You know, being a single parent would be a breeze as long as I had financial support and not a single other responsibility including grocery shopping or cleaning up after myself.
I knew going into this week that I was going to need to cut myself a WHOLE lot of slack to make this a not-negative experience, so I’ve tried my best to clear my schedule and just focus on having fun with my little guy. I went grocery shopping on Saturday to stock the house with easy to prepare foods, Bear did every scrap of laundry in the house, I scrubbed and vacuumed and tried to get ahead of home responsibilities so that I could afford to let things go a bit. And so far (knock on wood) Atti and I have had an awesome time. In fact, I think I may be getting him dangerously attached to having an attentive mom.
On Tuesday after our visit to his school program, I decided to venture out and go to some fancy stores and have myself a stroll. There’s a shopping center here in town that not only has a great bakery where I could score my eclair, but also a bunch of fancy home stores.
Atti was good and patient for the first one, and after that he started grabbing on to the door to prevent me from entering the stores. It was like a cat in a cartoon, paws on either side of the doorframe to fight off going in. I bribed him with a cookie, and even that didn’t get me much more time.
But he loved walking together in the sunshine and finding our reflection in the windows. He’d shout out, “I see you!” and bounce up and down in his stroller seat. I’m hoping he didn’t want to go in the stores because he was having so much fun outside, and not because he hates shopping. I get out rarely enough as it is.