Big Girl Bed

Yesterday we went to go get Ryanne a "big girl" bed. After driving all the way to the store, I realized that there was no way that bed was fitting in the Honda, even flat in its package, and even if I left Ryanne, and all of her stuff, sitting in the parking lot (I've gone on long vacations with less stuff than my child requires to go across town). So I asked them to hold it for us so I could come back today with our SUV and they said ok. Of course, when we arrived today, no one could find Ryanne's bed, and it turned out it had been sold "just half an hour ago and I'm so, so sorry." They had no others in that color in stock, which meant we made a 40 minute round trip to purchase $2.69 worth of Play-Doh (4 cans - who knew Play-Doh was so cheap? Not I). Tomorrow we're going to a different store which supposedly has her bed in stock. If we strike out a third time I will accept that Ryanne is fated to sleep in a crib for a little while longer.

On the bright side, if we hadn't made that trip, we never would have seen the beautiful double rainbow (as captured by my cell phone) which appeared in front of us as we drove home: