My weekends are exhausting! No kidding. My husband went to see my son's team, the Davidson Wildcats, play the College of Charleston Cougars. Someday I will write a lot about the college baseball experience but today I'm in a different place. With my husband out of town, I was left to shuttle the other two offspring around. Saturday was filled with a pitching lesson, gymnastic team practice, a trip to Target and a few hundred loads of laundry.  Sunday included a trip to Virginia Beach for softball team practice (that's a four hour excursion to and fro) and a gymnastic clinic back in Richmond. I managed to squeeze in grocery shopping at Kroger and 5:00 PM Mass, which was truly a miracle.

On Saturday while one took a pitching lesson, those left went to Panera Bread for breakfast. While there, we decided to pick up some cookies for the pitching coach. This woman, Keri Cobb, can settle the nerves of a 16-year way better than I and she does this without eliciting the faintest trace of emotional meltdown, which often accompany my efforts to do the same. If the cookies were gold, they would not be enough.

Anyway, while standing in line my 11 year old asked for a baguette. She is thinking of the small piece of bread that comes with your lunch but you can't buy those. The person taking care of us (these words are chosen carefully) offered a full size baguette, which I don't want near me in a car where I won't be able to resist its strange powers. I tell my daughter no and continue processing the cookie transaction. While I'm digging for my Panera card, my guy hands the transaction off to another equally talented person who completes the transaction and sends us on our way. But as I turn to leave, the first guy is back and what does he have? You guessed it, a small baguette that he presents to the 11 year old who is tickled pink and off we go. He didn't have to do that, we didn't' ask for him to, but it was perfect. I immediately tweeted #Panera Bread - Staples & Parham Rds RVa. You made our day. Thanks Nick! The owner of Panera, if he is paying attention can now thank Nick for the great advertising he got for the cost of a small hunk of bread.