Have Mercy - just get me home.

It is now 12:30 am......Happy Easter. I have just finished up getting ready for tomorrow. We have to be at church around 8 am (praying Millie will not be sick). I am usually more organized but this week I have been off. So I found myself out at the good ol Wal Mart at 8:30 pm trying to get up the makings of an easter basket for the kiddos and to get what I needed for the family dinner tomorrow.

Just in case you are wondering Wal Mart is not the place to be on the Eve of Easter in the Easter basket sections. People are pushing people just to get to the one last bag of plastic eggs, searching for a basket that does not cost an arm and a leg, and frantically searching for a chocolate bunny that is not broken. I finally gave up and just got some playdough. (I needed some for my First Steps clients....multi purpose gifts). Now off to the grocery section.......

Plates, napkins, cups, dinner rolls, and drinks. If you thought the easter section was bad, well the grocery is worse. Every mother, aunt, grandma, cousin, sister.....was out buying the ingredients for the big dinner. It was mass confussion and most of the shelves were close to empty. I wanted to buy matching napkins and plates, but I have ended up with blue flowerd plates (all that was left) and birds nest napkins. It will have to do.

I just wanted to get home, but I needed panty hose.....I make it to the isle and try to get my hose, but I can't because there is a man bending down right in front of all the hosieries talking on the phone. I listen in, "Honey there are too many, what kind do you need?" Yes the husband got suckered in to going out and buying his wife some new hose to wear to church the next morning.

I just want to go home. I grab my hose and head for the check out. I pay and head home. I pull into the driveway when I remembered that I was supposed to buy a part for the computer at church. So I put the van in reverse and go to the other Wal Mart (we have two) get my wireless router and finally head home to stuff eggs, make baskets, press clothes, wash hair, get music together, and collapse.

So now I am in bed, but my dad's night owls genes are taking over and not letting me get to sleep.

I hope you all have a wonderful Easter! Remember it is not about the Easter Bunny,egg hunts, and new outfits (although my family is coordinating tomorrow).

He's ALIVE, He's ALIVE, Death has lost the victory and the grave has been denied!!!!