ebay auction ending at noon, but must read

That was funny. I only had 2 but I sure remember those days. She is going to have enough money for grocerys soon.
Back 20 years ago I stopped going to one store because they had a display piramid of gallon wine jugs at the end of one isle. From the cart seat #1 son still managed to stick his little toddler finger into the loop handle of a jug mid way up the piramid. Lucally I caught him in time. It was an accident waiting to happen and I didnt want to be there when it did.

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I guess I am the weird one, because I didn't find it funny at all. I was thinking of how it sounded like a bunch of brats & there is no way I would have continued a shopping trip if my kids acted that way. Sure glad my 7 don't try to pull that stuff. They know I'd leave the store.

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Ahh come on Wendy. NONE of your kids has ever misbehaved in the store?!?!? I had to laugh at the part where the baby spit something in her hand and she had to carry it around until she found a trash can. I always thought I should have had a napkin or tissue in my purse, but seemed like I could never get that organized.

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You must have the same philosophy I have! One warning, and then we leave. If I have to leave the cart in the middle of the store, I will. We will go straight home, and they all go to bed for the rest of the day - getting up only to eat meals. I've only ever had to leave one time and that was 15 years ago, when I only had 3 (and I cooked liver and onions for lunch that day).

On the other hand, I am considerate of the children. I shop when they are well rested and have been fed. I don't take overly tired or hungry children shopping as that is just begging them to ....well....beg and whine. Also, we usually only go grocery shopping. I save all other errands for my days out with one child. Of course, that's usually all the room I have in the car, but the main reason is that constant stopping, starting, buckling, unbuckling, makes for a tired crew and short tempered Mama.

I also tend to surpise them at the end. At least half the time I will buy a small treat for anyone who did not ask for anything. They learn pretty quick that asking gets you nothing, but not asking might get you something, LOL. (and by something I mean a 33¢ candy bar, or the like - nothing expensive)

Cute story -
Sometimes it's better to just laugh then get all upset about life.

I only have 2.......and many times I go shopping at night after they're in bed

I hope she makes lots of $$ on this auction - just for fun!

And I hope that others here will get a better sense of humor -
Her kids might be brats at times (so are mine)
I highly doubt that anyone here can say their children are never brats

Yes, I've left a shopping cart full of groceries in the middle of the store - they do learn - for a while
But then you have to go home & have ketchup soup for dinner!

Not even close to the way that lady describes it. I have had them ask for things like candy, but if I say no, they know not to ask again. I usually tell them I'll pull their pants down in the middle of the store & spank them. That usually stops anyone from even thinking of doing something.

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She has a blog?? Where? I missed that.

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Ok, I get that this isn't the average weekly shopping trip for most of us.
But c'mon........NEVER had kids act up? Never? Never had a bad day where you needed things so badly that you had one hand on a kid in a cart to keep them mutiny from spilling over the side and one hand frantically trying to push a loaded down cart - with one hand- down a aisle full of perfect well behaved children and their mothers eyeing you like your a devil spawn with their perfectly combed hair and perfectly organized cart and you keep pushing cause you know in 10 more minutes you will be checked out and your family won't have to eat ramen with ketchup for dinner. NEVER? I don't buy it. I refuse to believe it. Ain't happening.
There have been many many of times I have left a cart full of food in the middle of the aisle (Sorry stock man at BJ's, really I am.) because of unruly children. There has been times I have had to swat a child's hand for grabbing. There are times I have had the oldest hold my cart while I take a child to the 'potty' for some laying of the hands in the southern posterior area. There have been times where I am pushing that cart one handed with a trail of kids behind me whom resemble a big moving ball with cookies stuck to it. With something wet stuck in my hand I am sure, in search of a trash can. Not cause I don't spank enough. Not cause I didn't properly train them. Not cause I'm overwhelmed and have too many of them. Because sometimes, even to those who are perfect.........we have a bad day.
To all you Mom's having a bad day today. The trash can is always always always near the lady with the free samples of cake. Oh. The. Irony.
God Bless,
Michele
PS...... Cyndi here blog is mom2my6pack.blogspot.com

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http://mom2my6pack.blogspot.com/

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I can definitely relate to several things on there. It was very funny. One I have barred my dd from pushing the cart because my ankles cannot take it! Two I have had little toddlers strapped in front drop their binkies or other little items and remembering the bending down and picking up. I even remember them reaching behind and getting ahold of a grocery item and dropping it. This was not a child being naughty. They were toddlers and saw a pretty yellow banana...took a bite into it (peel and all) and dropped the rest on the floor. My children will ask for things at the store. I don't forbid my children to not ask me for things. My motto is "you got a 50/50 chance if you ask and 0 chance if you don't. However, my children have no problem with accepting "no" and they are grateful when I say "yes". They always tell me thank you in the car on the way home when I buy them some little treat. They never complain when I deny them a treat. On "oh my!" the comments "are they all yours" LOL, I can so relate to that. And the germ thing with the kids hands and mouth on the cart bar..."can you say influenza"! Most of this wasn't kids bad behavior in the store it was just the casualities of shopping with kids.

I have to say I really enjoyed the read. Oh yeah and I have had the fist full of some "spit that out" mass.

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I sat down to check the site as I was making a grocery list. We are down to half an onion and ketchup as well. Time to go shopping.

DH is in Mexico, so I need to tow 5 kiddos along.

After reading that, I just want to go back to bed. Who really needs to eat anyway?

Sheesh...

I've only got two, (HAH! 'only'? anyhow) and I try to get the shopping done while they're in school. During the summer though I have two choices: Go with them during the week and chase them all over the store or go with them adn DH on the weekends where DH pushes the cart and I chase them all over the store. Wow. Can't win either way.

My problem isn't the "Can we gets" it's the TOUCHING. They MUST touch every interesting, shiny or brightly colored product in the store. They MUST go potty at least once - and the potty is always on the other side of the store when they need to go. And they MUST open every single freezer door, and start the "Are we DONE YET??!!" when nto even halfway done. So if I go with my husband, I have to keep the kids going so they won't lag so far that I can't find DH again...and if I go alone with the kids I end up taking 3 or 4 hours.

And it's nice to know I'm not the only one carrying a mess of guk around the store looking for a garbage can.

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Thank you Cheryl for sharing that!

I am another one who couldn't keep from crying and laughing at the same time. I truly understand her desperation. I wanna be added to Dawn's fan club.

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That was funny, but I wonder why she didn't jsut take them back with the reciept to the store for a refund instead of putting them on e-bay?

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Amazing, that auction is over 151,000 hits! Talk about good marketing.

My kids are well behaved but they have done most of those things at least once. I was royally chewed out once in Sears because the 3 yo twins (the 1 yo was sleeping in the stroller and the twins were supposed to be holding on to either side, I had to find a dress for a wedding and did I mention I was pg with number 4) hid in the middle of a circular dress rack. That sales lady lit into me good. Since then I have been rather paranoid about how my kids act. And the "Are these all yours?" comments? LOL EVERYTIME we go shopping. Sometimes for fun I take a couple of my nephews or neices, then I can honestly say, "No, only part of them." At which time all 7-8 children come in with, "Only 5 are hers, the others are our cousins....."

I hope she thinks to copy that to her blog.

I think she did better on Ebay

Final price $142.51

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Good for her!
God Bless,
Michele

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I laughed til I cried. Funny stuff.

My kids are well behaved most of the time, but I got 4 of them and I have had my share of days expressed by the author. No matter how well you have raised your kids, all children have the moments that they slip into the twilight zone. I am no exception.

Ya'll have way more patience than me. If I have driven 30 miles to a store, one way, loaded the kids up and shopped for 4 hours....no way am I leaving that basket. That's punishing me!

For the most part my four were good in the store. But the youngest one knew no fear!! When he was about 4 we went to get groceries (the others were in school) since the store wasn't busy I told him he could walk and hold onto the cart. Well wouldn't you know about the 3rd time he left and wandered I had had it!
So I pick him up and told him your going to ride in the cart..........he spouts off and says "I am too big" By that time I have had it..............let me tell your 4 year olds can and do fit in the seat in the carts, nicely But when your at the car trying to lift a long legged child up and out of those seats, well fortunately the whole incident made an impression on Mr. No Fear, I never had to repeat the "yes you will fit into this seat" routine!

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