Lesson Learned

I have today off work and as such I'm trying to organize my day so that I get maximum time with The Boy while still getting my own things done. My brilliant plan this morning was to make a grocery shopping run between Alex's morning bottle and his late morning cereal and nap. 

I made it to the store and Alex was a perfect angel until we got to the checkout line, at which point he had an "I'm hungry and getting tired" meltdown.  I hurried out to the car promising him we'd be home in no time at which point I'd stuff his cute little face with pureed bananas and then rock him to sleep.

My usual routine is to throw the groceries in the trunk, unlock the doors, throw my purse and keys in the front seat so I can then put Alex into his car seat without having to fight him for my keys and purse back (he thinks my keys are the best toys ever made and throws crazy tantrum fits if he even sees them and they're not immediately transported into his mouth.)  Today, I threw my keys and purse into the front seat, shut the door and attempted to open the back door.  Locked.  Locked?  How in the world this happened is beyond me.  I had to UNLOCK the doors to throw my keys into the front seat, somehow, the doors then locked immediately after I closed the driver's side door, locking my keys, my purse, my phone and my groceries in the car. 

I was able to use the phone at customer service to get hold of my mother who came to rescue us, and I was able to get Alex to forget he was hungry and tired for a while by letting him climb around on peat moss bags in front of the store. By the time my mom arrived, Alex was stinky and cranky and I was sick to my stomach about the fact that it could have easily been Alex locked in the car on a hot summer day, not just my groceries. 

BE MORE CAREFUL! The universe is telling me.  I am so happy when I can learn my lessons the easy way.  The only casualty from the whole ordeal was a tub of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, that really, I didn't need anyway.