Put on your pants, it’s time to dance!
Today is my oldest boy’s birthday. He’s 8! Part of me thinks that’s sickening. Because, really… I’m not old enough to have an 8 year old, right?
On May 5th he’s getting baptized. I’m so proud of him! I sewed his patches on his Cub Scout shirt yesterday, and he’ll go to his first den meeting next week. How crazy is that?
“Mmmy…. what a happy day!” Remember that song at the beginning of “Mickey and the Beanstalk”? It’s buzzing around my head this morning.
That’s what I got from Honey for my prezzy. It’s a keychain, with my initials engraved on it. Isn’t it lovely??
Today looks to be more of yesterday. Blissfully sunny, a balmy 62′, marshmallow clouds in the sky. The buds are starting to open on the almond trees. I’ll post some photos soon. I need to do that more, post photos. I mean, take the photos in the first place.
D and I went to a valentine’s party at our friends yesterday afternoon. It was so nice of her to invite us! It was a potluck that her other mommies group was having. Everyone was really kind, and they even gave D valentines, even though they didn’t know us! It was wonderful.
Also wonderful, was that I saw that the house next door to my friend is for rent. I know the person that’s in the house now, what I didn’t know is that they had also been renting. BUT… the owner of the house? Is my friend’s dad’s mailman. So they know each other. And my friend had recommended the gal that’s living in the house now. So she’s going to put in a call for us. He’s asking $1300 (which is a freaking steal because it’s 2200 sq. ft. and fairly new, with a GINORMOUS back yard) but there’s no way we can do that. Well, we could but then we couldn’t eat. Or we could eat, but then we couldn’t put gas in the cars. So really, we can’t. But if the guy will go down to $1000/mo….. WE’RE TAKING IT!!!
I know, I know. The chances are slim to none. But a girl can hope, can’t she? And after all, I did get a four-leaf clover for Valentine’s Day.
I took my shopping buddy with me today to run errands. Wednesday is grocery day, you know. And since all the stores were trying to extort Honey’s hard-earned cash from me with their cereal prices, I hit Target. I was also hoping to see if they’d puffed up their Valentine’s Day stash since all I’d seen was candy & crap galore, but no decorations.
There’s still no decorations. WHY IS THIS? I even went over to the dreaded K-Mart to see if they had some, and NO! Just more of the same junk that Target had! What is wrong with these people? All I have is some garland and window stickers from years past, how am I supposed to spread the love if there isn’t any there?
I’m so disappointed.
Oh yeah, you’re wondering where that kindness thing comes in…
Well, as we were strolling around Target (since Lord knows you can’t just go in for one thing, you have to examine the whole store to see if you need anything else) this lady was stopped in the middle of an aisle and she turned and said to me: “I just love listening to you talk to your little boy, it’s so sweet!”
(can you hear the sound of jaws dropping all over the globe now?)
I felt so good that someone noticed me and my little D, and took the time to say something nice about it!
Then I had a good laugh inside because I knew that if I’d have had B & S with me, she might have thought differently.
