Full disclosure: I usually had to bribe myself with a Starbucks drink on the way home. It wasn't always like this. Before we had kids, grocery shopping was simpler.

What started as errand in 1964 to get the kids out of the house evolved into an annual Christmas shopping trip no one in the Myers family has missed in six decades.

Full disclosure: I usually had to bribe myself with a Starbucks drink on the way home. It wasn't always like this. Before we had kids, grocery shopping was simpler.