Worst. Mother. Ever.
So this morning the baby girl and I took our weekly trip to the grocery store. By the way, last week was the first week she sat in the grocery cart instead of in her carseat attached to the grocery cart. This is because she has outgrown that carseat and now has the permanently-attached-to-the-back-seat-until-further-notice-type car seat. Last week, she kept flopping over to the side and I had to keep straightening her up. Luckily she has a nifty shopping cart cover to keep her from being too uncomfortable and to keep me from freaking out over all the possible germs that she might gather on her hands that she can’t keep out of her mouth even after touching nasty things like shopping carts. This week, however, she was able to keep herself in a sitting position the entire time, so I was kind of on a high when we left. Well, except for the fact that the bagger kept tickling her stomach and playing with her hands until I wanted to scream “STOP TOUCHING MY BABY AND GETTING ALL YOUR GERMS ALL OVER HER BECAUSE SHE CAN’T KEEP HER HANDS OUT OF HER MOUTH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!” I didn’t, of course, because that would be rude. But I wanted to.
Anyway, we went out to the car, and it being Arizona and it being hot even though it was not even 10:00 am, I decided to take her out of the basket and put her in the car right away. I didn’t buckle her in, but I left the car door open so I would remember to do that after I loaded the groceries. I loaded the groceries into the back of the car, closed her door, got in and drove home.
Yeah, you noticed I left out a step did you? I realized I had forgotten to buckle her into her car seat as we were pulling into the garage. To be fair, the grocery store is only three miles away from our house, but still I felt horrible. All I could think of was what could have happened. But it didn’t. Nothing happened. She was fine. We got home safely. Everything was okay. And hopefully I learned a good lesson.
But nonetheless, I can’t help feeling a little like the Worst. Mother. Ever. :(
