A few weeks ago Sarah and I were out in Natick running errands on a Monday holiday. Madeline was with us and it was a dreary rainy day. We drove around looking for a suitable location for lunch and didn't have much luck finding anything interesting. So we stopped into Chili's and ate a Meximerican meal. The highlight of the day and maybe a lot longer was that after we left the restaurant, with no prompting, Madeline said "I had fun at the restaurant." It is so good to get that rare appreciation and confirmation that something we chose to do even without much thinking was a success in the mind of the little ones.