A middle-school moment at the fabric store

(If you are looking for the Giveaway, it's one post down.)

I have a sweet friend who agreed to babysit my children every-so-often in exchange for an afternoon of informal sewing lessons. Yesterday she made a gored skirt from her own pattern; we're really just learning together and I'm helping her if she gets stuck.

But anyway...WH and I went out on a short date last night after dinner. In this stage of life, a trip to the grocery store without kids qualifies as a date. A thought that has time to be verbalized without interruption is what dates are all about. The plan was to run by Goodwill, the fabric store, Starbucks (I don't think that was in the plan but the Gingerbread Latte was a treat!) and a few other places. Goodwill took a little longer than my husband was expecting...lots of great finds there, including two gallon-sized bags of legos for $3. I'll disinfect them several times and give them to the kids on a rainy day. Next stop: the fabric store, where I needed to buy some interfacing. I told WH it would be a quick stop but apparently he was dubious so he set out to find something amusing. I took all of 5 minutes, checked out, and as we walked to the car he was chuckling to himself, all boyish and silly. He admitted a discovery of wind-up timers in the back of the store, and he set them to go off every five minutes, just in case I took longer than expected. Of course we weren't there to hear even the first one ring and it's not like you can "undo" a timer. So if you are an employee of the Joann's in my town, I humbly apologize. Although he was still laughing to himself at bedtime, so know you gave an overworked 30-something man a good laugh. (And I might have laughed a little.)