Road Rage with Grocery Carts

Austin and I went to the store yesterday with the kiddos. As we were walking through, we got stuck behind a lady who obvisouly has never heard the phrase "Slower traffic keep right". She was OBVIOUSLY from Alabama. Bet she doesn't turn right on red either. Anyhoo...her buggy was clearly in our way in the middle of the canned vegetable aisle. Now, why we were going down that aisle is beyond me since we have spent the last 3 weeks putting up corn (on the cob and creamed!), tomatoes, green beans, okra, squash, and soon to come...blueberries. But, Austin's grocery shopping routine requires each and every aisle to be perused. But, I digress (which I do alot, so get used to it!). As we squeezed both of our buggies past her, Austin commented on how there should be horns on grocery carts. Let me explain to you why that would be an incredibly awful idea for someone like me:

1. I lived in Tallahassee for four years. That was the birthplace of my uninhibited road rage.
2. I lived in Charlotte, North Carolina. For those of you who may not know...that is the central
NASCAR headquarters of the world. Everyone who lives there fully believes that they are, in
fact, a NASCAR driver and are therefore under NO obligation to use a blinker or brake pedal.
3. I currently live in DeFuniak Springs....land of tourist drivers who have no clue where 331
North turns off of HWY 90 and dump truck drivers who don't care that you are coming down
the road..they'll turn in front of you anyhow.
4. I have a temper fuse much like that of a cornered raccoon when I am driving.

Grocery cart horns would have catastrophic repurcussions of global proportions for someone like me. Can you be banned from a grocery store for life? I mean...could they actually prohibit me from purchasing food goods? I might need to check in on that.

"Mommy I want brothers and sisters"

Hannah Kay and I were watching "Jon and Kate Plus 8" today while Chandler chewed on something that I'm sure would probably shock anyone who didn't have children, so I am going to not verbalize (is it still verbalizing if you're writing??) it here. My precious angel of a daughter, who had just smacked her little brother in the head for looking at one of her toys, looked at me and said, "mommy, I want lots of brothers and sisters". After I stopped choking on the grape that I had just tried to eat (and no, that was NOT what Chan the Man was chewing on), I asked her why she wanted more brothers and sisters. She stared at me with those big, brown eyes and said that she thought it would be fun. Now, I don't know what her idea of fun is...but here's mine:

1. Sleeping all night
2. NOT having leg cramps 58 times a night from pregnancy
3. NOT having a baby laying on my sciatic nerve making it impossible to not look like the
Hunchback of Notre Dame while walking
4. Having only one child in diapers (THANK YOU CARRIE ANN for the candy that made
Hannah decide the peeing in the potty was worthwhile!)
5. The fact that we have a 1:1 child to parent ratio...thus making it possible to play man-to-man
defense right now. I don't know how well Austin and I would do in a zone defense.
6. Being able to leave the kids with grandparents bc it's not overwhelming
7. Being able to afford FOOD!!

Am I totally against more kids? Absolutely not. I'd have a house full if we could only get a sweet little Gautamalan granny to come over and nanny for us. Why Gautamalan you may ask? Who knows. But I do have to give Kate Gosselin her credit....I don't know what I'd do if I had 6 three year olds....because if I were her, the show would be called "Jon plus 8....Where the heck is Kate?" I only jest. If I had 8 kids who made me feel as blessed as Hannah and Chandler, well then it would be well worth the insanity and chaos that would rule my life! I guess we'll just have to see. As anyone knows who's ever been around her....what Hannah wants...Hannah gets (at least...that's how she views the world!).