With a bit of luck I’ll have my driver’s license by the end of the week and today will have been the last time I had to do a big grocery shop with the entire family in tow. Lately we’ve been going to town on Saturday or Sunday and trying to buy all our groceries for the week in one fell swoop. It’s working remarkably well for our budget and our dinner menus (except for that one time that we went without a list), but getting all of us through the supermarket in anything resembling an orderly fashion or a timely manner is more work than I like to do on a regular basis. I am so looking forward to the hopefully-not-too-distant days when I can drive to the store by myself and do my shopping in peace.
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Sunday
October 16, 2005
I have to admit that I’m very spoiled in the grocery shopping department. I get to go during the weekdays and I only have one child with me. On the rare occassions that I do have to shop on the weekends I’m amazed at how busy families accomplish this task without going stark-ravingly loony.
How’s Petra doing and how are the kids handling this new addition? My kids’ ages mimic yours and I can’t help but wonder how they’d react to another baby (and no, it’s NOT happening!).
That is one of the biggest reasons I miss having a license here in Sweden. We buy groceries every 2 weeks, so I always have to plan ahead. But right before the next shopping day we run out of everything! If I had a license I could shop whenever I wanted. You lucky girl you! 😉