I was always use to going shopping with the kids in tow. Some days it was a challenge. If we were in a clothing store, Bobby liked to hide under the racks of long clothes. I would drag him out time after time, then threaten him with bodily harm, worked every time. Grace would go off on her own to look at the clothing and Stacy would - stick to me like glue. As they got older they each wanted to go in their own direction in the store, which was okay, but Stacy still - stuck to me like glue. Then they got to the age that they wanted to stay home. Okay by me. The first time I went out like that, I felt like I forgot something and I had no one to keep an eye on or talk to, but let a kid say Mom, I looked!
Now years later, Stacy likes to go with me. Every once in a while I will be standing there talking to her and when I look she is half an aisle away. She does this deliberately to see if anyone says something. No one has yet, but I do get some looks! And it doesn't help for me to say, I'm with her because she acts like she doesn't know me. Maybe I should pretend I don't know her at supper time.....
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