A nice end to a beautiful day...

Well, another day has come to an end. Mary Anne has just rocked our youngest son to sleep. The other children are getting to sleep - some of them are already there. I finished the bookkeeping, and found out we are actually in the black by a little bit. Go figure.

My daughter, Caitlin, is the luckiest lucky stiff on the planet. First off, she participates in a youth group event at church, and wins a $10 iTunes certificate in the door prize. Not bad. Then, her new boyfriend (who really seems to be decent) helps her win a scavenger hunt - first prize, a clock radio base for an iPod or iPhone. Very lucky. Then, if there is any doubt that he really likes her, he gives her an old iPod Nano 2GB that he had floating around. (serious eye roll) Like I said, too lucky.

I also managed to do a couple of other things - changed the oil on the van and fixed a light in the kitchen that one of my other children broke... It seems like my whole life revolves around fixing things.

The absolute best part of the day was taking my youngest son, Kevin, for a walk. The picture above is of the little guy when he was just a crawler. OK, the truth is out, I am being cheesy and playing around with adding pictures to my blog...

Sunday nights are always a bid weird for me. Part of it is realizing that the weekend is over, and looking at all the things I wish I had done. The nice thing about this weekend is that I actually got some things done. Another part is thinking about what the week has in store. That always fills me with a feeling of dread.

Reading the news anymore is agonizing. I am not whining - I know it must be that way for most people in the world today. It's hard, though. I don't want to be rich, I don't want to retire at 55 as a millionaire... I just want to not have to worry from day to day about feeding my family. Quick fact: I am more filled with fear and dread when an announcement comes out from my company than I am riding in a fire engine, lights and sirens, to a working fire that I will be leading the primary search team into... I think I have a screw loose...

You know, my head is not really into this tonight. Too many ideas are dancing around in my head and none of them are coalescing into something coherent.

Good night one and all...