HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!!

BEHOLD THE MAJESTY THAT IS GROCERIES DELIVERED TO YOUR DOORSTEP. Aside from the births of my children, this might be the best day of my life. If there's anything I despise, it is grocery shopping. The parking, the monotonous wandering, the loading, the unloading, blaaaaahhh! I hate everything about it. And that means I procrastinate it. Which then means that we flush hundreds of dollars eating from take-out menus. In California we were spoiled because the grocery store delivered for a nominal fee (like $7). So when I moved here, and realized the hellish torture that is shopping with three children, it turned out to be one of the things I missed most. Over the years, I'd do an online search for grocery delivery. But prices were always too high, or too complicated to estimate. 

THEN. Last week I got an email from my client/friend Jesi, saying that her friends were starting a new business called Mommys 4 Hire. Among their list of services was GROCERY SHOPPING. It was literally five minutes between receiving the email, that I had them scheduled for delivery. All week, I'd been anticipating it like a child waiting for reindeer footsteps. Looking at the almost empty shampoo bottle, my stomach would flip with excitement knowing that I wasn't going to be the one to replace it.

Then they showed up today and it was like FIFTEEN CHRISTMASES PLUS THE FOURTH OF JULY. Not wanting to scare off my new best friends, I tried to play it cool by asking questions like, "how much to I owe you?"... and "did you have trouble finding anything?" But it was so hard to concentrate with all angels singing in my head. And I could barely see amongst all the doves that were being released. So I did my best not to hug them for fifteen minutes. And I didn't tell them that I think they may have permanently changed my life. And I also managed to refrain from telling them that if they ever close their business now, they're going to need a restraining order to get rid of me. Because you know how there are some drugs, like alcohol and pot that people can use recreationally? And then there are the ones like crack and meth that turn you into an immediate junkie? Like one minute you're a successful attorney, and the next you're living toothless on a roach-infested matress? Well, this is the meth of household services. Once you start, you will not be able to stop. And I hate it when people use multiple "O"s in a dramatic attempt to say something is SOOOOO great. But this is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO WORTH IT. 

And the best part is their rates are INCREDIBLY REASONABLE. Even with the extra fee added onto the grocery bill, I paid LESS than what I pay when I go myself. I think it's because there was no impulse buying of books, and magazines, and candy, and toys. And that doesn't even take into account how much I'll save by not having to order out. If this saves me one pizza delivery, it's paid for itself. And you can save even more if you get 2 weeks worth at a time. 

Oh, you guys just really need to call them. I'm serious. CALL THEM. CALL THEM. CALL THEM. CALL THEM. 

Here's their 411:

Kristen-(830) 237-9954 or Shelly-(210) 884-0394

Mommys4Hire@gmail.com

They also do Cleaning, Errands, Lawn Care, and Party set-up/clean-up

Comments

[MelodyA.]

Aw man, you are the luckiest. I loath HEB. LOATH. Would they charge and arm and a leg to come out my way?

[maile]

hi melody, just sent you an email.

[Ma']

I was in metaphor nirvana... but the one that caused the chuckle to trampoline out my belly and through my mouth was "...living toothless on a roach infested mattress..."

Everything about you is pictures. From what you do, to what you say.

Off to do my Friday shopping. Only, I'm the opposite. The angels heralding in your head and the doves blurring your vision? That's how I feel when I stroll down the grocery isles.

Remember when you were a teenager and you would pretend to be a mental case in the vegetable and fruit section of the Market? You'd fill a bag with bananas and then swing it in circles over your head while mumbling and swaggering like an orangutang just to get me to hurry up?

You've hated the process for a long, long time.

xoxo,

[cathy]

that is sooooooooooo awesome. :)

and your new banner and logo is killer. killllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllller.

[jodie]

i wish we had something like that in st. louis! I would save a ton of money too without kids begging for things in every single aisle!

[robyn]

You are two funny! it truly is the small things in life that make us jump for joy! :)
Also, love the sweet wrinkled-toes on the website.

[tia]

What a Fantastic thing, gave thought to this once upon a time, everyone thought I was nuts so dropped it, but now I'm wishing these gals came to the boondocks, T

[Jesi]

Yay!!! So glad to see that their first job for you was a success :) I know that their new business is going to be amazing for them and I can't wait to watch them grow!

P.S. Love the story about you as a teenage mental patient in the produce section of the grocery store :) HA!! Your mom cracks me up!!!

[jenn]

SHUT. UP!

[Chasity]

girl, you should know by now you can not pass around the crack pipe openly IN PUBLIC ON THE INTERNET for all of us crack heads out here that salivate at the very thought of someone doing our grocery shopping for us! you have been in my house and you have seen the roach invested mattress we sleep on yet here you are. you are an enabler. a pusher. they should lock your ass up! (pst. i'm emailing you for more info)

[Dejah]

do they deliver to Oklahoma??