A miraculous week...

And how was your week? We had kind of a miraculous week and I will tell you why. First, on Superbowl Sunday we did win the first quarter of Stu’s football pool and while it wasn’t that much, still, it was a victory! Then, I had kind a miracle happen on Tuesday when I unknowingly lost something very important for work. It apparently slipped out of a packet I was carrying into the house. As I was leaving for work later than day I had to put something in the backseat of the van and so instead of walking right to the driver’s seat as I usually do, I stopped to open the back door and looked down and saw it! I nearly had a heart attack! What is THAT doing on the ground, I wondered???? I couldn’t believe it but my heart froze as I thought of the possible ramifications had I lost that…it truly may have meant my losing my job. But for some reason, God or some good karma or SOMETHING led me to that. I was grateful of course and still can’t believe my luck that I found that. THEN, the other thing that happened was REALLY weird! I have mentioned before that Stu and Lulabell have an unnatural love for stuffed animals (well, it’s not unnatural for a little girl but kind of weird for a grown man, you know what I mean?) They have this puppy that they adore and share it between them, one sleeping with it one night, then the other person will sleep with it (which means I have to sleep with it!). So, bottom line is, they LOVE this puppy. Stu sometimes takes it in the car with them just to be silly. Well, one day last week the puppy could not be found…I mean they tore this house up looking for that puppy…..nothing. Both Stu and Lu were desolated, I have to say. Well, on Wednesday while taking Lu to school on a particularly cold, nasty, wintry morning, Stu pulled up in front of the school and Lu got out. While doing so she happened to look down and VOILA! There was the puppy in the gutter, all dirty and wet and run over…..it was a MIRACLE! This was like a week after they had lost the puppy and all of a sudden, THERE IT IS! In the gutter…just waiting for Lu to find it! It kinda breaks your heart, doesn’t it? To think of that puppy lying in the cold, wet street all this time? Well, it broke my heart and I don’t even like the damn thing! Stu and Lu were rapturous at finding their puppy and Stu immediately came home to throw him in the washing machine. Two hours later, the puppy was good as new, dry and clean. So, those were our weekly miracles and I sure hope we didn’t use up a whole year’s worth of luck in just a week!
Lulabell got accepted into a very good after school program which starts on Monday and it means that I probably won’t ever get to see her again. She basically won’t get home from this program (by bus) until 6 PM and of course I leave for work at 5:45, sooooo…….I won’t be seeing her except for a few minutes every morning (when I am generally very drowsy as I had only gotten to bed at 3:30!) and on the weekends. Hrrrmmmphhhh….But, as I said this is a wonderful program and Lu’s friends are in it too so not only does it have educational benefits, there are many social benefits as well. Peaches is ecstatic to realize that he won’t have to compete with anybody for the computer or TV after school….SWEEEEET!

My daughter is turning into a cyber slut! What I mean is….she has an online club that she is part of called Club Penguin. It is actually very nice for kids and it is private (you have to pay to be in it) and you are a penguin that lives in this community. You have a house and clothes and friends and places to go and to do all this you have to work and earn coins…which I think is kinda neat. Lulabell is a very good worker and has a LOVELY home with lots of clothes and furniture. However, I caught her the other day trolling for boy penguins. She would sidle her penguin up to an obviously boy penguin and ask him if he wanted to come back to her place!!!! If he acquiesced, she would endeavor to keep him there as her "boy hostage" and say sweet things to him (do you like me?). I was astonished and quickly informed her that I was not paying for her to find boyfriends in this club, you know? However, she was undeterred and continued to look for likely boy penguins. I thought it was funny that apparently the boys have figured her out because while they promise to go to her house with her, she goes there to wait and they never show up! HAH! She’s being stood up! This makes Lu VERY MAD and she has to go out and find ANOTHER prospect. Sigh…..