The first cry came from N when I tried to put him in his seat... the one facing me. You know how Target has the cool carts you can fit three kiddos in? Two seats face forward and one backward. Usually the girls sit in the two forward facing seats and N in the backwards seat. He didn't want to sit there during this trip. I made the executive decision to put him in one of the forward seats and doing so I forced one of the girls out, thinking she would be alright with sitting in the backward seat. Boy was I wrong. Well, one one girl was out the other one was too. So half the trip was spent yelling at the girls to come back into view and if they ran out of sight one more time then no bear slushies!(Target has cool slushy cups that have a polar bear on them) It didn't help that I was trying to buy stuff off a registry. I have now decided to never make registries for anything anymore. It is way to hard to shop off them.
I finally decided to buy them a bag of popcorn. Cost=$1.07 Result=Priceless. Not only did my children sit in the seats. They did not fight over where they sat, nor did they fight over the popcorn or try to get out of said seats again the whole rest of the trip. Why did I not find this out sooner.. that my kids become angles when popcorn is put in front of them? For practically a buck I can shop in peace? Now I only wish that it wasn't only Target who had popcorn. Maybe Target knows that I can't walk out without spending my life savings.
I went into the grocery store, at that time there was no sign of sleet or snow. The shelves at the store wear almost completely bare. Bottled water was almost sold out. The bread aisle was completely empty(I found some bread on a display elsewhere. Eggs were sold out. Milk was down to a minimum. Canned goods were somewhat depleted. They were out of potatoes, bananas, apples, I guess it's safe to say that they were out of most of their produce. I grabbed what I thought we needed to get us through a couple days. When I left the store around 11p.m. it had started. Sleet, pouring down from the sky. I quickly loaded my two bags of groceries into the car, started the car, brought out the handy scraper to scrap the windshield clear and then carefully drove the 4 miles home. Now in Oklahoma, schools close in anticipation of severe winter storms. All the public schools had closed already. When we awoke Tuesday morning, J's college had closed. We turned on the news which they had been running since 4:30a.m. , it was around 9:30(time for the Early Show but Snowmagedon in Oklahoma is way more important), the snow had created a disaster area. All Tuesday it snowed. 
Late afternoon they announced that the whole city was at a standstill. Plows were not even plowing anymore because of the hazardous driving conditions. Late Tuesday afternoon the girls and I ventured outside to clear some snow off our porch. Wednesday I let M out to play and she saw a small tractor come plow our condo's parking lot. Wednesday evening we ventured to Walmart. The streets were snow packed, it was quite the bumpy ride. Thursday J went out. Friday it was sunny, the kids and I ventured to a friend's house. It was the first day I would describe our roads as being in "good" driving condition. Public schools were cancelled through Friday and most colleges were cancelled too. Monday J went back to classes but public schools are still cancelled. The mains roads are mostly clear but from what I've heard all the neighborhood streets are still snow or ice packed.
