Just One More Stop Kids

I will start by saying again that I have great kids.

I don't ever want anyone to think otherwise.

The bottom line is though, I have 2 kids under 3.

This week I have picked up a couple extra shifts to help out my pharmacy.

So today, being my only day working way harder than I do at work off, is an errand day.

I dragged the kids to 4 {very uninteresting} stores before lunch.

Aside: I just had to look up the past tense of drag because that sounded so wrong.  I almost changed it to drug which gives the beginning of that sentence a whole other meaning.

Anyways, it was actually a very smooth trip.

 And I got home feeling so thankful for certain retailers.

I used to be one of those people who would roll their eyes at these types of signs.

 "Why do they get a special spot?" I would think to myself.

"I mean, is it really that hard to get two kids out of a car and into a store?"

Yes, yes it is.

Words eaten.

Younger self's kick in the pants delivered.

{My younger, childless self gets many of these.}

Some days these spots are a major contributing factor to a successful shopping trip.

So thank you {in this case Save-On} to those stores who have this.

The most effective of these factors I speak of though?

The free chocolate chip cookie {at Superstore} for good behaviour.

PS.  I know it's not the healthiest thing to bribe your children with treats.

If you have kids and don't ever do this then you are a parenting ninja, kudos.

If you don't have kids, someone very wise once told me: "I did all of my best parenting before having children too."