If there was a prize, I would have gotten it...

I attended a wedding today. In Vermont! I traveled the furthest! I head back to California tomorrow.

I talked to my husband on Friday after I arrived and he asked an odd question. He asked "if I missed it." We lived in Massachusetts for 5.5 years, right after we were married. Yesterday was a perfect day in terms of temperature and breeze (which, here, it comes off Lake Champlain and can be downright cold!) and we (friends drove up from MA to hang out with me) drove through green, rolling hills (they call them "mountains" here) with farms and homes architecture styles that are called "cape", "ranch", "raised ranch", "salt box", and "colonial." If it's not old here, its styled to look old! And for a while, I wonder if I DID miss it. I sorta do, but not to the extent that I'd want to move back here/New England. That said, I do like this area. Probably not as much as I like our old "area" in Northampton, MA or down on the Cape, but I know now that it is possible to live in New England!

I went to California for my 10th high school reunion when we lived in MA. I won the prize then for who traveled the furthest...an atlas! Today, my friend Skippy got the prize! He married a wonderful young lady and he couldn't be any happier. For me, that is prize enough.

The Tooth Fairy has left the building...

My son is 11. He has lost 8 teeth, and has been wiggling one tooth since before I thought it was really loose! He pulled it yesterday.

I suggested that he put the tooth in a Ziploc snack bag so the cat wouldn't find the tooth and make a new toy out of it! Before bed, I asked him if he was going to put it under his pillow for the tooth fairy. He gave me a smirky look and said, "yeaaaaahhhhhh."

So, 10p rolls around and I went in his room to "make the switch." The "switch" was only two dollar bills, and one of them was his! DH only had one, and all other bills either of us had were $5's and up. I switched on the light, he stirred a bit, and I checked under his pillow. Sure enough, the ziploc was there, so I made the trade and got out before he woke up.

I didn't say anything to him this morning but, after school, I finally asked him and again he got that goofy look and said, "yeah, you know you were in there!" "whaaaaa???" I finally had to admit that I was the Tooth Fairy, but only after he promised that he wouldn't spoil the magic for any younger kids. And then he wanted to know if I'd saved his other teeth and where were they!

Since they were between sweaters and sweatshirts, it lead me to straighten up those items on the shelf in my closet!

Santa is next.

Sigh...

Lucky me.

It's a well known and, possibly, documented fact that I have control issues. The latest "incident"? Flyers were needed for all elementary schools regarding last chance to sign up for football. Two others, a husband and wife, actively involved in launching the football club offered to print the flyers at their offices. Uhhhh...o.k. I was VERY hesitant, but they insisted. I turned the project over to them, thinking it would be done on Friday. All four thousand, six hundred three flyers. I got a call on Friday afternoon telling me that there was no way they could print that many docs, so they took it to Staples and it would be ready on Saturday at 3p. Nobody remembered to go get it (I did, but it wasn't my project at that point). So, today, at 8:30 a message was left on my home phone. Flyers were ready, and in her trunk. Great. Bring them over and I'll start breaking them down for distribution to the schools. Ugh.

Had I done it? I would have set the copier to stop at 20 and made my sets from that point. The idea is that the schools are doing us a favor letting us distribute through them, so I'm not going to create work for the office staffs that is of no benefit to them.

Next time? Either someone else does the entire project or it will be done my way, even if that means doing it all myself.

Sometimes "help" is more work.