Sometimes....

you just have to go thru the drive thru of McDonalds just to keep things calm.
Thursday is the busiest day of our week. Preschool, dance, gymnastics are the constant activities in our schedule, now mix in all the other assorted events that seem to always fall on Thursday and you may understand why we weren't pulling into the garage last night until 7:45pm. Faced with two very over tired girls, bless Anthony's heart for rolling with the day he rarely melts down, I decided to do McDonalds for dinner. I avoid take out, I've read much of the info on how unhealthy it is, I know this, but last night we made an exception. Much to the joy of the crew pictured above as soon as I pulled into the drivethru the excitement level increased. Rosie sang "I eat McDonalds" the whole way home. And eat they did. I wonder at how our little people are programmed by fast food chains. (so are we adults for that matter) I struggle with the fact that they will eat every bit of a fast food meal, but often pick at a home cooked meal. For last night I didn't beat myself up over the choice of food, I was simply too tired, so instead I let them enjoy the treat that McDonalds was, (who wouldn't love a meal that comes with a toy?) and tomorrow we will go back to eating healthy. Now if only there were drivethru's that served fresh veggies and fruit. That would make this mom very happy.