December 13, 2007

Michael and I went Christmas shopping for his family tonight. We went to the mall because I wanted to look for ear rings for his mom.

I know I've said this before but I really DO NOT LIKE Macy's AT ALL. It's been a couple years since Famous Barr sold out to them but I'm still brooding. However, besides that I can never find ANYTHING I like at Macy's. I used to be able to just walk past the jewelry counter at Famous and find about a dozen pairs of ear rings that I knew were perfect for my MIL. Last night I struggled to find two pair that "would do." It was so frustrating.

So, we went to JC Penny. They were having such a great sale.... AGAIN! I got my MIL a box set of 6 REAL gemstone stud ear rings for $18 and a really gorgeous necklace with five REAL gemstones for $18. We got her a snowman in a hot air balloon with changing color light for $25... it was half off. The snowman is her birthday present.

We got a long sleeve t-shirt for his dad for $6.00 and a Bobby Jack long sleeve t-shirt for the Shiloh child we are buying for for $9.00. I'm really loving the sales that Penny's is having lately.

We also went to Claire's and got my niece a pair of purple rhinestone butterfly ear rings.

I wish we'd had more time, but by then it was after 8:00 pm and we needed to go get the kids and get them home to bed.

There was a really bad accident on highway 70 about the time we were leaving the mall. We didn't get on the highway after leaving the mall because we couldn't get over into the correct lane safely. It's a good thing because we'd have been stuck on the highway for hours because we would have ended up right in the middle of the traffic that got stopped before they could divert it.

We saw the fire trucks racing to it and by the time we got to the over pass we drove across to get to our side of town, you could see about four fire trucks and a dozen police cars and ambulances up the road.