A Necessary Evil

Tomorrow I have to take my boy child to the city.  Tis a two hour treck.  He is participating in an activity in a couple of weeks where he will be competing in speech, he will be judged, there are trophies to be had.  So he has to get some duds worthy of the occasion.

Now see, if it were just me, I would go up on my mountain and quite frankly just never come back down again.  I could be quite content in a one room shanty equipped with a wood stove and a clothes line.  But, I am a mother.  So I cannot fall into my backwoods tendencies 110% with wild abandon.  My children's needs are placed appropriately ahead of mine and thus...to the city I go in the morn. 

But I will be killing two birds with one stone.  After spending my morning in clothes shops surrounded by women of the fluffy sort I'm going to be ready to get back into my element.  So I will be stopping at one of the bulk stores on the way home and making some purchases to increase my larder.  It truly makes me happy to go on a stock up trip for the larder.  Pantry goods are to me what diamonds must be to ladies of a different sort. 

They can keep their bling.  I've got dry goods.