Today's adventure was a trip to Sam's Club. By the time I got everyone loaded in the burb and drove to the store it was my version of Supermarket Sweep. We only had 30 minutes to pickup 15 items, check out, and load back in the car to get AJ to kindergarten in time. I gave everyone a pep talk about acting nice, hoping they would listen to my plead. It did go better than it could have. The highlights were:
The "we need bananas" chant the entire way through the store. The kids might as well be monkeys by the way they like bananas. Even after I had picked up the bananas (6 lbs worth), they wanted to make sure I still had them.
Jake insisting on holding/eating the grocery list. At one point he lost it, I set my five year old loose to hunt for it, but he was unsucessful. The list was recovered at checkout in the bottom of the cart, not much use for it then.
The constant stares and comments. The most memorable being, "Looks like you have plenty of kids" coming from a creepy middle aged man.
Caleb insisted on being a big kid and walking instead of riding in the cart. He was pretty good about staying out of trouble. I did happen to look up after grabbing bulk shredded cheese to see his hands on an expensive wine display. He just shrugged as I yelled at him to get away.
All employees seemed to breathe a sigh of relief as we left the store.
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First, not happy that I had to find the blog on Katie's blog. Second, love it, every last word. I just love to hear about other people's children and their adorable little personalities, gives me great comfort. I just completed a trip to Walmart where Kinley licked the cart for the majority of our trip. Some lady said to me, "ma'am, your daughter is licking the shopping cart." What am I to say that that? Um, is that not okay??? Look lady, you try and get her to stop.
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