short trip to ikea makes for long post

thursday morning i decided that i was going to ikea on saturday. i've been talking about going for a few months now and i was going to make it happen one way or another. mike invited himself to tag along. later in the afternoon i get a call from nana- mike's mom. she wanted to know if kaylee wanted to spend the night friday and maybe the whole weekend. {whoa nelly! a whole weekend away from my little mini me?} sweet, little kaylee was all gung-ho about it even friday morning when i asked her. her reply,with much enthusiasm, was "today's the day i get to spend the night at nana's? today's the day?!" and once nana got here, kaylee asked if they could leave. as i was getting ready for mike and i to get some bites, i decided that maybe we should stay in since we had a big day planned for saturday. translation- i planned on spending some money at ikea. so we got a movie- stepbrothers, it was dumb, and some sandwiches from a local place and some candy/popcorn from target. it was a nice, quiet evening of not having to get the demands of a very high maintenced four year old when we get THE CALL. its nana. kaylee wants to talk to me. all i hear is mumble, mumble, crying and sniffles. nana translated it to "mommy i want to come home because i love you." it was sweet yet sad. sad because nana lives an hour away, sad because kaylee cant be anywhere without us and sad because mike's parents wanted to spend some time with her. half an hour later we get another call- she finally fell asleep.

later that night we get another phone call except this time its mike's work. first thing in the morning mike leaves because he thinks he's found a way to fix the problem at work. he loves his job and he loves being the boss. i know he does. i knew this was going to take some time since he told me to take my time in getting ready- my trip to ikea is getting delayed! around 9am-ish, there's a knock on the door. i'm thinking its mike and he just left his keys in his truck. nope. its kaylee, nana and pop pop. kaylee had a rough night and she looked it- her eyes were all red and puffy. the first thing she said in the morning is that she wanted to go home to mommy and that her mommy's name is kristi. and she kept repeating it over and over like nana and pop pop were complete strangers. kaylee is one strange cat- it was only a few months ago that she went right back to nana's house after being brought home, she wanted to stay with nana. so after this episode i'm thinking what are we going to do once school starts? will she behave this way and maybe, just maybe the doctor was right and we should have kaylee see a shrink? oh the joys of parenthood!

so we finally took off for ikea around 10am. i got a few things for the house and we found some bigger items that we need to buy once we move so you know what that means- another trip to ikea! we ate an early dinner at one my favorite places- pf changs and then headed back home. it was about a 6 hour drive total but the no traffic made it nice. of course kaylee complained a little about a "bellycake" {she just needed to poop} and that she wanted to go home and watch spongebob but overall the trip was a good one. mike even behaved.