During the current global pandemic caused by the virus, government officials and store managers alike have been imploring that people learn to shop responsibly and without hoarding. When a mom of 16 was judged harshly for her grocery cart, though, she took to Facebook to remind people—you don’t always know a person’s story when you take a look at the contents of their grocery trips.
Mom Jeni Bonell lives in Toowoomba, Australia, where she’s raised a big beautiful family of 16 children. She regularly documents the trials (and triumphs) of having such a massive collection of mouths to feed and minds to nurture—but when grocery stores started to run out of daily necessities due to quarantine rules and panic purchasing, Bonell found herself facing an entirely new set of problems.
