Not Everything is What it Seems

I hate those days when I feel like everyone is staring at me, like I have food in my teeth or something on my face. It always makes it worse when you don't have a mirror handy, so you just smile & hope for the best. Well today I got some pretty crazy looks on our walk, the difference this time was that I knew exactly why. My day started off pretty normal, but once 12pm rolled around & Barrett still hadn't nap I knew it was a rough ride from there in. He finally went down for a nap around 3:30ish but I had to be somewhere by 4:30pm, so I let him sleep as long as possible. Next thing I knew, we were in a car & on our way out. The poor guy literally screamed the whole drive & I couldn't blame him. I had a good friend ask to borrow some of my decorative suitcases for a photo shoot & I was supposed to meet up with her after my 4:30pm shindig. Sadly I knew there was no way I was getting Barrett to calm down in the car. We rushed home in time to say bye to Ben before he headed out for the K9 trials in Las Vegas & then I loaded up my jogging stroller. Barrett loves going on our walks, so I knew that it would be no problem to walk down to Target to meet up. We had a little hiccup though... My suitcases were mondo huge for my stroller & it wouldn't fit in the underneath basket! No problem, I just decided to set the bad boy up on top of the stroller & go about my merry way. I was laughing & smiling the whole walk because people were just staring like they saw a ghost. People took a double take when they saw me going by & I even heard one woman ask her husband 'what was that about' LoL I could just image the crazy things people were thinking. Did I runaway? Was I carrying a chopped up dead body? I mean honestly, they could've been thinking up any story in their heads, but I'm 99% sure that they weren't thinking the truth.... My son was cranky, didn't want to go in his car seat & I had to meet up with a friend to get her these photo props for her to use tomorrow & this was the easiest way for me to meet her & to keep my son happy! I created extra entertainment for myself & a few people today. I was inspired today by my not so normal walk. I learned that no matter how crazy someone might look you never know exactly what's going on at that moment! A mama has to do what she has to do :)

Luckily I snapped a few photos of my fun walk! Don't mind the partial blanket over the suitcase, I had to make sure it wouldn't fall off the stroller.