Monday's are always a little crazy around here.  First I take Ashton to preschool after getting Lexie on the bus, then I try and get as many errands done as I can before I have to go pick Ashton and Josh up from preschool.  Then I take Josh to my mom's house for her to babysit and end up staying for a while so that the kids can play with their cousins (not like they don't see each other all the time). Well then I have to run home and get try and get more stuff done while waiting for Lexie to get home from school so we can run back to my mom's house's so she can go to piano lessons which are just down the street from grandma's.  Sometimes I try and do dinner in the crock pot or something easy for Monday's dinner, but it never seems to work out.  Well tonight we tried something new and it was really fun. I found a recipe in a soup cookbook that my mom just got.  It was mushroom barley soup.  Everyone wanted to try it (and I had all the ingredients at my house) so I decided I would cook the soup at her house and make enough for who ever wanted to eat.  When I went home to get Lexie, I got everything ready and then while she was at piano I made dinner at my parents house.  The soup was really yummy and it was fun to cook for my parents at their own house.  We are going to try it again next week.  Too bad that picture doesn't do much for showing how yummy the soup really was.  Guess I need to get better at taking food pictures.