And instead of being a Ming-Ming, you now are a Tuck?
That's kind of how our day went yesterday.
Since I was on "restricted activity" for the last two weeks after Damien was born, we've been taking it pretty easy. Only going where we had to go. Except by the time we got to the end of this week, a "had to go" place was the grocery store. All the food I laid in, thinking the baby would be born around when his brothers/sister was, got eaten. I guess that's what happens when baby comes two weeks later than you expect. You run out of food at the same point on the calendar, but it seems sooner. Plus, school starts in 18 days (not that I am counting or anything) and we needed more school supplies. We had a field trip to Target on Wednesday night and had gotten pens, folders, etc., but left without the mandatory per-kid pallet of hand sanitizer and Chlorox wipes. And oh, yeah, they all still needed school shoes. So like a good little elf, I made my list, checked it twice, herded my ducklings into the car and we were off. Like a herd of turtles.
Part of it was I had forgotten that newborns like to eat so much. After every other stop there was a pause for refreshment, and then we were out long enough to need to feed all the bigger people, too. But mostly everything just took far longer than I thought it would. I don't know WHY -- it wasn't because my herd kept trying to wander. They were all really pretty well behaved, stuck close, etc. They even were pretty helpful at getting things. Just that everything I thought took two or three times longer than I thought. Like I thought the Staples Stop should have been 10 minutes, 15 tops if there was a checkout line. It took close to 35. Shoes usually are an hour of torture. But kiddos needed to try on multiple sizes, and so that ate up more time. But by George, we managed to complete The List. Without adding back onto it. I'd call it a good day. The speedometer was just stuck on Turtle.
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