What is this strange wet stuff falling from the sky?

Right before Lydia went to school this morning something amazing happened....for a few minutes, it rained! Amazing, I know. I think this is maybe the 3rd or 4th time it has rained since we moved here. But I'm not completely sure most of those times really count for much because it was only for a minute, then it got super bright out and everything dried up right away. I had a giggle over someone semi-complaining saying sarcastically, "Wow, nice weather we're having!"

Since the ground was completely dry by noon, we went to the park. After about an hour of being there, a ton of older kids (maybe like 9th graders? I am bad with ages.) came and took over the entire playground. They were there with teachers who didn't give a crap what they did, it seemed. At this playground, there are 2 play structures about 30 feet or something away from each other. The big kids took over both structures. The other moms and myself were getting a little annoyed that our kids were starting to be limited in where they played, so we loudly talked to our kids and said, "Did you say you wanted to play in the tubes?" (Lydia had actually mentioned not being able to play in them.) So one girl heard and told the other kids to let Lydia play there. That lasted for a couple minutes, then while I was talking to Lydia, my friend told me that Maya was on the other side crying. So as she stayed by Lydia, I ran to Maya and picked her up. At that point, there were some of the big kids running around not paying any attention to the little ones. So I got REALLY defensive and angry and started yelling for all of them to go to the other play structure and to let the little kids play at this one. One little bratty boy said to me, "You don't have to be so mean!" To which I replied "You know what? Use some common sense, there are little kids here trying to play." GRRRR! I was a beast! And I'm proud of it. What made me even more proud was that they actually all listened and scurried off to the other part. THEN the stupid teachers finally decided to tell them all to stay at the other playground. Uhhh...thanks, teachers.

Ok, one more thing, yesterday I came upstairs to the computer to take a look at our bills while the girls were having a cereal snack. Lydia called up to me to ask if they could have more and I said no, so she came upstairs. I asked if Maya was still eating and she said yes, so I finished what I was doing and went down to make sure everything was ok. And here's what I found:

It looks like I placed the box there, but this is exactly how things were when I came down. It's like she was setting up her own little commercial. Anyway, Maya helped me clean it up and when Lydia came downstairs, I asked Lydia if she had done any part of that and Maya was like, "I did it!!" As if to say, "No way, she's not getting credit for this!" I had literally just bought the box a half hour before, so this was basically ALL of the cereal. So I scooped it up and put it in a container. It's a good thing I keep the table clean!