May. 4, 2008 - Why my husband does all the grocery shopping!

Tuesday is errand/activity day.  A couple of weeks ago, I decided we were going to the botanic gardens and afterwards we would stop by the store.   

That particular morning it was really cloudy and yucky so I decided we would skip the gardens and go to the local homeschool store instead because I needed a couple of school books, and the littles love to play at the train table. My oldest opted to stay home because we weren’t going to the gardens.

Here is what I wrote about my day of errands.

 I headed to the homeschool store first and quickly picked up the 2 books I needed…but the price had gone up a bit because they had come out with a new edition.  UGGH!  The kids enjoyed driving trains for a bit and then we headed for errand #2.

Next stop was the library…simple enough… drop off books and get a check-in receipt from the front desk.

Last stop on the list is my oh-so-favorite (read that as. I loathe this place, but can’t bring myself to pay the prices somewhere else.) wholesale club.  The day is going pretty smoothly so far.  On the way to my oh-so-favorite wholesale club, I realize that we no longer have “lovey” (aka: the dirty rag) or at least I can’t see it. “Lovey” is the soft square of a blanket that my precious daughter CANNOT live without.  I decide to drive on to the wholesale club and search the van when we get there.  Still no “lovey”.  We head into the store and try to pick up what we need. Apparently, they don’t carry most of the things on my list.  A bit frustrating, but I grab what they do have and leave.

We head back to the library to check for lovey.  Still no lovey.  I guess we have to drive back to the homeschool store, the only other stop we have made.  Back down the busy main drag of town with a million stop lights.  I decide to go ahead and stop at the dreaded superstore because we are driving by and the wholesale club didn’t have some important items that I needed.  I put my sleeping son in the cart and off we go.  I start filling the cart around him and at the back of the store he wakes and says "I have to go to the bathroom!"  This is obviously URGENT, so crazy lady with 3 kids in the cart (that would be me) is sprinting through the store to the bathrooms (of course, they are at the front).  Too late, my son wets his pants just as we arrive at the bathroom door. I don’t have a change of clothes for him.

 I finish filling the cart and check out.  The cashier seems really distracted and I am checking all over the place because I feel like something is not in the cart.  But I don’t see it, so I leave.  The lady behind me in line comes running out to the parking lot screaming MAM! MAM! IS THIS YOURS?  Ah Ha! There are those missing groceries.  I wasn’t crazy after all.  I thank her profusely and head back to the homeschool store with my urine soaked son to retrieve lovey, which we found by the train table of course.

 We finally made it home and I vowed that it will be quite some time before I decide to do that again! LOL!  OH and one other funny thing is, it cleared up to be nice and beautiful.  We didn’t go to the gardens because my oldest son wasn’t with us and that wouldn’t have been fair.  Sigh!

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May. 7, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Canadagirl

Life with littles ohhhh boy do I remember that . ((hugs))

Thank you for stopping by ! I love connecting with others. It makes it neat when I can go to the blogs of gals I met at talk a latte. [0=

Blessings in Him<><
-Mary

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Jun. 12, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by SarahLynne

LOL, that sounds like one of my days!

P.S. I'm glad you're starting to blog again. I've not been real active, but it's fun to catch up with friends!

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