Grocery shopping sans wallet
Dave and I went to the grocery store this evening because we are finally out of food and tired of spending money on take-out. Both of us are pretty wiped out because of the whole "not sleeping for more than four hours at a time because the kid keeps waking us up wanting to eat or poop" thing, plus, on top of that, Dave is sick. We plopped Henry into his carseat and bundled him up (see below), an activity which normally reduces him to tears, at least until we start moving. However, he had spent the previous half hour madly and intently fussing, trying to get us to understand that he would *absolutely die* if he didn't get in a good snooze. He's already dramatic and he isn't even fourteen yet. He gets that from me. Anyway, Dave picked him up to carry him out to the car and he instantly fell asleep, something he never does at night when it's bed time. We drove to the post office to mail a letter, then headed over to the grocery store. As I'm pulling the stroller out of the trunk, Dave asks me if I have my wallet. I don't, and apparently, neither does he. We immediately commence fussing at each other, saying things like "But you *always* have your wallet." and "You're driving without a license?", but quickly realize that we're not accomplishing anything, and, by the way, it's freezing out. I close the trunk and suggest to Dave that I go ahead and start shopping, and that he shouldn't forget he has the kid, so he opens the trunk and takes the stroller out. I ask him what he's doing and he says he's taking the kid so he can start doing the shopping. I told him I meant I'd do the shopping while he goes home to get his wallet so he opens the back car door and puts the stroller in. Then he says, "But I'd have to take the carseat out and bring it in to the house with me" and I say "But I'd have to maneuver a shopping cart *and* a stroller *and* do the shopping". After going around a bit more, we piled back into the car and went home together to retrieve our wallets. This would be the second time we've both left our wallets home while doing the grocery shopping. The first time I think we made it all the way through the checkout before we realized we'd both forgotten our wallets.