What do you get when you add a rainy day, a Ford f150 truck and a rubbermaid tote?

A wonderfully funny story to blog about, which also involved Daddy! Friday was a ridiculously rainy day here in North Eastern Ohio! Just because it is raining though I can't just stop my day! I absolutely needed to get some grocery shopping done and needed to get a few more supplies for my projects I am currently doing! Sure there will be a blog on that soon.

Little Gary has been very obsessed with the very expensive Thomas the Train wooden table! The thing regularly retails for 169.99! JUST THE TABLE NO TRAIN WITH IT! Well, we have a few different tracks of Thomas the train and I vowed to keep an eye out for a table in the classifieds or the second hand type stores around here. So after the craft store Friday I ventured to Once Upon a Child, (a franchise second hand type store). I had been there in May and scored a great bouncer for Cara and they had a train table then which they were selling for 65.00! I thought what the heck maybe I will find something and if not, no biggie. We walk in and right in the middle of the store a shining light coming down on it was a train table! This table was in absolutely great condition for being used and Gary knew what it was without the trains even on it! I found the price tag and was so totally shocked and excited! 35.00 yes 35.00! I don't think it is an actual Thomas the train table but it sure passes for it! The Trains work on it and all! I asked Lil Gary if he wanted to get it and he said, "YES!" So I asked the lady if I purchased it would they be willing to hold it till I was able to return with my Hubby and truck to take it home! With an absolutely, the table was ours! She placed a paper saying SOLD on it and I was thrilled for my boy! So I convince him through tears and kicks we need to leave and go get Dada so we can come in the truck (Mack as he calls it) and bring the table home.

We go grocery shopping faster than ever and head home in the pouring rain! Get home put groceries away and feed Cara and load up in Mack to head to get the table! Our house is not huge at all and toys clutter our living room on a daily basis. Big Daddy and I decided some toys would get put away in a tote to be rotated back out later and the rest could go up stairs with the exception of a Diego Dino head toy and the Train table still in the living room. One problem with this idea! We don't have a tote! We make a stop at Lowe's and buy a 50 gallon tote. As we are leaving Lowe's it has begun to seriously pour rain, so we put the kids in the truck as fast as can be I load the tote in the work gear loaded bed of the truck and shake and budge it to see if it is in securely. Big Daddy agrees it is secure and off we go to head up 224 for the train table. All is seeming fine as we approach the Shops at Boardman Park.

We are cruising along and get to the light right in front of Wendy's and Big Daddy yells, "F***, we lost the tote!" At this point I am still talking and I say huh what are you talking about as I look in my rear view mirror and see our 50 gallon tote banging as it rolled down the slight slope in the rain. It was one of those moments where time seemed to crawl and I remember myself saying, "Oh NO!" I then asked Big Daddy, "we are going back for it right?" He looks at me with this look of DUHHHHH and says, "Yeah, as soon as I can turn around!" We get turned around and we find our tote in the middle of 5 lane 224 and we pull next to it and Big Daddy jumps out to grab it! He throws it in the back and then we escape to behind Quiznos where we actually put it in the Cab of the truck! There we are two car seats, two adults and a 50 gallon tote smashed in an F150 off to retrieve our train table! All this craziness has been worth it! Lil Gary is in love with his train table!