Duck, Duck, Duck, Goose!

I was SO bad today but it was SO good! I took the day off from my quest to drop a few pounds to celebrate Mother's Day a wee bit early. Mike is leaving on a business trip to Nashville on Mother's Day so since he had today off, we decided to go out today instead. I doubt very seriously we would've gone out on Mother's Day anyway. The restaurants are far too busy. It was much nicer going today. He and I went out to lunch. I LOVE Mexican food and we hadn't had any since we moved so we decided to try a place out today. It was SO yummy! I quickly discovered though that the Mexican food they have here isn't like the Tex Mex I'm used to eating at home. I SO miss El Chicos. Whenever we do manage to make it back home, that'll be my first stop. Yuuuuuuuummy. The restaurant we went to today was still really good. I had a chicken enchilada with a chile relleno. Yum yum. It was nice to go out without the kids today. I miss having someone to watch them so we can go out. The restaurant we went to was in Central Park. I did take my camera so we could start off our field trip there but when I took my first pic it said memory full on it. I knew that was bologna because I just bought a new SD card. I opened up the card compartment and realized I left my card at home. I can take a few pics that are just stored on my camera. It lets me take a whopping 4, give or take a couple..sheesh. I decided to postpone my blogging field trip when I found some other things I just had to take pics of.

If this isn't one of the prettiest little mamas in the

world I don't know what is. 9 babies! Could you imagine? I certainly couldn't. Happy early Mother's Day, ducky.

And while this mama is taking care of all of these babies by herself, I see these daddy's waiting right outside the restaurant doors having a siesta and waiting for scraps. And why oh why are you sitting back while she's taking care of all of these kids? Hmmmm??

After we got in to the car I wanted to drive across the street to a pond where we saw a lot of geese. I discovered when we pulled out we didn't need to go over there because there were geese right in front of us. This is the first time I've seen one of these as a baby. They're a lot bigger than the baby ducks. So cute...aren't they pretty? I wanted to get closer but when I was a teenager I had a friend who was chased by a goose and it wasn't pretty so I decided to keep my distance. I love birds.

After we picked the kids up from school we took them to the Coldstone Creamery. We hadn't been before and some coupons came in the Sunday paper. I'm not usually an ice cream eater but it was SO good! So you pick out which kind of ice cream you want. In my case..no our cause Mike picked the same thing as me cause I'm a good picker of things and stuff. I picked cake batter ice cream. You can pick one topping/mix in. Well, you can pick more than 1 but our coupon was for 1 and I didn't want to pay for any more. So I picked brownies. She took the ice cream and put it on a smooth surface. Then she took the brownie and sat it on top of the ice cream and just sort of mashed it all together. After she finished she put it in a chocolate dipped waffle bowl. That ice cream was SO good! I've definitely had my sugar/Mexican food fix for a while. Back to my regular schedule tomorrow. It was all pretty bad but it was a lot of fun :)

I'm happy to say I see a light at the end of the tunnel in regards to this never ending stitching project. I plan to stay up and finish it tonight. It's not that it's taken forever, it just caused a few issues and took a lot longer than I thought it would. Hopefully I'll have a pic to post in the next day or two. I've got to make a mad dash to the framers or it'll never be finished in time. It may not anyway because I need it by the 23rd *sigh*. My new Prairie Schooler charts have been screaming at me to stitch something from them. They're patiently waiting for me to finish "whats her face".