Never "Promise" When Your Betting On The Odds

How is your day? Mine was spectacular. I had another "life lesson learned" today. I took my children to the dreaded monstrosity called WalMart to buy test strips for our swimming pool. As usual we took a little detour and walked the toy isle. Long story short: my children found "Transformers" and if I was the best mom in the whole world, they would have come home with us.

They are new and shiny and do cool things and can battle each other, PLEASE MOM PLEEEEEEASE We simply can not live with out them. We will do anything......

Sorry kiddo's, not in the budget this week BUT since we are going to run by the Thrift Store on the way home so that Mommy can get a book for this weekend I promise that if you can find transformers at the Thrift Store and if they have all the little pieces and if it is in good shape, I will buy every one of them for you.

Now really, I am such a clever mother. My children think I just offered to buy them the moon and we are exiting the store at lightning speed. Yea! I will grab a quick book, run passed the toys and we will be outta there and home in no time flat! I am so pleased with myself!

(on a side note: In the last five years we have found two "used" transformers. Even if my children did find one I was getting off pretty good. Under six bucks with a book at the most!!!) I told you, I am Clever and Thrify. I had a goooooood plan... You see what's coming don't you?

In less than three minutes I found a quick no brainer book to make my time spent trying to turn my Lilly White Legs a more muted shade of white more bearable. We turn the corner towards the toys and the kids make it there six seconds before me.

YEA!!!!!! WHOOOHOOOO!!!!! OH MAN,OH MAN,OH MAN,OH MAN!!!!!! (jumping and squealing. Little girl noises issue forth) Oh crap I thought as I rounded the bend, Now what did they find that was sooooo cool.

There are my little bundles of happiness holding three BRAND SPANKING NEW TRANSFORMERS STILL IN THE PACKAGE! THREE EACH!!!! Yep. Six of the dang things. not even a popped seal in the plastic vortex that takes an engineer to break through.

Now I ask you, what are the odds? WHAT ARE THE ODDS??? Could I EVER walk myself into a situation like that again? I am so clever, I am so thrifty, I had such a good plan!!! I so completely set myself up.

I am a Mother of my word. There was no way I was getting out of this one. Never make a promise if it's based on the fact that you think there's not a chance in heck of having to fulfill it.

I am eating Robot Pie.

There is a "battle to end all battles" going on in my living room as I write this. Cybertron something is looking for something called a Primus. Someone named "override" might not make it. (T informs me that this is mainly because she is a girl transformer and so she might have to die.....) My children may as well have been handed the keys to Disneyland.

I hope they enjoy eating Mac and cheese for the rest of the week.

I will be excited and happy for them tomorrow. Right now I am going to take my cleverless white legged self out onto the deck and read....