I got my new payment book for the mortgage in the mail while I was gone and my payments are dropping $60 per month because of smaller escrow payments. While that isn't exactly a large number, that is the first time in the 7 years that I have owned this house that it actually dropped.

We met with my son's teacher & school principal yesterday because we were considering having him repeat the 4th grade. Turns out that he really does understand stuff, he just doesn't bother to turn in assignments on time and completed. Having him repeat the 4th grade won't fix that. So, it was good news, sort of. We have to find a way to help him get organized. This is not an area of strength for me. I just cannot deal with papers. I am missing that wiring in my brain. Poor kid...he's doomed.

I can't wait until the weekend gets here. I have sooo much to catch up on. I've been traveling 5 of the last 6 weeks and have been spending my weekends preparing to leave and traveling, rather than relaxing and getting stuff done around the house. I think I am home for the next three weeks, though. Then gone for an entire week at our annual conference-which is at the Gaylord in Maryland this year, across the river from Washington DC. I will get back from that conference the night before my birthday. Last time I spent Mother's Day AND my birthday at the conference. I took myself out to a very fancy restaurant in Orlando...then submitted it for reimbursement from my employer...who almost had a heart attack. LOL. I made him feel bad for making me be away from my family for both mother's day and my birthday, though, so he paid for it.

Enough rambling, I guess. Time for lunch. I've been too busy to eat anything yet today.