Happy Labor Day!

A few highlights for this Labor Day:

#1-I'll start at the end of the day... Hope was extra cute in the bath tonight.


#2-I bought Hayden the Sponge Bob Kindergarten game for his Leapster. He has been playing the Leapster a lot lately, and he has wanted that game for ages. I called it his "you had a great first week of school present". As soon as I brought it home he disappeared for about 10 minutes. I thought he was busy playing. He was busy searching. Scott went upstairs, and found Hayden on his knees saying a prayer that he could find his Leapster. I think the poor kids was afraid to come tell me he couldn't find it. I usually have zero sympathy when the kids don't take care of their stuff...you know the story. But he was all happy a few minutes later when his "prayer worked, because he found it!"

#3-I went to the mall by myself today after the gym and had a good old time. I got Hope a new outfit at Gymboree and only spent $12! Oh yeah. I also got a new watch at Fossil. I haven't bought a new watch in forever, and the band on my Swiss Army was no longer able to be repaired. I still might replace the band, but I got a fun new watch that I like.

#4-On my way home I stopped off "in the hood" and did a little shopping at Fiesta. My kids are so...suburban, that they think the Fiesta Grocery store is the "hood". I discovered it this summer, and I can find all kinds of fun stuff. I got these Japanese udon noodles that I used for dinner tonight, and I found bocconicin...what is that you might ask? It's fresh mozzarella cheese in little balls. It's very good, and I'm going to use them sometime later this week for dinner. But I always love a little adventure at the grocery store ;).

#5-Last, but not least, we made a trip to Lowe's. Hunter was over at a friends, but we did certainly have fun there with Hope, Hayden and Hannah, what a joy...not!! But I didn't care, I was just happy to be doing what we were doing. New carpet through out the house and counter tops in the kitchen! I'm so excited I can hardly wait. I REALLY want hardwood floors, but I think we will just re-carpet. Hardwoods will be AT least double (if not triple) the cost of carpet (of course I want the most expensive stuff)...and I'm, quite simply, sick of waiting.

Anyway, it was a good day here, and Scott and I are off to fold laundry.


Oh yeah, here is that recipe. It was very easy, different and flavorful. Scott loved it, the kids ate it and liked it...but it wasn't chicken nuggets. :) I'll certainly make it again, it will be good for lunch this week. Those noodles are the noodles that PF Chang uses for double pan fried noodles...now if I can figure out how to make that....maybe Scott is done with the laundry by now.