The boy came home from Texas today. In our last final moments of trying to make life fun for the girls why the boy is having the time of his life with his grandparents, we went to the mall to get Lou’s ears pierced.
She was so excited. She picked out some cute 14K gold pink stone earrings. She sat in the chair. And they she got as stiff as a board. She looked terrified. I tried to give her an out, but she still wanted to do it. Luckily I had them do both ears at once.
At first she didn’t cry. She just said OW! But then I think the sting set in and she cried. Poor girl. She did so well. They tried to cheer her up with a sucker AND a sticker. But she just needed to cry for a bit. She wanted me to hold her, so we sat on the bench outside the shop for a few minutes waiting for Dad and Toots to find us. When they did dad took a picture of her new jewels.
I was wrong about the store. I figured they would try to sell me some obnoxiously overpriced hydrogen peroxide to clean her ears. They didn’t try to sell it to me. They just tacked $8 on to the price of the earrings and gave it to me. They opened it in the store and used it to clean her ears with. Gee. Thanks. So $40 later she is a happy girl with big girl earrings. And she had something to show her brother when he got home. That is pretty priceless.
Of course, my Google reader has a magic button that says Mark All As Read. Too bad there isn’t a button like that for my life.
