We Have A TV

After dinner one night last week, my husband and I each took a child to have a little one on one time with her and to run some errands. It was a divide and conquer strategy that I thought would work rather well.

One of the places on my list was the big bulk warehouse store. I left the store feeling a little guilty because my youngest talked me into buying a dozen buttery croissants, forty-eight neon colored gel pens, and a box containing twenty-four packages of Sour Punch Straws. We needed exactly none of these items, but they ended up in the cart anyway.

The more I thought about the forty-eight neon colored gel pens and the box of twenty-four packages of Sour Punch Straws (but not the dozen buttery croissants because let's face it, they are awesome), the more badly I felt because I just bought more stuff that we didn't need.

Then I received the following text from my husband. It appears as though he and my oldest daughter had deviated ever so slightly from our plan and stopped by an electronics store. 

Upon hearing the news, my youngest was beyond thrilled. I believe that her heart actually skipped a beat.

I'm still not quite sure how asking my husband to stop by the grocery store for a loaf of bread and a bundle of spinach ended up with us now owning a sixty inch plasma TV. It's a head scratcher all right. I've stopped by the grocery store for a loaf of bread several times over the last decade and never once have I purchased a TV.

According to my youngest, I'm 'just not doing it right'. Furthermore, my youngest wants her dad to take over all grocery shopping responsibilities from this point forward because 'Mom never buys anything this cool!'. 

When we got home, my youngest proceeded to hug the TV like it was her long lost best friend. She may have even teared up a bit.

Does this seem somehow wrong to anyone else? To me it seems a bit wrong to be this verklempt over a TV. As per my norm, I texted a few people to ask them if I should be concerned.

We have no carpet, no couch, and no functional toilet, but according to my husband and youngest child, the basement is finished because we have a TV.

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