I went to the mall. Again.

Yeah, I'm a stay at home mom, I find myself at the mall quite a bit. They have a play area and a children's museum. Not to mention a Target that sells booze. All necessary SAHM trappings. Sorry about the abbreviations, which I don't typically use, but I have pregnancy-induced carpal tunnel, so keeping typing to a minimum isn't a bad thing.

Back to the mall. Today's trip was proof positive that I should just stay the hell home until I have this baby. Today was just absolutely exhausting, I don't have it in me to chase 2 kids around right now.

Highlights.

1. Lost my daughter in the children's museum. She decided to move onto a different room. We found her, she wasn't doing anything terrible, but still, it took like 5 minutes to find her. It should never take over a minute or two to find my daughter. She wears sparkly princess shoes that leave a trail of glitter dust for all to see.

2. Let my son throw golf balls around a room willy-nilly. I could have stopped him, but he wasn't hitting anybody or anything as his throwing arm is weak.

3. Terrified a young helicopter mommy by letting my son run down the stairs all alone. And by "letting" I mean waddling slowly after my son as he ran gleefully down the stairs and away from the puppet room. I would have chased him in earnest, but I feel that way about the puppet room, too.

4. I made my children share an adult meal at Arby's. This was clearly offensive to the strangely feminine young man taking our order. He kept suggesting children's meals. Then when I told him a #11 and a #23 he asked if I only needed one drink, thinking that all of the food was for my fat ass (my children are skinny...clearly I don't feed them). Um, no.

4a. I let my children eat fries.

4b. My daughter had a giant lemonade.

4c. No fruit cups were involved.

4--note--strangely feminine young man actually made me show ID because my credit card wasn't signed. This was not a cursory check either, he examined both cards for over a full minute. I thought I was going to be denied Arby's. All because I didn't take him up on that kids' meal offer.

5. The marathon run my son took from our table to the carousel near the doors. It was amazing, all of the people who watched him run right by them (while I was "running" behind him) made sure to give me the proper bad mama evil-eye.

I think that outings will be kept to more contained situations for a couple of weeks.