I love this grocery store! I have had an aversion to grocery shopping for the past several months since Bridger cannot sit in a cart and is too big for the carriers. Our physical therapist recently made an adapted cart support for him. With the exception of the dozens of bewildered stares I get when I use it, it has been so wonderful. Today, I just wanted to cuddle and hold him while I shopped, so I delegated my duties down the ranks. The kids have an absolute ball. They all get a free cookie when they enter the store and then they are off to do mom's shopping. I walk down the aisles and tell them what items to put in. Depending on what they like and don't like, they negotiate amongst themselves who has to put what in their cart (i.e. Lance will not put the lettuce in his cart, Sadie takes the lettuce only if Lance will put the medicine in his, etc.) They each get to put one mystery item in their carts that I pretend I didn't see. Typical to all of their personalities, Lance chooses the first thing he sees on the first shelf in aisle 1, Eva carefully evaluates each item before making her selection at the midpoint, and Sadie is off in la-la-land until the end of the shopping and she quickly panics and chooses whatever she sees on the way to the checkout. They all pull up to the conveyor belt and unload their own groceries, the checker loads their carts back up and they push it to the car and unload it themselves into the back of the car. What a crack-up! Did you ever think that grocery shopping could be categorized as fun and relaxing!!! Now if they would only get a job. . .
