Walmart: One Stop Shopping

I picked today's blog mostly because I made stop at walmart today and as soon as I got into the parking lot, I remembered a funny story from a few years ago. A few years ago, I taught the very same class that I teach now in first grade. It was close to the Thanksgiving Day holiday and our class was preparing for a Thanksgiving Day Feast before we left for a long weekend. I volunteered to make apple pies for our feast and had invited Celine over to help because I am good friends with her mother.

The weekend before Thanksgiving, Celine comes over to help make Thanksgiving apple pies. It suddenly occurs to me that I definitely do not have children. Because Celine begins to help make apple pies and she becomes thirsty. So, I make Celine some hot chocolate, because the only other thing I have to drink is water. I give Celine her hot chocolate and she says it is too hot and would like it to be cooled off. So, I make Celine some new hot chocolate, this time not so hot, and she decides she is hungry. I do not have a lot of food, so I make Celine a grilled cheese sandwich. Celine finishes her grilled cheese sandwich and would like more food to eat, so I tell her she is welcome to anything in the pantry or refrigerator. Celine begins to look for food, she does not find anything she wants, and so she tells me that I should go to walmart. "At walmart they have everything Ms. J.!"

We go back to school on Monday and Celine who now thinks I am poor tells the class that Ms. J. needs to go to walmart. She tells the children she came over and that I do not have any food to eat. Now three years later, we were lining up in class to go somewhere and Celine asks, "have you gone to walmart, yet, Ms. J.? Trust me they have everything there." Celine has not let me forget that walmart offers one stop shopping and has a large variety of food.