If you think my hands are full...

     This is my first post, and if you don't know me I am a mom.  I have three children ages 5,3, and 7 months.  And my hands are full.  Going to the grocery store, by myself, with all 3 kids (oxymoron?) is a logistical nightmare.      
     When we go to the store we have two options: get the regular cart and trust Savannah (5) and Beau (3) to walk nicely beside the cart, or get the giant cart.  And, since Savannah and Beau (mostly Beau) loose in the store can be a nightmare, I usually get the giant cart.  If anyone hasn't seen the giant cart, its actually a pretty great idea.  Some genius took a regular shopping cart and put two bucket seats with four point harnesses on the back of it.  Great idea.  Unless you also have a baby in a carseat.  Then, the baby goes in the basket, and the two kids are strapped into the bucket seats. 
     Where you might say, do you put the groceries? Oh! Great question.  The groceries go into the tiny little compartment you would normally put a child.  When that is full, they are carefully stacked around the baby.  I'm sure Rhiannon spends her time at Wal-Mart in terror that a box of corn flakes is going to fall on her head.  Once you put about ten items in the cart, the load becomes too heavy and it is almost impossible to steer.
     Now that Rhiannon is sitting up, she should be riding in the child compartment on the cart, but for some reason, you can't put a child in that compartment.  Apparently, people with 3 small children don't shop at Wal-Mart.  
  Anyway, enough of my tangent.  I'm sure we make a comical picture.  One harried mom, two preschoolers belted into the cart-constantly squealing, "Mom she is touching me" or "Beau is in my seat!"  and baby about to be buried in an avalanche of groceries.  This is usually the point of our shopping trip where some very nice, well meaning stranger looks at me and chuckles, "Boy, do you have your hands full!"  And, then I punch them in the face.

Not really. 

But I used to want to. 

Eh, let be honest.  Sometimes I still want to. But, I read a blog not too long ago from another mother, one who had a few more children than me, who heard the same thing.  And she said, "If you think my hands are full, you should see my heart." If I can find this blog again I will link it because it was great.

     Ever since I've read that blog, I think about those words almost every time we go shopping.  Yes, going to the store with my crew is generally a circus.  And, yes, it is stressful and going shopping by myself seems like a vacation, but, I have been so blessed.  I have three amazing, healthy, loving children.  My heart is full of love.  Now, whenever I hear someone say that at the store, or anywhere, because I hear it ALL the time, I remind myself that my hands are full, but my heart is too.