sturdy and they wouldn’t have matched our color scheme at all.

Aren’t you glad I’m boring you with every detail of the plates? I would take a picture, but they’re all in the dishwasher.

In other news, Erik got a haircut today. I didn’t want to drive all the way down to the mall for a kid’s cut and figured he was old enough to handle a regular ol’ cheap salon cut. Turns out that the cheap salon cuts take a lot longer than the kid cuts, but look much better and cost a few dollars less. The lady actually blended the lines so he doesn’t have a goofy, gradiated look.

I’ve been having Braxton-Hicks contractions the last few nights. I was awake quite a bit with them last night, but finally fell asleep in the early hours. Usually I’m awake when Erik comes into the room, but I was totally zonked out. I was dreaming I was in labor and my mom was trying to get me to the hospital. Only problem? She kept tickling my feet and wouldn’t stop no matter how much I yelled at her.

Erik is very lucky I didn’t kick him in the face. I don’t know how long he was standing at the end of bed, tickling my feet, until I finally woke up.

We’re in a really sweet phase right now. He crawls into bed and tells me how he is going to marry daddy when he’s older and sleep in our bed and go to work with daddy. Awwww! Some days he’ll say he’ll marry me, too. Yesterday he was going to marry baby Elsa. I’m going to miss these days when he’s a teenager and can’t stand to be in the same room with us.