Unintended Results

Shopping with small children.

I could really end this post with that lone sentence and a lot of you would nod your head and agree with every word. For the record, I do know that it is not a complete sentence, but if you have ever done it-  shopping with small children- then you know that I've spoken volumes with that single sentence fragment.

It's a lot of work shopping with kids. All the buckling and unbuckling, hefting carriers, keeping one eye on the kids and one on your shopping list and one on what you are actually buying ( I do realize that would be three eyes), making sure no one gets run over in the parking lot and the list goes on.

Today it got a little easier. I had Kaylen sit in the front seat of the buggy without her carrier!  Of course other kids her age have probably been doing this for a while now, but K is such a peanut that when I've tried before she was nearly swallowed up by all the space in the seat. She is a little bigger now and a lot sturdier and it was a success! I felt light and carefree without that carrier. We made turns better, moved faster, could see better. It was great. Of course, the unintended result was that I shopped longer and spent more, but it was totally worth it.

Before today I dreaded shopping more than I dread a visit to the dentist. Now, however, I begin to see light at the end of this hard baby stage. Now if I can only figure out how to keep Jacob from pulling Kaylen's hair, patting her head, picking her nose and all those other things he can now do with this new setup. That would be the other unintended result.