We took a little road trip from Columbus to North Carolina. For the first time in over 10 years, we got to celebrate my mom’s, De Oma, birthday with her! I’m not sure who was happier. Me. The kids. Or Oma!
Luckily my mom is an early-to-bed person, and my kids are watch-the-sun-rise people. As soon as she hit the hay, we raced to Walmart (YAY for all night shopping!) and picked up “slingers”, birthday signs and balloons. Did you know they have light up balloons? We didn’t! And despite saying 15-hours on the packages now, 5 days later, they are still glowing away. I love these!
After Walmart, I was exhausted. I did drive all day. True. But Walmart is HUGE and my kids wanted to explore every nook & cranny. What an amazing store. We found six million things we didn’t need, didn’t know existed, and luckily didn’t have the money and/or suitcase room for. Walmart may be affordable, but it is bound to make you go broke!
What we did need were those light-up balloons. Those are fabulous! I’m going back to get more. I can think of so many uses for light-up balloons. This time we used them to decorate Oma’s house, and these made for a wonderful early morning surprise. She loved them! We love them. I need more.
You look so much like your beautiful Mother! Glad you got to spend her birthday with her and your family. I am a NC girl also and I love me some Walmart. Have a safe and wonderful time spent with family and fun at the wedding. Best wishes to the happy couple.
Thank you Annette!
Awwwaah! How nice, what a wonderful birthday! Ugh! Stateside Option Overload – no such thing as a BX shelf check here!!! OMG! I know about the shopping thing, when I moved back to states from Italy, I went grocery shopping for the first time… 4 hours later, I’m checking out. Later while talking to my techschool bestie who had just returned from 2 yrs in the Philliines, we died laughing on the phone – she was completely relating to my experience.
My eyes are still bulging! The choices! OMG!