Ice Cream is Yummy!

I don't know why but every summer I start craving ice cream like it's going out of style. I want some ice cream every day! Today we went to Utica, where Ye Olde Mill is located(Velvet's Ice Cream Factory). It is very nice. I try to go at least once every summer to get some really good ice cream. It was good today, however traveling the approximate one hour in the car (each way) with the three kids and my grandparents was a bit stressful. The radio was going, the girls were fighting over anything and everything and the baby was fussy because he doesn't like to be in his carseat for extended periods of time. All the while, my grandma is trying to calm the baby by "shhhhh"ing louder than he is crying and I'm yelling across the middle seat of the van to the back seat, where the girls are, trying to get them to SHUTTIE! And my grandfather is just sitting there with one hand on the dashboard to "brace himself", you know, "just in case" like it will do him ANY good if we WERE to get into an accident, because then he would just get his arm broken by the airbag (but that's a different story all together!) But the scoop of chocolate ice cream with chunks of peanut butter in a waffle cone made it all worthwhile. O.k. maybe not completely, but it helped. That and the fact that I got both my lunch and my dinner (stopped at Bob Evans on the way home) paid for. By the time I got home this evening at about 8:15, I felt like I was going to scream. So I went on a nice long walk and de-stressed a bit. I've been trying to do this every night. Walk that is. For at least 20 minutes, usually longer though. Tonight I walked for over an hour. It's the only "me" time I get. So I enjoy this time as not only exercise, but time away from the kids where I don't have to worry about anyone but myself and can think about what I want, without distractions, or just not think about anything at all. Then I got home and all 3 kiddos were sleeping and I got a nice shower. Now I am sooo ready to try to head off to nighty night land, but the baby is now waking up. So I must go feed the little man and then off I'll go.