We’ve had a lot going on in the last couple months, so I was looking forward to hanging out with Matt this weekend. We didn’t have a lot planned, just dinner with some friends and we planned to hit a new wine bar. As the weekend got closer, things started to add up and Matt knew that he needed to get his Dad’s father’s day present to my Mother In Law (MIL) before she left town back to Lynden. Matt was tired Friday and I kind of talked him out of going shopping cause it was like 95 degrees. I then uttered the words, “I’ll just get up with you in the morning and we’ll go shopping then”. Bad idea. Matt regularly wakes up at 2am now for his 4am-12pm shift at work. I also didn’t know at the time that we were to meet my MIL at 7am for breakfast and that the shopping journey needed to happen BEFORE 7am. Matt set his alarm and I drug myself out of bed, threw my hair back and put on some dirty clothes. I was NOT in a good mood. It took all the self-control I had to not ask to stop at two different Starbucks on the way to Walmart because I knew we were in a time crunch. Maybe I should have. When we got to Walmart (before 6am), Matt couldn’t find what he wanted to get them (he realized he never got his Mom anything for Mother’s day so he had to get two presents now). We walked the entire store and he couldn’t find the gift. He then said that we could try Home Depot. Of course, I’m trying to convince him to get his Mom some flowers and for him to grab a bottle of Whiskey for his Dad. Matt did not like these ideas. I continued to say rude comments with bad tone. I can’t let it go, so I go into a big one about how he waited to find this ONE specific thing. Home Depot is a dud. Now it’s time to pass another Starbucks to hit Lowes-across town. They do not have the gift. We drive across the street and the stores are closed. Where do we end up? Back at Lowes where we buy flowers for his Mom (my original idea). Next stop, our home to get his Dad some whiskey (my original idea). I thought I’d document this occasion with a couple pictures.
Later in the day after I had caffeine and wine in my system, Matt and I talked about our morning. I told him that things would have gone much better if he would have said, “We’re going to hit Walmart after we stop at Starbucks for you”. Matt is a fast learner. This morning when he woke me up before 6am to head to Cheney, he said, “If you get up and get going, we can stop by Starbucks”. Major improvement! Hey…don’t they say the first 50 years of marriage are the hardest?
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