Can You Tell the Weather's Been Better?

So I haven't been inside with the computer very much, it feels so nice to be out walking all over again. Although last night I needed to make a quick run to get wine from the liquor store, and I thoughts, "why, it's so nice, I'll just walk..."

Well, we stopped at Nick and Erin's on the way there and Seamus left his shoes which I didn't notice until we were about three blocks from the store. Fortunately, Finn was wearing a pair of Seamus's croc's and he was now conveniently fast asleep in the stroller (which is so well worn that a homeless person would throw it out). The boys looked like they've spent the afternoon playing in the dirt, which of course they had. And the baby is babbling like a talk show host on my back - squawking loudly. So with MJ on my back and Finn asleep on my front, I begin shopping in the excessively narrow wine isles. The clerk, a squeaky clean looking college student, helps to ring me up and then offers to carry the bag to the car...."Um, thanks, that would be a big help, but I'm not in a car...." He loaded the booze into the back of my stroller and we all headed off - Finn vaguely awake now and eating a sucker that Seamus had gotten for him. About a mile from home, the basket carrying the wine collapsed out of the stroller (of course, mid street), and I had to unload the wine into my children's arms...just about two blocks from home, a neighbor I haven't seen in a while pulled up next to me to say hi..."Hi, yes, kids are getting big, lovely weather, get together soon, is that wine in the boys laps?" Yep. Classy. I'm really up for mother of the year...

The pictures are from MJ opening her birthday treats! Thanks Andie and Grandma!