This is a shout out for all those weary parents out there… you know who you are… for all those times you have to face a grocery store with a cranky and/or unruly toddler on board… you are of the most staunch warriors out there!

Somehow, through the tantrums, the inconsolable crying, and the nasty looks from fellow shoppers whose only desire is to verbalize how they would handle it if, “it were my child”… you make it home with most if not all of your list.

When I was small, my parents just left us in the car the whole time… to fight with our siblings, or simply point at old people leaving the store, exclaiming “your gonna marry him/her” to each other.

This is the place where gum got stuck in hair, or maybe a sucker… and if one was still in diapers, all bets were off if they made an “icky”… all the car doors got left open, and we would beg complete strangers to retrieve our parents from the establishment.

So for all the Toddler Toting Feed Bag Filling Shopping Soldiers out there…

We Salute You!