Oh Happy Day!

Yes, yes. I missed an entry last night, but what a reason I had for it. I was not too tired. I was not overwhelmed, a piano did not fall on me.
What a great day, it was one of those wonderful days that could have been horrible but was not and that is not the only reason it was a good day. I headed out to the court house in the morning to pick up some documents. I thought the baby would wail and fuss most of the way, because she threw both her bottle and soother on the floor just as we were getting on the highway.
This is usually cause to pull off at the next exit and then rip the car apart like border guards, to find the soother. This is a game A. will play in the back seat when she is bored. I pack everything in the car and ensure that she has her bottle, blankie, and soother before we set off. A (only if she is bored or tired) will toss them away one by one, squealing and whining after each toss. Letting me know that she has accomplished this and then focusing her attention on the next item. You know, when she tosses everything withing the first 10 minutes, you are going to be stopping a lot on the way. Unless you have headphones to drown out the crying, but I would never do that while driving a car.
The government offices were packed with people I ended up being there for two hours just people watching. A tall man with long white hair in a ponytail and a fairly rotund belly caught the attention of A. For some reason she liked the look of him, and kept squealing, "Hiya, hiya.".
He answered her a few times, gave the obligatory,"what a cutie". Then of course had to go about the rest of his day chasing down files and whatever that sort of people do there. I wondered if they were another species, not quite file clerks, not just everyday people though either. There were about 10 of them at the court house. These people knew what they were doing. They didn't have the constant look of confusion on their faces that the lady beside me or man on the other side of me had. They all seemed to know each other by first name. They never sat down and they all had huge amounts of files, I am positive they were not lawyers or even assistants. They hovered around the various wickets and  new all of the file clerks by name. They seemed to all be that kind of person who speaks a little to loudly so that people around them can see how witty they are. It was an interesting couple of hours of people watching.
The baby who won't fall asleep anywhere else other than her own bed even if you drugged her, fell asleep at the court house in her stroller about an hour and a half into our wait. I didn't even use an anvil or sledge hammer to put her to sleep. I got my documents and off I went.
I was able to drop by for a short but pleasant visit with R on the way home and play with M for a short while. I got home on time for the kiddies to get off the school bus and they all had a great day. I was begining  to think that I was dreaming, or had walked through the looking glass. We had a lovely dinner the kids were all well behaved, so then I started thinking I have not walked through the looking glass, someone has kidnapped my children and replaced them with aliens. That was not the case either though because at one point little S. walked by me and phoooeey! The smell was all S.
So now on to my excuse for not writing last night. The most wonderful moments of my day were the last two hours. Sitting on the couch with P. He started doing a little research into our family on my Grandmothers side and there was quite a bit of information that was fun and exciting to find.
I moved from the couch to my desk to take over the research and found some really interesting information and I am feeling so good about seeing these things in print. I am so excited about going to look for head stones tomorrow. I really hope that my G.G. did have a head stone. I think they may have been too poor for it. Any way have a great day and I am hopefully going to have time to get another post in later tonight.