Pre Shopping

Needed food... we might all fade away with out FOOD....

I've worked out that starving children don't get lethargic from lack of nutrients... they get full on, boisterous and complain flat out!
Starving to a child isn't what it is to an adult either... starving is the feeling they get when the fridge is only half full and they THINK another child got something they missed out on....

I wanted to get out the house so thought a shopping trip would be do-able....

It is never a snap decision either..... from the moment we decided to go shopping.... the dynamics of the house change... doesn't matter that everyone agrees that shopping is what we WANT to do.... to look at us get ready... you would think I'm forcing them to dive into a snake infested pit!

I glance at the children....OMG... whose children are they! I swear they looked better this morning.... but somewhere in the last 3 hours.... they were replaced with what I'm looking at.

1 has brushed her hair with something very static..... looks like a mad woman.... add to that .... she thought wearing her sisters lipstick as eyeshadow was very fetching.

1 lost his shoe.... he had them on only half an hour ago.... but no matter how many eyes are looking.... that shoe is gone.... apparently the dog might of ate it (Our dog gets the blame for a LOT of things) DS suggests that he wear odd shoes.... as he still has another odd one in his room.... *sigh*

1 has a wobbly tooth.... I know, I know... WTF has a tooth got to do with shopping.... 'Nothing' is the short answer..... but if you go out... you do your teeth.... and how can you do your teeth if you have a wobbly tooth!??? The suggestion of NOT doing her teeth was met with loud crying about how SHE is the ONLY ONE that isn't aloud to do her teeth ROFL

Finally we get all hair/ shoes and children dressed... without lipstick eyeshadow and attempt to leave....
Where are the keys???!!!! ..... I always loose the keys.... I have a spot they SHOULD go..... but often they aren't in it.
Find keys..... and start getting children in the car.... bub starts to cry.... Change a nappy, make a bottle, beg a sibling to feed her in the car and finally we are off!

We get out of the drive way... down the road.... and bub vomits.... NO sick rag..... we forgot it.... turn around go home......

Run in to get a sick rag..... and change vomit soaked child.... get a new bottle cause bub is still starving.... ( a real type of starving compared to her older siblings)
Get back in the car , 2 children are crying.... no good asking why.... will get about 10 stories.... no-one ever does anything wrong... according to them....

We are off.... really off.... we get to the shopping center....

That in itself is an achievement!