My grandson Sawyer turns 6 tomorrow so I asked permission to mask up and take him shopping for a birthday present. I haven’t spent much time with him in the past year and he hasn’t been to Walmart in as long so off we went to discover what cool toys were out there. On the way I let him know that he could spend $5 for every year. Once we got into the toy section we walked slowly up and down the rows. He made several choices as we went. I showed him the tags on the shelf and that he could choose anything that started with a 2 or a 1. His first choices were small but cool and then we hit the Lego aisle. He wanted all of them so I pointed out a few he had shown interest in and then he found the one. It was so cute to see him cling to it and be so happy. As we continued down the rows he saw a few more things but each time he would look at his lego and then the other toy and decide to keep his. We did see a Star Wars knock off ‘wand’ and with that we were the $30 mark (before taxes). Next was drive thru McDonald’s, his personal favourite. I really enjoy chatting with him. He kept his mask on even in the back seat and that impressed me. Once I dropped him at home his three brothers gave me money to go back tomorrow and pickup some of the smaller things he like for them to give him. I can’t believe I hadn’t thought of this sooner! Birthday boy got an outing in a a safe way and will get the things he loved tomorrow!
After dinner Diane R came over to swap puzzles. I had already started the one I couldn’t resist buying while at Walmart. Glitter edition!!
We had a safe visit over two pots of tea. It was so great to catch up!! After she left, Missy came in but after she ate, she barfed it back up on the floor. So help me, if she is a sick cat, I will never get another one. I am now attached…
There was one other thing that finally occurred today. My book arrived that I made. I am not even remotely happy with DHL, the shippers. The parcel was shipped from Kuala Lumpur on January 26th, on the 28th I paid the duty and it made it to the Kelowna service area with scheduled delivery for Feb 3rd. No show, new scheduled delivery Feb 10, no show. Call again, scheduled delivery for the 15th and case closed according to an email from the escalation team. Yesterday I call again to speak to a nice lady who tells me case was closed but no delivery scheduled. She assures me after confirming the delivery address of my work that it will be delivered today. I get notification it is to be delivered today to my home address. I had to run out for an errand so I popped home mid afternoon to find it on my porch. Darn good thing the quality of the book is 1000% better than I expected. Thank you to Photobook Canada. I love it! I n the near future I will record a video and share it.
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