Last night I made up a small grocery list in the hopes that I’d be able to go by the grocery store after dropping Liam off, before Paige needed to eat again, and before I needed to be back at the preschool to help set up Liam’s class Halloween Party.
I went to the Publix and purchased organic baby oatmeal and a new paci for Liam. Publix didn’t have the type of nipples or cereal I’d wanted and Paige was holding steady so I decided that I’d take advantage of already being out and about (since that’s the part that’s the hardest about getting errands run these days) and that I still had a few dollars left on a Target gift card and run into the Target to see if they had the right kind of nipples and/or the rice cereal I was supposed to get in the first place.
I still didn’t find the exact kind of nipples I was looking for, but I found some that may work so I bought those. I completely forgot that I was supposed to be looking for rice cereal without fillers. Oops.
After finishing at Liam’s school (and in part because they had pizza and cupcakes for their Halloween party, so Liam wasn’t starving) I decided to run into the Walgreens on our way home just to see if they had the rice cereal I’d since remembered and to check on their nipple selection. They didn’t have either one.
After finishing at the Walgreens I determined that my children could probably make it through the Kroger I dashed back out to the van, packed everyone in and headed over to the Kroger with my fingers crossed. They had the rice cereal, thank goodness (although no luck on the specific nipple I’ve been looking for).
And this is where the story gets good. After I finally made it home, fed Paige, and got Liam down for a nap I went into the fridge to get out the carrot sticks I’d purchased at the grocery store. The only problem was that there were no carrots. In fact, nothing on the grocery list I’d made the night before was in the fridge as I expected it to be.
This is because although I went to four separate stores this morning, three of which carry groceries, I did not actually purchase any groceries. I started mentally retracing my steps and realized that when I was in the Publix on the day’s first leg of errand running and I was trying to remember if there was anything else I needed, instead of remembering that I’d made a grocery list but not purchased the groceries, I somehow translated the making of the grocery list into the actual purchase of the items on the grocery list.
Unfortunately, visualizing food does not make it appear in my fridge. I want a do-over.