Please No Shots

I wanted to do something special with all 4 kids this morning.  I know how they are though.  If I tell them we are doing something they have never done before they whine and cry about it.  They will tell me it’s going to be boring, that it’s dumb, whatever.  I finally figured out that I just wouldn’t tell them what we were doing until we were at the location.  (I’m a slow learner…lol)

Lauren couldn’t take it.  She had to know.  When I wouldn’t tell her, the anxiety set in.  Then I wouldn’t tell her, why I wouldn’t tell her, where we were going. 

So she hesitantly comes into the bathroom while I am getting ready to go and asks, “Mom, am I getting a shot?”

I laughed so hard at her.  For one, who gets shots on a Saturday!  For another, I could never be that cruel!

We actually went to see the “Festival of Trees.”  The FOT is an annual event.  My office always enters a Christmas tree.  This year we did an Elvis Presley tree.  We thought we were being creative but it was one of three Elvis trees.  It is a weeklong event.  Today was the final day.  People buy raffle tickets and then put one in a bucket in front of their favorite trees.  In the afternoon, they are raffled off.  The money goes to a local agency that helps developmentally disabled children and adults.  We bought 10 tickets.  Austin put both of his tickets in a tree that was covered with teddy bears that were dressed in camoflauge.  I’m not exactly sure where the girls put theirs because they did it before I could see.  I put mine in my Elvis tree and in one I thought my hubby would like.  Matthew put his in one that spun and was covered in toys.  He put his other one in a white tree that was covered in pink, purple and green balls.  We had a lot of fun checking them out.  Unfortunately, we didn’t win a tree.  But it could have been worse.  We could have won 5 trees!!!