"We had a busy day"

This is a favorit saying of the Prince children. They like to say it as we HAVE a busy day, and after.

Today was a day where we really needed food. The cheese was all gone--therefore we could rule out eating pizza, quesadillas, cheese and crackers, and many other things that are happily enhanced by the sprinkling of cheese. The cocoa powder was gone--what would I do without my chocolate milk concoction? And we needed tofu, as well as black beans and millet. So off to the stores we went. First was Safeway and I HATE big grocery stores. (I have to ask people to find things for me multiple times.) Apparently Jesse does too as he did his classic shivering in the cheese aisle. Then we hit Rainbow, in my opinion the creme de la creme of grocery stores. For being so good at the store (Jesse put DOWN the organic chocolate candy basketballs) the kids shared a bag of veggie booty on ride home.

Then we scarfed down some leftover chicken casserole and went out for a walk because Pea needed her walk and we needed some sunshine. We stopped at Garfield Square Park where Luci enjoyed putting her baby on the merry-go-round and Jesse dangled from the monkey bars, a monumental thing for him lately, as those have always been big kid things.

At 1 p.m.,we reentered the house, changed Luci's sand-filled diaper (no problem to her), and began naptime/quiet time.

Jesse sat engaged peacefully on the couch in his room listening to Peter and the Wolf 3 times, noting that the flute was the bird and learning to recognize the clarinet as the cat. Man he loved it!

I was in the kitchen throwing together some vegetarian chili for dinner.

We then had to wake Lu up from her nap so that we could make it to J's schoolmate Ian's house for a playdate. J loved the garbage truck and Luci chased the cats around while Ian's mom and I exchanged small bits of info about our lives.

Then it was home to a quick dinner, wrestling, Mommy reading Green Eggs and Ham to Lu, and Daddy reading Green Plagues and Lamb? (What is the name of that book Papa Dan?)

The kids are in bed peacefully and I'm off with D to a local spot with some folks in town for InnerChange's summer xchange planning meetings....Peanut's coming too, yippee!