Instafriday - No Car Seat Edition

Today I'm helping my sister out with a little babysitting action for her almost 3-year-old.

It's really nice to get the kiddos together for a few reasons, 

the first being that they get along beautifully and make each other laugh,

and the second being that it gives me some time to do whatever the heck I feel like doing because they are distracting each other.

Woohooo!

ANYWAY!

This morning I was tired as a slug.

I don't know what it was. Yesterday I felt dead with exhaustion, so I figured today I would be perky as all perk, but low and behold, I was not.

So somewhere around 9:30 I thought to myself,

Woohooo! It's almost coffee time!

Such is when I heave Carter into the car and we take a little trip down to McDonald's for my 

McCafe.

It's a glorious event, executed daily.

And then I realized something terrible.

No! No! No! No!

I had forgotten to ask my sister for her car seat!

No car seat for my niece = dare I even say it? No drive to McDonald's.

{hee-haw, hee-haw, hee-haw}

{deep breaths}

Dang!
How could I have been so thoughtless?!

What to do, what to do?!

My heart was racing, my eyes were darting all crazy-like just from thinking about what A FULL DAY would be like without my glorious coffee.

Would this mean that I would have to actually brew my own pot?

Barbaric!

And then a thought occurred to me.

What if I just walked down there and got the kiddos a Big Breakfast so I can enjoy my McCafe and everybody will be happy?

Was that nuts?

I didn't care! To hell with the critics!

Kids! Where are your shoes?! We are going BYE-BYE!

And that's what we did.

I strapped Carter to his stroller and held Tessa's hand the whole way down there.

.....After, of course, a quick tackle resulting in tears and screams.

But after that, we were on track!

Ahh, peace.

It actually turned out to be quite an enjoyable walk......

.....Until I figured out that all my picture taking had forced us to miss breakfast.

{I was irrationally angry about this during the entire meal. I mean, who wants to eat regular McDonald's food at 10:30 am? I walked in at exactly 10:30, McDonald's staff! Couldn't they have cut me a break!}

But it was all good because the kiddos had a great time playing on that contraption which kind of gives me the creeps.

Anyway, last but certainly not least........

I got to enjoy my MEDIUM McCafe.

{I have been ordering smalls in consideration of Babe #2, but today I felt that I deserved to bump it up.}

So it all worked out, after all.

Now those youngins are asleep, and I'm still enjoying my frothy goodness.

HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY.

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