I like the Sunday trips too. Two carts are chosen at the door. Daddy’s cart with the two older boys hanging from it’s sides turn toward the electronics department. My cart lightly loaded with just one child veers toward Starbucks. I order my Venti Soy Chai Tea Latte and Rhett gets his child’s soy milk. We then leisurely tour the open aisles with cups full of heaven.
It is the major shopping excursion of the week so I make a list. It is usually a long list but with an empty store and two carts it is easily managed.
This was last week’s list:
Hmmmmm…
“toy
canby
more
toy
and
more
canby”
…indicates three things.
1. Someone hijacked the list.
2. That someone may notice an increase in intensity of his currently lax summer home learning program.
3. I can no longer use the excuse “it is not on my list”.
On the way to Target the boys requested that I read the grocery list out loud. It was met with peals of laughter and shouts of “again! again!”.
I was happy because during that 20 minute period the boys were laughing hysterically at something other than bodily functions. It doesn’t get much better than that…
Ahhhh… their additions to the list are only going to get more specific. Instead of just ‘toy’ it will be “Wii”.
This is absolutely precious! Love it.
I hope you’re planning to keep that list for another 40 years or so. Like my mother did with the note I wrote to our milkman (in blue crayon) asking him to please leave two bottles of chocolate milk, signed by my mother. She pulled it out a couple of years ago and sent it to MY 14-YO DAUGHTER. (Oh, yeah; with only boys, you might not get the full force of that timing.)
Oh, and Nanny Goat, 32 pounds of ground beef is on my shopping list. For real.
You know that’s not the last time they’re going to do that, right?
Cute boys you have!
Very Cute! I love seeing other people’s grocery lists, it’s very intriguing to me. Did I say that?
32 pounds of ground beef?!?!? Good God!
…oh, the “2” is crossed out.
🙂
Well, as long as we are adding to the list I am gonna go ahead and put
$500 gift card for Elaine
Those kids of yours totally crack me up. Smart little skamps…
That is too funny! It reminds me of the time that my 6 year old wrote go to grocery store on my to-do list on the chalkboard. I guess she was getting a little tired of eating cereal for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
I’ve never heard Holly Holly oxen free. Hollyanna yes. Not that though.
I’m so with you on the chai tea latte part, but soy? Why soy??
Did we pick a restaurant yet?
I forgot to say…I too have discovered the awesomeness of the Sunday morning grocery store trip!
I go to WallyMart every Sunday morning…alone…to shop. It's empty & quiet & I can get it done so quickly!