Fun Day of Shopping on a Whim

We did some spontaneous activities this past weekend, and even though it infringed on my attempt to get some real man work done, we had a great time and I have no regrets. Besides, there's no hurry because training to be a real man is a lifetime pursuit.

I had just attended the community breakfast and wanted to get some stuff done around the house, mainly working on the firewood and hopefully the front door (yeah, right). I was in the process of making a huge pile of split wood when R came out and said that she and A wanted to go shopping for some clothes. She desperately needs some pants, and a few tops would be nice, as well. Also, N needed pants, but he's incredibly picky about his clothes and won't wear 99% of what we give him.

Either way, since R and A were planning on hanging out, that meant girls-day out, necessitating a boy's day out, which meant that the guys were going to do something together. In the past, stacking firewood or painting a piece of furniture was enough for N, but he had it in his head that he wanted to go ice skating. I was all for that, but for whatever reason, Union Arena was closed for public skating. The nerve.

We had to come up with an alternative plan, because N was bummed, and was not content to simply stack wood. We pondered it a bit, and finally decided that we'd hit the big city, get some clothes shopping done, catch a movie, then get some supper at our favorite eatery, Boloco.

How can you beat that? The American Dream, in the flesh. We managed to score clothes for both A&N at our favorite clothing store, Rugged Bear, which for the record is the only place a parent needs to shop, and stopped the Listen center for some other items, grabbed some killer burritos at Boloco, and then to the Nugget to catch MegaMind, which BTW was a great movie.

So, in what amounted to a spontaneous day for us, we didn't get much done around the house, but we sure had a really nice time.

Sometimes you have to put real-man training on hold to spend time with your family. Until the next time, thanks for reading, and thanks to Allie Hylton for the pic.