Skip to main content

Books Are Fun........NOT!

I needed to go and pick up a book that I had on hold at Half Price Books for book club and I took
Gabrielle with me. I really did not want to take her with me, since the bookstore and the library are one of my happy places, but my husband had to run an errand of his own. The visit started out fine, but quickly went down the dark side of a fairy tale path.

Gabby and I looked through the clearance books and found a few for a $1.00. Score! Then I decided that we would look to see if there were some Olivia books in the kids section since my book was on hold. We go to the kids section, Miss G. began pulling books off the shelf and sitting in one of the chairs and began flipping the pages. While she was doing that, I located a several Olivia book selections for her to choose from. I showed her the selections and of course said "No, I want that one." After each book that she handed to me and made her statement, I would place it back on the shelf. After four or five times of doing that, I had decided that it was time to go. I picked the Olivia books that I thought that she would like and gently grabbed her hand and began walking towards the front and then I heard.....

"I want that book."

I looked down and saw a book that had a  yellow cell phone on the front that she was pointing at on the shelf. I stated to her that I was not buying her that book. I just started walking towards the register, with a loudly crying and screaming three year in tow. Gabrielle was crying at the top of her lungs the book with the cell phone even though I five other ones in my hand for her. I pulled her aside, which so happened to be the religion section, maybe God was trying to tell me something, to have her calm down and talk to her about not getting the book. It did no good. It just made her get louder. She got so loud in fact one of the other customers walked over to see what was going on. I just took her hand and started walking towards the  register again. She yelled and yelled all the way up to the register. I calmly paid for my book selections, while she still screamed and yelled about getting the book with the cell phone since she stated that she "needed to take a call."  I grabbed her hand and exited the store. She cried all the way to the car and most of way home about that book. Once we were home, she finally calmed down when Olivia came on for her watch and she was given her evening snack.

When it was time for bed, the books that she did not want because it was not one with the with the yellow phone, she of course wanted to read one of her new Olivia books twice. UGH......!  I am not surprised ...I had a feeling she would did that.  At least she liked the book that I selected so much she wanted to read it twice, so I guess in the end books are fun.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Fill in the Blank Friday--Sleep

1.   The last thing I do before going to sleep is         turn on the TV and set the sleep timer . 2.   When I can't sleep I      watch TV until I fall back to sleep   . 3.   The first thing I do when I wake up is     go to the bathroom . 4.   When I'm tired I      can fall asleep anywhere. I have fallen asleep in a folding chair, on a couch , outside, sitting up.....let's say when I am tired, I am tired . 5.   My dream bedroom would be       have lots of white linens and would feel very breezy. It would be filled with antiques and have a large sitting area. It would be shabby chic . 6.   If I could wake up anywhere tomorrow morning it would be        on a porch on a beach house listening to the waves roll in and the feeling the sun rise on my face . 7.   The longest sleep I've ever had was    I a...

Wedded Wednesday: Thanksgiving Traditions

With the holidays coming,  I am thinking about how I want to spend them with the hubby. We do the same thing every year for Thanksgiving and make a road trip to spend it with his family. I usually go shopping on the day after Thanksgiving starting at 3:00am and usually come home and sleep the rest of the day. I was looking at starting some sort of new traditions on the Saturday after Thanksgiving that we can do for years to come. Maybe like putting up the Christmas tree (this is my vote), taking an annual holiday photo, doing some shopping together or maybe doing something relaxing like getting a couples massage. Of course, we will have to throw in some football and lots of left overs whatever we decide to do.Building new traditions, will be the traditions that will continue in our family  and define the holidays for years to come.  Do you have any Thanksgiving traditions?