Recovery Day

Seeing as yesterday was such a tramatic day, I chose to take today off, bad idea. If I am to de-clutter this house, I need to keep at it, even if it's just two drawers at a time.

I did finaly go grocery shopping last night by the way. Karli and Cameron wanted to come along. As we were headed out the door, Laney and Ben said they were coming too. Oh my! Three teens and a 21 year old. Word of advice to anyone reading this, NEVER, EVER, TAKE TEENS WITH YOU SHOPPING" We started at the produce section and I was pleasantly surprised as to all of the fruits and vegitables they put in the cart. I thought to myself, "maybe this wont be so bad after all". Then we went around to the meats, cheeses, milk, eggs and all was good. Then we came to the isles, breads, chips, cereals, still okay. But when we came to the candy section, I was taken back to the days when the girls were just little and wanted "Canny". Only this time, it was the guys bugging me about it. Cameron tried to sneek a "huge" variety bag of tootsie rolls/pops, into the cart. Further down the isle it was peanut butter mm's. I tried my best as to keep the "junk" food out of the cart. I kept telling them, if you want it, you buy it! I would say almost two hours later, we went to the check out stand and I began to put the items on the belt. That is when I cought the red white and blue sugar cookies, "Put those back", then there was a few other items that I made them put back.
During this whole time, the young check out girl was cracking up about everything. The kids began to bag the items that made it past my inspection. People began to line up behind us waiting their turn. I stood there waiting with my debit card in hand waiting for the total. "HOLY SH*T" I think I even said it out loud, there was the total, a whopping $281.37. I have never spent that much at the grocery store before. Okay, Costco, yes, but not at Food 4 Less. I put the debit card back in my wallet and pulled out the visa. The kids finished bagging and we were off, but not before the young checker told us we were the high lite of her evening.
We got home and I made the kids unload the car and  put the food away. As they were doing it, I saw a box of frozen monkey bread, huge and I mean huge, marshmellows, frozen pizza, gummy bears, double stuffed oreos, ice cream sandwiches, and a 4 pack of monster drinks. How the hell did they get that past my inspection? Well, Karli told me that while I was putting an item on the belt, they would go behind me with one of the "unauthorized" items. I didn't know I had raised such sneaky kids. This is why I never do the shopping and Tim does it. I was assured that they would all fix me breakfast in the morning. Yeah that didn't happen! But they will be fixing me dinner one of these nights. I will make sure of that!

Now there is all the "JUNK" food that is there just tempting me to eat it. Sigh...