My kids seem to enjoy any trip that gets them out of the house. The grocery store is no different.  I’m eternally grateful to BJ’s Wholesale Club for having a decent stock of family friendly shopping carts. These carts have a double-seater race car on the front and two standard kid seats up near the handle.  This allows me to put all 4 of my kids into the cart in proper seats.

My kids are constantly chattering about something, saying hello six or seven times to every person that passes and incessantly asking me for every toy and sweet that we pass.  I’ve gotten pretty good at blocking out all their noise.  But this morning my 3 year old was so excited about something that I had to pause and find out exactly what it was he was so fired up about.

I leaned around the front of the cart and asked him to repeat what he was saying.  With all the excitement of Christmas Morning his eyes lit up as he pointed across the store and through an anticipatory shiver he yelled out:

“Can we go into that Burrrry Thing?!”

I just smiled at him. I could learn a thing or two from him about enjoying the simple things in life.

“Yes, son, we can go into the walk-in cooler”