Mercer Anne & Woodson

This is a picture mom snapped the other day and it makes me smile when I look at it.  There is really no correlation with how my day went with the twins, but I thought the post needed a picture.

So, the twins are getting up pretty early these days and I have decided I am going to buy "black-out" curtains.  They have also been getting under the sink and getting the "dangerous" cleaning items out to play with.  I also need something to keep the cabinets closed.

And of course, we need groceries.  Where is the best place to get these said things for a nice price.  Wal-Mart - one stop shopping for the masses.  I figure lets go Sunday morning and it will be our adventure.  We have our list, my purse, snacks, sippy cups and the directions to the Wal-Mart in Chapel Hill - apparently that is the closest one to us.  We get there 25 minutes later.  We get out of the car and into the cart.  And I realize I have no wallet.  Everyone has done this?  Right.  Thank goodness there were no groceries yet.

Woodson totally loses it when I put him back in the car.  MA is crying because woodson is crying.  We make it back home another 25 minutes and I get my wallet. I tell the kids we are going to get ice cream for mommy's mistake. So we go to Goodberry's and get a mini concrete (which was almost $5 by the way) and we shared it.  Then the kids ran around for about 15 minutes before they started running into the parking lot which scared me half to death and I made us get back in the car so we could do the original shopping.

I decide we will try Kroger.  I get lost on the way to Kroger and decide we are just going to Food Lion.  I hate Food Lion.  Then on the way back I spot the close Kroger.  So I turn left and we go to the Kroger.  I pull in and the kids spot the "car" cart.  And Kroger is crazy.  There are way too many people. No way am I getting out.  and I smell poop,  And I have no diapers.  I pull out of the parking lot.  And all hell breaks loose.  The twins were mad.

So we go to food lion.  At which point, I should have just given up and gone home.  But I was determined to at least get groceries during this 3 hour adventure.  And I did.  While Woodson screamed throughout the Food Lion and people moved out of my way as I threw stuff in my cart as quickly as I could.  I opened a pack of pacifiers in the baby isle which helped slightly, but did not appease the woodson-ater.  I mean, if I had poop in my pants I would be pretty upset too.'

We finally made it home.  They barely ate lunch and then passed out.  And then I did.  Today, I thanked God for nap time.   Really, I said a prayer specifically for the good things that come from rest - for them and me.

This is probably not interesting to anyone else.  But it was a long day of crying, mom trying to make up and then mom making it worse.