This has been a real shit day ! It started with the alarm going off an hour late because we forgot to set it last night and it hasn’t gotten any better. To make this day last even longer I have to take Allison to a Brownie meeting this evening from 6:30 to 7:30 and I have no way of getting out of it. Not when my daughter is this weeks troop speaker and has plans to talk all about her trip to Europe. I guess it would make me a pretty bad mom if I made her miss that because I am having a bad day. How bad of a mom would I be if I showed up at Brownies smelling of booze? Would that be any better?
Nah, I guess I can suck it up and race home and get my self together, splash some water on my face and throw some jeans on before her meeting. She only has one more meeting after tonight and then the troop is done for the year.

What is wrong with people today? Has everyone loss their mind ?

Myself included.

I really want to get my daughter Bethany some thing special for her first Mother’s Day. She is also just about to move in to her first house so I have been trying to come up with something that will not only be a nice gift but maybe some thing she can use. Over the weekend she gave me her very long wish list of things she needs and wants for the house. On it is a throw or blanket for the back of their couch. So, I am thinking instead of just any plain blanket or throw I should order her one of those really cute photo throws for Mother’s Day. We all know I have enough beautiful photos of Rebecca to chose from. In fact I think buying personalized photo throws as a gift is such a great idea that I am thinking of buying my mother one as well. Since I have been giving my husband hints that I would love a photo throw featuring both of my girls for at least three years now, I just might go ahead and order one for myself while I am at it.

Check me out. I went and got all sexed up for my birthday!
Thanks to my super sexy web designer and friend Mel at Emtwo !

Bethany and the baby are here for the night and so is my nephew. Making our house pretty full. We picked up a stack of movies, some thing for everyone and then this evening we ordered pizza for dinner. It’s been a great time. I love these kinds of weekends.

I even bought Jiffy popcorn to pop on the stove burner. Remember those, the ones you shake? I thought they would be fun for the kids. Well, I was wrong. Allison was too scared to hold hers and I had to pull my nephew back from placing his face right above his about a dozen times. It took about ten minutes and we finally heard a little sizzling and then they just burned. It was the worst smell. Oh well. I had good intentions.  Lets hope my plan for homemade pan cakes goes better in the morning.

Here in our office we just started to do a lot of heavy hauling between us here in Michigan and some areas in Canada and Mexico. For years we having been making heavy machine parts for mostly the automakers here in the US. Recently we have been doing some research into using a new freight company after using the same local company for over ten years. It would be nice to change over to a company that has more experience in out of the country trucking and heavy hauling. Not that the company we have been using doesn’t do a good job when we ship “local” but when it comes to shipping to Mexico, it’s been one big headache. I think it is time to make a change. I think we need some one like LGI (Logistics Group International Mexico). A company that is established on both sides of the border.  LGI also provides “door-to- door” service. This provides a worry free, single bill and that sounds great to me right now. It also includes customs brokerage fees. Sounds like a good change to me.