Back To Local

Well, we did it. We moved. It's been a long couple of months, and the house is only 1/3rd unpacked. I've pretty much given up at this point. I'm very tempted to just donate the remainder of the unopened boxes. I mean, if I've lived without the stuff for this long, do I really need it?

I haven't had the chance to do too much local food hunting lately. The local Roche Bros does seem to have a nice selection of local produce, and it's nice that they label everything really well so you can tell where it came from. They're also very kid friendly. They have these little pint-sized shopping carts so your kids can have their own to push. Well, they have three pint-sized shopping carts really. And the chances there will be one there when you arrive with your expectant children is pretty slim. Plus if they do happen to have them available they will have one less than the number of expectant children you have and so they have to share (i.e. fight). And if by some miracle there are two of them, you will spend your entire shopping trip yelling at your children to :

• stop racing up and down the aisles!
• stop ramming into each other!
• don't run in to that little old lady!
• get over here next to me or I will make you put that cart back!
• take the king sized bag of king sized Snickers bars out of your cart!
• get over here, now!

And after you've put the carts back as punishment for your children's behavior you can then finally make it past aisle one. Luckily they have a lovely bathroom at the complete opposite end of the store because you will invariably have to visit it sometime between aisle 2 and 3, even though he went to the bathroom before you left the house. Then the baby will start crying because it's close to nap time but you were only supposed to be running into the store for 2 minutes to grab 3 items but now it's been 25 minutes and you've only managed to grab 1 of the items on your list and 19 items that were not on your list but that you needed or maybe needed or were probably going to need soon so you should save yourself the trip.

Checking out is nice. They take everything out of the cart for me, and bag it, and bring it to my car. That way I can concentrate on restocking the candy and gum they keep so conveniently right next to the register.

At least I got everything I needed.

Who am I kidding. I'll be back there again tomorrow.

We may have moved, but some things never change.

More soon.