Day 2

Today seems to have gone better.  I’m not really sure what happened that made it better, but there wasn’t nearly as much stomping around and exasperation in Thing 1’s voice when any of us spoke to her.  That to me says good day.  She also had yet another punctual day.  I hear that if you do something 40 times in a row, then it becomes a habit.  I guess we just need to forgo the weekends and go through the motions of school for 6 solid weeks and hopefully, it will stick.

We also got Lila’s mullet snipped and a new Swiffer Wet Jet floor cleaner….mine was sadly decapitated and though I have plenty of solution to clean the floor, I had no way of getting said solution onto the floor without a replacement Swiffer.  And crazy thing, my closest Target has been completely out of them.  How does a store, such as Target, run completely out of something like a Swiffer for 2 weeks?  I wouldn’t think there would be a mad rush to buy them anyway, it’s not like they are new to the market or anything.  So you would think that the powers that be would start to take notice, “Oh, we’re gettin’ low on the Swiffers, probably should think about ordering a few more before we completely run out.” I have never been a buyer or manager or anything for TArget though, so I could be completely off in my assumptions.

Anyway, I have been dutifully checking my closest TArget store every few days with no luck.  I suppose I could have gone to another store, but that just seemed wrong.  If I was looking for a shirt or something very particular that they couldn’t have possibly planned for being bought up so quickly.  They really have no idea how fast those adorable hedgehog sweaters are going to go, have you seen them?  They are precious.  Things like that, you can’t predict how the public will respond, especially when it’s still deathly hot outside.  But something as simple as a cleaning product, I think they probably have a pretty good pulse on how many of those puppies to keep in stock.  So I guess I was just trying to teach my Target a lesson…..which meant I have a repulsive floor.  I think I clearly made my point though.

I took the kids swimming this evening.  I realize that school has started and so that should technically mean that summer is over, but we are holding on for dear life.

They don’t play the radio in the evening after school starts.  I’m not sure why, maybe to remind us all that summer is over and the peppy anthems of summer just don’t really apply anymore.  It was super quiet this evening without the radio and with only the 7 of us members there.

Kinda nice, but at the same time, I would prefer they at least put on easy listening or something.

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So I got a bizarre, yet very exciting phone call yesterday.  Let me back up, a few days ago when I was dropping of a little bag to get monogrammed for Lila, there was a paper saying something about needing kids to do play studies and them being paid for their “research”.  There was an email address and so I decided to check it out.  I had to give some personal information, kids ages and stuff like that, but nothing financial or social security numberish.  After submitting the little survey, I got an email back saying that they would let me know if my children sounded like a match to any of the play studies they were conducting.  Okay, sounds good.  And then after a few days I forgot all about it…..until I got the phone call yesterday.  Turns out Reese’s skills are needed this Friday at 3:30 to test out some new Hot Wheels merchandise.  I have no idea what to expect with all this.

What if Reese doesn’t play with them and just sits there?

What if he’s supposed to play with some other boys and he doesn’t get along with them, they all want the same car?

Are they just going to sit there and watch him or play with him?

I feel like I need to prepare him somehow, just because I am the type who likes to be prepared as much as possible.

Maybe that’s the whole point though, that we don’t know what’s going on, so his reactions are more genuine.

But whatever, we are all very excited!  I know they just need the opinion of a 5-year-old boy and really it has nothing to do with Reese in particular, but I think he and I both kind of feel like he has somehow been chosen.  Like his opinion is superior to all the other 5-year-old boys.

We will do our best to keep level heads about us, try to stay humble in this new-found fame of ours…his. This week its Hot Wheels, maybe next week it will be Power Wheels…..the possibilites are endless!

I just hope he likes these little toys he gets to test out because I’m pretty sure that getting to take some home are what his “reimbursement” is going to be.

Have a great Tuesday and I hope your pool is still open and playing summery music!

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