Today I was one of those moms you see in the grocery store, or anywhere for that matter.  I was the one with the kids she couldn’t control.  My kids are usually okay in public, but today they were out of control.

I went to Costco to pick up some of my staples.  For some strange reason, I thought taking two kids with me was a good idea.  I was wrong.

From the moment we started driving there, my toddler would scream at me if I changed the radio station.  We get to Costco, and I put both kids in the cart.  Apparently a toddler and a preschooler should not be in such tight quarters.

They started shoving each other as I am walking down the aisle.  The little one is screaming no, no, no, nooooo.  The older one is shouting stop, stop, STOP.  The infamous “Mommy, she’s bugging me” comes into play.

I tell the kids I will need to separate them, I tell them to stop, no matter what I tell them, they look at me and burst into laughter.  I never realized I was that funny.

As if it couldn’t get any worse, they decided to start shooting their tongues so that they were spraying spit over one another….and giggling up a storm because shooting saliva is apparently very funny to kids.

At this point, I can feel the eyes of adults around me, and yes….even other kids.  And the other kids were looking on not to say “wow, that looks like fun” but they looked as though they were thinking “what is wrong with them”.  At that moment I just wanted to crawl in a big hole and hide as I realized I was one of those parents in the store that you look at and think “Can’t she control her kids?”.

As we walked to the cash, my little monsters suddenly turned into little angels as they started trying to charm the cashier.  Yes, ofcourse making me feel silly for thinking to myself my kids were totally out of control. 

All in all, it was an exhausting outing, and I am taking comfort in the fact that they are having a nap.  Yes, nap time is wonderful.