Success

Every year we take the kiddos to the mall to see Santa.  This Christmas season our days literally revolve around Hailey's feeding times...but if you know me, you will know that I am the master planner and if anyone can fit life in around 6 hours of feeding every day, I can.  So we fed the little lady Saturday morning a little later than normal so that we could get to the mall as soon as Santa got there and we could get in line, talk to Santa, take the Santa photo, take a couple of photos of all three kids together, get back in the car and make the 1/2 hour drive back home in perfect timing for Hailey's next feeding.

So Santa gets there at 10 am (I have looked it up) and we get there at 9:45...and there is already an hour long line!!  Ut oh!  The best laid plans right.  uggg.  I am also the queen of asking for a manager and somehow making  things work when anyone else would just give up and go home...so I asked to speak with the manager and I explained the situation.  I told her that we could wait a 1/2 hour but if we wait an hour then we are going to have to feed her and then get in line and start all over again.  So what I didn't realize is that all this explaining, the manager was not understanding what I meant by being tube fed.  I realized at the end that she thought I was saying "too fed" and Hailey wasn't standing next to me during this conversation (she was sprinting around the mall with hubby and the 15 year old chasing her down which she thought was an amazingly funny game!!).  So the manager elf was nasty in her response and said, 'if she is too fed, then just don't feed her anymore!'...followed by a laugh.  So then, I got upset and I said, not TOO FED...TUBE FED...as in she has a tube coming out of her stomach that she has to be hooked up to a pump and have formula pumped into her stomach for an hour 6 times per day!!  So poor little manager elf lady was totally flustered (and I really didn't mean to raise my voice!) and escorted us to the exit where we went ahead and skipped the line altogether...so ok my temper worked in my favor this time! 

So we got the kiddos Santa photos taken, we took a few photos of all three kiddos for our holiday photo & got back in perfect time to feed her!  Success!  

See we can do this!  We can still go out in the world and have our family traditions!  It was wonderful to have a successful day!