Controlling the Cart

One of my small joys in life is grocery shopping. Ever since our kids were old enough to sit up, they fawned over the grocery carts that looked like little cars. Those carts are to grocery shopping what the iPad has become for the family road trip. How did we ever live without them? Game. Changer. Our kids still love sitting in the driver’s seat on the cart-car.

They love the feel of the steering wheel in their hands. They love the power of having control of the cart. But then there is that inevitable moment. That moment when the kids in the cart-car, happily driving along, suddenly…