If you have ever been off work on a weekday morning/early afternoon and step foot into a Target store you might have noticed the multitude of moms with their babies that flock to these stores at this time. I too have noticed this and am one of those people, I feel almost at home when I am at Target with the girls. I get my iced caramel macchiato and sip and stroll through the store. No one bats an eye if I have no make-up, crazy hair, and my outfit on that looks like I worked out in it two days ago. When I talk and sing out loud to the girls while I shop, other moms pass by and smile. Everyone makes room for my huge stroller, smiles and goes about their own business. Also Target has automatic opening doors; truly one of gods greatest gifts to all people, automatic opening doors!! If one of the girls gets fussy panic never enters my mind, as we are in a safe place where it seems everyone understands each other. :-) I feel like I am back in college in my sorority's suite where we are all "sisters". It seems silly when I say things like this, but it is so true!
Genius! Someone needs to create a Target sorority/support group for women, this seems hilariously appropriate. Everyone knows that Target is where most women go to find peace and happiness anyway, why not add a sisterhood? (HAHA)
I digress...
Ok, Ok, so here is why today at Target was just as I described above, and why I will forever be grateful for it.
Today was my first day out in public with Ava's brace. Normally when I go to Target in the early afternoon it is dead, today it was packed. I am guessing due to the holiday coming up... Ella was fussing (getting her 2nd tooth) and I was sweating before we even got past the carts in the front of the store. I always feel like a fussing baby is torturous to other people in a busy public place; again me worrying about everyone else! So, we went to the baby isle to get Ava a different soap for baths, and more juice, that was all I truly needed to get today. It was like magic when we got to our isle. Ella stopped fussing and was all smiles and Ava was happy to just look around and jabber. Phew what a relief! I could relax and take my time.
Although I didn't feel as zen as a I do when it's just me and a bunch of moms in Target, that was ok. When we got in line to check out I could tell that the lady behind us was dying to sneak a peek at the girls. She was close enough to me that I could feel her breath. Once I got our things on the counter I turned a bit to talk to her; she was so close I almost knocked her over! She just went on and on about how sweet and cute the girls were. She wanted to know all about them. (( Before I was a mom I would have been in complete misery socializing like this with a total stranger, but now it seems to be the norm!)) And guess what? She said nothing about Ava's brace, she didn't even seem to notice it! Of course she didn't, how could you when that little stinker was smiling and talking to her like a little pro?
Thankful for Target being there for us to get out of the house today, and thankful for such an "uncomfortably close" interaction with a stranger, who reassured me that there are still good people in this world.
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