I have a few things to be happy about, as I sit here listening to Isaac playing happily in his room and Elliot watching The Flintstones. (Ash is out running 9 miles on trails; I don’t envy him one bit.) So… here goes.

• My three day work week. Though by Monday I was getting a wee bit overrun by the kids, the last long weekend and then taking off yesterday was really good for me. It made me get a lot done in that shorter period of time.
• Not blogging for a day. I wanted to do Friday Confessional, I really did, but my tires took longer than expected and I didn’t have time to get to the computer. The realization that I didn’t HAVE to do it at all was quite liberating.
• Following off that one, new tires. Front tires. I put back tires on last April but the fronts wear out faster. I got 80,000 mile tires with a warranty. Hells yeah. It’s funny how you get older and things like this are exciting.
• Eating at Cracker Barrel. Back in the day when I ate like the world was ending, we went there quite a bit. It went on the naughty list when we started dieting long ago and now we just don’t go very often. But went we did. And chicken and dumplings I did eat. Yummmm…
• Getting candy at above restaurant and bringing it into the movie theater.
• And the last thing… knowing I am going to Target this morning. I actually really love shopping there and especially when it first opens. We need a couple birthday gifts and beach towels and I am psyched about it.