Whole Foods and Cinnabon

As weekends go, my family is usually way too busy to do anything normal. 'Normal' being the operative word - what's normal to my husband and I is actually not the norm for us - it's more like what we wish normal would be. We'd like to have weekends where the kids get to play with friends, but also get to spend time with us, where we work on projects together as a family, where we actually get to sit down for a little bit and read the paper or read a book in the evening, or enjoy a beer or a glass of wine, or tea or anything. Instead, it seems that we just run and work, run and work all weekend, almost every single week. Boy scouts, Girl scouts, basketball, baseball, softball, soccer, cleaning rooms, the bathroom, grocery shopping, shoveling, mowing, cooking dinner, and on and on. It's tough to get everyone where they need to be, fed and cleaned on time, let alone have time to just...sit.
But, this weekend we did it. Basketball has ended, baseball hasn't begun, Cub Scouts was cancelled due to snow. We had a weekend with no plans.
What to do?
Have you seen the traveling colon? No, that's not a misspelling. It was at the mall this weekend. Apparently, the mall paid a pretty penny to have it there too. It's a huge, bulging fiberglass creation, long and large enough for children to crawl and climb through. It even has polyps and large, gaping, red contusions. http://www.poopreport.com/Consumer/Content/Colossal/colossal.html
It's truly disgusting. And the kids were loving it. Not my kids, mind you. I don't need them climbing through a stranger's colon. No thanks. If you went through you got a red carnation. How nice. My husband and I joked that they should have had the kids dress up in little brown suits before they went through. Long line at Cinnabon to get two cinnamon buns, each the size of my head, and each, according to my husband, made with 4 cups of sugar. Mmmm. They were for a delicious Monday breakfast. I felt very smart for buying them.
After the mall we decided to go to Whole Foods for the first time, to do our grocery shopping. Whole Foods. My new favorite place. My kids' new favorite place. Have you been? Holy cow. I was completely overwhelmed by the beautiful food. Beautiful produce, beautiful meat, beautiful breads, beautiful ingredients that I'd never heard of that I assume you use to make beautiful meals that keep you looking beautiful. Prepared foods that would close any good woman's kitchen. We bought a week's worth of groceries, minus a few things that we just have to have in our own processed brands. We left feeling educated, energized and health conscious.
Got back to the car - which was completely filled with the smell of Cinnabon. Still so smart?
My husband and I actually had appetizers and beer before dinner. You can do that when you buy a prepared meal from Whole Foods.
I read a book before bed.
My daughter played at the neighbor's house where everything they ate was green for St. Patrick's Day.
My husband and I re-organized the recycling closet (and that was before our trip to Whole Foods).
My son actually cleaned his room from top to bottom and we heard his clarinet for the first time in weeks.
A regular weekend. Well, regular in an imaginery world.
Now, it's Monday. And the Cinnabons were just as delicious as the meal from Whole Foods.