Shopping trickery

I am secretly proud of how sneaky I can be sometimes. I completely fooled my kids into going grocery shopping with me. I woke up this morning and exclaimed that I had just been dreaming about donuts (true) and that we should go and get some. The kids quickly got dressed and out the door we went to get donuts.
Oh did I mention we just needed to run by the store to get some milk. My sneakiness of alternative shopping plan worked wonders in two ways.
1)The kids had donuts on their minds and were not in the shopping mind frame of lets go crazy in the store and
2)I was not stressed out anticipating the kids to be a handful in the store, there was no shopping list and really and truly kids I am just picking up a few things.

I was able to get the weeks groceries and found donuts on the bakery clearance rack without losing my sanity and stressing out. It was awesome.

Alright for all the people who do not know about grocery shopping, with three young children, do not know about yet another confession of the stay at home mom.
We dread it, despise it, and above all resent the fact that grocery stores do not have a drop of area for the children to play in and be supervised while their mothers go and spend outrageous amounts of money weekly.
There are numerous times that I wish that I could just get a stick of gum and go check out and when the cashier asks me if I found everything ok just hand over my shopping list with a smile and say, "no my kids would not let me focus on the list long enough to read it so if you could be a dear and find everything on the list for me that would be just lovely."

So next time you see a mother shopping with her dearest, face red, voice sounding demon possessed, blood vessels bulging, and the children laughing in bliss, please either give her a wide berth or offer to pay for a box of donuts for all the children that pretend that they are not shopping but are just out to get a donut.