My real life Grocery store adventure

So I told myself that I HAD to go to the grocery store yesterday and not wait until Monday like I did the week before.  There are so many reasons I did this 1) to make sure we had stuff for breakfast and lunch today-taking our breakfast and lunch is one way we stay on budget 2) if I wait until Monday I am more likely not to cook dinner because I will be tired/flustered/so ready to be home by the time I actually walk in the door.  So, I made myself go although there were many reasons I could have used to not go, haha... like the car seat was in my mom's car so I had to take the truck-NOTE: pregnant/(pregnant and being short) and driving a truck is not comfy for me--NOTE #2 loading a one year old who throws fits every time you put them in a car seat in a truck is not easy for a pregnant lady either NOTE #4- it was a little warm for my expanding body and I was in JEANS, jeans that are getting a little snug, just being honest, which makes it even worse. I promise I am not griping and I have retired those jeans as of yesterday, these were honestly all of the reasons that I had come up with on why I should not go to the store,ha!  (NOTE #4- I have not taken Braxton to the store in forever- this is usually my time alone but I had gone to lunch and to hang out with the girls so I thought daddy deserved some alone time too.)  Anywho, I moved the cars and got the truck cooling down, got Braxton in without a fight and headed to the store.

Now if you know me and my shopping habits you would agree that I am pretty OCD about it.  I HAVE to have a list, literally if I do not have a list it makes me crazy--like nervous breakdown crazy.  I went with a list yesterday just like I do every Sunday but the difference was I had a toddler sitting in the cart wanting my pen.  I contemplated putting my list away or just not marking the stuff off as I got it but I promise you, my sick OCD mind just could not bare that thought so I kept hiding it or I would get a couple of things in my mind that were near by and put the list in my back pocket until I placed those items in the cart.  (I am serious, I think that I have a serious list/grocery shopping problem!).  To go along with my list problem, I HAVE to make a menu each week and this is what I make my list from. Ok, so our shopping trip is going good, Brax is screaming/yelling YAY over and over and being really good then I get to the meat section and I could not find any boneless chicken, if I can't find the chicken then I can't make the recipe, which was supposed to be two meals this week, which means my whole menu is messed up and we are left without two days of dinner that I had planned.  AHHHH (I might have been sweating at this point), HA, I found some boneless tenders that will work perfectly, crisis averted, whew.  Now I was on the hunt for a pork loin for our root beer slow cooker pork loin.  They had small ones that were already marinated which wouldn't work so I found the ones that were not marinated and these babies were HUGE.... I mean would have fed everyone on Easter huge.  I stood there trying to justify buying such a large one, trying to think of any solution as Braxton leans out of the cart pulling the sale sign out of the little holder over and over and me trying not to make a big deal out of it and my mind is going crazy, OCD crazy, haha.  What can I think of really fast to replace this recipe becuase I literally could not buy a pork loin that big, I just didn't have it in me.  I know I am a mess, a crazy mess, and all I could think about how will I make it around the store trying to come up with something else to make and I HAD to go put the potatoes back that were going to be a side dish with our pork loin that we obviously were not going to have.  Thank goodness hubby had mentioned beef nachos before I left so I literally ran in circles picking up the stuff for those, but I made it and we were good to go. 

Now, on to the check out line.  A sweet worker helped me unload the cart onto the belt and I was able to get the cart far enough away from the belt because of course Brax wanted to pull everything off of it and was successful at chewing a tab off of my Morning Star burgers, haha.  Anyways, the guy is checking me out and NOBODY was there to bug the groceries.  Side note- I am the one person that does not complain at unusually long waits at doctor's offices or restaurants and if anyone makes an error when checking me out I am very patient and always give the place/person the benefit of the doubt, but there was NOBODY around to bag the groceries.  Brax was sitting on his knees in the cart by now and all I can think about is that things were about to bust loose at any moment and he was going to be DONE with this whole shopping experience so I started bagging my groceries while trying to keep one hang on him so that he did not topple out of the cart, mommy's are so talented, haha.  I was a bit aggravated and I have to be honest my benefit of the doubt did was not holding up very well at this point but hey we lived and all of my groceries made it out of the store.  haha.  We got to the car and Braxton was very intrigued with the milk and he did not want to let go of it so I had a choice, the choice to fight or the choice to let him carry the milk in his lap.... haha... he won.