Okay, maybe it’s not the #1 sign, but it’s up there. If you’ve ever experienced this, you know what I mean:
You feel slight anxiety pulling into the parking lot of your grocery store/Target/Walmart, etc. You drive around stalking for just the right parking spot, hoping and praying that you can find it. You start to sweat a bit when you think you might not see it. You’re trying to plan what in the world you will do if you don’t… And then – Hallelujah! You see it, and feels a little bit like a miracle.
The double cart. In a cart corral. With a parking space nearby. I always get antsy as soon as I see it. Hurry into my parking space and run for the cart before some other mom can snatch it from me. I love the double cart. With it, shopping nirvana is possible. I can go into the store with an infant in an Ergo and my two “big” girls in the car cart, and all is right with the world.
P.S. Another sign that you are this mother is when you, who are normally so calm and certainly nonviolent by nature, feel a slight urge to throttle the sweet little grandma who is pushing her one grandchild in a car cart. And he’s 12.
Yes! Especially the part about worrying someone else might nab it. The day my kids became too big for the Car Cart was a sad day indeed.