- Admission into the pumpkin patch: $10
- Beautiful pumpkins picked by both girls $15
- Lost flip flop by KK on hay ride: $1.25 (flip flops at CP are $2.50 a pair can't beat that)
- Stop at Sports Authority on way from Pumpkin Patch to soccer game because we forgot the shoes, cleats, shin guards at home: $40
- Memories, laughs, tears, and us learning as a family we can make the best of any situation: PRICELESS! And yet again another story to share at future Turkey Days.
I seriously think last year when I decided to randomly take the kids to the pumpkin patch by myself because Tim was working that weekend was LESS dramatic.
Every year we get excited and every year we FORGET how far the pumpkin patch it. This year of all years we must have really forgotten when we got a later start, needed gas and stopped for donuts. Still, no problem if we timed it right we had plenty of time for pictures, picking out pumpkins and letting the kids choose either the train ride or hay ride. Hind sight is train ride is MUCH better maybe that's why last year was better (and yes still never posted that trip from 2010).
So we get on the hay ride and have Mr. Friendly as the driver who is nice enough to take pictures of every family offering up their camera. Normally I would eat this up, today however I was staring at my watch because not only did we need to get to the soccer game, Tim was filling in as coach for K's team and needed to be there on time. Half way through the hay ride, Miss K goes to fling hay off the trailer with her foot and along with the hay flies her flip flop. We all stare, I turn waiting for Tim to jump off the trailer and he sits, JUST sits. I turn and in my respectable mom mode say, aren't you going to go get it?? He just sits there calmly as she is bursting into tears and says I am not jumping off this moving trailer (I don't think it helped when I told him, my dad would have jumped to get my flip flop :). He calmy says that stinks, I told her not to wear flip flops. I said don't worry honey and looked at Tim and said we'll go back and get it and he just laughed. He must have realized way before I did that the point she lost the shoe at was right smack in the middle back of the trail and we still had a long way to go. Of course if you know my husband he doesn't sit there and console he is the first to say, raise your hand if you have one shoe on which of course makes Brooklyn laugh and then Carter just laughs because everyone else is laughing. Meanwhile I would love to know if the families around us got a good laugh or show that day of our conversations on the hayride??
At her age she was super embarrassed that she was getting off of the hayride with one shoe and having to walk to the car with one flip flop. And the fact that they were her all time FAVORITE flip flops, her worn in go to pair that had pretty much had it from the summer of 2011 BUT still her favorite. It seems like life lessons run rampant these days with an almost 9 year old. This was no exception.
We get to the car looking at our watches thinking ok just enough time to change, grab some lunch and get to the game...except no one grabbed the soccer shoes, shin guards and cleats that were sitting in the garage. We all learned a life lesson that day but still made the best of it. They got to the game with not much time to spare and we have some funny memories from the pumpkin patch this year. Never a dull moment.
The End...
Until next year...and Kennedy will be looking for that flip flop!
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