LITTLE BUT AMAZING

I went to Walmart yesterday. And going to Walmart with 3 young kids is not my idea of a fun time. I feel like I am more of a referee than anything. So I get all the kids out of the car. Rachel always walks but she always manages to "ask for everything". Mayah rides in the front with a buckle. She is usually pretty good. And then we have Ethan. Ethan rides in the back of the cart. He wants to walk but there is NO way I am letting him. Him and Mayah have this thing that they do back and forth and it drives me crazy. They put their tounge out and blow so it makes spit go everywhere and it is really loud. I have tried ALOT of things to get them to do it but once they start it goes on for a LONG time. In fact they are doing it right now and I am just going to ignore them.

I am walking through the store (quickly I might add) to get all the things on my list. I left my list in my pocket but it was small and I remembered everything without taking it out. Pretty good huh? Well Rachel is constantly asking for items and I keep telling her NO, you don't need that. And she just keeps getting angrier and angrier. I don't understand why she continues to ask for things because she knows what the answer is going to be. But does she let up? NOT A CHANCE. We finally got everything and headed to the check out. Mayah turns around (even though she is buckled in) and starts to hit Ethan on the head. Inside I am starting to lose it but since we have an audience I have to keep my cool and "act" like I am a patient mom. Those kids are lucky we were not at home. So then Rachel starts piling her arms full of miniature sized boxes of goldfish that were at the check out isles. I look at her and shake my head no and she starts to cry and put the boxes back. But then she looks at me with this look and she says "I'm getting frustrated with you". YOU THINK YOU ARE FRUSTRATED? I finish paying and go out to the car and get the kids inside. I am very irritated but at this point I don't say anything. As soon as I got in the car I remembered that I had forgotten one thing. AAAAAAAHHH!!! It was the main reason I had gone to the store but there was NO way I was going back in. I decided I could call Melonie and borrow some until I could go to the store another day. I was surprised to find my phone off. It is never off. So I turned it on but Melonie wasn't home. At that point I decided it wasn't that big of a deal. I would rather go without than try to get back into the store. Nothing was that important. I pulled out of Walmart and the phone rang. I thought Melonie was calling me back. It was the school. Caleb had a bad headache and needed to be picked up. OK so after I really started thinking about it I realized that it was a good thing that I turned my phone on----which meant it was a good thing I forgot what I needed at the store. I would have gone home---put Mayah to bed and then I would have checked my messages on the phone. That would have been a pain to wake Mayah back up and get all the kids in the car in order to go get Caleb from school. It might sound like a small thing but it was HUGE to me. I think someone was watching over me.