How eazy is a walk to the mall?

Getting out with a baby in tow is never an easy task. I remember the days when I used to just slip into my fav jeans and tees and grab a purse and dash out(Sigh! gone are those days)Now its a huge task just to go out even for a walk.
First feed the baby-check
Clean diaper-check
Dress for baby-check
Jacket,booties,shoes,hat for baby-check
fav toys in the stroller-check
Diaper bag with extra diapers,vaseline,changing pad,formula,bottle,tissues,wipes-check
extra dress for baby-this is incase you are off to the mall(trust me, it’s never a bad idea to keep it in handy, you never know when your baby's diaper is going to leak or she decides it's time to spray out her milk or food onto her clothes and face and hair)-check
phew...incase you are not exhausted by the time its done, you can get ready yourself
Now time for my jeans,tees,jacket and hand bag
house keys-check
Anything potentially that can burn my house down by the time I arrive like a iron box left on, stuff on my stove, running heater-check (even the simplest things can slip out of your worn out mind which has lately been tuned to remember nothing other than baby poop,pees,milk,food,change and yes oh oh beautiful beautiful sleep (both mine and my baby's))Baby strapped in the stroller-check
car keys-check
Finally time to hit the road yay!!!
But wait, somewhere in the way between your apartment and the garage as you get into the lift the little one decides she doesn't want to go to the mall today, she just wants to scream and wants to yank out the hat and the booties and the shoes out and taste them and even scowls at the friendly neighbor who happens to coochie coochie the cute baby in the stroller much to her surprise as to what happened to the usual smiling cute little angel.
You smile at the neighbor and mumble an apologetic "oh, she is in a bad mood, you see she is teething"(anything to protect my baby's angelic image) and try to give her a fav toy to calm her down. But as the lift reaches the garage level the screams turn into a high pitched wail and her cute little face is all red as she stares at you in defiance that you are forced to reflect whether your idea of visiting the mall today is a good one.
Finally after a few seconds of pacifying the red faced screaming baby you decide its time to get back into the lift and ride up home and maybe just maybe try this exercise sometime later.
So it's back to ground zero(home) and as soon as you are home the little one is all smiles and happily goes and sits in her play yard with her toys and just as you are about to scowl she melts your heart with that cute smile (damn, you know there’s a reason why babies have such melting smiles, they need that to get away with anything they do to annoy others, who can resist that one toothed innocent smile?)So you just smile back and go get a hot cuppa coffee to regain your sanity and plop on the sofa.Socialising and shopping well that has to wait for another day, as of today its just home for me and the baby!