12/31/2023 0 Comments Smil amazon my orders![]() As remote work and school dragged into the fall, we upgraded to a better Wi-Fi booster and ordered lots of printer paper and ink. I also treated myself to a standing mixer for all the baking we were doing. Like many of you, I ordered lots of toilet paper in the spring along with hand sanitizer, Clorox wipes, face shields, and rubber gloves. The first signs of the pandemic in my Amazon cart was an order I placed in late February for face masks, Advil, and a pulse oximeter. Quick data point: The 112 orders I placed in 2019 grew to 231 in 2020. Love it or hate it - and there are lots of reasons to hate it- there’s no question that Amazon was a big part of how many of us adjusted to pandemic life. Update, early 2021: When I wrote this essay back in 2019, I had no idea how much I would rely on Amazon in 2020. What Is Amazon Teen? Making It Easier For Teens To Click And Buy Sifting through the orders is like going on a modern-day archaeological dig: This is where you came from, they tell me. In twenty years, my children will be grown and gone and I’ll be left to wonder where the time went. Because in them is the fine print of our lives, a record of this time when we are all together under one roof. Coffee, lots of coffee, because now Sam drinks it, too.Īnd yet, when I look back at these orders in twenty years, I know they will move me as much as those from the past twenty have. What my cart reveals now are the hectic ins and outs of a family in motion. The discernible milestones of my early life, marriage, childbirth, the growing up of small children, have passed for the most part. What they need now-patience, tenacity, emotional resilience-can’t be bought with two-day shipping. Gone are the days when they could be bribed with a toy. My children are older now, two are teenagers. Amazon is so much a part of our lives that once, when I ordered a pizza, Oliver asked, “Will it come today?” I’ve placed 71 orders in the last six months. ![]() And, finally, Jennifer Senior’s All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood. ![]() Another called Freeing Your Child from Anxiety. There’s a book called Fifteen Minutes Outside: 365 Ways to Get Out of the House and Connect with Your Kids. Stainless steel water bottles when I got freaked out about BPA. There were pencil grips for Sam when I was concerned about his fine motor skills. You can see what I was worried about by what I ordered. It’s all there in my orders, the days when my children were young. Birthday parties and Halloweens, math books and Barbie dolls. Music books for the many instruments they played and quit. The latest Wimpy Kid book and Kidz Bop CDs. We bought chapter books and Rainbow Loom, Slip ‘N Slide and Nerf guns. After Oliver arrived in 2009, we were back to baby gates and booster seats. ![]() Sippy cups and swim diapers, sleeping bags and night lights, there was always something new to buy. The years fly by, but my Amazon shopping cart provides an unlikely window on my children’s developmental milestones. Board games and Lego bricks, lots of Lego. Lots more books, including favorites like Knuffle Bunny, Little Bear, Elephant and Piggie, as well as 1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children. Also a blender and a set of wooden blocks for the playroom. We moved to a house and ordered an exercise bike because we finally had the room. My daughter Ellie arrived in 2005 and the orders picked up, from 9 in 2007 to 32 in 2008. Zelinksy’s The Wheels on the Bus so much and so hard, I reordered it the following year. In 2005, Sam turned two and I ordered Kumon books for cutting and tracing, followed by a three-pack of Wiggles underwear. More CDs and books followed, board books like Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and “More More More,” Said the Baby, most of which I can still recite from memory. I ordered The Girlfriends’ Guide to Toddlers in 2004, when I still thought parenting books could help me, along with Healthy Baby Meal Planner, my first attempt to feed my children something healthy. ![]()
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