Like I needed another reason to hate the grocery store

My cousin sent me this picture and I LOVE it.  I also love her because she is amazing and wonderful and a whole lot cooler than me - plus she has better clothes.  She blogs here.  Thanks, Audri.

With the boys both in school all day I can usually go grocery shopping with only two children in tow.  And I feel all light and breezy because I ONLY have two kids. (I bet you didn't realize that was a luxury did you?)  And yet. . . This nice older woman blocking the toothpaste isle asked me if there was a sale on babies. . . you know, because I have so many. . . *sigh*

I kind of felt like saying something about the THREE other children she didn't know about.  I'm not 'showing' yet, (unless you are my little sister - who says I'm getting fat; however she is 18 and allowed to have a warped view of what skinny actually is.) Really?  What is the nice answer to that?  "Please move away from the toothpaste - there is a sale on that too, and you already know so much about me that you know how I am about SALES."

And now that school is out for winter break, I had to take all the children with me to the grocery store.  I know it looks like a lot, because the baby prefers to be carried, so I usually have her in the sling, then one kid is in the  front of the cart and the other two hold on to either side.  They are (mostly) well behaved and not causing a lot of havoc, but we can't discreetly sneak past anyone in an isle either.  

. . . .And of course, an nice older couple stopped to admire Baby-Blue-Eyes and then looked at the rest of  my entourage.  "I just can't decide what you have more of, kids or groceries."

I have more than four gallons of milk on the average grocery trip!  Don't tell me it is that hard.  

I'm just going to pretend that nice older people are really bad at math and being nice.

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So I tried to find another graphic to go with this post - but the only pictures of kids in a grocery store that I could find had one or two kids - three at the most.  The only pictures of people shopping with more than three kids were Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.  Which is totally what I look like when I go out shopping with my kids, so I didn't want anyone to get confused.

But I found this instead.  Enjoy.

p.s. I love that the adds that pop up when you watch this commercial are tips for a happy marriage.