Letter of Regret

Dear Future Self,

Just because you are out running errands and get really really hungry (since it is 11:30 AM) and the kids are getting squirmy, does not mean that you should eat out alone with them. Trust me. A trip to Chipotle will only end with multiple trips to the bathroom, a grabby eight-month-old (who really really wants to eat food but still chokes on her rice cereal), a quesadilla catapulted across the table, milk from a straw squirted on a child's head (and body, and table, and chair, and floor), very loud screams for more chips, and finally, a very embarrassing tantrum display by the two-year-old which turns everyone's heads. You, on the other hand, who wanted to stop and eat there in the first place because you are dying of hunger, will only manage to eat two bites of your burrito bowl before you pack everything up and make a quick exit out the door, with two sobbing children in tow.

So, the next time you get hungry while out shopping, take my advice. Eat the squished granola bar that is hiding somewhere in the depths of the diaper bag, and suck it up. Eating at home just may save your sanity.

Sincerely,
My Regrets

P.S. Children grow up eventually. But then you will be alone. So in the meantime, pack snacks. Lots of them.