Like a well oiled machine...

Do you ever have one of those days when the stars just seem to be in alignment, and all goes as it should?

Yeah, I know. I don't have them very often either.

But today happened to be one of them! Zoey and I spent four hours this morning running errands, with roughly two of those hours spent letting her get in and out of the car on her own--"no hep, Mommy! No hep! Mysef!" (No help. Myself. Sure, because we've got all day...right?) We got hair cuts for both of us, and she was like some other dream-child, quietly wandering around the shop close to me as I got my hair cut, and sitting still while Lisa cut her hair. I was impressed. Then we were off to Target, where she cooperated by "hustling" (read: running along side the cart) through the store and helping me put items from my list in to the cart. (Another new-found mark of independence: Zoey has decided riding in shopping carts is for babies. Which means I need to pencil in twice the time it would normally to take to get through a store, as I watch her wander, fondle and babble her way through the aisles.) Next, because she was being SO well-behaved, was a much-deserved treat in the form of a Happy Meal. Then the bank, then the recycling center...again, it was a lot to expect of a toddler to maintain composure through all of these stops, but it seemed like as long as she was given the opportunity to crawl in to and out of her car seat on her own (as I could literally FEEL myself ageing each time), she was fine.

And then we came home, watched some Mr. Rogers, and went down for a nap without a struggle.

And then her doctor's office called to tell us her test results came back normal. Hooray! No more invasive kidney testing!!

Also? My manager from my old job at home in Puyallup called to tell me she has a job opening coming up in February, and my name is all over it.

Could anything more positive happen today? And does this mean I'm in for some kind of freakishly hellish day at work tomorrow?

Probably.