The Things I Learned at the Grocery Store

I went to the grocery store today. I go there every week, but today was different because I went all by myself. Here is what I learned:

1. I am every bit as ADD as my children. Especially in a store. The only difference is I am quiet about it and they are not.

2. Kids say the darndest things... and not just my kids. The little boy in front of me kept begging his Dad, "Smell my feet, Dad! Please?! Just smell them!" The Dad was not amused and did not smell the boy's feet.

3. I am the only person I know who is sad about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes breaking up. It sounds like Tom is sad, but I don't know him.

4. Nora Ephron died of Leukemia on my birthday. Did you know that I idolize her? She wrote/directed some of my favorite movies:



and wrote this very funny little book:
                                                       

among many other things. In my opinion, she was a comic genius. She could laugh about things like bringing her second child home from the hospital and then finding out she was the last to know her then-husband was cheating on her. She could laugh about being an intern at JFK's office and getting passed up over and over again (despite her seniority) because everyone knew he only liked to work with the pretty girls. She never got a chance to laugh about her illness and this is devastating to me. I sat there reading the article and I cried. I cried and cried over this woman I have never even met, but has held a little light in my life. One day she'll realize we're besties. Thank you, Nora. I hope you are at peace. And laughing.