Hilarious

I hate when I run out of milk. It's one of those items that must be replenished quickly in a house full of kids. Upon pouring the last of the milk into Liza's cereal this morning I begrudgingly decided that I must venture to the store today...with all 5 children. Usually I reserve this outing for an early Saturday morning when no one is awake or late at night. I secretly like listening to the music in the store as it plays over the intercom and I love organizing the food on the conveyor belt, (Wal-mart doesn't bag groceries well, I've found 409 in the same bag as my deli meat...eeew).

We loaded up the clown car and off we went. As I've mentioned in a previous post we have a limo sized stroller, it comes in handy sometime believe it or not, but it's no small feat to get that thing in and out of the back of the van. Good thing I've been beefing up lately lifting those car seats! Shortly after arriving I realized that we needed to get a bday present for Liza's little friend so we would need to go to the toy department. Scary I know! We found what we needed, along with the gallon of ice cream that jumped out of the freezer and landed on the stroller and I got to the produce and realized that I was missing a child. Who might that child be but little Liza who seems to have a mind of her own these days. She thought we needed syrup to go with our ice cream, but thank goodness grandma stocked us up with that food storage when she was here. I heard one lady chuckle at my missing child and I'm positive the thought ran through her mind, "Geez lady stop having kids and you won't lose them!", because it actually crossed my mind also!

We finally reached the checkout lane and I'm sure I ask this question everytime I shop with kids, "Whose brilliant idea was it to put candy at a child's eye-level and within reach at the checkout?" That was tons of fun prying the Starbursts out of Liza's hand while repeating the words, "Stop touching everything!"

I was reminded today as to why I shop alone. It was a fun adventure for the day and sure did appreciate the sideways looks I received from many patrons as they counted in their heads how many children I actually had.