SuperMarket Sweep.
Over the weekend I needed to make a stop by the store for some Memorial Day groceries, my kids were driving me crazy in my house all day and I don't usually like to take them with me for long shopping trips, but I am bored and want to get out of my house too, so what the hell....why not? As you probably read in my "About me" section, my boys are 5 years and 14 months..
We get to the store and things are going smoothly, passing the produce section, got some bananas, now to the bread isle, then it starts, "Mommy, look, cake," mmm hmmm, I see. I am trying to ignore him and go on with my shopping. "Can we get these donuts? Pleeeeaaassseee?" I continue to shop trying to act like I can't hear him. My five year old continues to ask for things all the way through the bread/pastries/donuts isle. I finally stop the cart and decide to have talk with him, I ask him to please stop asking for every third thing he sees in the store, he agrees.
We make our way to the meat section, now instead of asking for everything, my son is asking me if I need every third thing in the store. "Mom! Do you need this?" He is holding up a can of green beans from the isle next to the meat section. He is really pushing my buttons right about now. And then, it happens, I am standing in front of the ground beef comparing prices and I hear my son yell across the store from about two isles away, keep in mind it is Memorial Day weekend and the store is pretty packed. "Mommy, I know you and Daddy need more of these!" I turn to look and see my five year old son now in the wine and spirits isle holding up a case of bottled RED HOOK! He is smiling very big and I am red in the face.
When I finaly got to tell my husband the news, all he could say was, "well, at least it was good beer!" Uhhgg! Typical!
We get to the store and things are going smoothly, passing the produce section, got some bananas, now to the bread isle, then it starts, "Mommy, look, cake," mmm hmmm, I see. I am trying to ignore him and go on with my shopping. "Can we get these donuts? Pleeeeaaassseee?" I continue to shop trying to act like I can't hear him. My five year old continues to ask for things all the way through the bread/pastries/donuts isle. I finally stop the cart and decide to have talk with him, I ask him to please stop asking for every third thing he sees in the store, he agrees.
We make our way to the meat section, now instead of asking for everything, my son is asking me if I need every third thing in the store. "Mom! Do you need this?" He is holding up a can of green beans from the isle next to the meat section. He is really pushing my buttons right about now. And then, it happens, I am standing in front of the ground beef comparing prices and I hear my son yell across the store from about two isles away, keep in mind it is Memorial Day weekend and the store is pretty packed. "Mommy, I know you and Daddy need more of these!" I turn to look and see my five year old son now in the wine and spirits isle holding up a case of bottled RED HOOK! He is smiling very big and I am red in the face.
When I finaly got to tell my husband the news, all he could say was, "well, at least it was good beer!" Uhhgg! Typical!