I had the morning planned. Get the boys up and off to school. Exercise. Then go to the grocery store with Eden. Then pick up Stone.
That was Plan A. That plan was demolished when I looked at Stone’s school calendar. It was his turn to bring the snack. I had that information written down on the family calendar and my computer. His teacher assigns what snack to bring. Did I have Fritos and juice? No. Remember Plan A included a trip to the grocery store. I didn’t have these items in my pantry or fridge. I realized this at 8:30 a.m. Stone is supposed to be at school at 9:00 a.m.
Kick into Plan B. Go to the store and buy Stone’s snack. Drop off Stone. Go to the grocery store. Pick up Stone.
Quickly got Stone and Eden dressed. Made sure Tygar was ready for school and scooted him out the door at 8:32 a.m. to catch the bus. Then I had to get dressed and brush my teeth and wait, I can’t remember if I brushed my teeth. 8:35 a.m. we are ready. Walking out the door I remembered that Eden’s seat wasn’t in the car. Got her car seat in and made sure she and Stone were buckled in. Then I noticed all the snow on the front windshield. I didn’t go anywhere yesterday so I didn’t clean off the car from the spring snow that dumped 2.6 inches in Lemont.
Plan C. Clean off the snow. Store for snack. Drop off Stone. Store. Stone.
Well, now the snow was stuck to the windshield. I had to chisel it off. As I was chiseling, I broke off one of the windshield wipers. I started laughing at this point. Forget Plan A, B or C. Let’s just get through the next 10 minutes Caroline!
I figured out how to put the windshield wiper back on, although I’m not sure it will still work when it rains. Thankfully, today is sunny. Jumped in the car. Drove to the grocery store. Bought a bag of Fritos and some juice.
Dropped off Stone at 9:08 a.m. Whew!
Then Eden and I drove back to the grocery store. Forget exercise, wasn’t happening today. Maybe later…but who am I kidding? Eden and I finished grocery shopping and got in the only check out lane that was open. There were a few angry shoppers already in line that were complaining that they should open another lane. Eden and I stood in line quietly and she waved at a few of them. We were next in line and they opened another lane but I let the guy behind me go because he only had a few items. He stopped grumbling. We put our things on the check out lane belt. Keep in mind, there’s 6 people in our family. This wasn’t a quick stop to just pick up Frito’s and juice this time. This was a full blown big grocery day. Kim was checking out our groceries this time. She was a little frazzled because of the aforementioned angry shoppers. Everything except the 3 gallons of milk were scanned and bagged and she said “Um, my screen just went blank.” I thought to myself “of course.” I told her it was me, it was just the way my morning was going. We stood there for about 5 minutes before the manager came over and tried to make it work. Nothing happened. More angry shoppers in line now. Most of them over the age of 70, all of them scowling at me thinking I did something wrong. Eden kept smiling until the manager decided to move us to another lane to re-scan our groceries. Eden then started to cry as the manager was moving her and our cart away from me. I quickly caught up with them as we moved to another lane and she settled down.
The manager, Jane, removed all the bagged groceries from our cart and re-scanned them and re-bagged them. We finally made it out of the store and back home without any other silly interruptions. However, I wonder what the rest of the day will bring??