Today was my first trip to the grocery store with all three kids by myself.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been to Target (and scored 5 pairs of shoes for $22!) but haven\u2019t ventured out to do a full-on grocery shop by myself yet.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d gotten used to doing my shopping with only Sugarplum while Honeybun\u00a0was at school and it was super easy.\u00a0 The few times I had to go with both girls, especially towards the middle of my pregnancy when I wasn\u2019t allowed to lift them (therefore couldn\u2019t put Sugarplum in the cart), were very trying.\u00a0 Individually my girls are very well behaved but when they are together they tend to push the limits, usually by running around like wild hyenas and making me look (and feel) like the most incompetent mommy in existence by completely disregarding all standing rules and ignoring what I have to say.\u00a0 To help combat this I instituted a \u201ctouch the cart\u201d mandate where then they start losing control of themselves they are required to touch the cart any time it\u2019s stopped and it\u2019s been working really well.<\/p>\n
Today we entered the store with a short list and high hopes.\u00a0 I had Doodle in the sling (I don\u2019t put my car seat in anything it isn\u2019t made to \u201cclick\u201d into) so couldn\u2019t also lift Sugarplum \u00a0into the cart.\u00a0 Luckily the store was not very busy and it was very small.\u00a0 The girls did have a few wild hyena moments but I never had to enforce the cart-touching-mandate.\u00a0 My girls like to be helpful so I gave them jobs to do, either grabbing or carrying things for me (I usually give them things that are NEARLY too heavy so they have to concentrate really hard).<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sure next time when I have a longer list and shorter patience it won\u2019t go as smoothly, but at least now I know we CAN make it work without anyone losing their minds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today was my first trip to the grocery store with all three kids by myself.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been to Target (and scored 5 pairs of shoes for $22!) but haven\u2019t ventured out to do a full-on grocery shop by myself yet. I\u2019d gotten used to doing my shopping with only Sugarplum while Honeybun\u00a0was at school and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10045,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/10045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}