~My weekend~

Oops! Wrong cookie!



Wow, what a weekend! CJ left Friday at 4:00 to go to Raleigh NC for the annual CCYC with the Middle School Youth group. (Carolina Christian Youth Conference) It was Friday, Saturday and he will be coming home today. So my mom and I had this great weekend planned. Friday night we just sat around and watched TV with her on one end of the couch and me on the other both with laptops in our laps!  Then Saturday, I came back over with my coupons and went through them against the Harris Teeter website... I was ready to go get free stuff or nearly free. (super doubles) Then we were off to Greenville!! Just the two of us. Don't get me wrong, I love my son. But as a single mom with no dad or any of his family or a grandpa in the picture, I don't get girl time.  So this was our big chance. We went to Ollie's then Best Buy. I got wonderful news this year that I was eligible to sell back some of my sick leave. I will be getting a check the end of this month. It is not a whole bunch but I am planning on getting a laptop for CJ for Christmas. He needs one.  The one I have is not the best but it does work when it wants to. So... Into Best Buy we go and while they load the stuff on the computer or not, we are going to get Chinese!! Oh boy!  So, as we are at Best Buy the laptop I wanted was not in stock so I would have to order it. Ok. The guy tells me I can either order it at customer service or at home online.  Well I wanted this one like my mom got and it was on sale for $349.  I was afraid that I would change my mind so I went to customer service and told the guy I wanted 2. Yes 2. I was going to get one for myself too.  I deserve it! He says, why didn't they order it back there? I don't know??? Ok, I can do it here... So then I tell him I want the anti-virus and the Office home/student disc. Well the sweet little thing just lost his mind.... Uh... I need to get someone from back there to come up here. I don't know anything about that...

waiting...

Call from CJ..(my phone announces then plays How Great is Our God)

Mom... Just listen, I am sick and I want you to come get me~

What?? But, girls day???

Son, you are 3 hours away. I can't just "Come get you."  Now crying I am hurting, my stomach...

Just hurry. Don't say anything just hurry.

I am still waiting on someone from computers...

I pick up the papers I had the guy in the back print off and then I wrote down what I wanted and I walked out. My mom was getting a wireless printer...

(so we can sit as described above and print from the couch)

I walked outside talked with the youth minister and told him I would be there around 4:00.

But Chinese!!! I really wanted to get Chinese. If I get to have this surgery THIS week I deserve

 this weekend, right?

Fine!

We haven't eaten, but we now need to drive 3 hours to get him then turn around and go home.

No Chinese. No Harris Teeter trip. No computer, No girls day!

So the next best thing? Krispy Kreme.

(We have a buy one dozen get a dozen free card)

I'll eat doughnuts the whole way there!

(and did!)

Well, I have never went from Greenville so we hit 264 and we are driving and

I see a sign that says "to Rocky Mount" is this where I go? 

Mom: Yeah, you can go this way...

Well guess what? Now not only depressed disappointed, but also lost!

Well believe it or not, we ended up on very back roads ( remember, we live

in the middle of no where)

 I don't know how but we ended up where we were supposed to..

I go into the hotel and some of the kids were in the lobby.  CJ runs up to me.

(yeah, runs) Mom, I feel better, can I stay? Please? Please?

What the heck? Girls day!!!

Then we find out that the Church bus (that breaks down sometimes)

has broken down at the mall.

So we stay around there for about an hour. I tell him he can stay but

if he gets sick later... (he finished the sentence with...just deal with it)

That's right!

So my mom and I head back home. We stopped in Rocky Mount at Cracker Barrell.

(yeah, we finally ended up in Rocky Mount!)

Then we went to Target and ended up back home a little after nine.

Now, it is 11:07 and I got to go get ready to pick CJ up. Again!

But this time I don't have to go to Raleigh!