Why today was a terrific day

1. When I did my weekly weigh-in this morning, the scale showed I lost 3 pounds this week. Woot!
2. I am officially down one jean size. Wore them today too.
3. Further proof the stars were aligning in my favor today: Eddie Bauer was having a 30% off EVERYTHING sale in their store. (I'd stopped by as my boys had another Lego club experience at the MOA today. It was Star Wars. They didn't miss me.) I got this shirt in aqua and this shirt in purple and a tank close to this tank in grey and this sweater in brown and these jeans in charcoal. Plus two small lab stuffed puppies for the boys ($3.50 each!). Rowan named his Starburst and Dominic named his Black Dragon.
4. I was able to reason with Rowan regarding his birthday list. He wants the Hogwarts Lego castle. I pointed out it was expensive ($129), and it's designed to be used as a playset once built; he NEVER plays with Legos for very long once he builds them. He deconstructs them once he builds them and builds something new of his own design. He agreed and wished for something else that was cheaper and had more interesting parts. Score one for Mommy logic.
5. The weather is gorgeous. 64 degrees, nary a cloud in the sky. Perfect for planting the tulip bulbs that some anonymous tulip fairy left in my PO box at school.
6. Enjoying spending time with my mom. We enjoyed pomegranate-oolong tea from Caribou coffee at the mall and went to Target together to shop for essentials.
7. Finished my September page for project 12. I used Studio Calico's kit Back 40 for it. This takes me to about 14 pages, so I'm ready to break apart the kit (I had also gotten one add-on). I'm ready to start using October's kit with a vengeance because I am planning on buying two add-ons next month from Studio Calico. I don't know how--I may have to use my womanly wiles on my husband (those include chocolate chip cookies) to persuade him to order for me, since I'll be working when the pre-order starts. Wish me luck!
8. ETA: I had a good hair day today. Everything flipped in the right direction and stayed smooth.
   
9. ETA: The Yankees lost. Sorry, Yankees fans, that's just how I feel.
   

Good day

• My dog, though she still chews her feet, pulls hard to walk around the block in the afternoon.
  
• My mother-in-law's pancreatic cancer had clean edges, and it appears that it had not spread. Right now there is no chemo, just observations.
• No behavior reports for the boys.
• Rowan had been doing his homework at school so he doesn't have to worry about finishing it at home. (Really, I'm the worrier. I am awash in my children's elementary school paperwork.)
• Dominic has taken to wearing his goggles all the time at home because he "sees better" with them on. Okay.
• The first five memoirs I graded from my AP students were A's. I'm not an easy grader.
• Derick and I spent the afternoon reminiscing about our favorite days, based on a page call from Scrapbook Trends (I didn't tell him that). You know what? He remembers the dress I was wearing when he first saw me. He even remembers where I bought it. What an amazing guy.