Confidence In The Good Guys

Jack: Daddy, do good guys die?

Daddy: Sometimes.

Jack's eyes go huge and his face is filled with disappointment.

Daddy (stumbling over his words): Oh, no, no, good guys don't die.

Jack (smiling and walking out of the room): Porter! Daddy says good guys don't die!

Moms

I love being one. I love having one.

Friday?

I forgot it was Friday today. My husband no longer works on Fridays and sure the kids went to school, but it was a half day. After we picked them up we went to the grocery store and ran a few other errands. By the time we came home I was surprised when I saw them getting out of the car with their back packs. By the time summer hits I'll have to start calling Friday Saturday #1.

New Books

I have a pile of new books just waiting for me. Instead of wanting to read something and standing in front of the book shelves for 15 minutes trying to decide which book I would like to read again, I can just reach over and grab my little pile and decide which one will fit my mood. I love having books waiting for me. Each one is like a little vacation already planned out and marked on the calendar.

Wrapping Paper

Why is it that people have started using gift bags instead of wrapping paper? You get more mileage out of it right? WRONG! You buy a gift bag, put one present in it and give it away. Sure, the person you gave it to is grateful you didn't write on the tag and uses it for someone else. then they use it, and then the next person uses it, until it's too wrinkly to use, but unless one of those people give it back to you, you only use it once. With wrapping paper you get a whole roll. That's 20 square feet, baby! You can wrap 3 really big gifts or 103 really small gifts!

Then there is the issue of the peeker. All that stands between the peeker and their present in a gift bag is a piece of tissue paper and that's no fun. With wrapping paper that box just sits their mocking the peeker. They have designed wrapping paper so that if you lift that tape, the color of the paper is coming with it, leaving a little telling white square. Sure you can see the shape of the package, or shake it a bit, but that's why false packaging was invented.

Now we get to the BEST part of wrapping paper. RIPPING IT! Come on, you know it's not just the kids that like to do it. Every body likes to tear into that package. Don't worry about saving the paper, we have 20 square feet. What is more satisfying than ripping open that paper that has been sitting there all day enticing you with those pretty, colorful polka dots? Not much, that's what.

ABC

I love ABC Mandarin.

Trains

I love going to the Union Station. We had a birthday party there on Saturday for my now 4 year old. It was pretty fun. He wasn't the only birthday boy there either. There was another little boy who was also named Jack having a party there. It was just great seeing how many different types of people love trains. From the two birthday boys, to the little old lady in the gift shop. There were a bunch of old men from a train club having a little swap meet there, or as the old lady said, selling their junk to each other. The kids ran around playing on the old trains and watching the model trains, while the dads stopped at the boring displays and read the same things that have been on the walls all the other times they have been there. Trains seem to be a bridge between the generation gaps. The old guys would just smile as the little guys ran past. It was a great way to spend a Saturday.