Bribery

Today I woke up hurting and decided to run to Office Depot first thing in the morning and get my only pressing errand over with. Yesterday, I was going to run out for printer ink during Riley's nap. Mike said he had to clean the printer first. I was bummed because I've been working on a craft that requires that I print a document for the first step. I assumed he'd get around to it this weekend. To my surprise he started cleaning the printer within about 20min of making the statement. "I wanted to do it before you left so you can get ink" he told me.

I put Riley down grabbed the empty cartridges and went out the door about 15min later. I was setting my crutches in the car when the front door opened. Mike said "Um, skip ink. I may have killed the print head." He shut the door and I processed this. I went back in and inquired if this meant we were going to have to buy a whole new printer. We generally use it very little and we're saving for a wedding, but the wedding needs have increased our printing needs substantially. His eyes lit up.
"Where were you going to go?"
"Office Depot"
"They have printers there."
"Well, I wasn't going if we didn't need ink...sigh"

So, I didn't make it during nap. I anticipated browsing and contemplating maybe even several calls home. It seems to big a task for nap time. I digress, we went this morning, by we of course I mean Miss Roo and I. I was a little worried about her getting bored and acting up. I brought the wheelchair and put her in my lap. I think that set up gives me the most control. I can certainly cover the most distance.

Printer shopping took 2min. I went down the aisle checking prices and whether they were photo quality. Soon we had a winner and the nice man was loading it into my car. I had been so worried about little one's temperament I promised as we pulled in to take her to the party store to look for dinosaurs if she was good. Even though she didn't have time to fuss I made good on my promise.

She picked out a bag of tiny dinos and called them babies. She didn't understand why I didn't tear the package open with my teeth right there and liberate them, but she stayed pretty mellow. "Dact-tul" she kept telling me and pointing to the flying one. "Yes, it is. You can have it in a minute." I felt silly buying on cheap little bag of toys, but their dino party stuff stunk. Plus it was much cheaper than a trip to the toy store on the other side of office depot.

When we got home I was hurting pretty bad and Riley was cranky. I bribed her again. This time I got more miles out of it though. First I bribed her out of the car with cookies. Once we were inside I told her she had to go pee pee on the potty if she wanted milk and cookies. She fought me, but I sat by the potty with the cookies and milk and waited. I won.

The rest of our day wasn't so great, but we survived. I'm gonna go eat the rest of the cookies out of view of the kids...