Rewards

This boy is difficult to "reward". He scored his team's only goal today. The game ended in a 1-1 tie. We wanted to reward him by letting him choose a restaurant where we would eat for dinner. He chose Chick-Fil-A. We were hoping for a sit-down type of restaurant, but he wanted fast food. His other choice was to stay home. I guess that shows how spoiled my kids are and/or how often we eat out--it's not even something they look forward to. Patrick insisted on a sit-down restaurant, so Alex finally relented and said Paesano's. Now, Paesano's is pricey, so we decided since Alex only wanted the Fettucini Alfredo there anyway, he wouldn't mind going somewhere cheaper, like Olive Garden--he agreed.

To make a long story short, by the time we got out of church and went to Olive Garden, the estimated wait was 45 minutes. Alex didn't want to wait there that long. We ended up at Chick-Fil-A after all! Of course Natalie wanted Wendy's instead, and there is one next to the Chick-fil-A. She and Anthony ended up having Wendy's and we brought it over to Chick-Fil-A to eat with everyone else. Anthony had the biggest kick out of eating Wendy's at Chick-Fil-A. He even posted about it on Facebook. :)

Anthony got home and started helping Patrick with the painting. It's taking a lot longer than Patrick had expected. Hopefully they'll at least be done by tomorrow so Anthony can sleep in his room again instead of Alex's room.

Tomorrow's activities include Anthony's final club soccer game of the regular season. The top two teams get to go to playoffs, and right now his team is second. They really deserve to go to playoffs so hopefully they'll win tomorrow insure a spot. Afterwards the team is going out for dinner. I hope we have plenty to celebrate!