Ikea was maddening

IKEA was... well…

Busy
Crazy
Bustling
Confusing
Kids dropping
Overwhelming
Daddies tripping
Mommies yelling
Ear drum busting
Babies screaming
Concert ticket long lines
Won’t go back on a Saturday kind of place!

We managed to get a great deal on King sized sheets, a desk chair for Kid4’s new antique roll top desk (more on that later), 2 cheap skillets (for the kids to cook in) a plant for Kid4 that she named something ridiculous (more on that later too) and tiny little pretend silverware to add to Kid4’s kitchen collection.

We then ran screaming from the chaos that is IKEA, got into the quiet car for a moment of silence and then took the kids to the mall which was also crazy, etc. etc…. Mr.B. kept trying to reassure me that this day WAS indeed going to end eventually. Kid4 could NOT look away from the pattern on the mall floor so she skipped along square to square bumping into others, completely oblivious to the world around her….

When we left the mall we plugged the kids into one device or another I was furiously trying to get Kid4 hooked into a movie, and the big kids were listening to I-pods and there was finally silence….

We had a Valentine’s Day similar to the St. Valentine’s Day massacre….. or at least as loud!