Saturday, January 9, 2010

Circus Act?


I decided to go to our local grocery store and check out their sales for some meals I am preparing for the next week. Of course it being Saturday Phil was supposed to be home but alas he had to go to work. So I pack all the kids in and we head out. Thankfully the weather is great and the snow is melting. We get there and the leashes come out and we are all headed in to the store. We get the cart that has a car and two steering wheels, so the boys go there Ava up front with me and Franklin's car seat sideways across the cart. Here we go....walking down the aisle both boys hanging out the sides of the car me, telling them to get back in, not because THEY will get hurt but someone else might get hurt by them! I walk past this lady who is on her cell phone talking, she sees me and I can see her mentally counting! I am thinking - There's only 4! Come on! - we walk around the other side and she follows me with her husband, at first I think she wants to see the adorable 5 week old baby I have and instead all she says is: Wow, you have your hands full! I know I shouldn't be shocked or speechless anymore with what people say but, oh my goodness. I guess growing up in a large family 4 just doesn't seem like alot to me. Anyway, I felt like we were being looked at and pointed at like we were a circus act. Sometimes I don't mind. Like today, mostly because they were all being pretty good. But there are those days when one runs off, the other wants to follow but is pulled back by his leash and the girl in the family just wants to boss everyone around all while I am just trying to check out with the groceries, and keep the baby from screaming too loudly! I love my life!



3 comments:

Kizzie said...

Some people are crazy.
4 isn't that many!

Robyn said...

I think people need to think before they talk. I have had two different old ladies scold my kids at stores. I want to say, GET UP OFF! THEY ARE MY KIDS! but I just walk away.

4 isn't that many...but bless you anyway. ;)

Michelle Claire said...

Oh my goodness... I have 4 and I get the same thing ALL the time. I try to be pretty good natured about it, but honestly... it gets old. I've had four for a while now, and it's still the same. "Wow, are ALL of these yours??"
I FEEL like saying, "No, two I just picked up off the street, and that one? Hmmm... I don't know where that one came from." I mean, c'mon, really???