Small Good Things

1. The other night, when it was obscenely hot and Tiny Boy had finally moved past his 30 minute sleep hurdle, I went out on the porch with a glass of wine and a book of poems and a notebook, and I wasn't a mother anymore but a self I remembered from a long time ago.
2. And then I went in the house and kissed my sleeping daughter and sleeping son and closed the windows and fell asleep a contended mother of two.
3. Yesterday LG and I made strawberry shortcake.  Tiny Boy was not particularly pleased with the hand mixer being on long enough to make the whipped cream (thanks, LG!), but it sure was yummy.
4. I bought purple mary janes from zappos, because the red sandals I wear everyday are getting tired.  Someone please tell me why I have purchased gametes on the internet but not shoes?  I must do that again.
5. The boy is asleep.  Which means I have roughly another 20 minutes in which to do something around the house.