Building Workshop FAIL

So, I took the kids to Lowes this morning to build Santa's sleigh. I was on my own because Mike was smoking ribs for Isaac's party. We got there early and discovered we had to go inside and all the way to the back corner of the store. That was my parking spot choice fail, oops. They had a piece of plywood propped up on buckets for a table and buckets for chairs. Low to the ground seating, Lowes (small) fail. Then we waited for someone to check us in we were 3rd in line. They gave me kits, but no aprons, fail! Apparently there weren't enough goggles to go around either. They just seemed less organized.

We were super excited to build Santa's sleigh and much to Riley's delight the only tool for this project was a hammer. They had tiny kid sized hammers, very cute. We started out excited, but it was a challenging project. I mis-hammered and bent a nail and hit my thumb, my double fail. Riley happily hammered next to me while I floundered starting her project. This time there weren't several store employees helping just one and he stayed at the first table, fail.

About 20mins in I looked over and Isaac was red faced and glassy eyed. I told him to take a deep breath and congratulated him on being halfway done. I'd still only gotten the first nail in and was wishing I had 4 hands. When I looked back it was clear he had not taken a breath. I got Riley's project situated and was getting ready to examine his when he exploded into tears! FAIL.

I told him to pack it up and tried to explain to Riley we'd finish at home. That made it worse and now everyone was staring at the lady with the crutches trying to scramble up from her too low bucket and collect her hysterical kid. Nice. I get Riley packed up and following me and I slow down to check that Isaac is with us when I bump into a friend of mine and her 3 beautiful (well behaved) children. I greeted them and explained we needed to make a quick exit glancing back at Isaac still having a fit behind me and flashed them my bloody thumb. I can't imagine what they must think of me. I can't imagine what any of the other parents thought.

Off we went for the long trek back through the store with Isaac sobbing and Riley yelling at him at a torturous crutch walking speed. Sigh. When we got to the car he had calmed down and I informed him he would not join us for any more of those. He apologized to Riley. She went home and finished her sleigh with Daddy and the big hammer. I put Isaac's away for another time.

I don't have any pictures from sleigh building, but here are the kids napkin holders with fancy Thanksgiving napkins in them!