In April, Cleo's daycare had a fundraiser to raise funds for her graduation ceremony. We had a lot of out of town family buy chocolate. We told them we were not going to mail it to them and instead we would donate it to a homeless shelter. This morning, we dropped off the chocolate at Nicholas House. Nicholas House is a transitional home for homeless families. It's in Grant Park, the area of Atlanta where Roger and I lived when we first moved down here. Cleo and Sidney went into the house with me. There was only one person there, an administrative woman waiting for us. When we go in December to drop off toys, there's usually kids and families around. We "adopt" a family each year and get them gifts off of their wish lists.
Next, we drove to Target and got a snow cone maker and some other items. Then we went to Lowe's and selected flowers for the pots that we keep on our porch. We also got a sweet basil plant, a Thai basil plant, and two little strawberry plants. I got some parsley seeds too. I am also going to plant grape tomatoes and mint. We got a plant/flower bed thing in which to put all of the herbs and fruit plants. We are going to do the planting tomorrow. All of us have gardening gloves so we are super prepared.
We went home and had lunch. Cleo and I shared a Boca Bruschetta Burger sandwich (burger, mozzarella cheese, ketchup and wheat bread). Sidney had a train-shaped peanut butter and jelly sandwich. We put the kids down for their naps.
I headed to the gym and afterward did some food shopping. Birds Eye Steam fresh vegetables were 50% off at Publix so I loaded up. We need to diversify the vegetables we give the kids: our default is always broccoli. In addition to broccoli, I got some green peas and green beans. Roger is going to make squash and zucchini for dinner on Sunday. They like asparagus but it's so pricey - even when it's in season. I love asparagus, that and Brussels sprouts are more favorite vegetables.
We got the kids up from their naps. Sidney and I shared a blueberry Greek yogurt. I got some barbecue flavored soy crisps on sale at Publix and Cleo, Sidney and I had some. We got the kids dressed and headed to Bed Bath and Beyond because we had a coupon and could see in their latest ad that they had a better snow cone maker than the one we got at Target.
At Bed Bath and Beyond, we got a Jelly Belly brand snow cone maker and accessories, e.g., snow cone cups, pink cotton candy syrup, grape syrup, cherry syrup and blue raspberry syrup. Then we went to Toys R Us and got Crayola colored bubbles, with a gentle looking bubble gun. We were shopping for a new wading pool because our current one has a jagged hole in it. We didn't find the right pool.
We went to dinner at Figo. It's a reasonably priced Italian restaurant near where we were shopping. We have gone there before. It is around the same price as eating at Golden Corral but it's a much nicer dining experience and has much nicer ambience. We sat outside because Cleo really wanted to. Roger and I had salads. Sidney and Cleo shared baked chicken and broccoli. Sidney also enjoyed our bruschetta appetizer.
He had most of the 3 slices of the appetizer.
We headed home and made awesome snow cones. We watched "Hop" one of Cleo's and Sidney's current movie favorites. It was rather funny. Russell Brand voices the main bunny. Hugh Laurie voices the daddy bunny. Cleo and Sidney had seen the movie many times. Cleo had a ton of questions. She must watch it and not understand it and save up the questions for when we finally see the movie and she can ask us. We tried our best to answer her questions.
We will be sure to take pictures of our gardening adventures tomorrow.
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