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One of my friends just had a new baby, and she also has a 20 month old toddler.  We were on a big play date yesterday, and it was pretty clear that this is not an easy thing to pull off gracefully.  She had absolutely no hands free when she was trying to get the children back into the car.  In one of her hands was the handle for the newborn’s car seat, and in the other hand, she was hanging onto the toddler tightly.  She had the diaper bag over her shoulder and a sippy cup that she’d almost forgotten tucked under her arm.  I helped her the best I could, hanging onto Buttercup’s hand, and of course she did fine.  All the same, she had that panicked look that most sleepless new mothers have.

During the play date, she admitted, “I have to do my first Wal-Mart trip today.”  Everyone had something to say about that:  going to Wal-Mart with the kids is a nightmare acknowledged by all.  Personally, I let my husband go to Wal-Mart, and I only go to grocery stores with Buttercup.  I cannot do the panicked frenzy of people and carts and screaming toddler that Wal-Mart generally offers.  I cannot imagine how the mom in question is going to do it, but I am sure she’ll pull it off somehow.  In retrospect, I really should have offered to go with her.  How on earth will she unload the groceries by herself with the toddler and newborn in play?  There have to be more mommy-teams to get things like that done during the day.  I don’t think you can ever have enough hands as a mother.

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