Friday, November 9, 2007

What does a mom do....

This morning I woke up ambitious to make a trip to Walmart, with the children. Not Jaclyn though. She left last night with Grandma Net and Great Grandma to spend a couple of days with them. So after the girls' morning nap, cut short by about a half hour, we ran to a friends house for an hour to play than proceeded on to get some groceries. I knew I had 1 1/2 hours to shop, get home and feed Oliver lunch and have them all down for their 1:00 nap. (Any later than that and the girls come "unglued.") I figured that Walmart would have some sort of contraption that would allow a parent of 3 young children to all ride in the same cart. Wrong. Why? Why wouldn't Sam realize that if he isn't going to offer a child care area inside his store (like Hyvee Barlow) he should make it convenient for parents like me to manuever through the store with my three little ones? We ended up having Oliver sit in one cart, strapped in, along with one of the babies in the big part of the cart in her carseat. Then the other baby did the same in the other cart. Then I pushed Oliver's cart and pulled the second behind me. Talk about a circus walking up and down the aisles. I do have to say that all three children were PERFECT, I guess counteracting the UNPERFECT DOUBLE CART situation.

4 comments:

Stephanie Balvin said...

I have seen mothers do this, you are amazing. My trick is that Andrew gets put in a one of those backpacks on my back, then I can deal with the 2 person kid carts. Yours a little younger, but you could do a bjorn and backpack and one in the cart?! IO wish there was a picture of you doing this. :)
Sam's club has a great cart where there are 4 leg holes in the front part. Andrew still has to go in the back pack, but he loves it and Jake and Izzy can sit buy each other. No worries, soon they will all want to walk and you will wish you had a leash to tie them all to the cart! We have to get together now that I will be in Northfield!

Melanie, Who am I ? said...

You definately should try the baby carrier. I can't even imagine, I hate going with just my 2.

Stacey said...

tiff-
You are crazy!!!

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