Spontaneity...

It's not something we see to often around here. I work a lot and Doug's in school so we don't have a lot of free time. I can't just drop everything and take a camping trip or go to the zoo. We have to plan those things out.

However, this week I found myself with a little more free time so we did a few spur of the moment things. It wasn't anything major, but the kids loved it.

We took a trip to a new park and had a picnic dinner Monday night. I decided about 5:00 or so that afternoon when I realized I was all caught up on my work and wouldn't get more until the next day. 

A spontaneous trip to the park doesn't necessarily mean you'll have a fabulous dinner, but the kids enjoyed the turkey sandwiches (peanut butter for Adam of course), Pringles, and dried fruit strips. We also threw in some homemade cookies I had in the freezer.

Today I had a few minutes too and decided I could make a special dessert to commemorate the opening ceremonies for the Olympics. I'm certainly not the kind of mom that has a jillion ideas already saved on pinterest, but a quick google search found some sugar cookies that looked sort of like this. I didn't have time for sugar cookies so we went with cupcakes, cool whip, and M&Ms. Alex could hardly wait to eat them.

They actually turned out quite tasty...