Sam's & Me

Thursday, Sherie, Andi and I were in Evansville doing some errands, picking up her flooring and dropping off some pictures. All simple things. Which is great, because that's the way I like my life - simple.

While Sherie placed her order for pictures at Sam's, Andi and I wandered the aisles quickly. I don't have a Sam's card. I know myself better. I don't take my kids to Sam's. I know them too. They are a lot like me. In the 12 minutes or so it took her to place her picture order, I was like some woman on a game show who had to fill her cart in the short allotted time.

In the front of the store, I quickly found a pink polka dotted footie sleeper for Sophie and a reading book for Jacob. Both will get used. I went down the candy aisle and threw in a big can of peanuts for the kids. They really liked that.

But THEN off to the food section. Here is where my story takes such a turn there's no sense even putting it into a new paragraph. The men's retreat for church is this weekend and Bill and Big Guy were both going to be gone, so we thought we would buy some pastries for our breakfasts.

Into the cart went some Texas cinnamon rolls for the kids and some other kind for Andi and me that we had enjoyed last year at our retreat. We analyzed it and decided it would be as if we were eating breakfast at our own little retreat. I pitched in some pre-made biscuits for Bill and as we were walking by the poor woman who has not planned wisely for her retirement, I take a sample of ham.

Yummy ham. Andi had refused the taste tester's tempty morsel, but once she saw my eyes light up, she caved and suddenly, nothing would do except to have spiral ham with our cinnamon rolls- perhaps not at the same meal, but definitely in the same cart.

I asked Andi which one we should get - I'm not a big ham picker outer - and she said, "The biggest." Made sense to me, so we found a honker of a ham and gently placed it right by the HUGE container of 2000 cheeseballs.

Don't worry about that baby going to waste. Sherie assures me the container will make a great terrarium if we should ever all finish the cheeseballs.