If your good we'll get pizza

These words come out of my mouth all the time. It seems like I'm in Sam's club or Walmart all the time. There is never really a convenient time where someones not tired or cranky. So I'm always like "if we get done quick and your really good we'll get pizza." I'm sure rewarding them with unhealthy food isn't the smartest thing but when your desperate your desperate. Seriously sometimes I just don't have the energy to do a half hour of shopping during which I'll say 400 times "sit down, don't touch that, no we can't have that, why? because I said." People wonder why I sometimes don't return phone calls. It's because I talk so much to the kids I can't bare to hear myself speak! If it's a quick trip I can tell them let's see how fast we can get thru. So I walk or run thru the store making motorcycle or car noises and we count how fast it takes to get done with an isle. Or I say "who can see the bananas first." All this works great. In and out no problems. But if it's a big trip (uggghhhh) I promise pizza, a pretzle and sometimes a berry sundae. The sundae I never have any intention of giving to them mainly because they're allergic to milk but also because it's just not good. Usually they lose the pretzle after a couple warnings so we end up just with pizza. On a bad day (which is all of us not in the mood to go) they get pizza to start out the trip. A plate in their lap and they're usually busy eating it while I shop as fast as I can. It started out as a bribe but has really turned into something I enjoy. We shop and then order our pizza and we all sit down at the table and eat. But we eat and talk and laugh. Maybe it's because there are no destractions. I love it. I can look at my 3 beautiful kids and we relax and share a meal. Tonight I swear I could picture them as teenagers all of us sitting at the table doing the same thing. I would be telling them how when they were little I used to bribe them with pizza. It's funny but I actually can't wait to go back to Sam's club.