dumb things you do when managing 3 kids at once

i feel silly even sharing this, but i know one day i will read this again and laugh at the absurdity. we were leaving the drs office today, all three kiddos in tow, all three kiddos hungry and a prescription to take to the pharmacy thanks to the computers being down at said drs. office. so in the minivan we pile. i thought, i will just feed max and keegan in the van and then head to the pharmacy. not a bad plan. fin was even a good helper (until he learned that i had big kid snacks in my enormous diaper bag as well). so i turned the air on (see prior post about humidity getting to me) and climbed in the way back with fin. this gave me the perfect vantage point to max and keegan, both securely strapped in their rear facing car seats. it was a smooth feeding session, which was a bonus. now all there was to do was to exit the van and climb in the drivers seat and go to the pharmacy. enter child safety locks! turns out i was locked in the back of the van with three kids! well, at least the air conditioning was running and all three were fed. after some acrobatics and temporarily relocating keegan and the aforementioned enormo diaper bag i was just barely able to reach the keys in the ignition to pull them out to use the remote to open the back door. i have to admit that much of the child safety devices are really adult proof as well! oh well, maybe tomorrow i will actually behave like a brunette!