Outlet Stores

I had a neighbor tell me about an outlet store that is about a half hour away. I knew there was an outlet mall, but I can't say that there are very many stores that make me want to drive very far to get to them. For some reason, a half hour seems like a long way to drive these days. I decided to hit several stores at once. Old Navy, Goodwill, and then the Gymboree outlet. ( No, the Old Navy was not an outlet, but how cool would that be!)

The kids are getting to the inevitable point in which their wardrobe of shorts and t-shirts were looking pretty ragged. I'm a fairly thrifty person and try to buy their clothes here and there, off the clearance racks, and in small quantities. Yesterday I bit the bullet and bought clothes for all of them. I think that if I were trying to shop for me it would have been torture. Both for them and for me. As it was, the kids got burnt out after store # 2. I was able to ply them with fast food and finish up the shopping with little fuss. It also helped that Gymboree had a "kid's area" that was playing cartoons. I almost had to drag my kids out of there.

So, the kids got some clothes. I didn't have to yell at them. We were all exhausted by the time we got home which meant that we had pizza for dinner.