-I don't want to spend any money
-I don't have a double stroller which means Darek has to walk which means...trouble
-The dumb car strollers you can rent at the mall: on the rare occasion that we do go to the mall, Darek asks me 1,000 times to get a car stroller. It doesn't help that we see multiple other kids cruising along in them. The dang things cost $5 to rent and you only get $1 back when you return it. Ridiculous.
(This was taken in November in Iowa)
Today gave me another reason to dislike the mall. I was letting Darek and Mia play in the terrible excuse for a play land when a little boy threw up in the middle of playing. How many surfaces had he touched that Mia and Darek touched? Good grief.
I took the kids to Payless afterward and asked if they had hand sanitizer which they did, yay! And then I told Darek that we could go look at the car strollers. Sometimes it's enough to just let him sit in one while it's attached to the machine (totally cheap on my part, I know). But we were in luck - someone had left their double car stroller next to the machine without locking it in place! My two kids were in heaven! A great day for them (even if it does mean that their expectation for getting a car stroller will be that much higher when we go next time).
