Costco is a crazy place to go to if you dont like buying in volume and some days in the week are bad days to go there,but if you have a rebate check from there, boy! I'll stand in line behind a person with an overflowing cart which will take a day to check out!!
Which was why, I was at Costco today with both kids in tow and only toilet paper on my to- buy list, but a seventy four dollar rebate check which makes you feel like a kid in a candy shop in my pocket.
Weaving my way through the aisles, I peeked at all the things I don't need but wouldn't mind buying , and bought some essentilas like toilet papar and paper towels, and some edibles for the kids and moved quickly to the check out counter where the inevitable long line awaited me.
The kids wanted smoothines and I gave them the money and asked to to go queue up rather than wait for me to be done at the counter. Costco has so so food, but like eveything there,the serving sizes are humongous and prices are cheap and there is always a line, almost always.
So when I had finally checked out and then tried finding them, they were still in line with a good number of people ahead of them, and I moved off to the side and decided to wait. That was my five minutes of relaxation and I was people watching while also keeping an eye on my progeny...
They were hemmed in by a single guy peering into his phone on one side and a middle aged couple on the other.
Siblings are notoriously fickle in how they behave around each other- atleast mine are. The older one sometimes is patient around the younger one, and sometimes tattles on him like a toddler and while I wasn't particularly worried they would embarass me, I wasn't about to let down my guard either and when it seemed like my little one jostled the lady standing behind him, I made signs letting him know he needed to move away. One cannot be too careful these days,what with social media offering an outlet for any kind of disrespect, percieved or real.
Anyway,they finally reached the counter and I took my eyes off of them and suddenly heard someone talking really close to me and looked up and found a lady actually addressing me.
It was the lady who had been standing next to my kids, and she had left her husband in line and had come over to tell me that she was very impressed at how well behaved my kids were!! She told me that she felt guilty because she didn't remember being so nice to her siblings when she was younger and when I protested that they weren't this nice all the time, she disagreed and then congratulated me on having brought them up well.
When you become a parent, the weight of the world lands on your shoulder. Maybe it need not be that way,but for a lot of parents the enormity of what has been given into their safekeeping can mean alot of sleepless nights and I for one, keep second guessing my childrearing decisons all the time. I am not the kind who goes," I've done my best, let them take it from there!". I am a worry wart and I have this weird feeling that my children will have been this well behaved with half the effort and worry and second guessing on my part. But hey, one can never be too careful right?
Anyway, to have an absolute stranger tell you that you have done a great job raising your kids is the best compliment one can get and I was very very happy that I had done something right in my life. After all,what legacy do we leave behind when we are off to that place beyond the stars? And if we can rest on our laurels for eternity, this is one laurel I would absolutely love to rest on!
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