The boys and I went grocery shopping after picking up my son from the bus. He gets carted around a lot, either up to the hospital after getting picked up, or over to the other brother’s school to wait for practice to be over. Josh was at a camp fundraiser most of the day so I did the pickups. Normally we are able to split them up and it works out fine.

I forgot the grocery list at home. I really get so tired of writing sentences like that, and I suppose I could leave them out, but they seem like relevant details. Before going to Aldi we stopped at Culvers to get him some food. He’d forgotten his lunch, a rare occurrence. Thankfully a friend at school had shared but I still wanted to get him something.

They got rid of most of the normal check out aisles in Aldi and replaced them with those tiny self-checkout stations. Those come handy for situations, but not when you’re buying an overflowing cart full of food. It’s been a while since we’ve done this all together as the four of us. They always are a help, though today were a little more wild than usual.

Thankfully they still have one regularly staffed checkout aisle. There wasn’t a line when we start but by the end there were two guys waiting behind us. You get more assertive as time goes on, and with that comes less concern with others are thinking. The lamb code wasn’t working and it took a few minutes to figure that out. Part of life is learning to wait.

Aldi doesn’t have cat food anymore for some reason. So my daughter and I went out after supper tonight to get a bag. It’s pumpkin and mums season now. The pumpkins looked nice displayed outside of the seasonal corner shop and the mums were lined up outside of Country Market. I had no desire to buy any. We had a nice day mid-September.