5 brings 5x the looks...

alright,
i'm so not one to hang my laundry out to dry in the public eye,
especially because people i don't know, don't want, or that don't care can read this blog.

but...
this story cracks me up enough that i want to share it with you, my gal pals.

i'll start off my saying this, ever since i had the miscarriage back in april my periods have been rather screwed up. i'm not sure if it was the IUD that did it or the miscarriage itself, but my dr said it could take up to 6 or so months to find a regular cycle again.
so, this means that pretty much every month i start to freak out at some point or another that i just might be pregnant. and i am so not one for sitting on it a couple more days to find out. after the last "what?! i'm pregnant" experience i have decided that if i am i want to be aware of it the very second that it is possible.

all this information has a point, really. i'm not some sort of freak that wants you to know about my periods.
i'm getting to that point this very second.

tonight i watched my friend alysons two kids.

i knew all day that i was supposed to be getting a period today from the cycle i assumed i was on, and i'll just let you know now so that you don't feel like you are anticipating something.... i'm not pregnant!

anyway, so, i was watching alysons kids. and on the way back from taking them all to yoder's to get food i decided to turn left into wallgreens....

now the rest of this story takes a bit of imagination on your part...

~first
imagine what it would look like to see one woman, baby and car keys in one hand, and in the other hand holding one 3 year olds hand which then held another 3 year olds hand, which then held a 4 year olds hand which was finished off with yet another 4 year old.
yes, this in and of it's self is quite the sight.

~next
imagine that woman scrolling the isles to the pregnancy test section, grabbing a pregnancy test and making her way (and the train that followed behind her (which was loud and laughing, drawing attention to the woman)) would look like.

~last
imagine the reaction of the woman when the sales clerk took one look at her and the baby in her hands then looked at the train that followed behind her then looked at the pregnancy test that she was ringing up for her with a "seriously?" look on her face.

yes lady...
i know what birth control is!

ps...
i forgot my car keys on the counter and had to go back in with the train to grab them off the counter for the clerk to give me one more look of disbelief.

ah, i couldn't help but laugh when i got us all back in the car and we made our way home.