My Day

Today was a good day. Even from miles away Don managed to spoil me. A local shop called and had a delivery for me this morning. They dropped off a beautiful package of cookies, chocolates and other goodies. Benjamin and I were really excited and gobbled up a couple of chocolates before we left to meet his preschool teachers and see his new classroom.

Benjamin seemed pretty excited about his preschool classroom and told his teachers "My daddy is in Iraq." Next Monday Benj will start school.

We ran some errands. Then went home for nap time. Shortly after nap time the doorbell rang and flowers from Don were delivered!

As Benj and I sat at the table and admired the flowers and balloon I told him they were from Daddy-O and his face turned all serious and he said softly "Daddy was here?" It about broke my heart. Like he thought Daddy brought the flowers and then left instantly. Awe. So, I explained to him that Daddy got on the computer and ordered the flowers then a local shop brought them to our house. It makes you wonder how much he actually understand.

My neighbor Katie called and offered to pick us up some dinner and cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory. She's the best! So, she delivered dinner, cookies, dessert and a gift. And my other neighbor friend, Cheryl called and they brought over a card Abby had made for me today and some muffins they made too.

So, Benjamin and I had a birthday party for me! He loves birthdays so I thought we might as well take this opportunity to celebrate one. We put a candle on our piece of cheesecake and I asked Benjamin if he would blow out my candle. Of course he would. It's his favorite part of parties! So, we sang "Happy Birthday to Mommy" about 6 times in a row each time re-lighting the candle. He loved it and asked to do it again. Samuel also snuck in a lil taste of cheesecake.

Everyone has been so thoughtful. I've been swamped with phone calls, emails and well wishes all day. So, thank you all.