yesterday

The weather yesterday was ideal. Most Saturday mornings I go to the thrift store. Right sharp at 9am.. or I may as well not even go. There is always a line outside before the doors open, which gets longer and longer as the minutes tick closer to the door unlocking . I watch, with amusement, from my car while I listen to music and play Words with Friends.

Yesterday was the first Saturday that it hadn't rained in three weeks.. and there were twice as many people outside as normal. I don't get the correlation.. you'd think there would be less people as everyone should be out enjoying the fantastic weather.

Later, I attempted to take Lily and Noah to our favorite playground. But we had never really gone there on a weekend when the weather was warm.. and I was reminded why. Easily fifty to sixty cars were in the "parking lot." Which is in quotes because there are really only enough spots for about thirty cars.

I laughed and drove right on by. And kept going, naturally, to Target. For the most part they were alright with that.. that and the promise that we'd play on our own playground when we got home.

Which we did. For a little while.

Slides. Swings. I cleared up a lot of the sticks that had fallen around their playground over the winter. Until I looked down to ants crawling all over my shoes. And beyond shoes.

As the weather has gotten warmer and warmer this year, Noah is getting better at not wandering (and running at a full tilt) away from me when we're in the front yard. I have definitely been lulled into a false sense of security and will be more likely to be duped in the future.

Lily stalked a butterfly.

There was also general wandering.

And then we went inside so I could put the groceries away.

Boring.

However, not before..

Spent the last 2 minutes yelling at a bee (yellow jacket?) to GET OUT OF MY CAR! Because the neighbors don't think I'm wacko enough yet
— Laura (@teamtantrum) May 3, 2014

I got the groceries out of the car while holding onto Noah as he tried to escape. Then I tried to keep both children away from the bee while also trying to get it out of my car. Without getting stung.

Because there was nothing I could do but keep the car door open and loudly encourage the bee to not take up residence in the small hiding spaces under the driver's seat. After a couple minutes of encouragement, it picked the rear passenger window on the other side of the car and banged up against it half a dozen times. I quickly opened that door before I lost any chance at all. There was no way I was going to walk away without 100% knowing it wasn't in the car any longer.

I really wish I had seen the video.