What I Really Want

Do you want to know what would make this mom of twins VERY happy?

No, it’s not a trip to a spa or a night out with friends.  Although now that I think about it, those things don’t sound too bad!

But I would be very, very happy if every grocery store could be like Costco.  I don’t mean that I want my local supermarket to carry gallon-size jugs of peanut butter (I’d never fit that in my pantry).  What I want, what I would LOVE, is to find this at the grocery store:

A grocery cart (or carriage, for you New Englanders) with the space for two strapped-in children.  A double-wide, if you will.

It would make grocery shopping so much easier if I could simply strap both girls in the cart and still have plenty of room for my purchases.  I wouldn’t have to employ my current tractor-trailer system of pushing the double stroller in front of me while pulling the grocery cart behind me.  Not only is it difficult to turn corners, but it’s nearly impossible to navigate around other parked carts in the narrow aisles (yet another reason I love Costco: mega-wide aisles).

Hopefully, it won’t be long before I can stick both kids in the cart without needing to strap them in – then at least, I can place one child in the basket, and one in the larger area and just pile goodies around them.  Or I can try the technique my sister-in-law uses of wedging both kids in the basket and sticking one of each of their legs through the openings and crossing their other legs in front of them.  That’s why children are small and flexible.

But until some supermarket-chain-owning billionaire reads my blog and decides to grant my wish, I’m stuck with my unwieldy train-wreck of a system.  Or I could just do all my shopping at Costco – it would make the girls very happy!