My Gold Medal Performance

So my cousin challenged her blog readers to come up with something they do that deserves a gold medal. This is my competition to lose people!!!

The announcer begins his comentary...

Grocery store checkouts are a dangerous place for any mom, especially at the end of the grocery shopping competition when patience and endurance are beginning to fade. Laura Shannon does such a good job of not buckling under the pressure. Here she goes. Now watch this form…

She’s got a crying 18mos old trying to climb out of the cart, but this doesn’t distract her. She’s got five items in one hand and getting them onto the conveyer belt. Oh, look she just caught her 3 yr old before he bolted for the door. Now check this out, her signature move. She is holding the 3 yr old over her shoulder with one arm while he kicks and screams, loading groceries with the other one. She catches the 18mos old before she tips over and out of the cart AND gets her pacifier before it hits the floor. But wait, she just broke up a fight between the 7 and 5 year old. Wow, did I mention she is less than a month from adding number 5? Here it goes she is smiling at the clerk and paying for her purchase. She is even letting her 5 year old click the OK button…trust, right there! I can only spot a light glisten of sweat on her forehead and one bead running down the back of her neck…

Now here is the truly impressive part, none of the kids managed to sneak a pack of gum into the cart. And the grocery store total for the family of 6…$72!!! FOR THE WHOLE WEEK!!!! AMAZING!!!

Thanks Megan, that was really fun!