The Mall...

So I decided to be adventuresome today, and I took all 3 kids to the mall to play in the "toy" area... so we get there, and the kids of course are really excited (YAY we made it out of the house!!) and what do you know?? there are no toys there... Now being a naturally stubborn, obstinate person, I tell the kids "Lets walk around, maybe they just moved it!" so, about an hour later, and several rides up and down the escalators (sorry Mom... I guess I have been paid back for all the times I made you go!!) I finally gave in and started "warning" the kids that it was "PROBABLY" gone. So to make up for there not being any toys to play on, I compensated with a shopping trip into Bath & Body Works... most of you think that was for me (OK, it was!) but my kids really LOVE that store... especially Jaden! they just run from one display to the next opening bottles to smell... and of course Kayla hates them all, and Jaden loves them all... anyway, they were having a 75% off sale, so I really got some great stuff. They had those oils to burn, that are normally $7.50 for only $3.00!!! So as I was standing there smelling them all, and a sales girl came up to me and started talking, and she gave me some really great tips!! She said that if you add a drop or two into your spray (water) bottle and use it for ironing that it makes your clothes smell really good, (and she said it has never left any oily residue on her clothes before!) too bad I did my ironing last night!! but I am going to definitley try it!! OK, I kind of got off track here! So as we were leaving the mall, (more than an hour later) I notice there is a SIGN right there in the old play area, that says the play area is temorarily gone etc etc... so it would have been really great if I had seen that when we first walked into the mall, but O well... we would have missed a great day at the mall and some fun shopping at Bath & Body... The kids were so good, I even took them to McDonalds to get ice cream and cookies.
It was a good day!!