Paradise undeserved

I love a good survey. You know those email surveys we get from our friends will 50 random questions that mean little or nothing to the general public, but manage to waste 10 minutes of time we should have spent on something else? I just did one yesterday where I could only have a one word answer! Tricky and I actually had the think.

I’ve also been enjoying the blog poll. From the looks of things, there are a lot of you in need of an exotic vacation outside of Mexico and Canada. I highly recommend southern Africa. It is beautiful and warm this time of year and the Indian Ocean is as warm as a bath. I am pretty sure that Janice and Laura are the only ones who have visited more countries than I have. Actually, my cousin Phil probably has us all beat, but I don’t think he voted on my surveys since he’s been in the US the last few weeks.

Have you seen my cluster map? That sounds strangely dirty, but really it is just a map that tracks the Internet Providers who are logging onto my blog. From there, I’ve discovered I have people all over the world looking at my little paradise… not just the 5 of you who comment. I see my East Coast friends are looking in, as well as my Canadian buddies. Hillary in San Fran logs in regularly, as well as her friend, April, in San Diego. I think the hit from Japan area is Jeff’s cousin who should really have a blog and Australia’s clusters are Janice, who is there visiting friends on her way to the States in a few weeks. I had no idea I knew so many people in the mid western US. And who is checking me out from Europe? You would have come in handy when I was backpacking 7 years ago and didn’t know a soul in Europe. Checking out my blog is kinda like coming into my living room (only it is always clean here J). Glad you stopped by and I would love to know who some of you are!

To keep in the theme of “surveys” for the day, I have a question for you. This would never be a dilemma if I didn’t have children, but I do. If you are answering the question and frequently have the opportunity to go into a store by yourself, count your blessings, because this is my complicated life:
Say you finished Bible study at 10:30am and you pick your 3 year old and infant up from the wonderful, provided childcare. The 3 year old needs to go to the bathroom and so do you after 2 cups of tea, but the toilet the child wants to use is the very cool miniature toilet in the nursery. It is plumbed and flushes very nicely, but you decide there is no way you can use it in good conscience. You get your kids out of the church and into the car through the rain realizing that you still need to go the bathroom. Your next stop is W-M and then home. The baby needs to eat and is starting to fuss (it’s been 3 and half hours since she ate and she usually eats after 2 hours). You drive to W-M and park, still needing to go to the bathroom as the 3 year old excitedly names off 400 things she wants to look at in the store including shoes and bikes, on the opposite sides of the store. Here is your question, do you…
a) Feed the baby in the car while practicing our Kegels, then go in to use the bathroom hoping you’ll make it?
b) Quickly run into the store with both children, use the bathroom and come back out to the car to feed the baby, and go into the store again to do the shopping?
c) Go into the store, use the bathroom, do your shopping, all while rushing the 3 year old because the baby is screaming now at the top of her lungs? (This option would probably have you forgetting at least 3 things on your list for sure).
d) Another fantastic idea I did not come up with because I needed to go to the bathroom so badly.

Thankfully I was able to make it through this situation without incident or accident, but I am curious what my very smart world-wide blogging audience would have done.