Our First Trip Out
I'll start off by saying that things are going well around here. We are figuring out the juggling game of having two small children, and aside from a few hitches we are enjoying it. Audrey has been a great baby and Ryan is a better big brother then I could have ever imagined.
Well, Don and I got brave and decided to take a trek out into the world with both kids in tow. It is a new sort of adventure involving bags and strollers and sometimes cranky children… really you don’t know what to expect, one minute it’s going great, the next there is melt down in the cracker aisle and you wonder if there is a way that you can transport your family magically back to your house without having to figure out how to coral everyone back to the car.
Well anyway… it started off with us packing up the car to go. I swear it took 20 minutes, now I know that seems excessive but it was legitimately our first time… and we didn’t want to forget anything. We have to pack snacks and diapers and wipes (the list is much longer... I'm sure I will figure out how to make the list smaller- I'm just not there yet) I swear if we could we would just latch the house to the back of our car and take it with us. Then there is the dressing of children, with fresh diapers (you don’t want to end up having to change a diaper at Walmart if there is ANY way to avoid it). Once we got in the car and made it to the end of the neighborhood we realized we had forgotten the stroller so we turned around. We forgot at least 2 other things, but eventually we made it out of the neighborhood and we were on our way.
This is the part of the story where the torrential downpour started… I kid you not we couldn’t even see the road. We all ended up soaking wet, but no worries we eventually remembered how to use the stroller! Ryan thought it was great; it was like the biggest sprinkler ever.
The whole trip ended up taking us 2 hours… a trip that consisted of dropping off/ picking up books at the library (that were already reserved so no time was used actually looking at books) and getting diapers. Audrey is smaller than we expected so she doesn’t fit into our stockpile of size 1 diapers, we need the newborn size. It was a trip that if I went by myself would have taken 20 minutes tops, but instead it took 2 hours and everyone was ready for a nap by the time we ended up back home. I can only imagine how it will be when Don isn’t there to help… I see a lot of online ordering in my future.
Well, Don and I got brave and decided to take a trek out into the world with both kids in tow. It is a new sort of adventure involving bags and strollers and sometimes cranky children… really you don’t know what to expect, one minute it’s going great, the next there is melt down in the cracker aisle and you wonder if there is a way that you can transport your family magically back to your house without having to figure out how to coral everyone back to the car.
Well anyway… it started off with us packing up the car to go. I swear it took 20 minutes, now I know that seems excessive but it was legitimately our first time… and we didn’t want to forget anything. We have to pack snacks and diapers and wipes (the list is much longer... I'm sure I will figure out how to make the list smaller- I'm just not there yet) I swear if we could we would just latch the house to the back of our car and take it with us. Then there is the dressing of children, with fresh diapers (you don’t want to end up having to change a diaper at Walmart if there is ANY way to avoid it). Once we got in the car and made it to the end of the neighborhood we realized we had forgotten the stroller so we turned around. We forgot at least 2 other things, but eventually we made it out of the neighborhood and we were on our way.
This is the part of the story where the torrential downpour started… I kid you not we couldn’t even see the road. We all ended up soaking wet, but no worries we eventually remembered how to use the stroller! Ryan thought it was great; it was like the biggest sprinkler ever.
The whole trip ended up taking us 2 hours… a trip that consisted of dropping off/ picking up books at the library (that were already reserved so no time was used actually looking at books) and getting diapers. Audrey is smaller than we expected so she doesn’t fit into our stockpile of size 1 diapers, we need the newborn size. It was a trip that if I went by myself would have taken 20 minutes tops, but instead it took 2 hours and everyone was ready for a nap by the time we ended up back home. I can only imagine how it will be when Don isn’t there to help… I see a lot of online ordering in my future.
0 comments:
Post a Comment