Tonight at a fantastic webinar hosted by the wonderful Sally Walker regarding blogging all participants were challenged to write a blog post with the theme “I Just Bought a Loaf of Bread from Sainsburys” so here goes.
Are you like me and absolutely hate supermarket shopping?
It’s not the fact that I can’t just go in and buy a loaf of bread without having to buy a trolley full of food but the fact that I usually have my two children with me who at 5 and 2 absolutely detest shopping.
On a good day they “help” me load the trolley; I use the word “help” very loosely as this usually involves tins being thrown on top of breakables such as eggs or the bread getting squashed by the potatoes. Not to mention the amount of extra items that seem to have appeared in my trolley by the time I reach the checkout or the fact that they have just rammed some poor old dear in the backs of the legs while helping “push”.
Now if I happen to have picked a bad day this is when the tantrums come out (usually after being told no), I am sure you have all seen the advert of the Mum lashing about on the floor in the middle of the aisle well I have almost done that myself on a few occasions and still might yet.
Now why don’t I go on my own you might ask – well quite frankly I am just too busy when they are at school/nursery, evenings there is never anything in stock and weekends is just too busy. So I am a glutton for punishment and take them with me.
That said it helps to do the shopping in super quick time and one day, just maybe I will only purchase that one item of bread that I went in for in the first place.
I can fully relate to all of that. It so much harder going shopping with young children which is why I try and do online shops more often.
I would love to see a mum doing the “tantrum” in the store. Have nearly brought myself to that a few times, and have left him thumping the ground at the top of an aisle on many occasions to the stares of other shoppers.
Love it Charlotte. That really was an inane post but oddly interesting at the same time. Perhaps that’s just because of how I am. Ha ha ha!!
Aha, your next challenge Charlotte will be to film yourself doing the ‘mum-tantrum’ in the middle of the store and posting it on Youtube.
I can totally relate to your post too, despite shopping online, there’s always the last minute things that can’t wait until Tesco deliver. You go in for one thing and come out with at least 5…
great part about the tantrums…
Ah yes – I want to do one of those tantrums but not sure I’d get up again. My alternative is to suggest I dance and sing in the school playground when picking them up from school – that one works quite well
And to avoid the sheer drudgery that shopping is when I do have to go with my littlies I now shop online and have a nice man deliver (well, he’s usually friendly) – but then they never have my chosen loaf of bread and send a white seeded loaf instead!
Lovely post! And good to meet you yesterday evening.
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LOL love it about the tantrums!
Fab post and thank you so much for coming last night, roll on the next one!
Take the kids???? Take the kids?? Actually, I prefer the littlun to the biggun – less expensive taste: Coke instead of Fosters!