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After taking the boys grocery shopping yesterday I'm glad I get most of my groceries delivered. I remember spending Saturday mornings with my Mum at Coles where it takes 1-2 hours to do all the shopping. It feels like a quarter of your weekend is taken up with buying the things you need to survive work for the next week instead of enjoying your free time.
We would maybe go see one of the sets of grandparents whilst out, but that's not something the boys have to worry about here. The only grandparent they could regularly visit lives with them.
The only possible thing is you can go do your groceries at a larger shopping centre here. But I don't know when I'd let them roam free, and even those places lose their novelty pretty quick when they don't change and you have no money to buy anything.
My son is 11, and I still would rather poke hot pins in my eyeballs than take him grocery shopping with me. Click and collect all the way! Although he will do a quick milk and bread dash with me but I can't cope with more than that.
I think we're lucky that going to the supermarket is still something new to them, especially going with the two of us. I've taken them plenty of time on the bike, so it's wrapped up in the whole experience of going for a ride together and doing something with dad