Valentine's Day and Crazy Morning

Valentine's Day was wonderful.  I had all my Valentine's with me.  They each got a stuffed animal and candy from Mommy and Daddy.  They also got goody bags and balloons from Mimi and Pop.  We had ballet last night, so we got home only minutes before Mark did.  He came in with 3 beautiful roses...2 pink ones and a red one.  It was PERFECT.  You should have seen the faces on those little girls.  One day they will tell everyone that their Daddy was their first Valentine.  He does this every year which makes me happy, this is the first year that they both had to have their on vase and choose where to put it in their room.  I love it and so did he.  He had a huge smile on his face as he watched them.  The red rose was mine and it was beautiful.  He makes me so happy....I love all my Valentines!!!! 

My Daddy used to send me 6 roses to school every Valentine's Day and I always felt so very special when they called my name over the intercom to come get my flowers.  He did this from 6th grade to 12th grade every year.  He told me to remember that he was my first Valentine!!!  See why I love what Mark does now and he didn't even know this story.  I would call my Daddy as soon as I got home to thank him and he would always say "I love you Boo Boo, happy Valentine's Day".  He hasn't sent me roses in a long time but for some reason this year I couldn't stop thinking about it. 

I was told that my day today was blog material so here it goes.   First this morning after spending what seemed like forever in the grocery store and getting gas...we came home to unload everything and that is when.....I realized that I had lost my house key.  I couldn't figure out how to get in and I was running around to every door and window trying desperately to get.  Gracie is saying "Mommy I need to go potty"  and I said "well honey, I can't get in the house so you are going to have to hold it or pee pee outside".  You should have seen the look on her prissy face.  Like Mommy are you crazy.   Then she says "Mommy I have to get into my room and get Crystal dressed(her doll) right now she is still in her pajamas"  So I said "Gracie we have much bigger problems right now besides what Crystal is wearing."  Then I called Mimi to see if she had a house key for our house. She said she had one that she didn't know what it went to and she would leave school and bring it out to us.  So I waited in the car for a few minutes. Then I went to get the golf cart to see if I could park it next to the porch and climb up.  I realized that this probably wasn't a very good idea and didn't do it.  So then I went back to the basement door, the one that someone recently broke into and I couldn't get in, until I found some tools and guess what I was in.  I came up the steps and Gracie was so relieved to get to Crystal.  Mimi got here and laughed at us and then we tried the key she had and it didn't work.  So I guess it is a good thing I got in.  Next our Satellite TV is out and they sent a new power box by Fed Ex, well it came and I installed it and guess what still doesn't work.  So after an hour and half on the phone with some woman she says there will be a technician at your house between 12 and 4 tomorrow.  I said "What".  No TV again tonight.  I mean I have kids and I kind of like TV too!  I was a little aggravated by this point but decided to go ahead and hook up the DVD player and watch movies, better than looking at a black screen.  So then Gracie and Colton wanted to go outside.  So we did and I came back in to get something and was standing in the kitchen with the door wide open...when I see the golf cart go by like a BLUR.  It was full speed.  Then I hear Gracie screaming COLTON!  My heart sank and panic set in.  In all my mess of things this morning. I left the key in the golf cart!  He was full speed as I fell right down the steps and never even noticed that I did. He went full speed over the cross ties and ran into the side steps on my car!  It looked like Dukes of Hazard driving. Thank goodness,  he hit the cross ties otherwise I don't know if I could have caught him.  He started crying and by this point I was so scared that he had hurt himself.  When I got to him I checked him over and over again and he was fine.  He was scared but at least not hurt.  I just held him and loved him and thanked god for watching over us.  So at this time of the day I am hoping for a less eventful afternoon and night.