Day 25 Wellington New Zealand Wednesday

Today was Garrett's first day off of work for his Christmas Holliday. We spent the morning at the museum with the kids showing Garrett all the exciting things he has missed out on. Then we fed them lunch and Garrett droped me off and took them back to the hotel to take naps and I battled the wind walking around downtown doing a little last minute shopping and checking out the furniture warehouse.

We spent the second part of the day running making necessary purchases like-dishes, cups, silverware (oh wait we put that back at the register because it was more than we had thought), tupperware, bath towels, pillows, sheets (for Enoch and Ezra-the rest of us have sheets with us), kitchen towels, a pot holder, iron, chopping mats,a few hangers, and I can't remember what else. This was really good timing because there were some great deals for Christmas. Everything we bought was at least 20% off and most was 40-50% off so everything total was only $520 NZD or $300 something USD. Seriously good for all the things we had to purchase. It was two overflowing carts full of stuff.

We didn't end up getting an ironing board because I am really crossing my fingers somewhere else will have one that is cheaper than 70$. Granted it was on sale 30% off but STILL! REALLY?? wow, that is a lot.

Well Ethne was an ANGEL durring all of that because she got a good nap. She was just as good as gold being in that store cart for two hours or more. She was really unbelievably good.

Enoch and Ezra, although usually quite good, were horrid. Not maybe by some kids standards-but for them. Garrett and I didn't handle them well and didn't keep them engaged. Instead we just kept telling them to be good, to stop touching, to stop running, to stop climbing on things, to stop touching again, to stop pulling the hurting each other etc... Instead we should have engaged them somehow, but were to busy trying to make decisions to stop and think about the situation. It ended with them eating PBJ sandwhiches for dinner instead of chicken and curry and being shuffled off to bed.

Since Day 26 will be much the same as today we will get to try again. Hopefully it will go better.