Monday, January 18, 2010

Did You See Me?

Did you see me today? Yeah, that was me, the one who opened up a package of Sour Patch Kids in the middle of Target. That was also me feeding them to my children as fast as I could to keep them quiet and inside the basket. Did you also see me switching baskets halfway through the shopping trip and getting the basket with seats in front, which have the ever important over the shoulder harness seat belts?
Did you see me at the Farmington mall? And I use the word 'mall' only because it's an indoor covered shopping area and has a Sbarro's. Did you see that I had forgotten our stroller? So then you must have seen Kyle immediately jerk the first 70% off Christmas decoration he could find on top of his head and cover himself in glitter. Yeah, that was probably his plan all along. You know Kyle, he loves the glitz.
Did you see me tell Reed that was the best idea ever when he jumped inside the double car stroller? Best $5 I ever spent. Did you see how I left the car stroller in the middle of the parking lot? It wasn't worth getting a $1 back to maneuver to the car strollerless. Plus somebody else will get a free stroller + $1. You know me, always looking out for others. Speaking of looking out for others, if you were looking out for us today then I'm sure you saw the boys riding in the stroller the "correct" way for about 5 minutes. After that you saw them riding standing up, switching places from front to back while the stroller was in motion, demanding to hold my drink from lunch, and pulling this little escape plan...while I was still pushing!

Now I know you saw us at Hobby Lobby. My favorite part was when the manager had to chase after Kyle when they went running down separate aisles. That was almost as fun as waiting in line at the framing counter behind the woman who was taking her sweet time as my kids screamed at the top of their lungs. Didn't you love those dirty looks she was giving me? They were almost as good as the eye-rolling I was doing over all the ridiculous "art" she was having framed.
And you must have spotted us on the ride home when Kyle refused to take a nap, or when he woke Reed up trying to dig a toy out of his car seat.
Yep, I'm quite sure you saw me today!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm covering my eyes. Take a bow. You are the shopping princess. MR

Stacy said...

Sounds like you saw ME! I have had lots of outings like that...good times!

GS said...

Well, that's a bummer - one day I had to be at the office and I missed the whole show. I have a good visual though and don't doubt one minute of it. Did you get to buy anything or was it a total wash out or was what you bought in a bag and going home with you because it was already broken. That's what store owners get for locking you out early in the morning while those little ones are doing their social functions.

Joseph said...

oooh, i've done hobby lobby with you before!

Anonymous said...

Yep,I saw you--shopping with toddlers in their prime of "terrible two's". Did you get to make any purchases?
Lu

Jan said...

Due to the shoveling in of Sour Patch Kids I was able to walk out with a basketfull from Target!