T-minus 4 days till Thanksgiving...gobble, gobble:
Nooooooooo! Picking leaf chips out of her shoes drive me nuts:
"Excuse me Mama!"
Enjoying a quinoa, beet juice, Rachael Ray, 25 minute moment before Dora the Explorer credits roll:
Kids VOLUNTEERED to dust the living room and dining room. There were no bribes or rewards involved. Why are they so happy?? I HATE cleaning!!
I LOVE going over the hill for a night on the town. You can take the girl out of the west side but you can't take the west side out of the girl:
It was a mid-week date to celebrate our 9 yr. anniversary. No kids. No interruptions. Just David and I with Connie and Ted's oysters:
No luck finding pearls!
We saved the best for last! THEE $24 lobster roll that's shared 2 ways NOT 5 ways:
Cronuts at Vons. Bwahaha!
Little Chippewa eats Cheetos:
Right after the rain:
Steamed salted duck eggs on meatloaf just like my Mom used to make. I wonder what she'd think about the ban on selling raw duck eggs. She'd probably start fermenting her own:
I think Portia has the breakfast for lunch gene too. The meeska, mooska, mickey mouse clubhouse song was stuck in my head all day:
My childhood friend Anita and her 1 year old birthday boy, cutey cheeks Elliott! She's probably my oldest friend as far as knowing me the longest. Now we're celebrating our kids birthday's together. She's a SUPER mom with 4 kids!
That's her brother Eddie (who had a crush on me while we were growing up!) who's a SUPER cop married to Jannah on his right who's another SUPER Mom. They have 5 kids (and sing karaoke). That makes them a SUPER family:
Mirror mirror on the wall...she fell in love with this vanity at the party. If only I was a nice mom she'd have one:
Truman's shadow puppet dinosaur:
Truman's shadow puppet dog:
Dinner in Little Osaka:
A pretty agedashi tofu bowl that had me saying, "Ooooooooooo!":
We went on a Marukai adventure afterwards:
It's very difficult to pick out seaweed:
or rice when the kids shopping cart shenanigans interfere with buying decisions:
They ALWAYS want to stop and look at things they're not supposed to even after my attempts to dodge the temptation aisles:
When are David and I going to learn NOT TO TAKE THE KIDS TO THE MARKET!!