What a day!!

Took Kenzie to the mall today to get her ears re-pierced. WOW was that a mistake and HUGE waste of time and oh yes, moolah!!

We went to Claires(what little girl or big girl for that matter doesn't LOVE this store). She was all ready to go, picked out the cute little 14k pink daisy studs just like she had the first time and was good to go. The little gal that was working came over and cleaned her ears and then began to mark them with that ugly purple marker. Now mind you THE LOOK of terror was beginning to form on Kenzie's face but did that phase me..NOOO of course not I'm stupid like that.

Then the "gun" came out and Kenzie leaped out of the chair and took off running with mommy(who is SO not a runner) trailing behind her begging and pleading with her to "STOP, come back, mommy will buy something fun and pink okay!?!". Sooo, she stopped, turned around and grinned and came skipping back to me and we walked happily(or so I stupidly thought) back into the store to resume our place on the big stool (dun dun dun!!!! did you hear my scary music effect there?).

Once again, total repeat with the look of terror but THIS time my lovely little girl just stayed put on that big stool and screamed at the top of her lungs "mommy noooo don't make me please don't make me!!" so there I am standing there looking like "Mommy Dearest"(NO WIRE HANGERS!!! whack whack whack)getting stared at or should I say GLARED at by all who gazed on this lovely little show my daughter was putting on. I know I sound awful right? Trust me this little girl was putting it on so thick it was pathetic. This was the SAME little girl who had been begging for DAYS to get her ears pierced again.

So I bust out the bribe method. "Oh Kenzie looooook at this pretty pink lunchbox with the puppy in a tiara..wouldn't that be SO FUN to have for school this year?" "OH and LOOK!! The have Bump-Its!! You have been wanting those". She smiled and clapped her hands with glee saying "oh yes yes yes I'll do it now". FINALLY I won!! Woot, hooray, whoopiee..(you get the gist right?).

AHHHHHHHAAAA(my best buzzer impression there)!!! Wrong-O. She screamed in an even higher pitch that I think only whales could fully appreciate. Of course this time I also had her on my lap thinking mommy could make it better. UMM no!!

The little gal in the store as well as her other little friend who had returned from lunch in a very round-about-way said they wouldn't pierce her ears and it would be $31 for the studs since they had been opened(this was when my blood pressure went up and my jaw dropped and I believe I cursed in my head quite a bit).

So even though it was OVER, Kenzie was still standing there, screaming and crying, had to be drug out of the store and set on a bench to calm down. So I paid for the STUPID studs that weren't in her ears and that was that. Of course that was followed by a slight "mommy meltdown) in which I bought cookies for the boys and not for Kenzie and then in my final act of stupidity told Kenzie I was going to burn Bunny at the stake.

I was so upset but the lesson learned was it was my OWN fault! I should have known better than to take her back in. I don't know how many Sharpies I must have been sniffing this morning but I believe they are bad and I should throw them out!

I sat in the car, in the mall parking lot and cried for about 5 minutes for being so upset with my little princess and then of course apologized to her over and over and also to Bunny(Kenzie said Bunny forgives me).

So lesson learned and Kenzie has been told that the next time she wants her ears pierced she better be old enought to not only pay for it but drive herself there as well because THIS mama isn't going again!!