So last week I stopped by Smith's to grab a few things because I was making enchilada's for a neighbor who had just had a baby. I normally don't take my kids grocery shopping, but it was just for a few items. I had Gavin in the front of cart, buckled in and Lindsay and Zane were following behind me. I decided to buy the disposable containers to put the food in so my neighbor wouldn't have to return any dishes to me. So there I was on aisle 16, trying to pick out the right size of container. Gavin was bored, so he threw my purse out of the cart. Then he grabbed the Honeycomb (it was on sale, 4 for $4, just so you know I was smart shopping) and threw that out of the cart. Then he kept trying to grab things off the shelf, so I moved the cart away but apparently not far enough. The next thing I see is Gavin grabbing 2 Blue Pyrex Glass Pans and throwing them to the ground! BLUE glass shattered EVERYWHERE!!!! I'm surprised I didn't swear, or maybe I did but I don't remember. I pulled the cart away and tapped/smacked the top of Gavin's hand and said very angrily into his ear "we don't pull things off the shelves!!!!" He knew he was in big trouble! Just then, at the other end of the aisle, Rachel, a girl from my ward came walking down and she started laughing. I said, "Yes, that was my child," pointing to the glass. The sound was so loud I was surprised that none of the workers had come running to see what had happened. Rachel said, "you're handling this very well," and I said, "it's because I'm in public. What should I do?" She said, "I don't know. I would have booked it by now!" We laughed, which made me feel better. Lindsay was freaked out! She kept saying, "Mom, they are going to kick us out. What should we do?" She makes me laugh! Finally some teenage boy that worked there, came walking by and saw the mess. I asked him if he could get someone to come clean it up. He kinda nodded. Do-do head! But no one ever came back, so I continued my shopping, still shaking. I noticed there were cameras hanging from the ceiling and I told Rachel, "Great" pointing to the ceiling, "you'll probably see me on the news tonight for child abuse because I smacked Gavin's hand!" We laughed again. At least I could find some humor in all of this. So then I went to the Self Checkout to buy my stuff and realized I had forgotten my wallet in the car. I told the guy behind me that he could go ahead because I had to go get my wallet. He said he'd watch my stuff and I could go get it, well to me that meant my kids too. I was not about to haul my cart and 3 children back out to the car. So off I ran out of the store, to my car, grabbed my wallet and ran back in. It took me less than 30 seconds but the whole time I had visions of that man abducting my children, but then decided that if he did he'd probably bring them back because Gavin is naughty! I got back inside, kids were still there, (they didn't even notice that I'd run out of the store because they were playing with some stuffed animals). I'll probably be on the news for abandoning my children too! I hurried and checked out my stuff and noticed a lady that lives in my neighborhood was working the self checkout stands. I wanted to be honest about the whole Pyrex ordeal and pay for them. So I told her about it and she put her arm around me and told me not to worry about it. Phew! When I got home I realized I'd forgotten the sour cream! And one of my bags of lettuce was rotten! So much for trying to serve someone! Lessons learned 1-Don't take my kids to the grocery store, 2-Don't let Gavin anywhere near the shelves 3-Forget disposable containers and just take your own dishes and 4-Don't smack your child's hand and leave them in the checkout line or you just might be on the news for child abuse (thank heavens I haven't seen anything yet!)
