Dirty Looks: More than you should get during the holiday season!
Damage control: We knocked over: five boxes of cheerios, four yogurt cartons, three soup cans, two red apples, and a some ice cream in the deep freeze!
It is only the beginning of December, why is the parking lot filled this early in the month? Apparently there aren't a lot of shopping choices on the shoreline so everyone has to be out now. It takes fifteen minutes to drive around looking for a parking spot and I should give up trying to find one close to the store. I finally squeeze into one and threaten them with all that I can threaten with NOT to open the doors. They both need to wait for me to come around and open the doors or they are going to bash in the cars next to us. All I need is an irate women in the middle of the crowded lot screaming I ruined her car. I wiggle out and try to wiggle the kids out, but they get hot in the car and have taken off their jackets and their shoes and socks. Ugh.
The smart, or really atrocious, thing about the grocery store this time of year is that they have toys everywhere. I lecture them in the cart before we roll it over the automatic door trigger: No no no no...we are NOT buying toys....we will wait for Santa... no no toys from a grocery store that you will forget about five minutes AFTER we get home.
Three little smiles!
"OK, we won't ask for TOYS......"
The first aisle:
"Cookies Mommy! Don't you want to make Christmas cookies! Look at all the different cutters and sprinkles."
Me thinking: Cookie decorating could be wonderful for speech, fine motor skills, and following simple directions. Yes, let's buy the cookie stuff.
The cart is now filled for cookies.
The second aisle:
Gingerbread houses! Mama! Mama! Let's make a gingerbread house and this year I know a gingerbread family will live in it. Can I have a friend over to make a house with? Please? Gingerbread houses!
Me thinking: Gingerbread houses will keep them busy for at least thirty minutes. We can work on patterns and math skills with the gum drops. They are already put together, so I won't make a mess this year like I did in Pittsburgh. We could invite some other little boys over, and then it is a social activity which is good for Early Intervention, plus I have another mom to share my pain.
The cart is now filled with cookies and gingerbread houses.
The third aisle:
ATTENTION SHOPPERS YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THE HOLIDAY SALE AT THE BUTCHER SHOP! The guy on the intercom my children have never noticed before. They must be really loud on any other given day.
"Mom! There is an angel in the grocery store! He is telling us what to do-just like the shepherds had to go to the stable. We have to buy meat!" Ok, ok. I could not be prouder that my children listen in Sunday school. I really really couldn't. But no angel is here telling me to buy meat. We did however need hamburger for dinner.
Checkout:
Would you like to donate to the homeless today?
No thanks-I was in a hurry to fight the parking lot crowd, I knew at least five cars would be waiting on me to back out as quickly as I could with three kids and a cart full of junk.
Children with big ears:
WE AREN'T GOING TO GIVE TO THE HOMELESS?!!!!
OK Fine-we have now bought a "food bag" to donate to the food bank. Should have done it anyway, thanks babies.
Did we even get food? To eat?
Well, they didn't ask for toys...
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