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Five Below: Where Everything is Always on Sale.

8/30/2017

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Oh, that Five Below. That's a tricky tricky store. 

You walk in there thinking, jackpot, every single thing is under five dollars, so I can totally get a hoola hoop, three soccer balls, forty-two pens and all the school supplies and I'll still be okay. 

But those dollars add up quickly, my friends. Very quickly. 

We've been to Five Below before, but it's been a long while since I've been there with all four kids. Surprisingly, we had fun. I guess once all your kids pass the age where they immediately run away from you, tearing through the store and pulling all the t-shirts off the shelf while licking all the plastic water bottles, you're good to go, you know? Who knew? 

The girls needed headphones as part of their endless school supply list and it was either spend $20 in Target on fancy headphones or $5 in Five Below and we went with the cheaper option. And the oldest ones needed stuff for their locker, because stuff. You need it for your locker. Again, who knew? I'm brand new to this locker territory stuff. Stuff. 

Everyone needed Stuff at Five Below. 
Donut shaped sticky notes, poop emoji sticky notes, pizza sticky notes. We are now fully stocked in the sticky note department. 

We also needed cups with straws that can also hold a snack.
And we needed erasers imprinted with inspirational sayings (what does perfectly imperfect mean, mommy?)
And we needed a notebook because we don't have any good ones in the house. 

Wanna hear something funny though? At one point, I told the kids that if they wanted to put anything else at all into my cart, anything at all that is not on this long list of school supplies, they'd have to pay for it themselves. 

No problem. Everybody's a big spender in the store. 

And then we got home. 
I asked them to pay up.
And buyer's remorse set in. 
I don't want my nose-picking sharpener anymore. 
I didn't really want this straw cup. 
I forgot I already had a pencil case. 
Uch, we have so many sticky notes. 

Well yes, yes we do, my loves. We are rich. We have sunk our wealth into sticky notes. 

They complained. They begged. They sulked around. One little one even brought me her wallet and showed me how she would have no dollars left if she gave me the money she said she would. Okay, that one made me a little sad, but only because she is little. I looked away before we could lock eyes and I'd break. Instead, I looked at the ceiling and took her money. 

I only felt a little bad. 

But at some point, the Lesson of the Money Tree, as in there's no such thing as a money tree and I know that because I have searched and searched and visited every garden store around, inquiring about such a tree, must be taught. It's a hard lesson, one many grownups have never learned, but a lesson all the same. 

We might not have done our summer homework yet, but we did learn a lesson today. 
That's right, TAKE THAT summer slide. 

:)
Jen 
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A Little Trip.

8/11/2017

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We rarely take the kids anywhere farther than Shoprite. 
But they didn't go to camp this summer, and we've kinda been feeling the need to get out of town, so we headed out on a roadtrip to Lancaster, PA - but more importantly, we visited Hershey Park. 
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Josh, because he's cute like this, turned the whole thing into a scavenger hunt for the kids, with a page of clues. God bless these kids, it took them more than a few minutes to figure out where we were going, but once it clicked, they were super excited! 

Sadly, I neglected to take too many pictures in Hershey Park because we were too busy stuffing our faces with chocolate and kettle-cooked popcorn, while waiting on fairly long lines in the sun, while Josh roamed around refilling our souvenir refillable cups with ice. There might have been some complaining from the little people, but I couldn't hear them over the Hershey kisses crammed into my mouth. 

We did stop at the Lancaster Science Museum, which was super cool, and way more fun that I thought it would be. I didn't have any high hopes for the kiddie museum that is essentially in the middle of almost nowhere, but it turned out well, and Josh got to pretend that we homeschool our kids while he walked around the place, teaching science.  ​
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Also, there were animals on random roads that we drove on. And horse and buggy things, because Amish. So it's also kind of like we went to a zoo and a safari also. Even though the other major parts of our trip were really the hotel pool (!) and the Turkey Hill Ice Cream Factory (more tomorrow). 
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