Saturday is a special day, it's that day we get ready for Sunday. And that means going shopping, at least that is what it meant this week. Going shopping has turned into quite a production for our little family.
I think that is where the problem is...we don't have a little family anymore. While we don't have a large "pioneer" family, we are certainly running into fewer and fewer families with a similar number of children. But we love each and every one of our boys and wouldn't give any of them up.
So we have to teach our boys some basic shopping etiquette so that we can have an enjoyable family outing to the store. First, we don't run into people or things. Second, we stay to one side of the isle or the other but not the middle. Third, only one cart wide in the isle at any given time. Fourth, we walk through the store. And fifth, we use inside voices when talking to each other. If we keep these rules our shopping seems to go much better.
This week we kept Michael and Aleky in the "car" to keep them from running around the store and playing with all of the shelved products. They seemed to have a good time.
David was in charge of the family cart. He was pushing Michael, Aleky and Quinten (who was sleeping in his car seat, in the basket). David did an excellent job of steering this big rig through the stores without any accidents.
Donovan insisted on pushing the food cart. Since we are at the front end of the month it was time to stock up on some basic food storage supplies. 50 pounds of wheat, a case of OJ and a basket full of food added up to a lot of weight but Donovan was mostly able to steer the cart through the store. The 50 pounds of wheat at the end was just a little much for him but he still did a pretty good job.
I'm just impressed with what my boys are really able to do. Sometimes it can be scary to let them try things on their own. But as we show confidence in them they seem to rise to the challenge. And it just warms my heart on each success and each challenge they master.
