Walking Backwards

Wow, things just keep getting better over here today. I know I'm normally not a shining beacon of happiness, but I think I have a positive outlook for the most part. Today, however, I feel annoyingly shiny. I started out the day better than normal because I had a great night last night hanging out with some of the awesome mamas from one of the parenting groups I'm a member of. Then, shortly after waking up, Nicholas and I went to Star*Bucks for breakfast; so I got to start the morning properly caffeinated. He was fairly well behaved and I didn't get into an accident in the parking lot. We had scones and he had a chocolate milk. I managed the Venti Peppermint Mocha, which I am quite fond of. The customers were charmed rather than annoyed by Nico's constant stream of conversation and doors were held open for me.

Happy and full of caffeine, we went over to a friend's house for a Christmas break playdate. Nico had fun, there we no terrible meltdowns, and I got to spend most of the time conversing with my friend because the kiddos wanted to play by themselves instead of requiring constant assistance and support. My friend made us a great lunch and Nicholas actually ate at someone else's house. I even got to oogle the newborn baby. I did regret leaving, but we are planning on getting together next week. It was great way to spend one of our days for Christmas break.

We then spent some time shopping, which, incredibly, wasn't bad at all. We stopped by World*Market and got stocking stuffers for my dad and rubber ducks for Nico. It only took a few minutes because there we so many employees there that there wasn't a line at all. Then we went to Walgreen's where I thought things starting going down-hill because they didn't have my pictures and Nicholas started misbehaving, but it didn't. As I was buckling my crying child into his car-seat, some guy walked up to me and told me that he was watching me in the store and thought I was gorgeous. Weird because Nicholas was hitting me on the head with his rubber duck and because I was kind of disheveled after being out all morning with a three year-old. He said my husband was a lucky man. AND he wasn't crazy or elderly, which are the type of people I usually attract! All I could say was "uh, thanks, thank you". I should have told him he made my day.

As if that weren't enough, I got a call from my mom asking me for Nico's social security number. She wants to set up a trust fund for him. She is going to buy him stock on every birthday and for every Christmas until he turns 21. Then he gets it all. Her brokerage firm tells her that he'll probably have approximately one-hundred thousand dollars in there by that time based on the amount she is investing. He is not going to have to worry about college. Yay!

Okay, that's it for now. I'm so excited for my good day today. It's probably going to get better, too. Joe and I are going out tonight to see Chronicles of Narnia and we are bringing gifts over to our friend's house for a pre-Christmas exchange. Yay for good days!