Today the girls went with Ellen, giving Zak and I chance to remember what the other one’s voice sounded like without the typical screeching and classic interrupting. We talked about going out to eat, a movie, shopping… the afternoon was our child free oyster.

My bucket of watermelon held me over for a while, but without warning I realized how empty my stomach felt and I was going to go from hungry to starving in about .256 seconds if we didn’t get to a restaurant STAT.

To buy myself some time, I made a little banana mullet snack.

The 1980’s called. They want their snack back.

We chatted about where we wanted to eat on the car ride and decided to hit a new restaurant in town that I first heard Holly girl rave about… Chipotle!

I’ve driven by this restaurant about a zillion times while it was under construction and was excited Chipotle was coming to our area. One day, I figured. One child-free day. Well today is finally the day and we had no idea until we got there that TODAY was the grand(e) opening!

Why yes, yes it is.

Ummm….

I’ll have the Burrito Bowl please.

OK… I’ll have the rice, vegetarian black beans, sauteed peppers and onions, roasted chili-corn salsa, oooo throw some of that fresh tomato salsa on there too. Some lettuce. Yup, a little cheese. And oh yeah guac. Oooooohhh yeah come to mama that’s the good stuff.

Done and done.

I honestly had NO idea what to expect walking into this place. I didn’t know if was a sit down and order from a menu kind of place or what. I figured it was healthy if it was showing up on The Healthyeverythingtarian and Be Well and Take Care and that was good enough for me.

If you’re a Chipotle Virgin like I was, the best way I to describe it would be like a Mexican Subway. Errrr, like a Subway that served Mexican. Maybe that’s more clear?

Check out the reverse side of their menu that made tears spring to my eyes. Wow. A chain restaurant with a conscious. Go figure.

But onto the good stuff + 2 waters with lemon.

My burrito bowl.

Zak’s gigundo burrito.

Yup, thumbs up from me too.

We were both blown away at the whole experience. The food was AWESOME. Despite the line that went out the door, the service was fast and friendly. It was affordable, especially considering how great AND healthy the food was. Loved it!

After lunch we went down the street to the health food store in search of the new Larabar flavors, but no dice. On the way out, we got to try a sample of Coconut Bliss non-dairy ice cream.

Zak and I both choose the Cappuccino flavor.

Holy coconut it was amazing. I’ve never had coconut ice cream before but this was great! And a perfect little dessert for after lunch too.

After our outting we came home to get to work on an exciting project we discussed on the way there and all throughout lunch as well.

With the girls getting older and Ava “officially” starting to homeschool in the fall (technically we’ve been home schooling since birth, no?) we’ve found that we need to make some changes in the house. We need place to set up projects, have space to work, read, write… a room dedicated to learning and small motor skills.

But where? Our house isn’t tiny but it’s certainly not huge either. We feel like the downstairs is constantly cluttered with books, toys, crayons, paints, magazines, papers, projects. It always feels messy but mainly because we don’t have a dedicated place to work and store things. Items are constantly being shuffled from room to room.

In short we’ve decided to sacrifice our large master bedroom and turn it into The Classroom. We moved our bedroom into what was formerly my office. It’s a much smaller room but we don’t need a lot of room to sleep. We need room to LEARN! We’ve moved the TV from the living room upstairs too. Our hope is that our classroom will be a place for learning and playing but will also help keep the downstairs neater and less chaotic and cluttered too. We’re both really excited about this.

So while it looks like we’ve just moved in, here is our classroom and now office too. A work in progress to say the least.

Ellen brought the girls home and they jumped and danced around at the changes we’d made.

Before dinner Ava presented me with some new bling.

And then took our self portrait.

The jumping and dancing escalated when I let it slip that there was NO time to cook tonight and it was pizza night! I’m not sure who jumped and danced around more; me or them.

From the corner pizzeria, the grown-up pizza had mushrooms, hot peppers, onions and pineapple. Just cheese for the kiddie pizza.

With salad. But of course.

Aunt Ellen stayed to join us for dinner tonight too.

Wow. Eating out TWICE in one day? A day alone with my husband? Gave up my bedroom AND my office? No running for two days? Yowza. Crazy stuff man. Crazy stuff.