Rambling Weekend Post

My hubs arrived Friday night. It was so...good...to...see...him.  He got in late and my daughter had an earlyish call Saturday morning.  Since he was in town we decided that he would take my daughter to the shoot on Saturday.  The project was being filmed an hour away.   At the last minute Saturday morning, I decided to go with them.  I calculated that would have at least two hours in the car with my husband on the drive over and back.  I did a quick internet search and found a Target and something called Tom's Farm in Corona, CA.  Once we arrived in Corona, my son and I dropped my husband and daughter off on set.  Then, my son and I headed to Target.  Along the way, I saw a Walmart, so we stopped in.  The Walmarts in L.A. are a bit scary, but this one seemed promising.  I'm not sure if Corona could be considered a suburb of L.A., but the place was a mecca of suburban shopping.  There were stores everywhere and you didn't have to pay to park!  People drove SUVs and trucks, not just Mini Coopers and Priuses.  I almost felt like I was at home again.  Once in Walmart, I got a few school supplies and a new Finn McMissle.  My son loves Cars 1 and Cars 2. He let another child play with his Finn and the side mirrors disappeared.  Once he discovered the side mirrors were missing, he was pretty upset about it.   I agreed to buy him another one.  I didn't want to discourage sharing.  Good parenting decision?  Who knows, I got him another car and I stand behind my decision.

Next, we resumed our trek to Target.  We got to Target and found a Michaels.   Michaels had a $5 off $5 purchase this week on the internet.  You could use one coupon per day.  I went to Michaels on Friday and got two skeins of yarn for $3.  They were on sale...yea!  I went back to Michaels with another coupon on Saturday and got another skein of yarn, a $1 item, and a $0.29 piece of paper and paid $0.41.  I love a deal!  Yarn?  I do a lot of crafty stuff, but I usually don't need yarn.  I have acquired a new skill.  On my daughter's last set, I taught myself to crochet.  My sweet great grandmother taught me how to crochet chains when I was twelve.  I watched a couple of YouTube videos and it all came back to me.  I watched a couple more to learn have to make a single and double crochet stitch.  I finished my first scarf a couple of days ago.

The scarf is special to me because I will remember how I worked on it while my daughter worked on her first feature length film.  I am now working on another for a gift.

 Lest I digress, my son and I went to Michaels.  While we were there we also popped into Old Navy and Tilly's.  I found some cute white and yellow ballet flats at Old Navy, but since I recently acquired these Toms,

I couldn't buy another pair of shoes.  After browsing Tilly's, we headed over to Target.  Target had their Cars 2 cars on sale.  My son started taking stock of all the Cars cars he didn't have.  Then and there I devised a plan.  I would let him earn cars for playing violin.  He earns money, but money doesn't have much meaning for him.  Now the plan is to practice for 25 days and earn a Cars character.  We found two cars he didn't have and got them.  I also shopped the swimsuits.  My swimsuit shredded last year after 5 good years of usage.  I had bottoms, I just needed a top.  I found this one at Target and decided I would try and bring Jason back to shop with me.

 By this time my son and I had spent 2 1/2 hours shopping.  We decided to check out Tom's Farm next. When we got there, I parked in a spot in the shade.  We ate our bagged lunch in the car.  Once we were finished, we started exploring.  They had a produce stand and several different stores.  We wandered around for about an hour.  They had a shooting range and a tractor ride.  All the kids’ rides cost $2 or more, so I limited my son to one ride.  He picked a tractor ride and loved it.

Next we went to the shooting range.  He shot at a couple of things and when he didn't hit them, he turned the gun over to me.  I hit several things and made them animate which he loved.  Yes, I am a pretty good shot. Would you expect anything less from a girl raised in Texas?  We walked to the fudge shop and bought chocolate cover red licorice.  Yummy, why didn't I think of dipping red licorice in chocolate?  My husband called at some point while we were at Toms and told me that my daughter had not gone on yet.  I knew it was shaping up to be a long day.  The good thing was that they had to release her at 5:30 because she would have been on set for 8 hours + lunch.  Thank the Lord for labor laws.  By now it was 2:30, so my son and I headed to a park near where my daughter was filming.  He rode his scooter around the park.  Then he played on the play structure.  I sat on a bench and crocheted while he played and scootered around where I sat.  After about 2 hours, I was ready to call it a day.  As we were leaving my son did a major head plant into the concrete after falling off his scooter.  He was fine though; his helmet saved him from injury.   That is the second time my son's helmet has prevented him from seriously injuring himself in his short life.  Wow!  We had an early dinner at In and Out Burger.  Finally, we headed back to the set and I read to him until my daughter was released promptly at 5:30.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."

John 3:16