I headed to Walmart and Sam's Club tonight with the crew in tow. We have had such luck on outings lately; I didn't think the streak could end. Tonight my luck ran dry.
Other than 20 comments from fellow shoppers, Sam's Club was fine. I should have gone home then. I have nightmares that are less frightening than the hour of my life in Walmart. Jake screamed for the first 20 minutes because he wanted to be held and not ride in the cart. I was pushing one of those enormous "put to kids in the seats in front and still have an entire cart for all the groceries". Steering those can be a challenge, especially when Caleb insisted on holding onto my pinky finger because "I want my momeee." I finally gave in to Jake and Caleb. I carried Jake and let Caleb ride in the cart. That took some skill, pushing an enormous cart with one hand, holding 28 lbs. Jake with the other, trying to get Aly to keep holding on to the front of the cart, and navigating my way through my shopping list. Did I mention that the store was filled with people? The isles were not made wide enough for our group!
Most people would have just left the store then, but not me. I am a self torturer. I devised a plan to have Aly ride with all of the groceries and I would play Supermarket Sweep through the rest of the store with AJ sprinting behind. It worked for all of 5 minutes when Aly starting screaming "I need to pee, I pee in the cart." Luckily after a 50 yard dash, the damage was minimal. Taking the group to the bathroom added another 20 minutes to the outing. Jake and Abby were just glad to be free and ran in opposite directions. Once we had all loaded up again we were able to finish without any other major hiccups.
As we were checking out, Caleb was trying to get a soda out of the display, Jake was going for the candy display, Abby thought that spinning the grocery bag was helping the clerk, and AJ/Aly were fighting over who could get the most bags in the cart. The man behind us in lines said, "You sure have well behaved kids." No words came out of my mouth, so I tried to smile. I think it was more of a grimace than smile.
4 comments:
You are superwoman, that's all there is to it!
Oh, Lisa. I don't know how you do it. Nicole has peed in the grocery cart before, so I am glad you made it to the bathroom because pee on groceries is not a fun experience. Hey-there is the silver lining. You made it to the bathroom.
You amaze me! It's hard to go grocery shopping with kids. It just is! I'm usually too warn out to even talk about it, yet alone write about it in such great detail. You are a amazing! You are Lisa Burns!
Your life is such an adventure! How's that swapping weekend trip to Durham sounding to you now? Tee hee!
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