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June 7, 2011 Uncategorized

Babies, Bubbles and Booze

Two months after adding a second child to the mix, my family is sick of nutri-grain bars for breakfast and frozen pizza for lunch and dinner. Time to figure out this whole grocery shopping with a child-entourage business. My solution may not be efficient, but it was effective. Plus, there’s now white wine and beer in the fridge, and Graham got his bubbles. Hurray.

Step 1: Find the grocery store with the mini carts. (The Teeter at Rea and Colony has them.)

Step 2: Have your big kid push the groceries in the pint-sized cart.


Step 3: Put your little kid in the big cart with the booze.


Step 4: Repeat process (almost) daily. Those kiddie carts are small! Not to mention it’s always 5 o’clock somewhere when you have two kids!

Best of luck to my fellow moms!

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About Katie

Katie Harding has been blogging since 2010. What originally started out as a platform to discuss new parenthood, her blogging now focuses on her passion for cooking: creating recipes and sharing tips for entertaining friends and family of all ages. Outside of the kitchen you’ll find her with her family (three boys, one husband, multiple exchange student daughters, and Hank the pup), or gallivanting around the world with her fork in tow.

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  1. The Smith Family says

    June 7, 2011 at 8:53 pm

    🙂 Does work occasionally and temporarily. Until your kid rams strangers with the cart while the baby is crying. And once the baby can handle a push cart – it is all over with. You will have two mini carts plus a big cart – All three going in different directions ramming strangers and knocking over display cases (sometimes on accident and sometimes on purpose) or they have to take turns with one cart…haha. Glad you got groceries and wine today though and it was painless!!! 🙂 I foresee suckers in your future though.

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  2. Michelle says

    June 7, 2011 at 9:13 pm

    Step 5: give up and order your groceries online. At least, that’s what happened to me!

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  3. Kathryn Michelle Jenkins says

    June 13, 2011 at 5:14 am

    so funny! great post. fun blog.

    kathryn
    http://www.thebusybeefamileee.blogspot.com
    http://www.thedragonsfairytail.blogspot.com
    twitter: kathblogger

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