Had a very nice weekend with my Mom, and nobody even thought of getting snippy. Went shopping, got a $100 dress for $5, that is perfect for my upcoming conference.

Last week has my first parent-teacher conference about my twins, now in Kindergarten. Knew they were smart but --- Willie's being invited into the UVA (!) Gifted program, and his teacher has him in Advanced Groups for both reading and math, and Timmie, despite all his prematuriry-based developmental "delays" is ALSO above-average, and is not having any of the problems I'd feared with reading or writing, and the teacher has to look for ways to keep him challenged in math! Boy, putting them in separate classes has really, really helped!

Even my X2B is being polite, if not considerate!

And at work, the catalog is almost done (whew!) and the prep for the trade show is well underway, so things are relaxing here too, less frantic, ready to gear up for the next round after $mas. My boss is still the best manager in the universe, and my coworkers are a lot of fun, I have a new huge (to me) office with a great view...hmmm... a lot of stuff IS right with the world!

Hey, even the democratic process is working. The only problem there is that we aren't used to seeing it work, we're used to having it work and then we see the results. But unlike many, many other contested elections around the world, no one has rioted or looted, there is no Civil War looming (how would that be? To have a non-geographically-based Civil War! The War Between The Parties!), nobody's been shot, sure some folks are brandishing banners, let'm, it's The American Way. As long as they aren't bashing each other with them!