Friday Nights

OK people...retrain'n your brain is hard. For example...tonight...the boys had baseball games & I suggest with gusto that we go for ice cream after! Woot woot! Wellllllll, Daddio the king of our castle redirects my outburst with a gentle "or we could go to Dierberg's and pick up all the ingredients to make our own"....oooooh I nod approvingly...this makes sense. See our plans went from standing in line (undoubtably next to a screaming tangly hair'd toddler)...debating how to spend our $20 on ice cream...swatting the mosquitos from our skin...and ultimately sitting on a sticky curb where we will for sure experience a near death episode as teenagers tear through the now jammed parking lot in search of a non existent parking spot toooooo sitting around our own table...kids giggling...& making our own extravagant ice cream concoctions. Did I mention no mosquitos? That's cause for celebration right there! So we did it...we made our night simple...we saved some dough...the kids had a blast...and there's lots of the sweet stuff left over for several more of these kinda nights. Happy Friday everyone...our simple summer continues...

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