the grocery store

it's 10:30 at night. (this is relevant information, i promise.)

have you ever been a little judgmental of the lady that brings her two toddlers (barefoot toddlers i might add) to the grocery store at such an hour?

since night is my preferred grocery shopping time this happens to me each time i venture out. and each time i find myself thinking things like shouldn't those kids be sleeping or why would they bring their kids to the store in the middle of the night or where are those kids shoes...

...basically i am admitting that i am occasionally the judgmental type. but no longer!!

one of my new years resolutions is to be a little less critical of other people; give people the benefit of the doubt.

so i have replaced my negative grocery store thoughts with the following:

(just fyi: this entire conversation/run on sentence takes place entirely in my head. :0)

why is that lady at the store with such young kids at this hour? maybe she is divorced and works all day and this is the only time she can come and since she is single there is no one to watch her kids at night but they obviously need food to eat so she has to come at night...or maybe she lets her kids stay up really late hoping that in turn they will sleep in really late so that she can get some crap done in the morning instead of getting no crap done...or maybe she doesn't care what other people think of her decision to bring her kids to the grocery store at night because she realized they are her kids and she can raise them however the hell she wants...or maybe she and her husband got in a fight and she just needed to get out of the....ooooohhhhhhhhhh ~ caramel bugles! yes please....wait, where was i. . .

happy new year (by way of the 14th of january)! here's to hoping it's a good one.