We had a delicious Thanksgiving meal at hubby's brother Joseph & sister-in-law Jenny's house last night! It was chinese-american food ~ chinese dishes + turkey! It was topped with my favorite fresh-baked no-sugar-added apple pie & Sparkling apple cider from Pavillions (brought by me, haha).
Yesterday hubby was rummaging through the Black Friday ads and meticulously charted his course from Walmart to Office Depot to Costco. He was planning to go from 5am, determined to brave the crowds to get a laptop computer for his sweetheart (That's me!). Brother Joseph suggested that he bring a tent, as he can skip sleep altogether!
As it turned out, when we woke up this morning, it was already 9am! I guess it didn't turn out as he planned! When I went downstairs at 9:45am, hubby was already in a trance......eyes fixated on the computer screen and mumbling something about a sale on Toshiba's website for a $399 laptop that ends at 10am (15 minutes left)!
I knew he was doing serious business so I left him alone, and prodded Abbie to eat her breakfast quickly (oh, and I quickly wished Caleb 'Happy Birthday'! But by now he'd celebrated his bday 3 times with 3 cakes and was already numb about his "Big 8").
"Abbie-girl ~ You and I will have a mission today!" I told her. This will be OUR FIRST time going to a Black Friday sale! I was so excited! We will go to Toys R Us and buy big brother a bike for his birthday! It is a 20" Apex Street bike for boys, almost 50% off!
So we went, and made our way through the dense crowd, and Voila! We bought big brother a bike, and will pick it up in 2 days (since we had decided hubby will get pampered this year and let the Toys R Experts assemble the bike). The line was not bad, the store people were very experienced, and we enjoyed witnessing the 'feeding frenzy', as I called it, though they weren't sharks but shoppers.
Then we went to Home Depot to get 4 boxes of $0.99 multi-color mini lights! We figured the boys are home in cyberspace, so we girls will take it upon ourselves and deck our halls! As we walked around, I was ecstatic to see that their Christmas trees had already arrived in a tent outside! I've been yearning for a Christmas tree since my first, and only, tree since FOURTH GRADE!
We had to select the best tree and they kindly opened one of the trees for us to see. It was love at first sight as they opened up a beautiful young 6 feet Douglas Fir Christmas tree we named 'Dougee'. We snatched him up for $19.95, the best price we've seen in a few years!
A couple of nice young men tied up our new family member to my Odyssey and we brought him home to surprise our boys! Let's see daddy's reaction when he opens the front door! Will he be mad or happy?
Hubby also cyber-shopped with Abbie, and the two have secretly bought a gift for Abbie without letting mommy know what it is. It's their father-daughter bonding time, so I decided not to pry and just wait until 'it' arrives to fill you in on it (hope it's not alive!). I seriously believe hubby's sucked into the buying frenzy too, though just yesterday he was on his soapbox critiqinging that people don't really need these discretionary items, but are hooked on the adrenaline rush to get the best deal!
So we did our final excursion to hubby's favorite store ~ Costco ~ and bought some 'necessities', too! It is indeed a fun weekend, and it's only half over! So we'll see what surprises await us tomorrow and Sunday!
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