When grocery shopping with Shane there is never a dull moment!!

Shane and I do our grocery shopping together every Friday! I am always in a huge hurry because I have to be to certain places at certain times. Here is a typical Friday for me:

7:00 am - Wake up and start getting myself ready
7:30 am - Wake kids up and make breakfast
7:45 am - Finish getting myself ready
8:00 am - Get kids dressed, do hair, brush teeth
8:30 am - Grab backpacks and head out the door
8:45 am - Every Friday I volunteer in Shayna's classroom
10:00 am - Done in Shay's class and go pick up Shane
10:15 am - at bank depositing Shane's paycheck (only every other Friday)
10:30 am - Stop by my house and get grocery list and finish getting any coupons that Shane or I will need
10:50 am - Pick Shayna up from school (Friday's are short days)
11:00 am - At grocery store
12:15 pm - leave grocery store (this is if we are lucky, and we are walking as fast as I can possibly get Shane and Shayna to move, I told you it wasn't a fast trip), run and pick up lunch for Shane
12:30 - Take Shane home and help him put away grocery's then run like mad to get home
12:40 - back at home, Put away all perishable groceries, make Shayna lunch, grab a snack for Britton and get Shay changed into her ballet clothes
1:00 - leave to go get Britton from school
1:20 - pick up Britton from school
1:30 - Drive to my Dad's office to drop Britton off (he won't go to ballet with us)
2:00 - Ballet lessons start
Whew! I have an hour to myself so I usually read or crochet
3:00 - Ballet is over so we go pick up Britton
3:30 - Back at home, I have an hour before I have to start dinner so I put away the rest of the groceries. I never have time to do it all before we have to leave to get Britton from school then I go through the kids backpacks, and pick up the house a bit and visit with the kids about their day.
4:30 - Start dinner so it can be ready when Tyler gets home from work
-we eat anywhere between 5:00 and 5:30
6:00ish - clean up dinner
7:00ish - do P90X for an hour with Tyler (if we can talk each other into it) while the kids play on the Wii
The rest of the evening I am as lazy as I can possibly be.....I am exhausted.

I only mention the above so you can see what kind of a time crunch I am on. Shopping with Shane is never fast and can be quite frustrating especially if either of us is in a bad mood but 95% of the time we do pretty good. He's pretty tired of hearing me say come on Shane we need to hurry, or pick up the pace, lets get a move on or the famous line in our family is Shane, your slower then cold tar.

I am writing all of this to lead me into my story. Last Friday when I picked Shane up he handed me his grocery list, like he always does, and like I always do I try to decipher what it says. He writes it all by himself and although he does pretty good sometimes I come across something like this: estesly2%. This was written on his list last Friday. Here is how our conversation went:

Me: ok, I see you need milk, bread, icecream, toilet paper and water.....What does this say?
Shane: Uummm?
Me: What else do you need besides milk, bread, icecream, toilet paper and water.
Shane: OH YAH, I need squeeze cheese, yah, I lub dat stuff!
Me: You do? Are you sure? I don't think I have ever seen you eat that stuff.
Shane: Oh! I lub it
Me: Really? Well ok do you have crackers to put it on?
Shane: No, not for crackers.
Me: Oh kaaay, I don't think I know what your talking about, could you explain it to me?
Shane: You know it squeaks
Shayna: Pipes up from the back seat, Uncle Shane do you mean squeaky cheese
Shane: Yah! Yah! That's it, that's the one. Ohhhh, I lub it. Thanks Shay
Me: Okay, so you want the cheese like we buy when we go to the condo.
Shane: Getting very frustrated. No! I DON'T want cheese!
Me: How about this, when we get to the store you can show me what you want.
Now we are at the store and this is how the conversation goes:
Me: Have you figured out what you want
Shane: I know what I want, you can't figure it out
Me: (laughing) yep, I guess your right. How about when you see it, you just grab it
Shane: (rolling his eyes) FINALLY!
Me: What does that mean?
Shane: Nuffing
We get to the cheese isle and Shane grabs some shredded cheese
Me: Shane is that what you were talking about, you wanted shredded cheese?
Shane: No, this is for my nachos
Me: So we still have to find squeeze cheese
Shane: yep
Now we have been up and down every isle and both of us are done shopping, EXCEPT, we still don't have SQUEEZE CHEESE!!!!
Me: Shane we are running out of time and I can not figure out what you want. Can we try to figure it out and we can get it next time.
Shane: (rolls his eyes, looks at the floor and puts his head down defeated) sure, I guess
Shayna: Mom, I want yogurt can we get me some
Me: Sure, Shane lets walk over and get some yogurt
Shane: That's what I have been trying to tell you, I want yogurt
Me: Seriously, that's it, you want yogurt, not cheese....are you being serious right now!
Shane: uh huh
Me: I start grabbing cups of yogurt and putting it in his cart
Shane: No! That is not what I want!
Me: Shane, you have no idea how patient I am trying to be right now. You said you wanted yogurt.
Shane: I do, just not that kind
Me: What kind do you want, you pick it out
Shane: I can't find it. I want the kind you squeeze.
Me: OH MY GOSH!!! I can not believe it! I think I just figured it out. Do you want GoGurt?
Shane: YES! WAHOO! That's it, yah that's the one. I want it.
Me: Ok we figured it out, can we go now.
Shane: Yes, Thanks Brittney (and gives me a big hug) Your my favorite sister!

Even though Shane can be extremely frustrating and difficult at times, and Friday's completely ware me out, I wouldn't change it for anything! You wanna know why?

Because, Shane, you are my favorite brother!!