Ear Tubes and Shopping Carts

So we're onto our family next issue - ear tube surgery for Tas on Monday. Tas has been battling ear infections for the past few months, so probably a good thing to take action and be done with it. One of the joys of having twins is that there is always something. As for Chance - he is doing great and has had numbers pretty much in range for a couple of weeks now.

This brings me to my next topic - shopping carts. I don't blame you if you don't see the connection. My former favorite grocery store was Wholefoods. I used to love just wandering around the store on a Saturday selecting my organic produce, free range meats and other items.

As a mother of twins, I am a little bothered by the lack of child friendliness at Wholefoods. They may as well have a sign at the door that says, if you have multiple small children go across the street to Walmart or Harris Teeter. This is in great contrast to their competitor Trader Joes, which is one of the most child friendly stores on the planet. If I even mention going to Trader Joes with the boys they get excited.

My assessment of frequently visited grocery stores for child friendliness:
1. Wholefoods (thumbs down) does not have twins shopping carts - this is a cart where 2 small children can sit comfortably. They have ONE makeshift cart where the kids would need to be about 3 or 4 years old but that it it! If a mother of 2 small children wants to shop there, they need to bring a stroller.
2. Trader Joes (two thumbs up) has the double red car stroller where the kids don't even realize they are doing something for Mom and not themselves. They love driving the car all around Trader Joes while the store employees ask them if they want balloons and stickers while eating yummy samples of healthy food. What kid wouldn't like this?
3. Harris Tetter (two thumbs up) doesn't have all the free stickers and balloons, but they do have several cool car carts and keep them in their own covered cart return so they don't get wet in the rain. You can pretty much always get a car cart, which is a HUGE plus.
4. Super Target (thimbs down) - this is my biggest disappointment. You would think a store with as much children's merchandise in at as Target would have better double carts. They have these terrible carts where the kids sit low in the back, barely harnessed in and they face each other. What mother would want her two small children to face each other in a cart and not be able to see anything. This is just asking for antics and other fighting. If I didn't like shopping there so much, I would remove it from my favorites list.

I bet mother's of singletons don't have a second thought about this.