No Shopping! Yippee!
Monday, November 17, 2008

Preschool was fun today. I think my snack went over well. I was drawing a blank with some of the mommies' names the whole time and I was too embarrassed to ask what their names were. I would have, except we are past that whole, "I didn't catch your name" or "Remind me again what your name is" point. I feel like it would be rude to ask now because I should know. Luckily, there's a little message board group dealie online for the co-op, so I can get on and jog my memory. Of course now that I'm home, all the names are coming back to me. I wish I was better with names. I could remember most of the kids' names, so at least I had that going for me. Scout was having a really tough time sharing today. She's usually not like that. And I noticed that she has picked up a bad habit from me. She now says "Mm-m!" (a closed-mouth "Uh-uh"), like I do when I'm telling her not to do something. If someone was playing with one of her toys, she would walk toward them pointing and saying "Mm-m!". (Sigh) She used to be so sweet.

It took me a LONG time to get her down for a nap today. When I tried rubbing her back when I laid her down on the bad, she woke up and started pushing me away and saying "Mm-m!" Oh gees. So we struggled for a while and I gave up. She played for another 2 hours and I finally was able to get her to sleep.

I was supposed to get groceries today, but I didn't want to stay "in town" to grocery shop after our preschool group, for fear that Scout would end up with a crappy 30 minute nap in the car. DH volunteered to do the shopping on the way home from work so I wouldn't have to waste gas driving back into town after Scout's nap. What a trooper. I feel bad, 'cause I know he'll probably be so tired after work and won't want to brave the crowded store. I e-mailed him a list, so I hope that helps. I'm sure shopping will take him half as long as it takes me, since he won't have an impatient/restless toddler with him. When I take Scout shopping, I swear that we end up with 10 packages of open food when we get up to the check-out because I have to keep her happy with crackers, cheese, lunchmeat, and even yogurt. Doesn't matter if we just had lunch. She's still got to snack the entire time. I love trying to feed a toddler yogurt, pushing the cart through a crowded store, all while trying to keep track of how much I'm spending using the calculator on my cell phone. And then Scout sees me playing with the phone and begs for it, so I have to be all stealth about it and hide the phone in the back of the cart when I'm not using it. Thank you, DH, for sparing me the frustration of shopping with Scout today. I really appreciate you.

Labels: dh, doh, food, school, shopping

posted by Unkempt Mommy @ 3:44 PM,

1 Comments:

At Mon Nov 17, 08:45:00 PM CST, Dawn B said...: Oh man..I love this post so much. Someone else you understands food shopping with toddlers!! It's really tough.
And the whole thing about not remembering names??? You were talking about me doing that right? I do that alot. I can remember faces, but names..forget it.