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The last two days have been kind of up and down.
Yesterday, I went to Walmart to pick up a gift that my two sisters in law and my brother in law bought for Kat. While I was there, I got her birthday gift. We hadn't gotten anything but a five dollar toy for Matthew for Christmas because, to be honest, we were having trouble finding anything that we really liked and didn't already have. So, while I was there, I decided to look around.
I came across this.
My friend Mindy has this toy and I love it. It is, unfortunately, a 60 dollar toy which is a little out of our budget range. However, the toy was on sale for 30 dollars! HALF OFF! I was so excited that I immediately grabbed it and put it in the cart.
When I got home, Kurt and I put Kat's kitchen together. I then opened the box. There was no learn around playground. Evidently this had been a return and someone had replaced the playground with this toy. Similar colours, but obviously not the same toy. When a return is done, the employee is supposed to check the box to be sure the item is in there and the correct item. Evidently, that didn't occur this time. I was so upset because this was the last one there that I started to cry. What made things worse was that I couldn't find the receipt.
Well, Walmart has taken returns from me without receipts before, but I've never been returning something that had the wrong item in the box, so I was afraid I'd have a fight. I went back to Walmart today and explained the situation. The lady was extremely nice and I guess believed me. She refunded the money and put it on a gift card. I checked again just to be sure there wasn't another one, which, unfortunately, there wasn't.
When I got back to the car, I asked him to give me the number to another Walmart that is just South of Denton and to call the one that's in the city just South of that (Lewisville). I was headed to the Best Buy in Lewisville because we were supposed to be getting a television that was on sale from there. So, he gave me the number to the first and got off the line with me to call the second. Well, the one I called had one for the same price. The one in Lewisville did not. The lady on the line with me said she would hold the toy for me (even though she technically wasn't supposed to do that). I went there, got the toy, and before I left, I checked to make sure that it was the right toy. Evidently this one wasn't a return because none of the inide packaging had been touched. I was so happy!
So then I headed down to Best Buy. Of course, the television we had chosen was sold out of all the stores. *sigh* We wound up spending more than originally planned, but now we have a new 27 inche television. No, it's not flat or HD (just regular old SDTV), but compared to our old 19 inch, it's huge! We also found out how old our original television was - 16 years old! My mother evidently got it back in 1990 and gave it to us when she moved and got a new telly. I think we've had it...oh, five years? Something like that. Anyway, it lasted a long time. Pretty good for a television!
So despite the frustrations, things turned out well.
Oh, yesterday I went to the local quilt shoppe because they were having their anniversary sale (They opened on January 1st back in 1998). Everything that wasn't already on sale was 35% off. I went and got most of the material I need for my next quilt and all of the material I need for Matthew's quilt. I also entered a drawing for one of three prizes - a gift certificate for either 100, 50, or 25 dollars. I won the 25 dollar gift certificate! Whoowhoo!
In the children department, I need to update Kat's list, which I will probably do so in the next day or do. I'm not sure if I'm going to continue with the list because she's learning so much so rapidly that I can't keep up with her. I might just 'call it a day' on the list...for her anyway. I'll do the same with Matthew. :)
Speaking of Matthew, he is growing so fast! I gave him his first taste of solids today! I started him on carrots. :-D He didn't take much, probably because 1. I had already given him a bottle and 2. he wasn't used to the texture. Of course I don't expect anything instantly. It was funny to watch his expression. :) Also, he got up on his hands and knees and started rocking back and forth! He's getting a lot closer to crawling! He's almost sitting by himself. He will do so for a few seconds, then jerk back. He sits fine with support.
They're both growing so fast. One of Carter's little sayings is 'If they only could stay little'. While it's exciting to see their development and neat to see how they grow, sometimes I do miss when Kat was litle...and I feel like Matthew's getting so big too fast.
Well, that's pretty much it for me...except I found this neat place and now I want to get some people together and go there:
Le Retreat House
Yesterday, I went to Walmart to pick up a gift that my two sisters in law and my brother in law bought for Kat. While I was there, I got her birthday gift. We hadn't gotten anything but a five dollar toy for Matthew for Christmas because, to be honest, we were having trouble finding anything that we really liked and didn't already have. So, while I was there, I decided to look around.
I came across this.
My friend Mindy has this toy and I love it. It is, unfortunately, a 60 dollar toy which is a little out of our budget range. However, the toy was on sale for 30 dollars! HALF OFF! I was so excited that I immediately grabbed it and put it in the cart.
When I got home, Kurt and I put Kat's kitchen together. I then opened the box. There was no learn around playground. Evidently this had been a return and someone had replaced the playground with this toy. Similar colours, but obviously not the same toy. When a return is done, the employee is supposed to check the box to be sure the item is in there and the correct item. Evidently, that didn't occur this time. I was so upset because this was the last one there that I started to cry. What made things worse was that I couldn't find the receipt.
Well, Walmart has taken returns from me without receipts before, but I've never been returning something that had the wrong item in the box, so I was afraid I'd have a fight. I went back to Walmart today and explained the situation. The lady was extremely nice and I guess believed me. She refunded the money and put it on a gift card. I checked again just to be sure there wasn't another one, which, unfortunately, there wasn't.
When I got back to the car, I asked him to give me the number to another Walmart that is just South of Denton and to call the one that's in the city just South of that (Lewisville). I was headed to the Best Buy in Lewisville because we were supposed to be getting a television that was on sale from there. So, he gave me the number to the first and got off the line with me to call the second. Well, the one I called had one for the same price. The one in Lewisville did not. The lady on the line with me said she would hold the toy for me (even though she technically wasn't supposed to do that). I went there, got the toy, and before I left, I checked to make sure that it was the right toy. Evidently this one wasn't a return because none of the inide packaging had been touched. I was so happy!
So then I headed down to Best Buy. Of course, the television we had chosen was sold out of all the stores. *sigh* We wound up spending more than originally planned, but now we have a new 27 inche television. No, it's not flat or HD (just regular old SDTV), but compared to our old 19 inch, it's huge! We also found out how old our original television was - 16 years old! My mother evidently got it back in 1990 and gave it to us when she moved and got a new telly. I think we've had it...oh, five years? Something like that. Anyway, it lasted a long time. Pretty good for a television!
So despite the frustrations, things turned out well.
Oh, yesterday I went to the local quilt shoppe because they were having their anniversary sale (They opened on January 1st back in 1998). Everything that wasn't already on sale was 35% off. I went and got most of the material I need for my next quilt and all of the material I need for Matthew's quilt. I also entered a drawing for one of three prizes - a gift certificate for either 100, 50, or 25 dollars. I won the 25 dollar gift certificate! Whoowhoo!
In the children department, I need to update Kat's list, which I will probably do so in the next day or do. I'm not sure if I'm going to continue with the list because she's learning so much so rapidly that I can't keep up with her. I might just 'call it a day' on the list...for her anyway. I'll do the same with Matthew. :)
Speaking of Matthew, he is growing so fast! I gave him his first taste of solids today! I started him on carrots. :-D He didn't take much, probably because 1. I had already given him a bottle and 2. he wasn't used to the texture. Of course I don't expect anything instantly. It was funny to watch his expression. :) Also, he got up on his hands and knees and started rocking back and forth! He's getting a lot closer to crawling! He's almost sitting by himself. He will do so for a few seconds, then jerk back. He sits fine with support.
They're both growing so fast. One of Carter's little sayings is 'If they only could stay little'. While it's exciting to see their development and neat to see how they grow, sometimes I do miss when Kat was litle...and I feel like Matthew's getting so big too fast.
Well, that's pretty much it for me...except I found this neat place and now I want to get some people together and go there:
Le Retreat House