[ jet pack!!! ]

sooooooo... i get up this morning & suddenly realized the back pack i’ve ordered for flynn (my 5 year old) HASN'T arrived yet...

let me back track ( because that is my speciality...)

when asked what he’d like for christmas my son oscar (7) adamantly says a jet back... he really believes they exist & that he’ll be able to strap it on his back & zoom everywhere... ‘but don’t worry mum i’ll come home at night’ ~ oh... well that’s alright then!

to try & avoid any disappointment i start explaining that they are dangerous & that i don’t think santa would bring anything that wasn’t really safe... ‘but mum, it’s ok i’ll wear a helmet!’ again... that doesn’t make it ok

after failing miserably with several attempts of squashing the jet pack in this way i go for a different approach. ‘oscar how many people have you seen with a jet pack?’ but this isn’t working either!!

so i go for a second choice so at least i can get him something that he wants & i may even have a chance of getting hold of!!

‘oscar sweet heart, is there anything else you’d like?... just in case santa can do the jet pack’

‘yes mum there is’

oh thank god!!

‘what is it then?’

‘rocket boots’

seriously!!???

we went off to see santa & after the photo i could see them deep in conversation

‘i asked him for the jet pack mum’

‘oh...’ gulp!! santa better not have thrown me under the bus!!! ‘what did he say?’

‘he said he’ll what he can do!!’

mmmmmmmmm

& so begins my frantic search to find something... when i google kids jet packs... there are a lot of diy ones made of the big fizzy drink bottles ~ which usually i’d be well up for... but as we are going to be in australia for christmas i didn't want to run the risk of anything falling apart or off.. especially on the plane!

i eventually come across this cool backpack & ordered it along with the helments, & boot covers!! whoooo hooooo ~ i wanted a set for each of my boys ~ but they only had one back pack grrrrrrrrr 

having searched & searched the internet i eventually order another & i’m feeling very excited!! there's nothing like finding a present that you know is exactly right!! i’ve already pictured the boys zooming round in them.

a couple of days later i get an email from someone i’m not familiar with telling me that my money had been refunded as they made a mistake & don’t actually have that jet pack in stock... oh come on!!

after 2 further hours of looking & becoming very familiar with all the places that are out of stock & how all these costume websites are all linked & have 5 different names... i give up searching for the night...

the next morning i just can’t believe there is not another one of these jet packs in the world!! & can’t resist searching again. i find one straight away!! YIPPEEEEEEEE!! i quickly buy it & feel really excited again!!

so that brings us to  the beginning of this blog entry... i woke up that morning & realise it hadn’t been delivered yet...

now when i get up in the mornings on school days i have no time to be doing anything other than preparing pack lunches & snacks... making sure the boys get dressed, eat their breakfast, clean their teeth etc etc... so when i sit down to search through my emails for the jet pack receipt i know i’m in trouble... & of course as soon as i get off track everything else follows suit!! for example oscar’s lunch box has vanished...flynn can’t find a shoe, the cat decides to throw up in the middle of the kitchen... we literally fly out of the house to the car... i look at flynn & he’s forgotten to put his coat on!! we pile in the car & it was the first frosty night this year & i can’t see out of the windscreen!! i stir up the contents of my boot & there’s no scrapper to be seen... i sprint back in the house & grab a plastic fish slice ~ but the end is curved so i might as well be using my finger nail... i find the dvd box of the tooth fairy in the car (oscar has his first wiggler!!)  & i use that!!

after making it to school on 2 wheels!! i return home & call the company to sort out this back pack situation. they inform me that they don’t have it in stock either... & i’m running out of time ~ we are leaving for australia in a couple of days...

in desperation i search ebay & I FIND IT!!!! for $5 & it’s in perfect condition!! WHOOOOOO HOOOOOOO!! BUT... by the time the auction ends there won’t be time for it to get shipped in time :( so i try emailing the seller directly... i type out this long email & when i hit send there is an error & the message is lost... i try again (not making the message as long)... same thing... write it again & copy & paste it!! end up calling ebay... to my surprise there’s a phone number ~ it was firefox!! who knew! so using a different browser i get my message to the seller who answers almost instantly & very kindly made it a ‘buy it now’.

& so it’s in our suitcase that person ROCKS!!! THANK YOU!!!

can't wait for christmas!!