We had a great time . . .

That is, after Charlie decided that the mascot was not going to look our way or that the tiny, helium-filled blimp floating around wasn't going to come near us. It took about twenty minutes to get him into his own seat, but after that he was all about it. The team is Huntsville's own arena football team the Tennessee Valley Vipers. The last pic is of Vinnie the Viper. We are thinking about getting season tix next year!!!

'Member that?

Hello all! Do you remember that last post pretty much about how fantastic I am and what all I've accomplished? Yeah, I thought you did.

Just to update you guys. My car loan company called me today saying my payment was really late (by the way, they were really mean about it too) which puzzled me greatly because being so on top of things, I mailed all the first of the month July bills back before it was even July yet. So, I am telling this woman that my payment must be lost in the mail and that I am NOT sending two payments in one month AND paying a stop payment fee on the check I ALREADY sent. As I am on the phone with the nasty bill collector, I thumb through my financial records make sure I am correct and find my car payment sitting in my finance notebook, in a lovely envelope neatly stamped and ready to go in the mail.

Can you beat that???

Bragging on myself . . . a little.

Since my fantastic, no kids adventure in Washington D.C., I have really stepped it up a notch in many parts of my life. I mean enough to even put it down in writing. Now granted, as soon as I click the 'Publish Post' button, I am positively certain that some irreversible crisis will occur that throws all of this off kilter, but I feel that I should enjoy this place while it lasts.

I am at that place where I feel really good about things. I am not "I am Woman, Hear me Roar" kind of on top of things, but I am getting pretty close. I hope that everyone has this kind of place. The place where you are ahead and feeling really relaxed/excited, beause if you don't then that means that I suffer from some sort of mental disorder. I would be sad about that, especially since I've been feeling so great lately. If I find out that you don't have "this place" and that I have a mental disorder, then where will I be???? Anyway, since I got home from my trip, my mothering skills are back to their pre-trip-ness. I am more relaxed and handling the bumps in the road much better. I don't even think that I have talked to the boys in that scary, clenching your teeth together voice once! Score one for me.

My home has been the picture of calm serenity (okay, okay only 85% serenity). At any given moment, I am literally fifteen minutes of putting away toys from being perfectly CLEAN. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, they say. Even though I am at that wonderfully, clean place, I would like to know exactly who said that to begin with and force them into a puddle of mud while talking in that scary, clenched teeth kind of way.

My checkbook is perfectly balanced. My meals are perfectly balanced. My children are still a little unbalanced, but they are mine so I don't expect more than that ever. I have finished several of the half begun projects that are in my life. If I could force myself to sit at the sewing machine for a couple of hours, that would be even better!

Ahhhh, it is so nice to enjoy this moment with you. Because this moment doesn't come around very often, but when it does it is sooo swwweeettt! Enjoy!