Ay Carumba

So, our lovely adorable 4 year old (#2) has become quite the photographer...so much so that she broke our digital camera. We have been not seriously in the market for a new dig cam for several years but never put any serious thought into it until I couldn't get the lens to pop out this morning right before we were to head out to our annual trip to the pumpkin farm. So for the first time in five straight yearly visits, I did not get a pick of the kids at the pumpkin patch. It wouldn't be such a big deal, except that is the pic I put in the October spot of the yearly Shutterfly calendar I hand out to the grandparents' at Christmas time.

Before heading to the patch, we scoured the internet (I am a research hound!!!) for reviews on regular and SLR dig cams. While an SLR would be a terrific accessory to our family picture taking activities, I do need to have money leftover to put food on the table for my little munchkins, so we settled on a Canon 560 or 570...we haven't decided if we want to pay more for the optical image stabilization...which is worth it for me since practically every perfect picture I take is blurred by a kid blinking or a puppy bonking my elbow ever so slightly.

I am such the bargain shopper that we left Best Buy to check out Costco who didn't have it in stock, and now plan to purchase it online. How will I survive the next few days without the ability to snap a single photo? No, my cell phone does not have picture capabilities...I have yet to conjer up the courage to take all four lovely little children to a Verizon store to trade in my old phone (a hand me down from a friend since one of the kids stuck my phone in the dog's water bowl...it worked, but the screen was toast so I could never tell who was calling and if I was dialing the right number) for a new one...aside from the fact that the account is in the hubby's name, so the company doesn't seem to take kindly to anything I have to say or do regarding our account.

So, while my day started a little rough with the hubby calling to let me know his car wouldn't start in the parking lot of our fave New Mexican Style Restaurant on his way to take #1 to his soccer game while I was working on packing up the car to sell a bunch of loot at my sister-in-law's yard sale...which meant I had to go jump him and leave the loot....to the camera not working, but the pumpkin patch being fun, and making enough money at my mom's yard sale to pay for my next hair appointment, and a wonderful dinner with a fun group of friends for the first time in ages, it turned out to be quite perfect. I am ready to go feed the screaming 10 month old upstairs, call it a night, and look forward to #1's school friend's bday party tomorrow at the new Pump It Up pad.

Nightie Night!