Groundhog Day

You know when you can tell that your brakes are messed up but you keep driving anyway because you can't imagine a day without your minivan? Well that happened and I finally arranged to borrow my mom's suburban and take mine in. Turns out, I should have taken it about a month ago. Lesson learned. We dropped it off and instead of going back home we decided to run errands. 

Most of these errands are pretty small like picking up a present or something like that. Sometimes I might make errands up just to get out of the house. I have to. I need my errands. 

When you have a personal chauffeur...errands are so much easier! Well I had an errand to run in Jackson and we thought it would be a good idea to eat lunch somewhere fun with the kids. Brents was closed, Babalu was too busy, it was too hot to sit outside anywhere. This pattern continued until someone finally suggested Whole Foods. I will pretend like I don't remember who suggested it. 

Whole Foods is amazing. We love it. Just maybe not during a busy weekday lunch hour with a newborn, an unruly toddler, and a 4 year old that will not leave your side. With the carrier on one arm, Addie looking VERY closely at all of her food options, and Elle ready to sprint away at any given moment, we got a buggy and tried to figure out how everyone would get their plates fixed, paid for, and seated. The only feasible solution was to put Elle and Bentley Claire in the buggy and enlist Addie for help. Sounds easy but Elle decided to go all crazy pants and made a huge scene while we forced her into the buggy. At the same time I run into a friend about to have a business lunch. (So sorry!) 2 adults, 3 kids, 4 plates, 4 drinks. 

You can imagine that the rest of our time at Whole Foods was equally unpleasant. Bentley Claire did us all a favor and ended our lunch early with her hungry cry. Rest assured the Edwards children will not be occupying Whole Foods anytime soon. We loaded up to high tail it home and lo and behold we see Jim from The Office (John Krasinski) walking down the street. He is in town filming a movie. Of course it made our horrid lunch experience all worth it and I spent the car ride home researching his project.

Some days you have to treat like Bill Murray's role in Groundhog Day. Just pretend like it never happened and you get another shot at it tomorrow.