Setting a good example!

I know now that I'm a mom I am supposed to be setting a good example for little Will, but I am just having such a hard time with it... in fact I'm starting to turn into a hardened criminal.

I got pulled over for the first time in my ENTIRE LIFE! I was investigating the neighborhood where our new house will be built and had to drive from one neighborhood to the other. We are talking 1/8 of a mile basically one street to the next. Well I pulled out on the road and stopped at a red light (mind you I wasn't the first car at the light) right as the light was turning green I glanced in my mirror and noticed a cop with his lights on behind me. My thought was crap how long has he been there? I drove through the light and pulled over so that the cop could pass me. Guess what? He stopped behind me! Me! who looks 5 times before crossing the street and never likes to go more than 2 miles over the speed limit.
He walked up to my window and I'm thinking what did I do, how did I pull onto the road wrong because that's all I had done.
Cop: Your being pulled over because you were clocked going 53 mph in a 40 mph area.
Me: (Crap! How did that happen?) I was just looking at a house and was driving from the model to the neighborhood.
Cop: Is there some emergency I should be aware of?
Me: No, I was just driving from that neighborhood to this neighborhood.
Cop: License and Insurance please
Me: (Oh man I hope my wallet didn't fall out of the diaper bag... hand license to cop)
Cop: Insurance?
Me: Oh (crap I hope it's in the glove box and not the file cabinet on accident... hand him insurance)
Cop: What did you say you were doing?
Me: Me and my husband are looking for a house and I was just driving from the model to this neighborhood to check out the area.
Cop: Do you really live at FM 620 in Austin?
Me: Yes, Sir
Cop: How often to you come to Leander?
Me: This is my first time Sir.
Cop: Normally, people receive tickets for going 13 over, but I am going to give you a warning.
Me: Thank you
Cop: The signs don't lie down that way the road is 45 mph here it is 40 mph and down that way a little bit it goes to 45 mph all the way through Leander.
Me: Yes, Sir
Cop: Stay in the car I'll be back.
(Text from Danny: How is your day going?)
Sheesh!!! Danny came back with me that weekend and his comment was this is the light you got stopped at? That isn't even an 1/8 of a mile. So all I can figure as to how I got going 53 in such a short period of time is a) I was in the truck and was thus less aware of how fast I was going and b) the cop must have clock me as I was accelerating onto the road.


So after all of that I have also managed to shoplift from Walmart twice! The last two times I have been to Walmart I've been putting things into the car when I realized that I don't remember scanning those eggs/ gas drops I wonder if I did. (check receipt) nope. So then I've had to pull Will back out of the car and walk back in to pay my $1.50 for eggs. To make things worse we have an extra exuberant Walmart greeter that I have to explain why I don't need a return sticker. The conversation goes like this
Me: no I don't need a sticker I just need to go pay for these. I forgot to pay for them.
Greeter: Forgot to pay for them?
Me: Yeah, I forgot to pay for them
Greeter: (escorts me to the register) Will you help her she forgot to pay for these?

*Sigh* Hopefully, I'll get my act together before Will is old enough to remember his mom's run ins with the law.
And I'll leave you with a pic of the kiddo right now asleep in the chair.