Just When You Were Starting To Think I Might Be Deep.

I need a toddler bag.

Perhaps need is the wrong word, but I want a toddler bag. I am on the hunt for this invention and if I don't find what I am looking for I might just have to make it myself. Which will be quite a stretch for this non-domestic-chick.

I don't quite need the 20 pound diaper bag I used to need when going place to place with the babe. I need room for a diaper or two and some wipes. A sippy cup and a snack. And then my stuff. You know my wallet, keys, cell phone, anything else I'm hauling that day.

My old Kate's and Coach's won't quite work. Too small, too nice and too pursey.

And the Kate Spade diaper bag I just had to have is long gone. Yes, I sold her to some lovely lady off of Craigslist who's always wanted that diaper bag. Be ye not so stupid and don't buy a bag based on look, buy it on the principle of function instead. Sorry Kate, your bag did not have much function beyond making me have to dump out the entire bag everytime I needed something.

I bought a Skip Hop bag over the summer, which was lovely for travel and I'll hold on to that one for later use, but I'm really not into the whole messenger bag thing unless I'm traveling.

I don't want something small.

I don't want something large.

I want something JUST RIGHT.

I've been looking and researching and to more stores than one can count. I've looked at designer bags from Petunia Pickle Bottom to Reese Li, I've looked at no-name bags from Target to Babies R Us, but nothing yet resounds with me that this is it.

I don't want something that looks like a diaper bag, yet I don't want something that looks too nice to have toddler accesories tucked inside.

My quest for the right toddler bag is difficult which is why I am soliciting your help.

So throw a girl a line and recommend a bag or two.

Please.

And since I haven't quite made my millions yet so make sure it's reasonably priced. Thanks!

The other "invention" I'm working on right now that will put me right up there with Bill Gates is a new kind of shopping cart at Target.

Our Target has a Starbucks coffee in it. Which is sometimes oh-too-convenient.

However I can't get my non-fat grande carmel macciato with light whip before I shop, because I have nowhere to put it. (And maybe it's just me but I have a hard time steering a cart with one hand.)

They originally had a little attachment for the cart to place your cup, however people don't always return them and then they get left on carts out in the parking lot and get damaged and cracked, thus leaving my Target Starbucks without any of these fancy cupholders.

Ta-da, allow me to introduce my new cart invention. Child sits in cart facing the back of the cart so they can steer the attached toy steering wheel. (We're going all out here people.) Behind child is a compartment that folds in or you can pull it out, kind of like a cup holder in a vehicle, only it also has room for keys or spare change as well. Oh I'm thinking aren't I? In case you're having a hard time visualizing, perhaps I will make a sketch and attach later.

Voila! Place your coffee behind the child, thus out of child's reach while shopping. No more spilt coffee in the back of the cart. No more trying to steer with one arm.

I. Love. It.
Anybody know anyone in shopping cart design that would like to design my cart for me?

And finally, tonight yours truly is making a Chicken Pot Pie for dinner. I have no idea what's gotten into me besides the rapidly descending temperatures making me want some nice warm dinner. But I'm actually fairly excited about my very simple recipe and the healthy meal I've got planned.

All in a day's work, toddler bag hunting, cart designing and chicken pot pie.

My husband will be so proud.