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I ordered the fleeces last week and paid for the overnight shipping so they would get here in time for Tuesday night’s appointment. I got an email on Saturday saying that our order had been shipped and we would receive it “within one business day”.

Monday came and went…nadda from the delivery guy.

Tuesday I sent everyone to school in medium-wash jeans and gave a lecture on not coming home soaking wet from the snow or covered in paint or spaghetti sauce or any other noticeable substance on the front of their pants. I told them they could do whatever they wanted to the backs. :)

They came home from school and I kept my eye out for the delivery man. We live in a rural area, and sometimes they don’t’ come until 3 or 4 in the afternoon. By 4 p.m. I was starting to get nervous…our appointment was in just an hour (5:15 p.m.), and what we would do if the fleece tops didn’t come?

Should I cancel our appointment and reschedule? Then we’d have to pay the sitting fees or wait until next year.

Do I hurry and scramble and try to find some outfits that match? That is what I was trying to avoid in the first place.

By 4:30 p.m. I had decided that one, FedEx wasn’t coming, and two, I didn’t want to wait next year or fork out the extra money, so I had to get my butt in gear and get some outfits together quickly!

I started with the boys…they all had white, button up shirts and khaki pants. Done. I ironed the fronts of the shirts and the pants (hey…it was for a picture…who cares what the backs looked like??? And I was crunched for time!!!!) Five white shirts and five pairs of khaki pants were ready to go.

Then I had to figure out the girls. I started looking at the little girl dresses, and found two wintery-Christmasy-flannel-ish dresses with red in them for Maggie and Amanda, and a really cute red velvet dress for Belane. I pulled out myself a red sweater and khaki skirt, and found Mercy and Des skirts and shirts with the same shade of red. Then I was back to ironing fronts.

The bigger kids all got changed and started fixing girl hair while I hurried and got Marcus and Belaney ready. Then Josh called…he didn’t have a car…couldn’t come home to get his clothes…could I iron him a shirt and pants and bring it to work?? SURE! I wasn’t doing anything else and we had all the time in the world…NOT.

So I ironed the front of Josh’s white shirt and khaki pants and then started loading kids into the car.

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