2 days....

until the Louisville branch of the Crouch Clan converges upon the Mayfield. Is Mayfield ready for a TWO year old Pooper, his Aunt Lolo and her friend Clay, and two parents who don't want the large plastic gifts we plan to give Pooper for his birthday? We shall see...we shall see...

Things which are scary:

There are a few things in life which are really scary to me, and probably always will be. The first and foremost, of course, is scary movies. I can't stand them, and never have been able to. Just the background music can send shivers down my spine and have me running to another room. However, when I stand back and look at scary movies with a little perspective, I know that they aren't real, and that they can't actually harm me in any way.

Unfortunately, there are other "REAL" things to fear in our world. I hate thinking about those even more. So, often times, I just don't. I learned a lesson about this yesterday when one of those "real" fears came to strike. Being the small-town, trusting girl that I am, I've always been pretty lax about security when it came to my home and possessions. I never really worried that much about locking my door when I lived in the apartment (I do now, though!), and I've never really thought a lot about leaving my purse in my car when parked at home. Yesterday, that false sense of security was breached when my car window was broken out and my purse was stolen.

Not that much was taken, really. I had maybe $15 cash, one debit card, and my checkbook. I was able to easily cancel the card and the checks. Luckily, since I'm all credit card free now, I didn't have any of those to worry about. Overall, I got off pretty lucky. Still though, my sense of security was taken, and that was the worst part of it all. It's going to be a pain replacing things like my Driver's License and my Insurance cards. But some things are irreplaceable. Take, for example, my brand new MK lipstick in Suede. That is my favorite color, and it's discontinued. There will be no more suede lips on me. It's a sad day. I'm ok, though, and my window will be replaced today, so all is well overall.

Now on to another fear..."meeting the parents". Clay and I have been dating (very happily!) for well over a month now, and the time has come for him to finally "meet the parents". He's already met Carrie Beth, so really the hard part is over, but I've always thought the parents to be rawther intimidating, just the same. I still look back on the time that I came home from a date only to walk in with the guy and see every gun in George's collection spread across the living room floor. Dads do have their ways of intimidation. Clay is a wonderful guy, though, and I'm sure he will do just fine.

The truly scary part will come in a few weeks, though. It seems that Clay is going to actually brave meeting EVERYONE in the Mayfield clan the weekend we come home for Cooper's Birthday. Most of you reading this are a part of that Mayfield clan, so you know how scary you really are! I figure if I haven't managed to run Clay off on my own, maybe he can survive meeting everyone. We shall see. Please be nice to him. He's a super nice guy!

Now that I've been through all of that, I'm getting a wee bit scared myself. I shall go and distract myself at work with fun things like hirings and firings and lots of screaming babies.