It was the nightmare B4 Christmas....

They say its the most wonderful time of the year , no it is not. Its wonderful when the day after Christmas you buy all your decorations and holiday cheer on sale for next year so that's less you have to worry about. Every year I promise myself I will do exactly that. I will get ahead of the game and be finished before November . I just want to look in the mirror and say "Your so full of @#$% your going to do everything at the last minute and you know it." Really all I have to do is save money all year like have a Christmas fund that would make things easier also. I didn't get up today until 1:30 and I know some of you are probably saying " must be nice" well honestly yes it was get over it, anyway I was trying to remember the list of everything I needed to get for everyone than threw a jogging suit on and was going to leave with no make up but than I remembered other people have to look at me. I make it out the door and my first stop is at the mall. Parking wasn't horrible I got my daughter and my sons gifts on sale than went and got my daughter these God awful shoes she just has to have and they were very pricey but hey its Christmas right. So I am thinking I did pretty good Gods favor was upon me and that wasn't to bad. I go home and my daughter asks me about the shoes and of coarse I lie and tell her she may not be getting the shoes . My girl than thinks its because there to expensive and says I can get the same ones at payless for 29.99. Of coarse they were of coarse and so it begins. So I freak out because the same pair of ugly shoes I got for 75.29 I could have gotten for 29.99. So I jump in my car and head back to the Mall (oh Joy) I run in and go to exchange the shoes and the salesman asks what was wrong with them and get this I lie to him because I feel guilty about bringing the shoes back so I tell him someone already bought them for her. How sick is that I can't believe I fricken felt bad but now I feel even worse when I leave because I lied. I go to rue 21 I buy my sons present. Be right back I hear gun shots. Well that was a perfect ending to my day. As I was sitting here typing I heard 2 shots than 4 more. I called the police and they informed me that they had already received calls to that location so I hang up. I leave to go to the store which is an exscuse to put my nose where it doesn't belong but whatever so I see 2 policeman circling the block and riding up and down the street and than that's it they leave. It literally sounded like it was in my back yard because its huge and theres a gate that leads to the next street. If anyone was killed I guess we'll find out soon enough. OK where was I ? Oh yeah I get my sons present than head to walmart. My daughter is with me and we finish up our shopping and she tells me she has to tell me something when we leave so I'm like ok w/e. We get in the car we head home and I ask her what is it we need to discuss and she tells me that when she was looking at the hairclips 2 rows down from me , she thought a man was following her.The man is just standing there well she tries to grab something off the top shelf but can't reach it so he gets it for her ,she says thank you and than he shows her his phone and a picture of a mans penis with a bow tied around it and says to my daughter "you like that?" She says no and walks away. I pull into my driveway and my husband isn't home yet and I tell my daughter we're going back.Now she is 12 and she gets scared and I say "you can't do nothing or he will do it to someone elses child" So she sucks it up and we head back . The whole way there my mind starts racing and I'm thinking I hope he had the good sense to leave because if I find him I won't let him leave. I walk in and I see a deputy and I tell him what happened and said " I figure its better that you find him before I do." My daughter tells him what the guy looked like and the deputy says he will check but told her" Next time something like that happens tell your mom right away . " I thought she knew that but I think she was afraid of what I was going to do or say in front of her , she is not a very confrontational person unlike her mother . On our way home she stopped being scared and became very angry. I mean hear this child has never seen anything like that before and her innocent mind was exposed to one more element of evil in the world. I often take God for granted in these situations and believe that he will always protect her because I pray for it always and maybe some might ask" Well where was he tonight?" My only response is that in this day and age what I see in the news ,the things people do to there families ,to there children or to anyone, well if all I have to deal with is a pornographic picture and I'm not dealing with her body being found in a ditch somewhere than I know God did his job as always and thats the truth.!!!